Ever since we started in January 2008, our objective has always been to make the chapter a hub for technology-related news and activities. However, our focus thus far has been primarily on the offline events that we conduct through the year. 

We did have a newsletter that we sent out to members every month. With four articles and a simple theme, the IT Bytes seemed to serve its purpose quite well by keeping students informed of updates in the tech world in that month by presenting it in a no frills-manner that people liked and appreciated.

It was only much later that we came to realize, however, that a problem with our newsletter was the fact that it was not real-time; A term that people seem to have fallen in love with, post-Twitter. 

To summarize, students are willing to read a peer's take on a tech event or news story but only expect it to reach them on time when the news is still hot. Even with that understood, we were reluctant to start this blog then as we were not sure if it would work out the way we hoped it would as the concept of an online community or a web-based interest group was quite new to NUS.

But now, seeing the support for, the interest shown in and the success of communities like Overheard at NUS, FMLNUS and the like, we realize the time is perfect to start now.

The idea is to create a collaboratively maintained blog hosted by us that accepts contributions in the form of articles from aspiring young technology bloggers/writers in NUS. Click here to contribute an article now.

A fair question at this point would be - How different we would be from the popular technology blogs out there - Mashable, Techcrunch, Readwriteweb etc. Read on to find out