Or things with interestingness that you find off the Net:
- Banana People – firstly, the guest blogger (Jolene Lai) mentions being discriminated by her own race. I think she’s wrong there – she should say fellow Malaysian. Bananas as she describes, celebrate Christmas and Chinese New Year – she forgot to mention that they’re also new-fangled Christians, and if you celebrate the birth of Christ, you don’t do CNY. But we’ll save that for another blog. All in all, more and more folk are going to be speaking English (its inevitable), so this issue of being a banana because you can’t speak all dialects of Chinese, is silly (send a Malaysian Mandarin speaking person to China, and they’ll still look at you funny). Visit the post, if for anything, you’re after a girl holding and playing with bananas.
- Sarong Party Girl thinks School Sucks – want to see the famous blogger, pose at a beach, in a school uniform?
- Pastor electrocuted while performing baptism – In a weird twist of fate, he held a mic, and got electrocuted while trying to “save” others.
- Media is changing. Mobile phone cameras are becoming a lot more popular. And their resolution is getting higher and higher (1.3MP, 2MP). This can only get higher. Cell Journalist and Scoopt are two services that buy photos from citizen journalists. In fact, in terms of current events, it could be really useful to have on the ground photography happening, even if its via a camera phone. And with the e-mail option that exists from a lot of cell phones, this could become really useful in reporting. BBC has an article on the ethical issues for citizen snappers, in which it mentions its not ready to pay for photos, but suggests how much you may get depending on what kind of papparazi-styled shot you get.
- In competition with del.icio.us, StumbleUpon also marks the social web. It seems to offer more privacy than del.icio.us does, but it requires software to be installed. Not very Web 2.0, and probably not as useful/cross-platform.
