Blogging was the subject of a piece in the Business Times yesterday. The journalist, Cheah Ui-Hoon, certainly bit off a bit much with this piece, which ranges across corporate blogs, food blogs, and nusantara.com as the only example of a local art blog. I'd link to the story, but SPH newspapers are online for subscribers only...

Here's what she said about nusantara.com:

«Art blogs might not garner the same public notice as food blogs do, but they also speak to a specific audience. Peter Schoppert's personal weblog 'highlights art and similar interventions in public space', focusing on Singapore but covers the rest of the world.

The former managing director of Singapore University Press, and director of NUS Publishing's nusantara.com site has links to his blog which started off first as a database for some research he was doing on public art.

'Traffic's not too heavy, about 100 hits a week or so, with a lot more people visiting the database rather than the blog,' he says. He has been quite net-savvy since the 90s, and attributes the explosion in blogging to the tools made available two, three years ago which make the whole process much easier. 'Since I've done the research anyway, why not make it available,' he says, adding that it's not a 'personal expression' platform and also purely non-commercial.»

I'll send her a note to correct the statement there that NUS Publishing has anything to do with nusantara.com... Also the blog traffic is about 100 a week, but the database gets about five times as much. I tried my best not to be quotable (sorry Ui-Hoon!) but managed to be drawn in to say something about blogging in general: «Blogs are great if you want to find the buzz about something, as they're fast, furious, and less guarded...»

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