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I found this blog on Facebook and it has hilarious cartoons about social political landscape in Singapore. I have bookmarked it as a favourite. Love the Low Ris one… From http://sporesays.blogspot.com/  

Pardon the long title but it is interesting to find the Singhealth CEO making this announcement through the Ministry of Health’s blog rather than doing it via a press release. Wrote Dr Tan Chee Beng, CEO, SingHealth Polyclinics , We are already seeing increasing public interest in the vaccination. We have set up dedicated phone lines to handle queries and requests to be put on the waitlist. When our clinics finally receive the vaccines, we will set up appointments for those on the waitlist. At $29 nett at the polyclinics, the cost of the H1N1 vaccination is much lower than Tamiflu. It is a cost effective shield against H1N1. It is also interesting to find that while Today newspaper quoted the source from this blog, The Straits Time, strangely enough, omitted any reference to the blog as the source of the information. The announcement was made with a rather personal approach than the standard third party press release format. Are blogs now the Web2.0 Press Release? Would ...

(Update: It seems there are only 2,137 Singapore twitters from a statement in Twitterholic.com ) The Straits Times today reported that blogging is passé and that microblogging is the new Internet rage. From reading the article, it seem that the stats do show that the while visits to blog sites have slowed, the numbers of visitors to Twitter and Plurk has exploded. Tan Weizhen , for The Straits Times, wrote “According to research firm Hitwise, blogging traffic slowed last year, while the usage of Twitter and Plurk has exploded. “The number of Singaporean users visiting and using Twitter 's site jumped 602 per cent between January last year and last month, said Hitwise, which does not reveal absolute figures.” So is blogging so yesterday? I disagree. Its like saying because SMS growth has exploded compared to voice-calls, is voice-call dated? Or saying that there is a jump in growth in visits to online media hence print media is dated? A check at Hitwise paint a...