Recently, newly appointed Minister of Information, Communication and Culture Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim urged bloggers to act and write responsibly. He said bloggers who twist the truth shall be held accountable.
In the light of such developments, bloggers need to have more awareness of legal rights and responsibilities including laws governing bloggersphere, especially, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act 1998 (MCMC Act) and the relevant rules and guidelines of MCMC, laws relating to copyrights issues and defamation laws.
Recently, e-lawyer successfully organised the eLawyer Blogging & Law Conference in March 2009 at University of Malaya, KL. Subsequently, they received much feedback from Penang bloggers requesting them to organise the similar event in Penang.
With the assistance and sponsorship of Exa Bytes Network Sdn Bhd (”Exabytes”), the largest web hosting company in Malaysia, the eLawyer - Exabytes Penang Bloggers & Law Forum 2009 in will be held at USM, Penang on 27 June 2009.
The details of the conference are as follows:
Forum Name: eLawyer - Exabytes Penang Bloggers & Law Forum 2009
Date: 27 June 2009
Time: 9.00am – 12.30pm
Fees: F.O.C.
Venue: Dewan Kuliah G31, Pusat Pengajian Sains Komputer, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang Campus (Landmark Masjid USM).
Language: English
Organiser: www.eLawyer.com.my
This event is exclusively sponsored by www.exabytes.com.my - the No.1 web hosting company in Malaysia
Topic 1: Bloggers & Copyrights Laws
Speaker: Mr. Foong Cheng Leong (Cheng Leong)
Brief profile: Cheng Leong is a practising lawyer in KL. He specialises in intellectual property laws practice. He is an active blogger and owner of www.xes.cx. Cheng Leong started blogging since 2001. He speaks frequently on intellectual property and internet laws.
Topic 2: Bloggers & Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act 1998 (MCMC Act) and rules and guidelines of MCMC
Speaker: Mr.Shamsul Jafni Shafie (Sam)
Brief profile: Sam is the former director of Security, Trust and Governance Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. He was also the Work Area 5 Leader on “International Cooperation” to draft the Global Cybersecurity Agenda for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) - http://www.itu.int.
Topic 3: Bloggers & Defamation Law
Speaker: Mr. Stephen Tan Ban Cheng (Stephen)
Brief profile: Stephen is a journalist-turned-lawyer. Currently, he is a practising lawyer in Penang. Stephen was a senior journalist in the famous local newspaper including New Strait Times and the Star for more than 20 years.
Moderator: Mr. Khairul Anuar bin Shaharudin (Kruel)
Brief profile: Kruel is the cybername for Khairul, who is a practising lawyer in KL and an avid bloggers. Kruel participated in numerous bloggers events and his blog Legal Cat-asthrophereceived well comments from the bloggersphere in Malaysia.
Registration: The admission to this Forum is FREE. However, due to limited seats, please R.S.V.P by sending your details (Name, Tel, Email, Occupation and Company/School) to:
forum@elawyer.com.my before 24 June 2009 or call 03-2782 5399 for more information.
Please try to be there, especially bloggers from Penang and the northern region.
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When you think of the mind of a genius, what do you think of? Someone with lightning quick thoughts who can come to accurate conclusions instantaneously?
Actually, Michael Michalko is the author of a book called "Cracking Creativity," and he says that the difference between the so-called "genius" and "ordinary person" is that the genius simply knows HOW to think, instead of WHAT to think. This means that the genius has time to create new concepts that are entirely innovative, and they can tell themselves that anything is possible -- because in their minds, it is.
In short, geniuses look at problems in a different way than most people do. They combine thoughts, images and ideas in different ways, and they can recognize patterns that occur in the world and that most of us don't see. They can make connections between objects that most of us wouldn't think of connecting. For example, Leonardo da Vinci connected a bell ringing to a flat stone hitting the water and causing waves. This conclusion led him to think that sound, like water, also traveled in "waves."
The genius can also think in opposites that most of us might not think of. For example, in 1928 Danish physicist Niel Bohr told people light should be imagined as both waves and particles, but not simultaneously.
Geniuses can also think in metaphors. This is also considered to be a sign of genius. The great philosopher Aristotle thought that if a person could compare two disparate areas of existence and find a relationship between them, that person was indeed gifted.
Someone who has these types of exceptional abilities can also analyze how "accidental" creativity happens. The question to ask is not "why" it happened, but what did it do?
Many who are considered geniuses are very productive. For example, Thomas Edison was the owner of over a thousand patents. Michalko, in his book, "Cracking Creativity," says that geniuses create so many ideas because their thoughts are so fluent. Their minds are always going, always busy. They literally think all the time. Michalko also states that most of us can develop these characteristics as well. We have to train our brains to be more fluent, like that of the genius.
Buckminster Fuller says that everyone is actually born a genius. It is society that takes this ability away from them. Others believe that genius simply appears, spontaneously, and that so-called "higher education" introduces a kind of conditioned thinking that can actually take away from this innate genius. Just because one has a lot of knowledge doesn't necessarily mean that one is a genius. Excellent memory, true, but genius, not necessarily. What's good to know, though, is that you don't have to be a genius to be creative. We are all capable of not just creative thought, but in fact true genius, such as we may not have dreamed. Charles Baudelaire called genius "no more than childhood recaptured at will."
How can you become a genius? It's a matter of retraining yourself to think as a genius would. You can do so by following the above tips. Start to think about the world around you in a different way. Think in metaphors, think in opposites, and, simply, "think" more. If an idea doesn't come out exactly the way you thought it would, don't ask yourself why it failed. Ask yourself instead what you accomplished and proved.
If you want to think like an inventor does, look at designs as they exist around you and think about how you might change them. Max Planck is the father of quantum theory, and he believed that scientists had to have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." Einstein as well was clear on the fact that his theories came as a result of "free invention of the imagination."
Ezra Pound said, "Genius is the capacity to see 10 things where the ordinary man sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art."
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