Tomorrow.sg

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Tomorrow.sg is a metablog for Singapore bloggers in the vein of Boing Boing where anyone can submit a post they think worthy of recognition for posting. As long as 2 editors approve the post, it will be published.

It is a rather popular local website with over 700 subscribers to its RSS feed, and even journalists and editors from the state newspapers often visit the metablog to source for articles to include in the national dailies.

The content of Tomorrow.sg, while varied and sometimes controversial, does not readily reflect where its political sympathies lie; the editors maintain that they have no agenda for the site. This is quite unlike Boing Boing which, due to the influences of its editors, is generally held as 'liberal.'

1 Editors At Large
2 Controversies
- 2.1 List of current editors and their blogs
- 2.2 Former editors and their blogs
3 Singapore Bloggers Convention
4 External links

[edit] Editors At Large

The editors of Tomorrow.sg were chosen because they come from diverse backgrounds, thus ensuring that the contributions being moderated would be subject to the scrutiny of editors with vastly differing tastes and interests. However, it is often noted with some cynicism and incredulity by detractors that the inordinate number of editors - thirteen, currently - presiding over Tomorrow.sg may generate excessive opinions, and thus resulting in conflicts of interests and contributing to redundancies.

Because of the diversity of the editors, from religious to free thinker, conservative to liberal, critics have nevertheless often derided the content at Tomorrow.sg, accusing the editors of submitting and/or approving inane and uninteresting articles pertaining to their own interests and whims. However Tomorrow.sg's popularity continues to grow as is evident from its impressive Technorati Ranking of 1,174.

[edit] Controversies

Tomorrow.sg has been embroiled in many controversies since its founding:

Linking policy controversy (August 2005)
La Idler Book project (December 2005)
Anti-Blinkymummy hate site allegedly created by Xiaxue (December 2005)

[edit] List of current editors and their blogs

mrbrown | mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore
Xiaxue | Everyone's reading it
Cowboy Caleb | A Gonzo Journal
Mr Miyagi | My Very Own Glob {Curiosa Felicitas}
tinkertailor | Tinker, Tailor
Agagooga | Balderdash!
ssf | dsng.net - the daryl sng blog
preetamrai | betterdays
jseng | James Seng's Blog
shianux | The Legal Janitor
popagandhi | popagandhi
Littlemissdrinkalot | Little Miss Drinkalot

On May 3rd 2006, 2 new editors were added, subject to a 90 day probationary period.

joy | Platinum Pimpette
Angelique | It's raining noodles!

[edit] Former editors and their blogs

Calm One | Life At Ngee Ann Calm One was one of the founding editors (see this blog post. He left the editor position soon after he announced the close of his blog.
La Idler | Idle Days Although La Idler has since died, she remains on the list of Editors At Large.

[edit] Singapore Bloggers Convention

Tomorrow.sg organized the first ever Singapore Bloggers Convention, named Bloggers.SG on 16th July 2005. The event was held at DXO and was sponsored by SHINE, Microsoft and Lexmark.