Blogging

I had received invitation to attend Pesta Blogger 2007. This event will be held next week in Blitz Megaplex Jakarta, moved from previous plan in Hard Rock Cafe. Having had confirmed by email, I received invitation, a passcode (no dresscode, so I think it will be informal way), and my name is displayed on audience [...]

Sonny Hidayat generously corrected my humble assumption about PT Telkom bloggers on my previous entry, What Blogging Means to Company in Indonesia?. To reply Sonny’s question whether I took a serious survey about blogging in Telkom, briefly I say no. While Sonny suggested the idealistic side for people to blogging, i.e. the spirit — which is, [...]

It is a little bit surprise during national Eid ul-Fitr holiday (we call it Hari Raya Idul Fitri) that Blog Action Day 2007 still attracts enough Indonesian blogger to participate. Karangmumus tries to collect Indonesian participant bloggers and up to this evening they have 29 blogs. Following Blog Action Day’s suggestion to let every blog [...]

Blog Action Day, an initiative to post one important theme about environment, will be held tomorrow, 15 Oct. 2007.

China is blocking blog and its syndication today. Pujiono does checking GreatFirewallOfChina — and reported to be blocked, also Slashdot’s entry reacts to China’s decision to blogging. Other interesting report about China is aired from local radio station: a virtual patrol appearing on PC’s monitor yelling a warning that the computer is under monitored by [...]

Wired Politics section had interesting issue yesterday: exposing movements in Myanmar as a combination of current social networking’s power and blogging. They call it as “open source politics”, referring mostly to Facebook’s Burma network activism, The Support the Monks’ Protest. While Myanmar’s authority cut off Internet and many communication infrastructures, Facebook’s international membership gathered worldwide [...]

In the middle of last August, Enda Nasution — a well-known Indonesian blogger — informed me through Yahoo! Messenger about blogging event that would be held on 9 September. He noted that it would be a national event and asked me to arrange my agenda for his invitation. Unfortunately, time passes and no progress regarding [...]