Saturday, 3 September 2005 | 11.40pm
Singapore Writers Festival 1
I went to the panel discussion on "Communication & The Internet - Online Journalism & Other Writings On The World Wide Web" yesterday evening at The National Library.
The panel members were made up of Dominque Wolton, a Research Director at France's Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. He is the author that study the relationship between communication, society, culture and politics, including Internet et apres?
The 2nd panelist is Aniruddha Bahal who had an extraordinary career as an investigative reporter with the controversial website Tehelka, best known for a sting operation that caught several Indian defense officials on the take. He is also the founder and editor in chief of Cobrapost, an Indian news site.
The last panelist I had hope needs no introduction but was thoroughly disappointed when I asked several students and teachers but no one had heard of him. Duh, it's Cory Doctorow leh. One student was surprised that he even had a wikepedia page. Cory Doctorow is an award-winning writer, an activist, a public speaker and a legendary blogger. A prolific writer who appears on the mastheads at Wired, Make and Popular Science magazines, Cory's science fiction novels have won the John W. Campbell and Locus Award and been nominated for the Nebula Award. His short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More, won Canada's Sunburst Award for Best Science Fiction Book. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog, Boing Boing. He is also European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported nonprofit group that works to uphold civil liberties values in technology law, policy and standards. Additionally he is a visiting lecturer at Yale University Engineering, a fellow at Stanhope Center in London, and a co-founder of the open source P2P technology company, OpenCola. His personal blog can be found at Craphound.com.
The moderator was Cherian George. As the panelist each held their own opinions, there were lively repartee even among themselves. All in all an excellent talk.
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The panel members were made up of Dominque Wolton, a Research Director at France's Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. He is the author that study the relationship between communication, society, culture and politics, including Internet et apres?
The 2nd panelist is Aniruddha Bahal who had an extraordinary career as an investigative reporter with the controversial website Tehelka, best known for a sting operation that caught several Indian defense officials on the take. He is also the founder and editor in chief of Cobrapost, an Indian news site.
The last panelist I had hope needs no introduction but was thoroughly disappointed when I asked several students and teachers but no one had heard of him. Duh, it's Cory Doctorow leh. One student was surprised that he even had a wikepedia page. Cory Doctorow is an award-winning writer, an activist, a public speaker and a legendary blogger. A prolific writer who appears on the mastheads at Wired, Make and Popular Science magazines, Cory's science fiction novels have won the John W. Campbell and Locus Award and been nominated for the Nebula Award. His short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More, won Canada's Sunburst Award for Best Science Fiction Book. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog, Boing Boing. He is also European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported nonprofit group that works to uphold civil liberties values in technology law, policy and standards. Additionally he is a visiting lecturer at Yale University Engineering, a fellow at Stanhope Center in London, and a co-founder of the open source P2P technology company, OpenCola. His personal blog can be found at Craphound.com.
The moderator was Cherian George. As the panelist each held their own opinions, there were lively repartee even among themselves. All in all an excellent talk.
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