If this is drama, what role does PPS play?
It started with "I am hungry". And then went on and on and on. The story is well summarised on The Flyz's Blog. PPS won't take sides in this, and in fact, it won't even comment on the issue.
Once again, the normally peaceful south-east asian blogsphere is rocked by an incident that caused a furor between prominent bloggers from both Singapore and malaysia. And once again, the protagonist of this cross-causeway 'blog war' is none other than miss XiaXue; the most popular blogger in Singapore. On the malaysian side, the war is spearheaded by Kimberlycun and backed by prominent blogger; Peter Tan.
via The Flyz's Blog.
However, what does interest me is what role PPS had to play in propogating the matter. For a period yesterday, every other ping hitting PPS was a comment about it; it would have been hard for any visitor to PPS to miss the storm in the teacup. And bloggers being bloggers -- once they take notice of something, its even odds that they'll write about. Then ping PPS. Then the cycle starts over again.
Interesting, the dynamics of how this has played out with PPS. How many of you would have noticed this issue had it not been pinged to PPS? How many of you would have blogged about it? I'll be the first to put my hand up.
Comments
Yes, i only read about it from PPS, but isn't that the whole point of PPS? To draw attention to your blog, be it for the issue you are trying to voice out, or just to increase the traffic of your site.
Posted by: nicktay | October 26, 2005 10:00 AM
Correct, PPS is a content aggregator first and foremost.
It also seems to have a secondary effect of leading people to information that in turns leads them to writing about it.
Its a cycle, almost. Does that make PPS a washing machine? ;)
Posted by: Aizuddin Danian | October 26, 2005 10:13 AM
It is in the nature bloggers to care about things that sooth their narcissistic tendancies. To be part of something especially in the light of something like this. Who could resist feeling like a working class hero taking a sledgehammer to the blogging aristocracy? It's a drama in the making and people want o be part of it.
Posted by: Edrei | October 26, 2005 10:27 AM
PPS is turning to be influential... remember, with great power, comes greast responsibility...
Posted by: Mossie`Ol Chin | October 26, 2005 10:32 AM
doesn't interest me or the few other weblogs i read :-D
Posted by: q | October 26, 2005 12:28 PM
I didn't blog about it, I didn't know about it through PPS. Aha. But you're right about the cycle though. First it was the SPG cycle, now this. Anymore after this?
Posted by: S-Kay | October 26, 2005 12:56 PM
i learned of this xiaxue/peter saga not through PPS (i admit i seldom browse through PPS) but through visit to blogs.
i did not blog on the SPG saga nor did i blog on this current saga, but i did comment on it on other people's blog.
Posted by: lucia | October 26, 2005 02:42 PM
*Hands up
Posted by: mob1900 | October 26, 2005 05:29 PM
Didn't find out about it from PPS (found it out from Peter Tan's blog, actually).
But I did find out about it and I didn't want to blog about it. Even after everyone else did.
Why? Because I knew what was happening and I decided to not participate.
Posted by: T-Boy | October 27, 2005 11:57 AM
I was in it from the start as usual...didn't get into it from PPS.
Posted by: ShaolinTiger | October 27, 2005 11:02 PM
PPS is not the only blogtal.
there are alternatives like sarahWho, project kacang kuda and blogs Malaysia
I would say there's healthy competition.
Posted by: Life Feel | October 28, 2005 12:25 PM
Life: Who said anything about this being a competition?
Posted by: Aizuddin Danian | October 28, 2005 02:34 PM
it is just my opinion.
Posted by: Life Feel | October 29, 2005 05:48 PM
You know, it's usually a lot more fun to shutup, sit back and watch. Of course, I'm not exactly a man of action, but this is more of a food for thought than a chance of getting sme 15 seconds of fame.
Posted by: Silencers | October 31, 2005 08:03 PM