Pesta Blogger 2007

pesta blogger indonesia 2007When Ong Hock Chuan phoned me a few months ago asking my time to come to the preleminary meeting which unfortunately I couldn’t attend for geographical and time barrier, deep inside I was very happy back then. I dream of such event that will enable blogging activities–a representation of Indonesian transformation from conventional tradition of talking into the next level of modern traditon: a tradition of writing–into a limelight of conventional media in a big way. And I don’t see any person who fit to that task but one and only: Ong Hock Chuan. From the first time I knew him through our blogging activities (I haven’t met him in person), I can feel his honesty, dedication, professionalism and determination to something he believes in. He didn’t failed me and, indeed, all Indonesian bloggers, a bit with this effort. No less important, he picks the best blogger Indonesia to head the day-to-day activities in the run-up to that event: Enda Nasution.
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Azim Premji

Azim PremjiHe is obviously the only Forbes 2007 Top 30 Billionaires who drives a humble Ford car, wears non-branded suits and flies with Economy class. An idol all Indonesians, including the corrupt bureaucrats, the haves and the stupid celebrities, should follow.

A few days after I came home some months ago, a friend who works with the UNDP (United Nation for Development Program) came to me asking me a difficult and very important question: how to earadicate corrupt practices in this country. I know him well. His integrity, honesty and gut to go against a corrupt trend is well known and earns him a national fame. His question must’ve been serious. And my answer should be as serious as it can get.

I talked about it from various angles; socio-cultural, politics, religion, etc. How every aspect of lives we, Indonesians, associated and affiliated could be used either way–as weapon for negative and positive purposes. And most important, who can do the best job for that.
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Ahmadinejad, Bush and Israel

Ahmadinejad, Bush and IsraelThe Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got a worldwide fame simply because of mainly three factors. First, he is the President of Iran with its nuclear controversies which the US regards as among the axis of evil besides North Korea. Second, he speaks bravely against the US, the only world superpower of everything: economy, military and, no less important, the media. Third, he speaks controversially against the state of Israel and partially the Jews–the mogul of world media. You need to have those three “lucky” factors to enable you getting a global media headlines every now and then.
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Indonesian According to Google

Indonesian According to Google Google sees Indonesians as primitive, barefooted and backward

If image speaks a thousand words, then Google makes it clear what Indonesia is all about. You’d understand what I am saying if you try to search for Indonesia through the most popular search engine. To make it brief, open google.com, write key word “indonesia” in the search box and click search. What you’d see is top ten links heading towards ten most popular websites that discuss or write about Indonesia.
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How to Avoid AdSense Disabled Nightmare

How to Avoid AdSense Ban NightmareWell, with a lot of news we heard from many bloggers whose AdSense account has been disabled by Google, allegedly violating AdSense TOS–things that some of AdSense publishers denied, it’s no wonder if many AdSense publishers express their concern over this matter.

Fortunately, AdSense team seems to be aware of this. In recent official announcement in its official blog, AdSense introduces a new way called the Allowed Sites list to avoid your AdSense account being misused by third malicious party which will lead to your account closure. Here’s what the program all about:
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Another Bird Flu Death Case

A 30-year-old Indonesian woman suspected of being infected with bird flu, died Sunday in Bandung City hospital, West Java, reports say.

According to Bandung’s Hasan Sadikin general hospital staff member Herdi, blood samples from the woman have been sent for testing in the capital Jakarta [full story]

Hobbits of Indonesia were Different

hobbit indonesia Photo: An artist impression of Indonesian ‘Hobbit’.(Dailymail)
It turns out that hobbits of Indonesia were different human species at least that’s what the latest finding reveals. What does it mean?

… these differences imply that LB1has retained characteristics of a primitive wrist and thus represents a human lineage that appeared before the modern wrist evolved with Homo sapiens and the Neanderthals, who share an ancestor that lived between 0.5 and one million years ago.

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Google Gadget Ads

Google Gadget AdsAdsense official blog just announces a new type of Adsense ads called Google Gadget Ads. Google briefly explains its main features:

- Gadget ads enable advertisers and agencies to engage audiences on the Internet’s largest ad network with a rich and interactive new ad format.

- Beyond Rich Media Advertising with “Websites within Websites”
Think of gadget ads as mini versions of your website in any AdSense ad size.
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A Meet-Up with a Political Party Leaders

anis matta pksThere will be a meeting on Thursday September 20 with Anis Matta, general secretary of PKS (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera), along with other PKS leaders. They will come as part of what the so called socialization of PKS party platform. This kind of meeting does not necessarily mean that we are affiliated in any way to the party. Indeed, we are open to any guests who want to come to our institution and are willing to have a sort of dialog to create more understanding. Many such meetings have taken place before and still are likely in the future.

We used to discuss with them various stuffs ranging from their party or institutional perspectives especially which are having to do with our common interests: how to make people’s conditon getting better.
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