Like most political behemoths who have been in power too long, telling some people to go to the Internet to reach out to voters took some years for the People's Action Party.
But in March 2008 they saw the power of the Internet when Malaysia's general election results threw everything off kilter.
Safe haven Umno became the dark maven.
And it saw how Iran's young people turned the tables upside down just months ago against the ruling idiots using New media.
Yes children, there are things that Malaysia and Muslims can teach the arrogant Temasekians.
Though I must say the REAL mee siam Singapore in Singapore is still much better than the Malaysia one :-)
So now, the PAP is adopting this attitude: Change or be changed.
Sounds familiar, eh? Well, they're not calling that but you can sense the big change in attitude about the power of the New Media.
So do expect political vids and short clips from People. Action. Party.
In these days of annual assemblies, EGMS and political seminars, PAP yesterday had its annual convention. This was what PM Lee Hsien Loong, PAP's sec-gen said:
"He cited the use of online avenues like blogs, YouTube and social- networking sites - like Facebook and Twitter - as alternatives to send PAP messages, as opposed to posting a long 5,000-word speech online that 'nobody will read'." See here and here.
Prior to this, Singapore has some of the strictest laws on Planet Earth on political vids.
I can't wait to get a tweet from some PAP cabinet ministers! (Belum ada lagi lah!!!)
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