Strories and blogging written in English language
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (5): Firda Beka My choice for Indonesian Blogger of the Week this time is Firda Beka’s blog. She calls Weblog Wannabe She’s an Indonesian stays in Canada, and that’s why she’s very eloquent in english. Most of her blog contents are her daily life plus some link directories. As mentioned…
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (4): Dinastuti Blogger Indonesia of the Week (4): DinastutiBy chance, i found another good Blogger Indonesia who blogs in good English. Her name Dinastuti. She likes to call herself or her blog nom de plume as deefifteen. Contrary to several indonesan bloggers I’d reviewed earlier on, her blogger is entirely…
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (3): Donny Tedjo Blogger Indonesia of the Week (3): Donny TedjoDonny Tedjo Blogs is my choice to be Indonesian Blogger of the Week. This blog, written in English and by Indonesian–the criteria to be my pick of the week, is rich with good analysis on Indonesian culture. Himself is an…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (2): Java Flava Blogger Indonesia of the Week (2): Java FlavaMy pick this week is a blog owned by someone calls herself Java Flava of Semarang, Central Java. She’s good in making travelling report or whatever she feels around her. And the best thing is she’s express it in English….
There are at least top ten reasons on why an Indonesian blogger should blog in English. If you run a Bahasa Indonesia blog, like I do, you should have an English speaking blog as well. Here’s why: 1. My English writing skill is not good. I’d like to improve it by writing regularly in a…
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Georganna Hancock I just want to say, “Hi!”, to Georganna Hancock, a Staff reporter, writer, photographer, book reviewer, stringer with The Miami Herald, The Fort Pierce News Tribune, The Broward Bulletin, The Indianapolis Star,.. The Louisville Courier-Journal who spare her precious break time to visit my blog and generously dedicated a special posting about me…
Blooker Awards Giving up writing a book? Be a blogger, write in a blog and get blooked! Blook? It’s book which comes from a blog. And it has an awards as well called Blooker Awards. Blooker Awards is an award for books arising from blog. The 1st winner will get U$D 2,000. In other words,…
Blog-Media Relation Stronger How to make your Blog appears in the Washington Post If you regularly or occasionally read American media, you’d see some changes in terms of designs with blog look-alike. Just like your blog. There’re a visibly technorati logo outthere and even more than that. Technorati seems to do a good job in…
Envelop Journalism in Indonesia If you watch Metro TV, the Indonesia’s CNN, you’d find a moving text at the bottom of the screen saying more or less like this: Metro TV journalists/reporters would never accept nor ask for money to the interviewee. What does the Metro TV’s notice implicitly mean? Yes. You’re right. Some foot-soldiers…
To Write or Not to Write: Part Time and Full Time Blogger Writer quit blogging? Marisa Duma, an Indonensian blogger whose blog I’ve just reviewed as Blogger of the Week made a surprising announcement here: Fatih. I’ve decided to quit blogging. Saya ingin fokus ke kehidupan pribadi dan profesional dahulu untuk saat ini, apalagi blog…
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How Blog and write in English Could Benefit You First of all, I’d like to congratulate Budi Putra for being selected as a permanent contributor to CNET Asia. One of the big time techno portals in Asia, if not the world. That’s truly an achievement as he’s the first and only Indonesian to pen his…
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Indonesian as Celebrities Worshipper A staff in KBRI (Indonesia embassy) New Delhi laments about our embassy officials ignorant towards what has been achieved by his 16-year-old son in tennis. No appreciation of verbal kinds, not to say in terms of financial assistance, etc. On commenting to his complain I say that our officials abroad or…
Independent Indonesia 61st Anniversary of Independent Indonesia August 17, 2006 is the 61st anniversary of Indonesia’s independence day. We celebrate this day with joy every year. The context of celebration is we have freed ourselves from the colonialism, occupation and justice inequality of one country (Netherlands) against another (Indonesia). We gain this freedom not for…
Indians Neutrality and Us I see Indian people are more neutral and knowledgeable than some of Indonesians in commenting on international political issues. A day when the US invaded Iraq and filling up media headlines around the world, a shop owner named Sanjiv which has not even finished his undergraduate study said angrily to me…
Laptop and Indonesian MPs (DPR) Despite less significant, the issue of DPR (Indonesia’s MP)’s plan to buy a laptop for each of DPR’s member assumes a bigger interests among Indonesian blogosphere. No less than 160-odd postings has been dedicated talking about this issue. The public debates on this issue focus mainly on the necessity and…
How Important True Identity for Blogger Since first time blogging, I discouraged anonymity and anonymous blogging. I call this attitude irresponsible – if you fear the heat dont enter the kitchen., and be a good kid. I wrote several posts on the important of clear identity for any blogger to earn credibility of whatever one…
Why They Blog Anonymously and We do not I keep wondering a ’little and trivial’ thing prevails in blogosphere: the tendency of westerners to blog anonymously; and the fondness of us, Indonesians, to blog otherwise ofcourse with few exception here and there. For various reasons Indonesian bloggers tend to make their blogs and their names…
Why Ghost Blogger? (2) In responding to my posting Why Ghost Blogger?, Nad’s Note turns heavily “philosophical”. :) He argues that the purpose of her being pseudonymous is, in her own words, “to minimize such tendency…” i.e. any bias of the writer concerned. Visit her good blog for full understanding of her raison d’etre Well,…
Why Ghost Blogger? As I said earlier, I know the blogger world the first time through CNN which covered the Baghdad Blogger extensively during the early Iraq War II. At that time, i signed-up to blogger.com but updated it occasionally and a bit reluctantly. I fully understood then why the Baghdad Blogger used pseudonym rather…
Muslim and Poverty Why Chinese Indonesians are generally richer than non-Chinese? Andreas Harsono, a journalist, himself a Chinese, has the answer as reported by Jawa Pos newspaper yesterday (May 11), “Because Chinese are minority. And minority everywhere tends to work harder than the majority.” He further elaborates that Javanese are hard-working community outside Java…