Top Five Blog Indonesia in Kompas Media

I wrote an acknowledgement post on the introduction of Blogger of the Week by Tempo Media which came up only a couple of times, then after a long pause of the program, Tempo through its online editor Budi Putra told me to restart the feature which I responded in another post, giving him another alternative on how to make it simple.

In which I offered him a clear alternative:

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.

Unfortunately, neither the Blogger of the Week nor Top Ten Blog of the Week seems to appear in Tempo online thus far. The reason is still unclear.

This morning, I am pleasantly surprised to see such feature, say, Top Five Blogger (of the Week?) feature. This time in KOMPAS, the largest Indonesian selling newspaper. Incidentally, this blog is among of them. I personally appreciate the KOMPAS’ initiative not only for including my blog as the feature, more than anything else because KOMPAS starts to acknowledge the power of Indonesian blogger in contributing to the national discourse which is so far dominated by conventional media and mailing lists.

It’s still not clear, however, whether such feature on daily or weekly or even monthly basis. There’s no explanation whatsoever. But by giving a link to the blogs featured, it’d be boosting other Indonesian to know blog, to start blogging him/herself and contributing to an already fast-growing blogging culture in the country.

To any other conventional media, there’s nothing wrong to be the second or the third to make similar feature in your online or print media, because the impact will be the same: you will be appreciated and your online traffic, I bet, will be raising in an unexpected way. Making top five or top ten blog feature in your online media needs no sweat; the result for you, however, worth a lot more than the effort. So, why taking so long?

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