Blogger Indonesia of the Week (79): Ryan Octavianus
Posted on January 22, 2008
Filed Under Blogger Indonesia, Blogger of Week, Fatih Syuhud, Indonesia, Indonesian Blogger, Personality
One thing that I always suggest every new blogger who asks me as to how to be a prolific blog writer is that: don’t be too obsessed with a long tiring post and a lot of comments. As far as blogging, quality content neither lies in a quantity of words nor depends much on many comments. Rather it’s on how new and enlightening your idea in a particular blog post is. That’s what a quality blog content is all about. Many famous blog writer or blogger, such as Instapundit with 100k unique visitors/day is making a brief post most of the time and with no comment at all.
I keep repeating that advice to every blogger, particularly the new one, for many reasons the most important of which is most bloggers are grassroot people, non-expert writer if you like, who are not trained and not used to write a long essay, besides most bloggers are reluctant to read a long blog post; they are more concerned with their own blog . At the same time, they may have one or two very precious fresh ideas which could enrich the horizon of intellectual discourse. It’s in this context that blog and bloggers may have a chance to contribute in an existing public debates which are prevalent in a particular time and generation.
I found Ryan Octavianus’s blog is a good example of that. First, his blog posts are mostly short, right on the money. Second, some of his blog content offer a new idea that may benefit a non-Indonesian: translating Indonesian song lyrics into English. That will not only benefit foreigners who try to learn Bahasa Indonesia, but also those Indonesian who wants to learn English expression from their own songs.
This kind of idea and contribution will not and cannot be covered by those so-called expert-bloggers who spend most of their time focusing on one or two field of study. This kind of idea and “duty” can easily be done by ordinary people like us, you and me, who are not so much learning by reading the books; rather learning a lot from “reading” everything surrounds us; from the nature, from the behaviour of people and from reality bitter and sweet that we see everyday. That is the power of blog.
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wow! Wow! Thanks!
When you write short stuffs, you make less gramatical error and other mistakes hehe…
grats! \o/
great then..
the url above was broken. this one is da correct one. thanks
Wow, congratz to Mas Ryan \o/
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Wew, all comments above are coming from My Opera Comunity
w00t! Philry4n is the man! Congrats dude.
Congratulations ry4n for being a blogger of the week, keep blogging n don’t forget to blogwalking in My Opera dot com then for others don’t forget to join there
Yippiee..congratz to ryan!!!
how can I write on Blogger Indonesia of the Week ? tell me mas Fatih
@mumunk.
yeach, me too.. I want to know.. it’s very prestigious I think to be blogger of the week..
@mumunk & bangzenk: see the requirements here ->
http://fatihsyuhud.com/top-blogger-indonesia-of-week/
the most important: your blog should be in English; if you dont have one, you can make it now
Sometimes when i comment on your blog using Opera Mini it doesn’t show up, other times it works. Any Ideas fatih? my other friends have the same complaint. Other wordpress based blog seems to work fine.
And some can’t even access your blog, maybe some hosting problems?
Thanks
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Really? I’m not aware of that. i’ll check in my spam box if akisme miscatch your and their comments.
could be. i use shared hosting. meaning if the any problem occurs in some of the “members”, high load for example, this blog will be affected.
I’ve notified the hosting provider (rumahweb.com) on this issue.
Thanks Ryan
wow! you are everywhere phil! hehe.. congrats!!
worth of a reading
T.O.P.B.G.T deh wat bung ry4n….^.^.v
Selamat ya. Tetap semangat dan terus berkarya kapan dan dimanapun!
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Ok I will try to translate my blog to english, even there are many grammatical errors. But it’s better than nothing huh…
Congrats Ry4n :yes: keep Quality blogging!!!
congrats ya ryan
sorry this comment is not related to the topic. just want to tell you that i have put your link in my blog.thx. btw, what happenend to afsyuhud.blogspot.com? didi you sell it?
Selamet ye!!
gw g nuntut mkn2 lg kok, tenang az
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ank2 opera yg laen mana ni? Diundang hajatan kok g pd dtg c?