Blogathon nets funds for Malaysian turtle sanctuary

New Straits Times 29 Oct 09;

KUALA TERENGGANU: They may have had a pot of coffee ready but it was adrenaline that kept conservationists Prof Chan Eng Heng, Pelf Chen Nyok and Chang Kew Fong blogging around the clock.

It paid off well as they raised RM4,500 for the newly-established Turtle Conservation Centre (TCC) in Setiu.

Wherever the Web is heading, it's going there fast

James Skinner, Senior Advisor, MobJet.com
Business Times 26 Oct 09;

The most important trend in Web 2.5 is 'externalization'. It is no longer about driving traffic to your site, it is about driving traffic to your message and having your message in many places!

Web 2.0 is so old school!

Web 1.0 is the world of home pages and information. Most companies are still there. They have a company page that has information on the company and its products. Just because you use the Internet in 2009, does not mean you are in the Web 2.0 world. The biggest impact of Web 1.0 was to allow information on various computers around the world to be shared and indexed in a common format - usually HTML.

How to change the world

Neo Chai Chin, Today Online 24 Oct 09;

Technology is changing the way individuals and companies give to social causes, and it is changing the way social enterprises reach out to beneficiaries and donors.

By holding a "run" on three-dimensional virtual world Second Life to mirror its real-life event, the Relay For Life, the American Cancer Society raised over US$270,000 ($376,000) this year. Various support groups in the United States also utilise Second Life to counsel members.

Newspaper readership holds firm in Singapore

Survey also finds use of Internet on the rise among adults
Felda Chay, Business Times 23 Oct 09;

NEWSPAPERS and other print media may be in decline in the West, but they continue to do well in Singapore, according to the 2009 Nielsen Media Index survey.

The study, conducted from July last year to June this year, surveyed 4,687 adults aged 15 and over. It found that print readership held firm from last year, with 75.3 per cent of respondents having read a newspaper the previous day - the same as in the 2008 survey.

High-Speed 'Other' Internet Goes Global

Robert Roy Britt, livescience.com 16 Oct 09;

A super high-speed global Internet devoted solely to science and education has just expanded to include half the countries of the world, and yes, you at home can be jealous.

The Taj network, funded by the National Science Foundation, now connects India, Singapore, Vietnam and Egypt to the larger Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development (GLORIAD) global infrastructure, and "dramatically improves existing U.S. network links with China and the Nordic region," according to an NSF statement.