Social Websites Review

I am like Ash, collecting and categorising social websites instead of Pokemons. Gotta catch 'em all!

This is my personal project, the Great Singapore Social Websites Review 2013, which is an attempt to review well-known Singapore social websites. The following list will be updated in the upcoming months.

Singapore News Alternative

- http://singaporenewsalternative.blogspot.com
- owner: unknown
- description: a Singapore news aggregator
- pros: frequently updated, provide links to many blogs, wide variety of news sources
- remarks: recommended

The Singapore Daily

- http://singaporedaily.net
- owner: unknown
- description: a Singapore news aggregator
- pros: frequently updated, provide links to many blogs, wide variety of news sources
- remarks: recommended

TR Emeritus

- http://www.tremeritus.com
- owner: unknown but Richard Wan has represented the website before
- description: a Singapore news portal that also publishes readers' letters
- pros: fast update, interesting readers' comments, frank
- uniqueness: sometimes controversial
- remarks: recommended

Diary of a Singaporean Mind

- owner: Lucky Tan
- singaporemind.blogspot.com
- description: social and political commentaries of Singapore happenings
- pros: well-written and good argument, plenty of readers' comments
- remarks: recommended

Yawning Bread

- owner: Alex Au
- yawningbread.wordpress.com
- description: social and political commentaries of Singapore happenings
- pros: well-written and good argument, plenty of readers' comments
- uniqueness: Alex was asked to remove his post by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in 2012, He also explores gay issues in Singapore
- remarks: recommended

To Review

Yahoo! News Singapore
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore/

SPH's The Straits Times
http://www.straitstimes.com

SPH's The New Paper
http://www.tnp.sg

SPH's omy.sg
http://www.omy.sg

SPH's The Straits Times Singapolitics
http://www.singapolitics.sg

Today Online
http://www.todayonline.com

IPSCommons
http://ipscommons.sg

The Online Citizen
http://www.theonlinecitizen.com

Balding's World
http://www.baldingsworld.com

Tan Kin Lian's Blog
http://tankinlian.blogspot.sg

mrbrown.com
http://www.mrbrown.com

Blogging for Myself
http://blogging4myself.blogspot.sg

Singapore Armchair Critic
http://singaporearmchaircritic.wordpress.com

Yours Truly Singapore
http://trulysingapore.wordpress.com

The Void Decker
http://www.voiddecker.com

LIFT: Limpeh Is Foreign Talent
http://www.limpehft.blogspot.com
Notable posts: http://limpehft.blogspot.com/2013/03/q-how-do-i-see-singapore.html

Thoughts of a Cynical Investor
http://atans1.wordpress.com

guanyinmiao's musings
http://guanyinmiao.wordpress.com

Singapore Election Watch
http://singaporeelection.blogspot.sg

Ravi Philemon
http://www.raviphilemon.net

Siew Kum Hong
http://siewkumhong.blogspot.com

Molitics
http://mollymeek.wordpress.com

Singapore Notes
http://singaporedesk.blogspot.sg

sgthinker.wordpress.com
http://sgthinker.wordpress.com

Singapore Recalcitrant
singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.com

The Heart Truths
http://thehearttruths.com

Under the Willow Tree
http://utwt.blogspot.com

flâneurose
http://flaneurose.blogspot.com

Demon-cratic Singapore
https://www.facebook.com/DemoncraticSingapore

EDMW Loves Singapore
https://www.facebook.com/edmw.sg

The New Era
https://www.facebook.com/TheNewEraSingapore

The Alternative View
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Alternative-View/358759327518739

Fabrications Led by Opposition Parties (FLOP)
https://www.facebook.com/fabflop

Rachel Zeng
http://rachelzeng.wordpress.com

Jeremy Chen
http://jeremy-chen.org

Catherine Lim
http://catherinelim.sg

Sociological Thoughts
http://www.sociologicalthoughts.com

Singapore Kindness Movement
https://www.facebook.com/kindness.sg

Lee Kuan Yew Watch
http://leewatch.info
- notes: A lesser known fact is that Lee Kuan Yew was awarded the 1994 Ig Nobel Psychology Prize and was described as "practitioner of the psychology of negative reinforcement, for his thirty-year study of the effects of punishing three million citizens of Singapore whenever they spat, chewed gum, or fed pigeons"