Comments on: Two years of New Mandala

By: Sidh S.

Sidh S. — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:27:25 +0000

Happy 2nd Birthday NM!!!
And a big congratulation to Andrew and Nich for creating a medium that brings in contents/debates/discussions of very high quality and diversity – from what can be classified as extreme elitist to on-ground, in the field commentaries. Can it get better than that?

By: Wendell

Wendell — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:46:55 +0000

Congratulations on reaching this milestone, and on creating a site that is both academically useful and a pleasure to visit. I’m certainly glad that I discovered this place–thank you for providing it.

Happy second, and wishing you many more.

By: Sai

Sai — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:22:37 +0000

In just two years, NM has grown so well. I read NM regularly. It’s Resourceful and refreshing among many. Thanks to Nich and Andrew… Keep rolling!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:02:38 +0000

Many congratulations.
The combination of cutting-edge academic insights, must-have Thai political analysis & fruit cake wannabe war heros is a winning comination.
MANY happy returns – Ashley

By: Land of Snarls

Land of Snarls — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:58:43 +0000

Well done Andrew & Nicholas!!! Don’t know how you can consistently feed stuff into it, whilst looking after your day jobs. Amazing! It’s a great service, and we all benefit. Thank you.

By: fall

fall — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:01:06 +0000

2 years and going.
Cheers for successfully dodging net police and skirting certain law!

Hope this site (and your visa) continue!!!

By: jonfernquest

jonfernquest — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:53:31 +0000

Thank you for digging deep with all the controversial juicy stuff, almost not fit to print, but should be in print.

New Mandala is the shining example for Web 2.0 interactive news focused on Southeast Asia.

It’s also nice to see a place where people can engage in heated, even troll-like, arguments while still maintaining some semblance of reason and respect for those who they are talking to. Some web forums suffer from something akin to lobotomization where everyone is taking some happy drug and agreeing with everything everyone else says. Yuck.

As media profit margins are pressed to the breaking point by internet news, blogging academics, acting as public intellectuals through their blogs, will claim some of that territory abandoned territory for themselves, slashing an intellectual pathway through the media jungle with the machete of their specialised expertise. You guys are the leaders.

New Mandala’s interview series is proof against the widely held notion that blogs are just a place where monomanic ranting ragamuffins hang out and cause mischief.

By: Grasshopper

Grasshopper — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:43:07 +0000

… and a big thankyou from me. Especially thankyou for the ecological posts. As with many topics, it is difficult to find teachers who don’t treat students as passing mosquitos– maybe Andrew and Nicholas do that, but as an online mosquito I can lurk about and leech as I please.

As Chris Baker and Tony Loader have already said, it does seem like New Mandala has been here since the dawn of the internet. Surely it will be around at it’s sunset. With this sense of manifest destiny, I wonder, do Andrew and Nicholas stare into tea demanding new perspectives from deities? Two years have gone by, surely the ‘new perspective’ (maaan) meter is running low by now!

By: BangkokDan

BangkokDan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:49:30 +0000

In no time you became a refreshing, insightful and always reliable reference site.

No mean task!

Congrats and keep on staying alert.

By: Fabio

Fabio — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:03:50 +0000

Now regular reading. Thx and good work