Week in Review: Stupid gets stupider?
- Even in a gradual week, trouble finds its manner to the attention of netizens
- Illustrates a deeper point approximately us being ‘continually on,’ but at what cost
NOT noticeably, as we wind down the year, this has been a gradual week … a lazy week nearly. Hmm, can an entrepreneur have the phrase “lazy” in his vocabulary?
Well, we at Digital News Asia (DNA) think not anything of pronouncing it as it's far, and so lazy and slow-paced week it has been then!
But due to the fact we are saying it as it's miles, we still were given a blockbuster story in and we did not even smash it. It changed into our alert friends at Amanz.my, the main Malay language tech site, who ran an article on what standards the Government has settled on in figuring out who qualifies for the RM300 million worth of cellphone subsidies introduced for the duration of Budget 2013.
We picked up at the article and A. Asohan wrote a brief but sharp observation on what he concept of the whole lot. To say our traffic shot thru the roof would be an irony!
It simply is going to expose that even if on vacation, humans will nonetheless make time to examine some thing exciting and highly spiced. And with connectivity and social media a 24x7 manner of life now, news will find you.
As proof of this, no longer that I want to convince all of us, I got a message complaining about the harsh tone of the statement from a senior authorities technocrat who's overseas. It become within the dead of the morning wherein he became but Asohan’s remark nonetheless discovered its way to him and he right now shared his feedback with me.
The cellphone subsidy, although there are a few merits to it, has come to be the modern day lighting rod that illustrates poor planning by way of the Government whilst managing taxpayer money.
The age bracket that starts at 21, the balloting age, just shouts out to many who it is an election gimmick. If that they had simply decreased it to 18, the resistance in opposition to it would now not have been so terrible.
There is truely no excuse for this. Somebody screwed up horrific. Hence, the Government getting skewered by netizens.
But let me cease on this factor about us being “usually on”. That has to be one of the predominant traits that has cemented its location in our lives this yr. That’s whilst a fashion stops being contemporary and is just a way of existence. I am certain we've got lost some thing in this however have we won extra than we misplaced? I don’t realize.
I remember recently going to bed around nighttime and the spouse become still up but about to drift off into sleep. What might have been a couple of minutes of sleepy, dreamy small talk approximately the day changed into misplaced as I desired to send off a short electronic mail, “just give me a minute” I could have probably stated. But once I became executed, the missus become in dreamland already.
Here’s wishing all of you a notable 2013. May you sooner or later take the step from concept to movement in making your dreams come via!
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Week in Review: It's all approximately the money
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