Bloggers.SG
Bloggers.SG is a bloggers' conference held in Singapore. The first conference was held on 16 July 2005 at the DXO, a club near the Esplanade.
Bloggers.SG was the brainchild of Tomorrow.sg, a metablog set up by a group of dedicated Singaporean bloggers.
Bloggers.SG 2005
Bloggers.SG was (presumably) the first ever blogging conference to be held in Singapore. It was an opportunity for the increasingly vocal Singaporean blogging community to come together, meet each other in the flesh, and, as they say in Singapore, talk cock.
Over the course of three sessions, the conference attendees were invited to participate in discussions on a variety of topics:
- bloggers and their communities,
- blog-related legal issues, and
- blog-related technologies and their applications.
Given the disparate nature of the voices in the Singaporean blogosphere, these sessions received a mixed response at best, with many (including the local newspapers) finding them boring.
Some would argue, however, that this summary dismissal of the event as boring could only be seen as a failure to grasp the occasion's true nature. Bloggers.SG was an important step in helping the bourgeoning sense of community in the Singaporean blogosphere materialize. Bloggers have, for months or even years, been reading one another's blogs, seeing their pictures, and listening to their podcasts. In some ways, a conference like Bloggers.SG made the personalities behind the blogs come to life.
More views of the event can be found at Tomorrow.sg. The event was sponsored by SHINE, Microsoft and Lexmark. DXO also hosted the event at their premises.