Cutting Free

自我追寻

在某些时段，想放弃安全的工作去追求自己的梦想。你怎样知道这是对的？而什么令这个决定更有意义？

来看看自由撰稿人Alexandra Wong 走过四年的心历路程。。

全文：The Star: Cutting Free

Social Networking at Work Costs Employers Big Bucks

So there you are at work with the computer right in front of you. The browser is already up because you were doing some research for your boss. What would be the harm in quickly checking in with Facebook or maybe Twitter? Then why not check your email. It will only take a few seconds more. Oh, but there's that quick reply you have to dash off to your friend. O.K., so what's the harm in spending just a few seconds more tending to personal matters. Before you close down your browser, you remember that you thought of a really funny status update you wanted to post. Back to Facebook. You'll be done in a jiffy. By the time you close down your browser, you've spent more than fifteen minutes not working — make that 20.

Your social networking activity could be costing your employer a lot of money. Morse plc, a U.K. company, released the results of a survey that indicated U.K. businesses are losing £1.38 billion each year because of their employees' use of social networking sites at work. I wonder how much would be added to that figure if you also included other online activities, such as checking email and shopping. Half of the 1,460 office workers who were surveyed admitted to spending "40 minutes on these sites each week, equating to just under a full working week being wasted each year by employees using social networking sites at work." They don't think they are as bad as their colleagues who, they reported (in a classic case of pot meet kettle), spend almost an hour a day on these sites.

By Dawn's Career Planning Blog
Read on: Surfing the Net on Your Boss's Time

Shopping with a click

按滑鼠来购物

之前介绍过网上采购时装用品，好处当然是不必乘车跑几间购物中心，省钱和时间，而且大多衣物都低于RM50。缺点只是不合身或不如在网路看到的款式，但可以送人或再出售。(看看这网站Page from the diary)

对这些Blogshop主人则认为是一个真正开店的踏脚石，因为低成本RM1000就可开Blogshop，而且可以建立客户网络，为开店铺路。

Soh Yien Yee - .Stop.Shop.Splurge.
[http://stopshopsplurge.blogspot.com]

Samantha Lee - A Model Studio
[http://amodelstudio.blogspot.com]

Jessica Ling - The Aura
[http://theauragems.blogspot.com]

Source: Shopping with a click of the mouse, Blogshop owners say it’s a stepping stone to real business

Related: Virtual shopping for fashion hunting

My 101 Post

写在第101篇

卡通世界有101忠狗，台湾则有台北101；当这个部落格写到第100篇时，我在想以后的稿篇该怎样写，我知道我必须给自己一个大方向。从一年前开始开始写时，就有朋友问：“你的部落是写些什麽？”，当女儿向同学说爸爸有个部落，他们都会有奇怪的眼神！

我同意本地的网路媒体人Onn Yeoh称“每个部落客都是一个媒体”，也认同台湾詹宏志说“网路的未来是由你自己去定位”，美国的OM Malik则开创一个专业平台，点击率远远超越The Wall Street Journal，但是却有过劳的隐优。从他们的身上不难发现网路带来的机会和危机，然而它又必须再找到平衡点，才能将优点完全展现。

在开始这个部落时，我以整合转贴网上资料为主；往后会加以搜寻和分析再发表，这是其一，符合新媒体人提升附加价值的要求。其二，专注于事业上的部份如创业、管理、营运和融资；将生活、家居、环境篇转到日前设立的另一个部落“美好生活@蔬果良品”。其三，不定时发表关于资讯工艺、网路行销和趋势的篇幅。纵观本地以英文为媒介已相当成熟，往后将增加中文篇幅，希望可协助到授中文教育的这一块。

短短的省思希望给自己勉励，也和大伙交代；让我们向2009跨步！

Merry Christmas!

1st Malaysia Chinese Blog Award

《第一届马来西亚中文部落格大赛》成绩终于出炉！

充满争议的赛事是于2008年1月接受报名，于4月30日截止，只是收到200+人报名，几乎难产；还好于日前选出！

《第一届马来西亚中文部落格大赛》由由南洋商报及马华梳邦区会主办，得奖名单如下：

最佳创新部落格：
钟进贺 - Rawangboy
入围： 谢沛璁 - 阿包摄影空间 , 李金声 - 視●思覺失調

最佳经济评论部落格
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入围：陈鹏天 - 股票投资理财秘密 , 吴继宗 - "股领风骚"

最佳社会关怀部落格
徐唯 - 背包里的心情故事
入围：马志强 - 士心弓虽的家 , 王德祥 - 天堂鸟

最佳生活品味部落格
陈思琳 - 摄魂馆
入围：张如意 - 如意轩 , 阿丰 - 美食心厨房

最佳少年部落格
江宏 - 王子※记忆游走
入围：林振虹 - luvsulMMer , 楚珊 - 黑公主

另外，《2008第二屆大馬中文部落格祭》也于9月30日正式截止報名。

此赛事总共吸引了1111個報名參賽，計有460個报名因不符參賽資格而被淘汰，最終共有651個报名成功進入初審階段！详情

Virtual shopping for fashion hunting

年轻的部落客因为天天浏览e-shop找寻她们的喜爱的衣服饰物而开辟潮流猎寻网站和写评论，甚至拥有自己的e-shop,比比皆是！以下摘来3位，不妨到她们的部落看看，可能有意想不到的收获！

Sources: The Star

Boo Sha-Lyn - Diary of an E-Shopaholic
[http://diaryofane-shopaholic.blogspot.com]



Charlotte Khor - Little Accompaniments
[http://littleaccompaniments.blogspot.com]




Soh Yien Yee - A Shopaholic’s Den
[http://ashopaholicsden.blogspot.com]

New Media: GigaOm.com

GigaOm.com which deliver technology news, analysis and opinions on topics ranging from broadband and online games to Web 2.0 was founded by Om Malik in 2006. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. Currently they serve a monthly global audience of 1.75 million consumers and professionals interested in the latest news in the world of high-tech.

According to a special write up by Sin Chew Daily, GigaOm.com having a daily hits of 50,000 which generate monthly advertisement income of USD50,000. Compare with The Wall Street Journal which having 2 mil of subscriptions and out of 80,000 is log in daily for news, GigaOm.com is a great example for success New Media provider as it is open and free.

Beside GigaOm.com, here are some highlights by Zhan Hongzhi [詹宏志]:

- with the exist of Blog, everyone is a media; when information is floated, review and guide become effective; who can eliminate quantities will create values

- with the exist of search engine like Google, everyone will refer to Wikipedia, great encyclopedia was ignored as you have to pay for it; editor new role is to ensure this information are correct, accurate and relevant.

- has a vision in you, no one will come and tell you what happens next

SPAM Free -Using Email Icon

Getting a lot of SPAM lately? Did it begin just after you published your email address in your website/blog or comments on other's blog? If that’s the case then there’s a way you can stop your inbox from getting spammed.

There are a number of techniques,

First is the usual geeky way. It involved publishing your email address like this: sample@hotmail [dot] com or sample [at] hotmail [dot] com or sumthing similar.

Or using a picture which contains your email address. It looks nice too! Just see the following examples.


They look cool, don’t they? You can easily generate these kinds of icons from this cool sites: 1. limcorp.net 2. nexodyne.com 3. needasig.dom 4. coolgenerator.com 5. mailonpix.com . You can use the email icon generator there for FREE. Enjoy!

Remember: Leaving ur email address publicly is an open invitation for spam. So be careful before youu leave Your email address here and there. Help fight spam!

Blogging Advices

Born out of the necessity for certain quarters to reach out to the people effectively and personally, blogging has shown its prowess in the recent general election and now many politicians are getting into the act.
This is what Oon Yeoh commented in The Star, he is a writer and a New Media analyst.

Here are some advice from him on blogging:

- Don’t outsourcing blogging duties. It’s got to be from you and the postings have to reflect your true personality and world view. If there are some grammatical mistakes, so be it. What’s important is that it’s real.

- Don’t play it safe. Express yourself. Nobody wants to read boring, politically-correct comments.

- Post updates regularly, at least once a day, ideally more. But keep them short. A paragraph or two is plenty for blog postings.

- A good practice is to embed links into some keywords in your blog posting. Such links are useful because they make it easy for the reader to do follow-up reading on the topic you’re blogging about.

- Respond to comments or at the very least let them run. Blogging is not column writing. Nor is it a monologue but rather a dialogue between the blogger and his readers.

- Like any activity that requires discipline and hard work, once you stop blogging, you’ll get rusty and it’s pretty hard to get the momentum going again.

Malaysia is Blogger country?

Malaysia has about 500,000 active bloggers, ranking the country among the highest in the world after Indonesia and European Union.

According to a research by Universiti Malaya, 70% of the election result were influenced by the information in the blogs. Dr. Abu Hassan Hasbullah, lecturer of media department said this showed the power of blog influencing the thinking of people and having a wide reach considering how many Internet users visited these sites everyday.

Further he added the ruling government could use blogs but he pointed out that it would take a long time for it to be popular.

Source : Utusan Malaysia

3rd Global Chinese Blog Award

This Blog Award is organised by China Times Taiwan. Total of 7,681 bloggers participated this competition, they are 6,920 from Taiwan, Malaysia 281 and USA 147.

Competition divided in 8 categories and congratulation to bloger from Malaysia 'Kim Cherg' won the Champion for category of Lifestyle with his blog on food.

Winners of the 8 categories and thier blog:-

1 生命記錄 - 北國風情
2 生活品味 - 知食份子 [馬來西亞林金城]
3 幽默趣味 - 有電勿近
4 訊息／觀點 - 環境資訊中心
5 商業應用 - 民雄牛奶鳳梨.鳳梨面膜上市
6 公益應用 - 行無礙生活網
7 社群經營 - 好戲開鑼
8 教育應用 - 英文由F字學起

Complete list - 2007 winner

All about Klang

I started my first blog in 2005, I planned to write 100 posts as beginning... But because of improper structure planning for my blog, I leave it after awhile!

I back to start a blog in Sep 2007, this time I have narrow down my focus and I pick up a title so call All about Klang with wordpress.com. I know for sure I will not run out of resources for my post as I was born and brought up in Klang, even because of work I left Klang for some time but I return and setup a family, running a business in my hometown...

Just drop by All about Klang and you will know more about me and this beautiful town I live!