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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 still there now or not as I no longer see it appear in Budi Putra’s blog. Fortunately, I got a good news today from him that yes, the Tempo weekly blog review was terminated for a while and now it’d be up and running again.
The reason why it stops is not so clear to me. There’s an explanation from Budi as to why which I can’t mention it here–who knows it’s off-the-record kind of stuff.
My own assesment is that it’s a bit tough for Tempo Interactif crew to maintain the feature on regular basis: from picking up the to-be-reviewed blog (out of tens of thousands of blogs) and making a good introduction to it. Especially, when it’s seen from “feasibility” point of view.
To be honest, at the time Tempo Interaktif made that good ‘revolutionary’ initiative, I have something in mind which was a bit different. By then I didn’t say it as I thought it would be considered as ‘ungrateful’ on my part in particular and Indonesian blogger in general. And now as Tempo’s Blog Pekan Ini (blog of the week) will restart, I think it’s worth mentioning.
From my point of view, it would be much better if every week Tempo feature at least 10 Blog/Blogger Terbaik Pekan Ini or Top Ten Indonesia Blogs/Bloggers of the Week instead of Blogger of the Week. And the introduction for each blog featured could be much briefer, one para is enough. There’re two simple reasons:
1. It will cover a lot more blogs/bloggers at a time. Hence, many more bloggers will get more encouragement to compete with each other to make a good blog content. By reviewing only one blog a week it means only 48 blogs/bloggers will get mention by Tempo in a year leaving tens of thousands of blogs/bloggers waiting in “desperation” and “loneliness.”
At the same time, the more blogs get mentioned by Tempo, the more bloggers will love Tempo like never before. So, it’s a good and win-win situation for Tempo PR as well.
2. By giving only brief introduction to the 10 under-review blog, it makes the job of the reviewer team a lot easier.
It’s very much different with my own weekly review in which I only pick English-speaking Indonesian blog which in my estimate is no more than four percent and could be less.
Another alternative is that the Weekly review can be combined with other top ten blog of the week. Any other idea, everyone?
Updated August 12:
Alternatively, Tempo Interaktif does not need to give any introductory remark at all, just pick 10 blogs of the week and put their links in a specific place somewhere in the Tempo Interaktif’s sidebar website. That’s a lot lot easier and more effective for either side, especially will have much more encouraging effect to the bloggers concerned.
September 26, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Kereeen blognya … kalo mo ningkatin peringkan di mesin pencari misalnya jika mengetik kata ‘Garut’ blog kita minimal di sepuluh besar gmn mass ?
September 26, 2007 at 1:02 pm
dg banyak menulis ttg ‘Garut’. Idealnya, judul blog, satu atau lebih dari judul artikel dan kategori mengandung kata ‘garut’
July 22, 2008 at 5:51 am
Kayaknya lagu kita boleh sama ya
Sayangnya saya masih nil pengalaman dan jam terbang. Sebenarnya sih saya mau ngejar ketinggalan… kok saya lihat persyaratannya berat benar… Harus standby di depan komputer for a long time jelas berat untuk saya yang guru nyambi blogging … saya harus pinter2 bagi waktu–ngajar dan ngenet. 24 jam/minggu di kelas dan 10 jam/minggu di internet aja masih berat.
coba ceritakan pembagian waktu untuk blogging di postingan depan?
August 1, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Top 10 Indonesia blog ? It is a good idea to stimulates blogger work and build Indonesia blog
August 11, 2008 at 4:32 am
Mas Fat….nanya nih..
Blog saya yg lain..
http://www.tiphit.wordpress.com
Selama hampir 1 bulan menempati top posisi untuk berbagai keyword yg saya bidik di google dan yahoo…mungkin no.1 di antara hampir 75jt web…bahkan pernah no.1 diantara 170 jt web….pas saat itu seneng banget rasanya…
Eh..saya bingung kok sekarang jadi anjlok ya…
September 22, 2008 at 12:14 am
blog saya :
http://yayanakhyar.wordpress.com
dan cukup lumayan….
terimakasih atas bantuan dari tulisan2 nya mas fatih, sangat membantu saya….
November 27, 2008 at 2:09 pm
blog cukup bagus….eh info bisnis nih di http://www.syndicate23print.com
February 13, 2009 at 7:49 am
baik 2aja
February 26, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Nice post… mas fatih
)
saya rasa emang 2 hal itu yang harus kita lakukan terlebih dahulu, yah bersakit2 dahulu kemudian senang2 deh..
khan gak ada anak bayi yg baru lahir langsung bisa berbicara, dan berlari. Yang ada malah kita yang lari melihatnya
February 26, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Nice post… mas fatih
)
saya rasa emang 2 hal itu yang harus kita lakukan terlebih dahulu, yah bersakit2 dahulu kemudian senang2 deh..
khan gak ada anak bayi yg baru lahir langsung bisa berbicara, dan berlari. Yang ada malah kita yang lari melihatnya..
April 5, 2009 at 9:11 am
Hy all nice to meet all