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Chatter, Collaboration & Cool Stuff
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Written by Ridzuan Ashim
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
I write this with reference to the Ping.sg community although some thoughts could be applied across other communities of similar nature.
 With the conclusion of the 1st Ping.sg Anniversary Party, what’s next? How will this grow? What factors might affect this? Why am I writing this?
Before I begin, I think it’s important for me to identify myself, where I stand in the blogosphere and in the ping.sg community.
If you don’t already know, Uzyn Chua is the founder of ping.sg and we’ve all heard the story of how the site was born from the need to solve the simple problem of reading local Singaporean blogs(which is embarrassing because this solution is developed by a Malaysian) It grew from nothing but a programmer’s personal site to one that has around a 1000 users today.
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Written by Ridzuan Ashim
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
Reading the review “Pitch For Alternative Learning” on the Review section of The Straits Times(Pg 22) yesterday, I find it extremely interesting the way New College Florida provides education.
Unlike the standard GPA system and credit-hour system that we’re used to, they employ a different criteria. A student will spend the start of each term developing a contract between himself and the teacher. The contract will outline what the student will student within specific disciplines. To graduate, he must complete 7 contracts, 3 independent study projects and 1 original thesis.
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Written by Ridzuan Ashim
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Sunday, 20 May 2007 |
We’re probably very accustomed to going for parties, conferences and other social functions and while we’re perhaps dying for some “alone time”, it’s probably good to reflect what these functions really achieve.
Many people go to such events to network and while I agree this is important, I don’t intend to write about that today. Another day perhaps, or maybe you could write about that.
I think the other real value of
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