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Wishing Tumblr better luck than GeoCities 18 May 2013 | 04:36 am
Let’s hope Tumblr survives a deal with Yahoo, which pulled the plug on GeoCities. Remember GeoCities, an online community like Tumblr? Founded in 1994, GeoCities was the third most visited site on the...
Dr Johnson, Addison: Proto-bloggers? 14 May 2013 | 06:30 pm
Did blogs come first or newspapers? The Daily Courant, first published in 1702, was the first British daily newspaper, we are told. It was a one-page newspaper, with advertisements on the reverse side...
Magazine changes and the Oxford English Dictionary 13 May 2013 | 11:49 am
The pen is mightier than the sword. Look at what happened to the word, “magazine”. There was a time when it meant an arsenal, an armoury, a storehouse for arms and ammunition. Maybe that is how the ca...
From St Audrey to “tawdry” 12 May 2013 | 12:16 pm
Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak can’t be happy with The Economist calling his a “tawdry victory” in the recent general election. But how did a saint lend her name to something so cheap as “tawdry...
Faith and positive thinking 12 May 2013 | 10:20 am
Could positive thinking and the law of attraction be inspired by religion? We have all heard the saying, “Faith can move mountains.” That is a paraphrase from the Bible. The words are spoken by Jesus ...
Flipboard comes to desktop 11 May 2013 | 01:06 pm
Now Flipboard users can curate their own magazines on Android phones and tablets, too, just as they have been doing for some time now on iPhones and iPads. What’s more, they can add articles, pictures...
A man’s reach should exceed his grasp: Browning 10 May 2013 | 09:58 am
Poor Andrea del Sarto. A successful Italian painter who was overshadowed by his contemporaries, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. We admire the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael w...
Peter Pan and cricket 9 May 2013 | 02:42 pm
Today is the birthday of JM Barrie (May 9, 1860 – June 19, 1937). He is remembered for Peter Pan, but he also invented celebrity cricket, as the BBC once put it. There is a connection between Peter Pa...
Singapore varsities tops in IT, media and English studies 8 May 2013 | 06:18 am
Singapore may not be Silicon Valley, New York, London or Oxford. But Singapore is one of the best places in the world for computer science, communication and media, and English language and literature...
Singapore’s 2012 trade at a glance 7 May 2013 | 10:46 am
Malaysia was Singapore’s biggest trading partner in 2012 followed by the European Union, China, Indonesia and the United States – in that order. Singapore’s total merchandise trade in 2012 amounted to...
