hoo hahs in the blogosphere

I love watching reality shows. for what? drama lah. not the scripted kind. but the spontaneous kind. usually with a lot of *kabooms*. my #1 favorite, of course it's amazing race. see what happens under pressure. also fun to kutuk the racers! eh, that fella so stupid etc. why am I so kpc? born like that mah. so when the malaysian blogosphere got a lot of hoo hah, of course I had to pat.

started with the blog of 'interesting things'. I've noticed the blog because of its pings on pps obviously. I was thinking - ping so many times. some people are so starved for attention. but then maybe it was for the google adsense. whatever lah. read it once or twice but mostly skipped it. then the whole parody blog issue. what can I say? I thought it was pretty funny. of course it sucks to be the target of it. best thing to do would have been to laugh it off? or maybe advertise wah, I'm so femes, so I have copy cats. imho, you ask for attention, you get attention lor. of course it would have been more civilised if the unsatisfied bloggers emailed the 'offender' privately or asked pps to impose a 'throttle'. but then, no drama wor. I have absolutely nothing against the blog. ok what. if you find his ping interesting mah click on it loh. who's to say what makes an acceptable blog?

but of course it is unfair to get all the attention from multiple pings. pps is supposed to give a snapshot of the malaysian blogosphere or something like that. not a fair snapshot if the same blog comes up again and again. but there are other blogs that ping multiple times a day. why pick on this particular blog? it is a legitimate blog. it is an original compilation of interesting things found on the net, accusations of copy and pasting aside. the pps page lists approximately half a days worth of pings. to be fair, it would make sense to limit 1 ping per blog every 12 hours. fair and square right? multiple entries can be listed in the same ping what.

as for the censorship issue, that is so ridiculous. a parody blog is also a blog. with legitimate posts. censorship does not jive with a fair shapshot.

the next saga came from all the recent blog related 'explosure'. coverage in major newspapers, pps awards, and sg bloggercon. suddenly bloggers were over-exposed to femes bloggers and things became personal. the retracted siarong post was surprising when I first read it. but I brushed it off as whatever. all I thought was I hope he asked spg first. and that he must have a saintly girlfriend, with this pic and all the other kissing pics. but whatever lah. his relationship is his perogative. and if spg is alright with it, then what's the big deal? tasteless? was the blog supposed to be tasteful?

then xx posted about how distasteful it is in the usual xx style that some of us read her for. was a bit surprised, as kenny is her big supporter. but for once she didn't sound jeles of spg and just mad at the acceptance and bravos the striptease engendered. totally understandable. if I had been present, I would've been taken aback but not offended. but others may very well feel otherwise.

and then I went back to real life lah. by the time I checked back, post was withdrawn, minishorts pw protected her post and it became so controversial. aiya, wasted I missed it all. didn't get to read the pw'ed post. need a kontroversi pager! as if I missed a good episode of amazing race like that. *sigh* luckily it ended well. tempers cooled. civility restored.