Blogging

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 writes entry in usual, its own style, we can see there are various theme exposed on that list.

Either prepared carefully for several days before 15 Oct. or posted instantly today by bloggers, we hope much this event is worth to Indonesian awareness for environmental issue. Publicly speaking deforesting was highly alarmed by medias and activists regarding to many illegal logging on many forests in Indonesia. While many bloggers live in major cities in Java Island, most of them talk about environment in global issue such as global warming, less awarness in city’s environmental policy, or “modern” lifestyle which is unfriendly to nature.

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Blog Action Day will be held tomorrow, 15 Oct. 2007, posting single issue: environment. Bloggers around the world are invited to join by posting a theme related to environment. No special treatment, just use your own style, your usual way for blogging. Vox and Blogger — as blogging services — also encourages their members to join.

Regarding to figures published on Blog Action Day, currently there are about 12.000 blogs participated and estimated will reach over 11 millions audiences. A large number with a hope for better understanding comes to audience.

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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 government of China.

But at the same time, my two wikis — MoinMoin based — are bombarded by spam pages from China. Its message is written on Mandarin and IP address used ensures its sender’s location.

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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 supporters.

This is a second step Facebook exposed widely after national case, mass murdered in Virginia Technology, U.S., months ago. Used by activists — grass-root political efforts — to help spreading what happens inside Myanmar, Facebook is now reaching global attention as common media for ordinary people to help each others. Even for serious issue like political movements.

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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 Enda’s invitation.

Until then, one of my friend told me about Pesta Blogger — after a coincident that I talk about one event I had a plan around 28 October.

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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. Budi Rahardjo, Rendy Maulana, and host Kuncoro Wastuwibowo of Telkom. Two rows of tables were marked “reserved”, fulfilled by visitors, especially senior high school students and teachers.

The atmosphere was changed to blogosphere — warm, interactive, and fun. After ceremonial and formal opening, Budi Rahardjo was invited to join talkshow by Kuncoro, including session for question-and-answers with audience, exposing Budi’s blogs, his initiative to use blog for learning method (Budi is a lecture in ITB), and closed by taking picture of us together for documentation.

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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.

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Cisco Indonesia announced the launching of their Indonesia Managing Director’s individual blog on 6 September. Irfan Setiaputra, Cisco’s Managing Director, decided to use his own name for domain name, irfansetiaputra.com, and wrote his personal ideas on there. Tagged with human network keywords, Irfan will share vision and perspective about Internet’s progress which brings change on many things around life — make it possible for people to be connected, crossing various borders. According to Cisco’s newsletter, this blog is the first one written by a director of big company in Indonesia.

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Are you using SplashBlog service? If so, there is a big news. After being acquired by Six Apart — San Fransisco-based company behind leading blogging applications like Movable Type, Typepad, Livejournal and Vox — last year (March 2006), this service will be terminated. As an information, using SplashBlog you can instantly publish photos directly from a camera phone to a blog. SplashBlog will give its custumer time (about a month) to download/backup all their data. On September 10th, 2007 this service will be fully closed.

Until now, I still do not understand why Six Apart decided to close this service. I think, the primary reason is because they now have Vox that probably have all features SplashBlog offered. Why having two similar services if you can blend them? This case probably similar to what Yahoo! Photos Service closing. Yahoo! already have Flickr.

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Goblok (Bahasa Indonesia slang for “stupid”) is a special word in Indonesian blogosphere. We are in Indonesia using that word usually when quarelling or expressing anger. Unfortunately, this word could also be writen (although incorrectly in spelling) as goblog, which nicely later separated as go blog. Some bloggers in Indonesia jokingly use goblog phrase for their blogs, for example Enda Nasution — one of earlier bloggers — has goblogmedia.com for his domain name.

While bloggers use goblok to laugh at themselves, it is an interesting question that Malaysia’s Information Minister, Datuk Seri Zainuddin Madin, chose that slang to emphasize suggestion to ignore some bloggers who, “were educated overseas”, and had “Western style of democratic freedom is better” assumption.

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