2 worries

Today, my mind's been occupied with two worries with regards to My Paper.

Firstly, a friend commented that our newspaper lack focus, like U know Wanbao's readers are looking for gossips, ZB has good reads on political and current affairs news. What is our focus?

I thought through it, and felt insecured. Am I losing faith in what we are doing? *scary*

I know our slogan is news for PMEB aged 20-40, and our focus is feature stories and lifestyle reads. But I panic at the thought that a 25 yrs old well-educated in Chinese medium cannot find focus in My Paper...

The 2nd thing that half bothers me is the circulation of My Paper, felt it is not WIDE enough. Friends working in Kallang tech park who take bus to work and friends who drive don't get a copy. And in Bugis area, friend's colleague tried getting one at Yishun/ Bugis MRT and failed.

Can't help but feel the system is not quite established yet.
When free things become a rare commodity, who would bother to go all the way out just to get it?

I won't. It just ain't rational. It is a clear waste of time and effort (unless I have a fav. column I covet reading, I quote my own fav. as Mr Brown's column in Today)

Then again, this is out of editorial's control, so I would just FOCUS on getting my stuff done and editorial's directions right for now =)

And since I am on this topic, I want to cite that many readers above 40 yrs old are complaining My Paper is practising age-discrimination. Eh, I would like to think this is our market strategising, just like a handphone product, phone A is targeted at mass market, but a 3-G-enabled phone B is clearly for a niche market. Right? So our philosophy here is everyone have a newspp product suitable for them, and U are welcome to read as well if U are above 40 :)

After last fri's FM100.3 Radio show...... a listener SMS and commented I used too many English vocab in a singular sentence. Yes I know I did, that was at 850AM, I just woke up not long and my brains haven't started functioning yet (considering I reach home at 12.30am and slept at 3am).

However, when I gave my "speech" on blogging at 9.40am or so, I made a conscientious effort to speak in perfect mandarin, because I was more composed by then =) Ok, I shan't "argue" :P I would watch out next time. Thanks for kind feedback and it goes to show U are really listening :) *heart-warming and paiseh*

And I have 1 worry down, thanks to Chimology and Yongmei and Sin teck's encouragement.

It has certainly helped to steer me back to the original direction of my blog :) (I was really thinking thru last Thur night...censoring blog and analysing things)

with your 加持，I have courage to go "all out" (okay, almost all out, heee) and blog to my heart's content! =)