Note to Singapore bloggers: just in case the ‘.gov’ in the IP addresses didn’t tip you off - the Straits Times bluntly explains that big brother is watching (via Buttermilk):

‘According to the Ministry of Information, Communications
and the Arts, the Government keeps an eye on all feedback it gets
online, including blogs. "However, it is not practical, if not
impossible, to keep track of everything that goes on over the
Internet," stressed a spokesman.’

Implied: ‘. . . much as we would like to!’

‘Could
like-minded people—say, opposition sympathisers—get together after
reading one another’s blogs? There is little evidence of that for now,
but it cannot be ruled out.’

No doubt Gabriel
would tell me not to conflate the organs of the state with the state
itself, but sometimes the fingerprints of the state are too thick and
grimy to ignore. ‘Opposition sympathisers‘? ‘Cannot be ruled out‘? Very interesting
choice of words. (Compare: ‘Could Democrat sympathisers get together
after reading one another’s blogs? The possibility cannot be ruled
out.’)