Blogging

Ramadan is a nice month for special meetups!

Yuniman Farid from Deutsche Welle, Indonesische Redaktion, Germany’s international broadcaster, had sent me an email about The BOBs, International Best of Blogs Award. Deutsche Welle had begun organizing The BOBs since 2004 in seven language and now, among 11 languages, Bahasa Indonesia is included. This is great news for Indonesian bloggers to participate in international [...]

Bloggers from Malang, Jawa Timur (East Java) of Indonesia, launching their community club.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Yesterday evening PT Telkom, Indonesia’s state-owned telecommunication company, launched Blog and Design Contest. This event was held by their regional division (Divre) of West Java and opened to students and public in the same province. Opening in Food Court of Bandung Electronic Center, Jalan Purnawarman, Bandung, I was there among some Bandung bloggers, i.e. [...]

It is blogging. It is buzzword. It is attractive and in fashion. Companies in Indonesia starts blogging — where has it been started? The CEO: in Cisco Indonesia by Irfan Setiaputra, their managing director. How about staffs, technicians, and even technical support team? Please visit PT Telkom: they have various staffs having blogged since enough time.