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Archive for January 2008

Web extension to Letters to Editors

Jan 24, 2008 09:40

Praveen Rajan and his friends recently set up TwoSen.com to keep track of letters written to the major English newspapers. The Web site automatically aggregates the letters on a daily basis.

He said he was surprised by the number of complaints published in the Press on a daily basis. However, the manner in which the media organisations operate, exacerbated by space and time constraints, tends to fizzle out issues raised by the readers.

"I, too, have written to the papers several times, and have found that many service providers tend to react rather than be proactive," Praveen said.
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Alert over Uncyclopedia on Malaysia

Jan 15, 2008 13:39

Malaysia's Internal Security Ministry, which is the custodian of laws governing print media, has found its fingers on the online pie.

There was a directive that alerted newspaper editors on an online resource, the sarcasm-filled Uncyclopedia, warning readers of "untruths, insults and ridicule" about the country.
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About Jeff Ooi

Jeff Ooi is an Internet and e-Business consultant based in Kuala Lumpur who's spent the last four years blogging internationally on the tech scene, on anything and nothing. Which doesn't really explain why most of his own technology is about three years out of date. He doesn't even own a PDA after his Palm V crashed. He's on 3G, though... Lemak Lemang refers to coconut-flavored sticky rice stuffed in a bamboo container.