I’m staying with friends in one of Singapore’s huge, sprawling, residential districts. They truly are communities unto themselves, these high-rise buildings grouped around communal spaces: playgrounds, parklands, and courtyards where pots of herbs and flowers mingle with bougainvillea and your local cat. The shopping precinct has 24 hour operational food stalls, and your doctor, dentist,
Continue reading ...If you’re a new arrival here, welcome! If you’ve dropped by again as a regular … great to have you once more. Either way, you’ll know I’m doing the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge to revive my often flagging blogging skills/routine. Can I ask a quick favour of you … related to yesterday’s
Continue reading ...Back to 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge – Day 4 and we’re looking to observe a blog in our niche area and to do a compare and contrast with our own. The parameters of this task are wide and the participants can focus on as many aspects of blogging as we care to:
Continue reading ...I like reviewing the gear I take with me when I hit the road on trips. Hands up if you always take more than you need. Yes, me too. Before I took off for the US in January this year I posted on my favourite e-tools for the trip. Here’s an extract I’ll be tweeting
Continue reading ...Image via Wikipedia Yes it’s that time again, and it couldn’t have come at a better one for me. It’s Building a Better Blog month organised by Darren Rowse, ol’ Problogger hisself! I did one of these 2 years ago and it was worth the effort. I’ll keep telling myself that as those 31 days
Continue reading ...The aggregation dilemma I wrote about a day or so ago is less of a dilemma as I ‘blend’ the content of my blogs here. I’m on yet another digital learning curve as I work my way through the challenges of editing that this task presents. If you’re a reader of either or both blogs,
Continue reading ...I’ve been keeping blogs for several years now. This one was the first-born, or at least it ‘growed up’ out of my first experiments in what I thought of as an online journal. Fairly soon after its incarnation, Spinning a Learning Web became too sprawling, so I reined in my grasshopper inclinations to write about
Continue reading ...World Theatre Day 2009 has come and gone, but as the song lyrics go, ‘the memories linger on.’ And the achievements do too. You can see what I mean at the World Theatre Day blog and its Tumblr feed of images and sounds of the celebrations around the globe. WTD got the online treatment for
Continue reading ...This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for at least a month. Given we’re in the International Women’s Day time-zone, it seemed appropriate to get my thoughts down at last. I was inspired by a couple of performances I saw in NYC in late January: Stockard Channing in Pal Joey (among other things
Continue reading ...I wonder at the naiveté of people who publish material to the web, and then spit and scratch if it appears somewhere else ‘out there.’ I also think people who cut and paste clearly private or sensitive material from sites to other more public forums deserve all the un-friending they get – a sort of
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