Last year’s Person of the Year was a collective entity: YOU. This means everyone on the internet community who has contributed to what is called Web 2.0 . The selection marks the few times that a group of people is selected as their yearly honour, the others being The WhistleBlowers , The American Women and many others. It is very obvious why this is so, with the sudden boom of user created contents as opposed to contents supplied by the big shots corporates of last centuries. Think social networking sites like Friendster, MySpace and many others, social bookmarking sites (Digg, del.icio.us), torrents, blogs, photo sharing (flickr, Picasa) and videos (YouTube, JumpCut and VideoEgg) Nowadays I rarely browse static site anymore. Contents are dynamic, fluid and entertaining. You never run dry of information  or news.
Check out the Two Chinese Boys, a pair of testosterone-charged young chinese boys who have way too much time in their dorm. They have their lip-syncing antics uploaded in YouTube as well.
With the plethora of cheap camera-phones and webcams, almost anyone can make an MTV nowadays. You’d better also see “Numa Numa,” which stars a chubby young man in his New Jersey bedroom lip-syncing to an insipid but weirdly catchy Romanian pop song.
News take on a different meaning with this revolution. We are no longer limited to what is served on RTM or TV3 or other terrestrial or satellite TV stations. Independent news are abundant online (Malaysia Kini, Jeff Ooi). The recent LDP toll hike protest was not covered extensively on normal newspaper, radio or TV network, rather they were abundant on those alternative news source.
Open source softwares are considered in the same revolution as Web 2.0 as well. It’s written by the community, for the community. I’m using Ubuntu on my laptop. I was influenced by a nerd back in my RHB days. Once I installed it, I never looked back. As soon as I get my ass off programming in .Net, I will format my desktop to Ubuntu as well.
Not all are a bed of roses in Web 2.0; it could turn ugly as well. In a well known case in South Korea, a modern day witch-hunt was launched against Dog-Shit-Girl who apparently let her dog do its big business on a train. The community immediately identified her and her university where she studied. She suffered immense humiliation and reportedly she dropped from the university.
Missed last night’s episode of SmallVille? No problem. Just point your torrent clients to any of the many torrent hosts and you can catch it in HDTV format, no less. Want to show your family in China how your baby girl looks like? Relax, upload it to a website and you’re good to go.
Not convinced? Then why are you reading my blog anyway?

So give yourselves a round of applause and a pat on your back. YOU deserve it!

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I was surprised that I was honourably mentioned in one of my ex-colleague’s blog! Cool! He’s a totally wacky dude, his momma must have dropped him when he was a baby and now he has permanent brain damage. Like me, he’s a techie, a graduate from the National University of Nerdheads. He drinks Java as coffee, wears a Ruby as his bling bling, and sings in C# keys. (VB.Net and IIS are just so boring, aren’t they?) So I am compelled to also point a link to this wacko. Click here for some anti-keseronokan fun.

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Those of you who does not stay in the Klang Valley might not have heard of the toll hike protest that has been organized, albeit illegally, over the weekend in Sunway Pyramid. All mainstream medias (TV3, RTM, Astro, NTV7, and all major newspaper) do not or only minimally highlight this event.

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/8/nation/16505531&…

My good friend went there to have a look, and he was surprised at the difference. You can even view it in YouTube:

(Warning, the international line is still running at low efficiency, so view this at your own risk)There are tonnes of other sites that highlights this event, from “alternative news” sources, to quote from Jeff Ooi, who was also present at the event. Try http://www.jeffooi.com. There are also other links in that site as well.

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I know it’s been a long time, but I have yet to announce it officially. Yes, I have become a father, since July last year. My first baby was born on 15th July 2006, a bouncy and healthy 3 kg girl through Cesarean in a private hospital in Muar, Johor.

Since then, a lot of friends has requested that I take pictures of her and post it online. I have finally managed to compile some of the better pictures to post online. For more cuteness, browse over to http://picasaweb.google.com/jackyyong/BabyKitYan

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I have recently been acquainted with new friends who shares the same hobby as mine, photography. Recently in a friend’s wedding, I was shocked to see at least 3 D-SLR cameras happily snapping away, excluding mine! I made friends with one of them, his name is Linus. I learnt that he got married in October 2005, and the purpose he got that D-50 was for his own wedding.

Birds of a feather flock together, and before we knew it, we exchanged techniques, tips and picasa websites. He captures great shots, but he has a tendency to put all his photos together, both good and spoilt ones, without proper captions. But maybe that’s his style. His website can be reached at: http://picasaweb.google.com/kiiitiii Enjoy!

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