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I managed to shoot some videos of some of the blogger panelists at the BUM2007 gathering… however uploading had been quite slow so I posted what I have uploaded first especially for those who had missed the event for whatever reasons. Take note the videos do not contain full speech of each bloggers, nevertheless I hope you will find their ideas and opinions thought provoking.
Introduction by the organisers…

Jeff Ooi’s speech…

Tony Pua’s speech…

Tian Chua’s speech…

Here is Rocky’s part

Sonia’s points of view…

This is what Marina had to say about blogging….

Raja Petra Kamaruddin has something really interesting….

More videos to come… please bear …read more

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Despite sustaining some injury on my ribs when I was doing a DIY project at home yesterday, I managed to attend the Blogger United Malaysia 2007 gathering held yesterday evening at the Lake View Club Subang Jaya.
I had fallen off the aluminium ladder and landed my ribs on a chair. The chair was badly damaged and my ribs now are severely in pain even by slight movement. I had asked my wife to send me there as I could not drive. Luckily an X-ray showed no fractured bones or anything like that but I was at the BUM2007 on …read more

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National Union of Journalist of Malaysia has urged the Malaysian Government to recognize bloggers. This is something very encouraging for the Malaysia’s blogosphere. Bloggers in Malaysia, especially SOPO bloggers, have been at the loggerheads with the Government recently over what is claimed by the Government as irresponsible blogging by the online writers.
The timely call was made by Norila Mohd Daud, the president of the National Journalists Union inconjunction with the International Press Freedom Day which falls tomorrow.
“The usage of internet and the concept of the uncensored `borderless world’ have made information more easily accessible to anyone. As such, any abuses …read more

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If what I read in the Associated Press is anything to go by, bloggers in Malaysia have every reason to believe so. Or at least there is a very dimmed light at the end of tunnel for blogging in Malaysia. I say dimmed light becasue you can never be sure of what can happen next. After all this Malaysia Boleh-land we are talking about where anything is possible.
Malaysia’s leader has shot down a proposal to order local bloggers to register with the government, saying existing laws are enough to deter Internet users from posting malicious content.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi …read more

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Thanks to NST and the four individuals that started the defamation suit against Jeff Ooi and Ahiruddin Attan aka Rocky. Thanks also to Tengku Adnan for calling Malaysian bloggers are liars over Nila Tanzil’s revelation of her experience with Malaysia Tourism Board. Thank you so much to Kementerian Dalam Negeri (Internal Affair Ministry)for issuing directive to mainstream medias not to quote bloggers in their reportings. And the latest thank you is to none other than Shaziman Abu Mansor , the Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Energy, Water and Commnication, for bringing up in the Parliment seating, the idea of …read more

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Blogophobia in Kuala Lumpur continues today with a new twist. Bloggers are so prominent these days in Malaysia that not only a Malaysian ministry had issue a gag order to national mainstream newspapers not to quote bloggers, one Malaysian Parlimentarian had suggested in today’s Parliment proceeding that Malaysian bloggers may have to register in the future.
This, the bloggers find, is very hard to swallow. There is no hiding now that someone out there in the Malaysia’s political circles are haunted by bloggers. But I am not surprised if they are, just take at the look at these caricatures of …read more

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Ever since Rocky and Jeff Ooi had been served with defamation suit by NST and four others, bloggers had been very much the talk of the town. It first started with the issue of bloggers being sued itself. Shortly after that Nila Tanzil had blogged about how she received shoddy treatment from Malaysian Tourism Board officials in Kuala Lumpur. But the issues surrounding her complaint were not really hot in the blogosphere.
Instead, thanks to Tengku Adnan’s, Malaysia’s Tourism Minister, calling all bloggers are liar, (read More Liars by Nuraina) referring to the blog post by Nila Tanzil. The un-called …read more

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This video from Malaysiakini TV shows the Malaysian Tourism Minister tried to clear the air over the “All bloggers are liar… ” issue as a result of Nila Tanzil’s sharing her unpleasant experience with Malaysian Tourism Board in Kuala Lumpur recently. The video was shot at the press conference after the National Press Club-Celcom VMY Treasure Hunt 2007. Yes… Rocky was there too…. look how cool was he when he was listening to the Tourism Minister’s preach while at the same time, his blog had hit 1 million mark while blog visitors were reading his comment on the press …read more

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Thanks to News Straits Time and four others who had sued Jeff Ooi and Rocky for defamation, Bloggers United was born. Today Bloggers United is one month old. A one month old movement that had grown so fast it is now adopted by bloggers around the world. Rocky had reported that Malaysia Today is also proudly displaying Bloggers United logo prominently on the widely popular and read online news portal.
It is unfortunate that Jeff and Rocky had to be the catalysts but Bloggers United had brought so many bloggers together. Susan Loone had put it nicely in her Bloggers United’s …read more

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Jeff Ooi and Ahirudin Attan continue to receive media attentions…. minus Malaysian mainstream media of course. There are now a few video coverages on the issue since the bloggers were sued by NST and the gang.
This video (in Malay language) is from TV PAS, an online media organisation owned by opposition party PAS.
On YouTube, one Ahmadazwa posted this video which is an excerpt from a Cranky Geeks with John C. Dvorak podcast, a very popular program in UK.

Also on YouTube, Zanazlee shares his exclusive video interview with jeff Ooi with us. You should check out Zanazlee’s Fat Bidin Media …read more

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