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…
مقتل العشرات إثر تفجير انتحاري في إيران Dozens die in Iran suicide bombing Puluhan tewas dalam bom bunuh diri di Iran تسبب تفجير انتحاري يوم الأربعاء في مقتل 38 من الشيعة وجرح عدد أكبر من الأشخاص خلال حفل حداد كانت تطبعه أجواء روحانية مميزة على مقربة من مسجد بالجنوب الشرقي لإيران. A suicide bombing caused…
روائية سعودية تدخل منافسة جائزة بوكر للرواية العربية Saudi woman novelist makes Arabic Booker Prize shortlist Novelis wanita Arab Saudi masuk daftar Penghargaan Booker أصبحت رواية “طوق الحمام” لكاتبتها السعودية أحد الأعمال الستة التى تضمنتها القائمة القصيرة لجائزة بوكر للرواية العربية والتي اشترك فيها 16 رواية آخرى. “The Dove’s Necklace,” a book by Saudi…
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الملكة إليزابيث تنضم للعالم الإفتراضي بعد انشائها صفحة على الفيسبوك Queen Elizabeth II joins the virtual world with new Facebook page Ratu Elizabet II bergabung dunia maya dengan halaman Facebook baru قامت الملكة إليزابيث الثانية ملكة بريطانيا بإنشاء صفحة خاصة بها على موقع التواصل الإجتماعي الشهير فيسبوك. وعلى الرغم من أن الملكة لن تقوم بإستخدام…
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ويكيليكس تصارع لمكافحة القراصنة والبقاء عبر شبكة الإنترنت WikiLeaks struggles to battle hackers and stay online Wikileaks kesulitan melawan hacker dan tetap online يصارع مشغلوا ويكيليكس في مكافحتهم للقراصنة بهدف الحفاظ على وثائقهم السرية عبر شبكة الإنترنت. حيث تعرض موقع ويكيليكس الإلكتروني للهجوم منذ أن قامت بنشر ما يقرب من 250.000 وثيقةً مسربةً لوزارة الخارجية…
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According to Siri AI, The Root cause of Conflict in Middle East are Israel’s atrocities toward Palestinians and America’s Involvement in it. Here’s Siri’s answers on thes subject and I fully approve of all the points made. I think, most people would agree too. Me: “Hey Siri, describe a win-win scenario.” Siri: “Sure. An example…
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Top Ten Indonesia Blog versi Tempo In my previous post a few months back, I congratulated and fully supported Tempo Interaktif initiative to make a weekly review on Indonesia blog written by Indonesian in Bahasa Indonesia or English. The first of its kind by a conventioal media. I am not sure whether that feature is…
