PING.SG
CREATED BY MR Chua U-Zyn, a 24-year old Web developer (See pic above, PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA), Ping.sg is an aggregating site that collects entries from its contributors' personal blogs. After registering their blogs with the site, contributors can choose to 'ping' any entry they write on their personal blogs, which results in instant publication on the aggregating site.

Viewers can then read the posts, and 'pong' - or mark - entries they find interesting. The top 10 ponged entries are featured together in a section placed prominently on the site. Since its inception last July, the site has grown to more than 1,000 contributors, and has steadily increased its viewership to current monthly page views of more than 100,000.

This is two-thirds of popular blogger mr brown's average monthly page view, and is expected to increase due to the trend of recent months' viewership numbers. It is also the most popular aggregating site after Tomorrow.sg, which averages 150,000 page views monthly.

INTELLIGENT SINGAPOREAN

THIS WEBSITE HAS won the endorsement of Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo himself, who said in January that all Singaporeans should visit it.

Established last June by a blogger named InSpir3d, it currently averages around 35,000 page views monthly. It spiked to its highest numbers in May, after the April announcement of the ministerial pay increases. In that month, it recorded 45,000 page views by providing the ministers' arguments, and links to reasoned blog posts by supporters and detractors.

Posts on the site are in two formats. Links to articles elsewhere are aggregated into a single entry, or an article by a contributing writer is featured in its entirety on the site. Hotly debated issues from foreign talent to falling birth rates are talked about and tracked.

SINGAPORE ANGLE

FROM AN INITIAL total of some 20,000 monthly page views, group blog Singapore Angle now commands around 50,000 views in the same amount of time. Some of it is because it's not an aggregator providing links on a single page, which is what Intelligent Singaporean does.

But it is a testament to the writers' quality that the numbers have grown to what they are, and are still continuing to increase.

The site is home to 10 permanent contributors, and 16 guest writers. The permanent contributors range from Dr Bernard Leong, a 32-year old research scientist, to Dr Loy Huichieh, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, to Mr Soon Sze Meng, a management consultant.