This week features an exciting mix of events, from a live music performance by students of the International College of Music to a delicious Ramdhan meal, just like how grandma prepares!
Click to view our full Checklist this week- Hishamuddin: Special task force to monitor Internet; Genting bus crash leaves 18 injured; Fat keeps McDonald's food immortal
- Get a move on! The PlayStation Move is here!
- Malay Mail editor charged for satirical blog post; Ferrari recalls cars after fires; Airline to host first mile-high gay wedding
- Win an all-expense paid trip to see Justin Bieber live in Tokyo, courtesy of Celcom XPax!
- Interview: Nadiah Hamzah needs help to make a film about M'sians in NY!
- Namewee: I'm 1Malaysia; Chelsea to train in Malaysia; Gmail unveils Priority Inbox
- 13 patriotic videos to celebrate Merdeka
- Merdeka mad: 5 national day parades from around the world!
- The Body Shop's new Rainforest Hair Care range cares for Mother Earth and you!
- Bomb explodes in Cheras!; BBC axes RPK from programme to please Putrajaya; Hipster dinosaurs!
ISSUE #142
Tolled highways, Nik Aziz T-shirts, storm drains, and more: for Merdeka month, KLue presents 53 objects that define our Klang Valley experience in these last 53 years of independence!
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Online Gets Offline
In July, a video posing the question, “Is social media a fad?” went viral. Produced by Socialnomics09, the hard-hitting vid was just a simple presentation of eye-opening facts. For example, Facebook reached 100 million users in less than 9 months; if it were a country it would be the fourth largest. Social media has overtaken porn as the number one Internet activity. Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire population of Ireland, Norway and Panama!
As the vid concludes, “social media isn’t a fad but a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.” If you want to learn how to speak its language, may we suggest joining Social Media Club KL (SMCKL)? Founded by Carolyn Chan (@thechannelc), Ben Israel (@ben_israel), Rachel Foong (@redsheep) and Lim Yung-Hui (@zhiQ), SMCKL held their first meet on 17 September, with the aim of gatherings every third Thursday of the month.
Their inaugural meet included talks from Pete Teo (whose project 15Malaysia benefited from social media) and Chris Brogan, author of the New York Times best-seller Trust Agents. In October, SMCKL featured companies which have embraced social media as part of the business. For more info on the next SMCKL meet, follow them on Twitter: @SMCkl.
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