Thanks to Tiger Airways, who are a budget airline based in Singapore, starting routes to Perth next month, Meredith and I were able to book flights to Singapore over Easter for only $500 plus taxes (that’s right, two people return for around AU$1,000!).

Since this time a week or so ago, I have spent many hours researching where to stay. Strangely enough, Meredith believes that I spend too much time researching, and perhaps I have some ‘over research disorder’, but I can’t help it. Visiting a few hundred hotel websites prior to visiting somewhere isn’t unusual, is it?

What’s your Singapore Hotel review? Comment below!

Thirty nine links in one blog post (randomly located too!) – that has to be a record for me?

Photo: Sing Ming Flowers, Arab Street, Singapore.

Now, I’m not too sure how long I’ll keep this up for, as I am known not to continue these projects, but here’s a photoblog I have put together, with some of my recent favourite images.

As previously posted, I have decided to try using Wordpress, since I know it well, with some modifications to make it into a working photoblog. There’s a few small bugs, but nothing major – let me know if you notice any weirdness at all, or have any suggestions.

I look forward to your feedback on the photos!

Image: Disused Fire Station Doors.

It’s full title, Dispatches from Blogistan: A travel guide for the modern blogger, gives away it’s subject without even needing to read the faint words all over the cover; folksonomy, tagging, ajax, RSS, etc.

This 248 page paperback book by Technology journalist, Suzanne Stefanac, published by New Riders is an interesting read. The back cover kicks off the questions answered inside “What is it about blogging that inspired individuals all over the world to upload more than a million blog posts a day? Why do some pundits claim blogging will kill professional journalism, while others swear it signals a salutary democratization of media? Why should anyone bother reading or publishing a blog?”.

Dispatches from Blogistan starts off with a chapter on the blog explosion, and then delves into the history of journalism, and throughout the book there are interviews with well known folks, such as Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing), craigslist.com founder Craig Newmark and others.

We’re even given summaries of popular blogs, as well as short reviews regarding blogging tools, such as Wordpress, Movable Type and others. Interesting chapters for me were around ethics in blogging, responsible journalism, the long tail, anatomy of blogs (down to page elements) and snippets of interesting facts scattered throughout the book.

In summary, if you’re a dedicated blogger who spends most of your waking hours dreaming of posts to write, then this book is probably not for you. If you’re someone who has only just started blogging, or even someone who blogs but isn’t in the web game, it’s a very interesting book.

Even with a fair amount of experience under my belt, it was still an enjoyable book. I must admit I did tune out in some parts – a glossary of buzzwords and paragraphs of history from hundreds of years ago just didn’t appeal.

Image: Book cover, Dispatches from Blogistan.