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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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