Pesta Blogger 2007

When Ong Hock Chuan phoned me a few months ago asking my time to come to the preleminary meeting which unfortunately I couldn’t attend for geographical and time barrier, deep inside I was very happy back then. I dream of such event that will enable blogging activities–a representation of Indonesian transformation from conventional tradition of talking into the next level of modern traditon: a tradition of writing–into a limelight of conventional media in a big way. And I don’t see any person who fit to that task but one and only: Ong Hock Chuan. From the first time I knew him through our blogging activities (I haven’t met him in person), I can feel his honesty, dedication, professionalism and determination to something he believes in. He didn’t failed me and, indeed, all Indonesian bloggers, a bit with this effort. No less important, he picks the best blogger Indonesia to head the day-to-day activities in the run-up to that event: Enda Nasution.
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Azim Premji

He is obviously the only Forbes 2007 Top 30 Billionaires who drives a humble Ford car, wears non-branded suits and flies with Economy class. An idol all Indonesians, including the corrupt bureaucrats, the haves and the stupid celebrities, should follow.

A few days after I came home some months ago, a friend who works with the UNDP (United Nation for Development Program) came to me asking me a difficult and very important question: how to earadicate corrupt practices in this country. I know him well. His integrity, honesty and gut to go against a corrupt trend is well known and earns him a national fame. His question must’ve been serious. And my answer should be as serious as it can get.

I talked about it from various angles; socio-cultural, politics, religion, etc. How every aspect of lives we, Indonesians, associated and affiliated could be used either way–as weapon for negative and positive purposes. And most important, who can do the best job for that.
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RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (but also sometimes refers to Rich Site Summary or RDF Site Summary). It is an XML-based format for sharing and distributing web content. An RSS reader (sometimes called a newsreader or news aggregator), allows you to receive and view data feeds from various sources in a single interface. Once you have copied the RSS feed URL from a web site into your reader, the reader checks the pages regularly and displays any updated content that it finds. There are many readers available for download, both free and for-fee. See the Google Directory list of newsreaders for further information.

Google Directory list of newsreaders.

Ahmadinejad, Bush and Israel

The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got a worldwide fame simply because of mainly three factors. First, he is the President of Iran with its nuclear controversies which the US regards as among the axis of evil besides North Korea. Second, he speaks bravely against the US, the only world superpower of everything: economy, military and, no less important, the media. Third, he speaks controversially against the state of Israel and partially the Jews–the mogul of world media. You need to have those three “lucky” factors to enable you getting a global media headlines every now and then.
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Indonesian According to Google

Google sees Indonesians as primitive, barefooted and backward

If image speaks a thousand words, then Google makes it clear what Indonesia is all about. You’d understand what I am saying if you try to search for Indonesia through the most popular search engine. To make it brief, open google.com, write key word “indonesia” in the search box and click search. What you’d see is top ten links heading towards ten most popular websites that discuss or write about Indonesia.
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How to Avoid AdSense Disabled Nightmare

Well, with a lot of news we heard from many bloggers whose AdSense account has been disabled by Google, allegedly violating AdSense TOS–things that some of AdSense publishers denied, it’s no wonder if many AdSense publishers express their concern over this matter.

Fortunately, AdSense team seems to be aware of this. In recent official announcement in its official blog, AdSense introduces a new way called the Allowed Sites list to avoid your AdSense account being misused by third malicious party which will lead to your account closure. Here’s what the program all about:
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Another Bird Flu Death Case

A 30-year-old Indonesian woman suspected of being infected with bird flu, died Sunday in Bandung City hospital, West Java, reports say.

According to Bandung’s Hasan Sadikin general hospital staff member Herdi, blood samples from the woman have been sent for testing in the capital Jakarta [full story]