Being questioned for defending freedom of information ; sharing my links & personal access to (aggregated) free information via Google Reader

It’s 10am, and I guess Tian Chua, Ronnie Liu, Dr. Hatta Ramli and TS Khalid Ibrahim should be at Bukit Aman now, getting ready to answer questions.

A lot has been said on how blatantly ridiculous and morally wrong it is to use the OSA to hide corruption that is so clearly screwing the rakyat over – most likely just to benefit a bunch of heartless, unscrupulous fat cats. Am I wrong? Then reveal the documents and prove it. Always open to correction here.

Anyway, I don’t have too much of quality to add here/now (besides the obvious fact that I sokong those four guys, and fully support greater freedom of information over corruption and exploitation under a shroud of unethical secrecy). Note especially an outcry over double-standards re: the OSA.

Seems like a lot of topics are already pretty well covered these days. Gotta work harder to provide something unique.

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It was easy for me to see who has said what using the new super-tool for keeping track of the blogosphere – kindly introduced to me by the lovely politikus: Google Reader!

A pretty cool app, that might make lots of aggregators obsolete.

Anyway, the following are links to some of my own ‘aggregator’ lists, if you wanna see some of the people I try to keep track of. The lists are evolving of course, with blogs changing categories and such:

- ‘Dedicated Writers‘ : hardcore sociopolitical (I think blogs have helped popularise this term. I was always scared to use it before!) bloggers, politician bloggers, famous people, etc..

- ‘Diversified Writers‘ : ‘part-time’ sociopolitical bloggers who often come up with really keen insight. I suspect many of these will eventually cross over onto the first list.

Hmm. I think the other list are rather under-developed for now, so just these two for the time being I guess. If you’re a blogger and don’t see yourself here, chances are I have you on another list already – and it’s all still very fluid!

Feedback on these lists is of course super-welcome. I briefly entertained fantasies of being the great Malaysian blog picker/’editor,’ but more likely you’ll just go out and build a list of your own :P :) I guess a list to these sorta pages may replace blogrolls and the like. But yeah, always happy to hear what you think :)