I don't think Pritam expected it nor knows about it but he seemed to have undermined the PM's and PAP's carefully choreographed attempt to secure a stake in the online world. The event at the Istana seemed to backfired in an unexpected way. It is now the talk amongst the PAP political circles. Apparently Shanmuham's trial attempt to convert an online blogger has reaped results and with that PM decided to go the full hog. Background: Blogger met Shanmugam in June this year and wrote an article which is this http://gintai.wordpress.com/2012/06/...-shanmugam-sc/ Apparently they have been monitoring his blog to see if it worked. I have not followed his blog as I only heard about this today but it seemed to worked and thus the desire to rope in more bloggers who without realising it would become at least passive supporters of the PAP. Anyway its an Asian trait not to comment negatively after having accepted hospitality from the man himself. At least some will swing across, other will tone down and the remaining will remain with what they started.