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The start of Project Petaling Street

I surfed to Project Petaling Street after finishing some work. It’s kind of habit I’m going to catch up since it at least centralize a few blogs I used to read. But then, wow, there’s a heat event going on. Is it something wrong today? It’s 13th, Friday anyway.

First, Tim Yang made a corner turn and showing an attitude against PPS. Although he is one of the founders, he called PPS a self promotional wank, elitist and self-deluded. Instead, he put the other project, Matafilter, under his belt.

Then the people at PPS, which once met with Tim Yang at first blogger met, responsed. Check out Aizuddin, Dinesh, Oon Yeoh (and here), Jeff Ooi.

So far Dinesh has elaborated what’s really happening under the hood, in his perspective. And pretty sure then Tim has his side of story to tell. Anyway, it isn’t sound fair to Tim saying PPS is just sorta self promotional wank and he’s even one of founder! If he felt the idea was stolen or unhappy with how the project brought on, that’s the other story. I doubt Jeff Ooi need PPS to boost his blog as Malaysiakini would sure having more readers than PPS.

One of the critic raised by Tim is that PPS’s residents are through invitation. But everybody in a group got their very own opinion to share and voice out, and people have always having different ways to judge others’ writing, especially in web. And it is amplified by this blog phenomenon! So invitation could be a good start, it’s just impratical if you track a few hundred blogs at once.

However, the event would bring something to Malaysia blog community, whether it’s bad or good. We should do more pondering over this (as Oon Yeah called it) M’sia blog soap opera. :)