New Media Portal

The Indonesia tweetup meeting few days ago maybe one good indication that new media have the power to gather people. The meeting is a casual meet up between Indonesia Twitter user (well, not all Indonesian, actually). Ok. I’m now waiting for the bigger new media event: Pesta Blogger.

CHRIS Garrett wrotes about how to survive in business by formulating the right tactics of using new media instruments. (With a great piece of diagram). Link.

Muhammad Saleem, kontributor di ProBlogger memberikan alasan kenapa dia (dan kita, semestinya) menulis blog. Berikut ini ringkasan sekaligus terjemahan bebasnya. Mengedukasi orang lain dan diri sendiri. Forum komentar merupakan tempat belajar yang efektif atas suatu isu/masalah. Personal branding. Istilah Indonesianya: membentuk citra personal (halah). Presensi kita di dunia maya bisa menambah kredibiltas pribadi kita. Merangkai jejaring sosial. Ini [...]

Komentar “pakar telematika” Roy Suryo yang bilang “blog itu tidak bertanggung jawab, blogger itu tukang tipu” perlu ditanggapi agak serius. Roy mengatakan hal tersebut menanggapi adanya blogger yang memberi informasi palsu atau menggunakan nama-nama palsu. Soal penggunaan nama palsu memang kerap terjadi di ranah blogosfer. Kadang itu mengganggu juga. Tidak heran, ketika mantan menteri sekretaris kabinet Yusril [...]

Ikram brought this interesting conversation: why blogger still “proud” when their blogs being featured in newspapers? Hehe…

John Tozzi of BusinessWeek wrote about some wealthy bloggers, who turn their personal obsession into a popular favorite and maybe even a full-time job. You want to be a wealthy blogger you might want to click here to read the full story. As for me, I’m just glad to watch :)

John Hamer of Washington News Council wrote an interesting column titled Tommorrow’s “newsroom”. He told us about his visit to a couple of “old” journalists at a conference on “new journalism”. There, they talked about the future of journalism, and also about blogger. “Like many mainstream or “legacy” journalists”, Hamer wrote, “Kilpatrick is skeptical of bloggers.” Please [...]

NOT quite a new modus, but it’s getting worse and worse. A threat to open global information service? Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company’s machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the [...]

Some of you might have known this but Kronologis.com, a microblogging service, is now known as Kronologger.com So sorry for this late post from me :( Link: Kronologger.com

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