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3 July 2009

FB + Twitter reports on Fusionopolis incident faster than News

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It’s a tad morbid, but I thought I should highlight this for the speed at which social media reports on breaking (and highly controversial) news faster than traditional media can, even in a country as small as Singapore.  To think famous and respected New York Judge Richard Posner had the gall to propose banning the [...]

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25 June 2009

Of Friends, Suicide and Life

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A few days ago, one of my secondary school classmates jumped off an apartment and ended his life—I learned about the sad news through an SMS from an ex-classmate.  Even though I was never especially close to him, it still came as a real shocker to me.  I remember seeing him at a mutual [...]

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