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20/07/2007
Top Singapore Socio-political Blogs 2007
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Didn't someone recently argue in the Straits Jacket that 'S'poreans can't be bothered', to be cyber-activists. Well we can all get into a very unnecessarily academic debate about the nature of the term 'cyber-activist'. But as I continue to collate the political blogs out there and when you remember that Singapore has a population of under 4 million, then 49 (and counting) 'political' bloggers is nothing to laugh at.
As of 17th July 2007, and only blogs that have been active for the last year. The blogs highlighted in yellow are not ranked but still considered to be socio-political blogs. The reason they are not ranked is because they did not have technorati information available on the day of the study. If you go today you will also notice that the rankings are in constant flux and some blogs such as i-Speak: Gayle Goh are no longer active.
I am of course aware that a list like this is very difficult to compile as I may not have listed all the blogs considered to be political and some are listed eventhough the owner will state that they are not political all the time. It is a work in progress. If you click here or on the image you will be taken to an interactive version of the entire list of (49) blogs.
Ranking According to Technorati
1 mrbrown 1752
2 mrbrownshow 10729
3 Mr Wang Says So 14500
4 i-Speak: Gayle Goh 31029
5 Intelligent Singaporean 34923
6 Singapore Angle 36063
7 The Online Citizen 38852
8 Singabloodypore 54074
9 Xenoboy 64204
10 Molly Meek 65889
11 e pur si muove 68624
12 Diary of S'porean Mind 89244
13 The Legal Janitor 96068
14 Singapore Election Watch 104209
15 A Writer's Blog 106180
16 Singapore Patriot 149268
17 Singapore Politics 183558
18 A Gecko's Tale 202961
19 Singapore: New Media... 218186
20 Singapore Alternatives 226661
to see the rest of the list...
The source of the original list upon which this builds is from theory is the reason on 17th July 2007 and augmented by soci to suite the purposes of an ongoing study. A direct link to the orignal data spreadsheet is - http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pQcRq80yuyWXeqpakI...
15:00 Posted by soci | Permalink | Comments (7) | Email this | Tags: Singapore, New Media, Politics, Blogs
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I will soon update the list and add
WP Member (Politician?) Yaw Shin Leong @ WP http://yawshinleong.blogspot.com/ Yaw Shin Leong Started July 2006
WP Member (Politician?) A Singaporean http://perrytong.blogspot.com/ Perry Tong Started July 2006
WP Member (Politician?) A Singapore Odyssey http://melvintansg.blogspot.com/ Melvin Tan Started March 1998*
If anyone out there has the name and url of a Singapore blog that talks about politics and has been in operation from the time period of July 2006 to July 2007. Then email it to me or post it here in a comment.
Posted by: soci | 20/07/2007
WP Member (Politician?) A Singaporean http://perrytong.blogspot.com/ Perry Tong Started July 2006 not added as it is no longer active since May 2007. the other two blogs have now been added to the list.
Posted by: soci | 20/07/2007
I wish there were some way we could work together on one spreadsheet so that we'll have a definitive list. We're all updating our own lists now which makes duplicate effort. I guess if we're sharing the lists publicly we could always refer off one another. :)
Posted by: Kevin Lim | 21/07/2007
Hi..
I agree with Kevin that we should have a consolidated list. I myself am getting confused.
Nonetheless, I commend you for putting a list together.
If we can have a consolidated one, we can help publicise it. Just drop us an email at theonlinecitizen@gmail.com
Regards,
Andrew
Posted by: Andrew | 21/07/2007
count me in
Posted by: sgsociety.com | 22/07/2007
Another for the list could be:
News Release by UncleYap
http://uncleyap-news.blogspot.com/
- this is more like an activist's blog
Posted by: Eng Chuan | 23/07/2007
HI all
As I am compiling this list for my on-going research it needs to meet certain requirements. One thing I don't want to do is include blogs that existed for a few weeks, months or days.
A list that includes every Sg socio-political blog is rather a tall request.
So someone out there wishing to compile a list that is as comprehensive as possible is more than free to access and copy this list and I will be grateful to receive the list and add my two cents worth.
Posted by: soci | 25/07/2007