Bloggers from two popular Web sites in Singapore are worried that a new media study could focus too much on expert views, and are calling for so-called Web practitioners to gather feedback on how the Internet should be regulated.

Yawningbread.org and theonlinecitizen.com have posted notices stating that the government study needs to make room for regular Web users who might not be categorised as experts.

“There is a need for ordinary bloggers – and filmmakers who intend to put video material on the Internet – to get together and organise a submission to the relevant bodies, putting across the perspective of practitioners,” the notices on yawningbread and theonlinecitizen state. “So far, those being consulted appear to be the elite – the experts.”

The study was begun by the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (Aims), which was appointed by the government in April to study the social, legal, ethical and regulatory impact of interactive and digital media, according to a Straits Times article posted by AsiaMedia.

Aim's report is due out in the first half of next year.