Singapore needs a New Yorker

I think that Singapore needs something like a New Yorker - social satire, good writing, witty jokes and all.

More importantly, Singapore needs a more vibrant intellectual social scence, kind of like the salons during Enlightenment Paris, where smart people hung around and talked to each other. In today's context, it would be TED-like, and keeping the conversation going about ideas and how to do them.

I think of the print media sometimes, and I think that the print media as it is will have to adapt. It is trying to adapt, like, ST has its STOMP, and a lot of popular culture stuff that's user-driven and all.

My worry is that ST becomes just a government's mouthpiece which - sucks - . TOC is doing a rather decent job being an aggregator of news and commentaries from the blogosphere, but, there is a sense of wanting something more.

Of course people love and hate the government, of course all of us has something to say, and today we can have that freedom.

People who make information-aggregating tools - they will be the rich ones for a while. It would be so powerful if tools exist for people to organise their information in an easy manner that is intuitive and easily-accessible.

Oh well. Some dream.

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