div style="text-align: justify;"blockquoteThe house at span style="font-size:100%;"66, Lorong Setiabistari 2, Bukit Damansara/span was my idea of a headquarters for the National Alliance of Bloggers (All-Blogs). We signed a two-year lease in mid-2007 and turned it into a place where bloggers could work from or wind down at the end of the day. The exco of the All-Blogs held their meetings in the living room of the house, organised a couple of talks by visiting bloggers, and discussed ways to engage a government that was then hostile towards blogs. We wanted a change in the national leadership and we talked a lot about the coming 12th General Election. The Bangsa Malaysia initiatve was launched here, Marina Mahathir held the multifaith doa selamat for Dr M also at this place, and citizens huddled together to follow the progress of their political parties on the night of the General Election from there. Pro-Opposition bloggers would mingle freely with pro-Government bloggers and they would call one another "brader" every time they met, right up to the last big event - the get-together to mark 100 days since the GE, a party where several people's reps from PR and one from BN, and their supporters, turned up.br /br /Last night, I handed back the keys of the house to a representative of the landlord and brought down the "Blog House" signage at the entrance.br /br /Where will the All Blogs go after this?br /br /Maybe nowhere, but the people who made up the Alliance have moved on: interim vice president a href="http://www.jeffooi.com/"span style="font-style: italic;"Jeff Ooi/span/a has gone on to become a Member of Parliament for Jelutong, (DAP) exco member a href="http://elizabethwong.wordpress.com/"span style="font-style: italic;"Elizabeth Wong/span/a is serving the people as an Adun for Bukit Lanjan, Selangor (PKR), and pro-tem secretary a href="http://www.nursamad.blogspot.com/"span style="font-style: italic;"Nuraina A. Samad/span/a has gone back to the Umno-owned NST as its managing editor. Some of the exco members have vanished from blogosphere and from my life while a few, including a href="http://www.muststopthis.blogspot.com/"span style="font-style: italic;"Tony Yew/span/a and Li Tsin (who has stopped blogging), still keep in touch.br /br /Perhaps it is time for a closure to a chapter ....br //blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28452020-1128462493701832724?l=rockybru.com.my'//div
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Goodbye, Blog House!
div style="text-align: justify;"blockquoteThe house at span style="font-size:100%;"66, Lorong Setiabistari 2, Bukit Damansara/span was my idea of a headquarters for the National Alliance of Bloggers (All-Blogs). We signed a two-year lease in mid-2007 and turned it into a place where bloggers could work from or wind down at the end of the day. The exco of the All-Blogs held their meetings in the living room of the house, organised a couple of talks by visiting bloggers, and discussed ways to engage a government that was then hostile towards blogs. We wanted a change in the national leadership and we talked a lot about the coming 12th General Election. The Bangsa Malaysia initiatve was launched here, Marina Mahathir held the multifaith doa selamat for Dr M also at this place, and citizens huddled together to follow the progress of their political parties on the night of the General Election from there. Pro-Opposition bloggers would mingle freely with pro-Government bloggers and they would call one another "brader" every time they met, right up to the last big event - the get-together to mark 100 days since the GE, a party where several people's reps from PR and one from BN, and their supporters, turned up.br /br /Last night, I handed back the keys of the house to a representative of the landlord and brought down the "Blog House" signage at the entrance.br /br /Where will the All Blogs go after this?br /br /Maybe nowhere, but the people who made up the Alliance have moved on: interim vice president a href="http://www.jeffooi.com/"span style="font-style: italic;"Jeff Ooi/span/a has gone on to become a Member of Parliament for Jelutong, (DAP) exco member a href="http://elizabethwong.wordpress.com/"span style="font-style: italic;"Elizabeth Wong/span/a is serving the people as an Adun for Bukit Lanjan, Selangor (PKR), and pro-tem secretary a href="http://www.nursamad.blogspot.com/"span style="font-style: italic;"Nuraina A. Samad/span/a has gone back to the Umno-owned NST as its managing editor. Some of the exco members have vanished from blogosphere and from my life while a few, including a href="http://www.muststopthis.blogspot.com/"span style="font-style: italic;"Tony Yew/span/a and Li Tsin (who has stopped blogging), still keep in touch.br /br /Perhaps it is time for a closure to a chapter ....br //blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28452020-1128462493701832724?l=rockybru.com.my'//div
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