Remember the Hammer Gal and Chillycraps Matrix: The Hammer video? This is not another blog entry on them. This is however, a blog entry about an interesting chap on ping.sg, nicknamed dk99, the other guy in that video.

I have decided a series featuring the blogs of some people I met during the ping.sg anniversary party. Why am I doing this? Why am I introducing the blogs on ping.sg? Because ping.sg is a community. While one can of course just stay put and not participate in anything, and be a hits-whore hoping to get more hits from ping.sg, that really isn’t the idea and what the founder of ping.sg intended it for.

Why did I choose to feature dk99’s blog? Well, first of all – if I had not mistaken – he mentioned that we ought to do more citizen journalism on our own raise to awareness of the things that goes on around us. Regardless of our feelings of our local media or our political views on them, I agree with that because the newspapers – being an invention 400 over years old – can no longer effectively and efficiently relay everything that happens around us.

For e.g. would you know that Starbucks uses super automatic espresso machines? Would the Stooge Times report such trivial?

You might ask if such things matter. But as a consumer you have a right to know and decide if your money is well spent.

Also, would you know if someone in Vietnam has copied ping.sg?

Anyway, it will soon come a time when we get up-to-date, if not real-time, information about the things going-on in the world on the Internet from our friends, and not from the newspaper, radio, or even TV. The blog will be the best multimedia medium to do so. In fact, when there was a water spout recently, it didn’t take us very long to put the photos up on our blogs and comment about it.

So, do visit dk99’s blog… you may learn a thing or two from it.