A blogger was elected into Parliament (Score 1)

I'm from Malaysia. What the article doesn't say is that Jeff Ooi, a man known primarily for his political/social blogging, was elected into parliament. Numerous other newly-elected politicians from the opposition had blogs. The outcome of the elections was simply unprecendented in Malaysian history. Of course, the ruling party fails to grasp that it is not simply the fact that the opposition had blogs - it was mainly because the mainstream media were reduced to little more than government newsletters. Everyone just so fed up with having propaganda shoved down their throats that they went online for alternative news. The opposition took full advantage of this, while the mainstream published survey results - commissioned by themselves - claiming that the majority of Malaysians did not believe what they read on the Internet. They believed their own spin! Nevertheless, misguided as the intentions might be, I'd hope that through the blogs, even government politicians will begin to light up and get some individuality instead of simply parroting the party line.