Recently, one of my light-hearted post on kopitiam culture today was submitted to tomorrow.sg and got selected by the editors. As a result, I experience a spike in visitors to this humble blog that resembles the Dirac Delta function with 90% from tomorrow.sg. It's sure a nice surprise to find out that our blog was selected and there are people out there who find my ramblings worth reading.


This looks more like a spectroscopy graph than a visitors graph

Tomorrow.sg was created because some popular bloggers in Singapore meet up for a dinner and talked about this idea. The rest is history. It's suppose to be a collection of interesting articles written by bloggers either in Singapore or about it. I was uncomfortable about the idea initially. Who do these people think they are to go around doing this? Tomorrow.sg seems like an avenue for the editors to gain more popularity and authority over the rest of the local bloggers. (See here for more)

At the same time, I get disgusted by some of the the Fame-Seekers. For one reason or another, these fellows want their blogs to be read by the rest of the world so they will submit their entries again and again, religiously updating their blogs with new materials hoping to get selected eventually and regularly to gain readerships and popularity. So they can either a.) Take over the world, b.) Get t-shirt endorsement, c.) get a column on Today.

(Fact: Maybe you will get 200 more readers if you are featured but 95% of them don't even bother to read your other articles that are not featured. Consider yourself very lucky should one of them bookmark your blog at the end of the day.)

The biggest problem with Tomorrow.sg is that what is interesting to you may not be interesting to me. So I didn't even bothered to subscribe to the site feed as it will fill up my Thunderbird with more junk than gems. And how long will Tomorrow.sg survive before a.) the editors got bored and stop working on it, b.) the gahmen took notice of it and use it conveniently to fish out anti-gahmen views defamatory articles or brainwash netizens enforce professional journalism code of ethics on bloggers.

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