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*Update* For up to date developments of the case, do check out the Bloggers United Official Page , or the Walk With Us blog. 11 Jan 2007: A thread was opened at MyKMU.net with the following post: Blogger politikus terkenal Ahiruddin Attan @ Rocky Bru dan Jeff Ooi telah dihantar notis oleh Kalimullah Hassan, Brendan Perreira dan Hishamuddin Aun untuk menarik balik beberapa artikel artikel dalam blog mereka. Kegagalan akan menyebabkan mereka disaman. Dalam masa yang sama juga, blogger "poster wayang" terkenal, Sheih @ kickdefella juga akan diambil tindakan tetapi belum diketahui lagi tindakan yang jenis bagaimana. Translated: Socio-political bloggers Ahiruddin Attan @ Rocky Bru and Jeff Ooi have been sent warnings by Kalimullah Hassan, Brendan Perreira dan Hishamuddin Aun to retract a few articles from their blogs. The failure to do so will get them sued. At the same time, "film poster" blogger Sheih @ kickdefella will also be taken action upon. It is not known wh...

About two weeks ago I was contacted by Joel Chua from Radio Singapore International who was interested about my research. The interview happened last week and was aired officially on 5th January 2006 (Friday). Listen to the interview here: Blogwatch: Malaysian Government . It features me and Rocky . The interview transcript can be found here .

Data collection of the research has come to an end. I have 1540 respondents (English version - 1364; Malay - 176) for my online survey. There were 3 sets of faulty data which I deleted, so right now I have in my hands the end result of 1537 blog readers, of whom 852 are bloggers. Qualitative data collection also came to an end about 2 weeks ago, with 11 people interviewed. 10 were bloggers, and I also managed to talk to Steven Gan of Malaysiakini. Currently I am busy analyzing information from the survey database. I'm also working on the actual manuscript, but hardly at a breakneck speed considering my tight deadline. *grimace* I will post a summary of the findings here after I submit the thesis. First draft will hopefully be ready by mid January.