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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
PM acknowledges the power of blogs
Malaysia's premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Tuesday his "biggest mistake" in disastrous elections was to ignore cyber-campaigning on the Internet which was seized by the opposition.
The powerful Barisan Nasional coalition suffered its worst-ever results in March 8 polls that left five states and a third of parliamentary seats in opposition hands.
"We thought that the newspapers, the print media, the television was supposed to be important, but the young people were looking at SMS and blogs."
I too now acknowledge how powerful blogs can be in disseminating information as well as letting people know what you think. Glad to see that the Government is picking this up too.
Would the results have been that different if BN actually went and campaign hard on the internet ?? Hmmm.. I wonder.
Labels: Blogging Power
Sandy at 3:57 PM
