Stumble it! 
Just got back after a tiring day. Had two presentations, one at company and one at Podcamp Europe. I was slightly nervous before my Podcamp presentation because I didn’t know how an unconference crowd would react to my presentation about media landscapes in Singapore but fortunately it went okay. I wish I had spoken more about the region in general but that would require more time. Unfortunately, I couldn’t link Justin over via video/audio feeds because the wireless connection wasn’t that good. We had to switch between couple of networks off and on. What a bummer! It would have been so cool to have him co-talk and co-comment on several points and questions that were brought up. The venue was also quite noisy!
Also had the opportunity to catch up with some friends. I stayed on till the after-party at Nalen with Ruiwen, Brenda, Gitta, Lotta, Fredrik and Mattias. Martin and Anton from Primelabs were there too. The after-party was excellent. Free flow of food, alcohol and live music. =) Couldn’t have asked for a better night could I?
Lotta, Gitta and Anton liveblogged during the event. Ruiwen came in slightly late and also blogged a bit about it. Follow the Lotta’s Flickr stream here.
I’m so glad you came, and thanks for the great time there. I hope to talk more with you soon. — Chris…
Comment by Chris Brogan... — June 14, 2007 @ 2:06 am
[…] actually I was supposed to be co-presenting with Sriram over Skype Video but the connection was quite bad and we couldn’t even get plain vanilla Skype working. So unfortunately, I had to drop out. […]
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[…] Sriram Krishnan talked about media landscapes in Singapore. It was meant to be a joint presentation with his friend Justin Lee in Singapore, but that didn’t quite work out. Probably because the internet connetion here really sucks. Anyway, Singapore is interesting because of it’s small size yet prominent position online. Sriram showed that out of the top ten search terms on Technorati, two were individuals from Singapore. The reason? Part of the explanation is that Singaporeans are early adopters, they have good infrastucture, pick up trends from Japan and Europe. The younger generation want to express themselves more. There are more blogs than youths in Singapore, Sriram Krishnan said. The government, “Gahmen”, is revamping schools with tablet pcs, podcasts and other high-tech stuff. But they also set limits to what you can say and do both irl and online. - The sedition act says you can’t speak your mind. If you do and it’s considered to be dissatisfactory to the governement, you’ll be put in jail. Krishnan showed a site called Stomp, which is the gahmen’s answer to web2.0 for young people. - In my opinion it’s failed miserably. It’s a bad site. There’s also content regulation online. The govenment wants to preserve traditional Asian values. Political bloggers needed to register prior to the elections in 2006, and podcasts were banned altogether. […]
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