Update: Singapore's largest circulating Chinese broadsheet, Zaobao, also ran a piece on Mr Miyagi and myself today (28 July 2005) entitled 博客uncle红了. I will see if I can get a scan.
Here is the link for now.
Excerpt:本地博客不只是“下雪”这位小姑娘红，还有两位“uncle”很火红。Uncle 的称号不是记者替他们取的，是几乎每5分钟就要说一次笑话的他们如此自嘲的。
36岁，化名“褐先生”(Mr.Brown)的李健敏和以“Miyagi先生”（Mr Miyagi）为笔名而广为人知的李士耀，在本地青少年博客群里，的确因年龄而非常出众。但他们的出众也是因为他们拥有除了少年族群以外，更成熟（20岁至30多岁）的读者群。
Sandralicious got featured in Shin Min (Wanbao), that paragon of journalistic integrity, and is not too happy at being called a scheming 20-year-old posting pictures on the net so that she can lure wolves into her net.
Our Bloggers.SG Convention was covered by Associated Press ("Singapore's Net-dwellers gather for first official 'off-line' conference").
Excerpt:SINGAPORE (AP) - Spread out over the nightclub dance floor, Singapore's Web journal community officially gathered off-line for the first time to put faces to the popular Web pseudonyms and discuss important blogger issues - including how to avoid a ruinous government lawsuit.
For more than five hours Saturday about 200 people - some hunkered over laptops - listened to Singapore's most famous Web writers in person as a big-screen television beamed a chat room taking questions and comments from cyberspace.
A Bangkok Post piece on terrorism ("Challenging the slew of online militants") mentioned the Con as well, and, er, me. (Thanks to Double Yellow for the heads-up)
Excerpt:In another instance, a social commentator for Singapore-published Today newspaper caricaturised as "Mr Brown'' essentially started out as a blog celebrity.
His acknowledged public status is no surprise, considering that Singaporeans are perhaps the most progressive in the region to embrace blogs as a newfound subculture. Its residents recently staged the first-ever annual Singapore Bloggers Conference in early July.
Aside from being approached by the local press (in his comments section since he left no email), Rockson also got quoted in an AFP news report, "Singapore spends big on no name change", in a South African online newspaper, Mail & Guardian. The quote comes from his post on Marina Bay.
Excerpt:Not surprisingly, many Singaporeans were quick to lambaste the government's latest publicity efforts as an utter waste of public funds.
"Waaah, you so clever ... [you] think and think and think and come up [with] this new old name," Rockson Takumi Tan wrote on his popular blog. -- AFP
