Menurut Ndoro Kakung:

Jadi benarkah blog itu hanya trend sesaat?

Bagi para pionir itu mungkin iya. Tapi jangan lupa: selalu ada orang baru, generasi penerus, yang tergoda oleh blog dan tertarik mencobanya. Mati satu, tumbuh seribu ….

Komentar Pitra di artikel yang sama:

jadi ingat riset IndoPac Edelman + Blogfam, di mana usia blog umumnya sekitar 2 tahun, lalu setelah itu mengalami penurunan kualitas dan kuantitas posting. Sebabnya beragam, dari menikah sampai urusan pekerjaan.

Kalau melihat yg senior memang sudah banyak yang bertumbangan. Mereka mencoba “tantangan” media baru. Yang junior pasti akan selalu bermunculan.

Yang kurang adalah, bagaimana yang junior ini bisa lebih dekat dengan senior. Supaya tongkat estafet pun bisa dilakukan. (kok kayak alih kepemimpininan ya?) Intinya sih, supaya yang junior pun tahu bagaimana awal muawal blogging di Indonesia, dan bagaimana mereka menentukan visi blog mereka di masa datang.

I have just installed Windows Live Writer 2009 on my HP Mini netbook. Does it mean that I will start to actively blog again? Not too sure. Can’t guarantee that.

Right now I’m just testing to use Windows Live Writer 2009 on my netbook. So far, it works just fine. Let’s see whether it can publish…

I stumbled upon this post, written by an Indonesian woman who lived in Singapore previously and now currently lives in Australia. I didn’t know the writer personally (although I might have seen her in one of gathering events I attended couple of years back) but to be frank, I’m quite interested on what she has written. Especially this one:

The third reason is because I can feel equal living in its real multicultural society. Singapore may claims that it is a multicultural country with its Chinese, Indian and Malay society live in harmony. Australia does not need to claim it because you can see and feel it whenever you go. If I go to Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and other restaurants; most probably the chef and/owner are from the country where the food originally come from. I can easily see people who were originally from France, Italy, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, South Africa, America, South America and many other countries here. These people who were originally from other countries, including the second generation, work in various field of work.

I’ve been to Australia (and recently New Zealand) before, and I would have to agree with her. I find Australia to be a very nice place to stay, with friendly people. So far, I find that the infamous rumour saying that Australians are a bit “racist” to other races, especially Asians, is not true, after all. Well, there might be some who are, but it doesn’t mean that we have to generalise that everyone there is.

Quotes from the original article by Harry Sufehmi:

Let’s be clear about one thing - Obama is not perfect. Anyone thinking the reverse is deluded.

Another one:

That said - I’m absolutely appalled at lack of patience that’s displayed by some people. Do you SERIOUSLY think that 8 YEARS of destructions done by Bush can be reversed by Obama in 1 MONTH ??

And another one:

People, help Obama to make USA better for you. Don’t drag him down over small details. When he made mistakes - let him know that you’re not happy. When he try to do something right, let him know too that you support him.

I am one of those who are still hoping that Obama can blow the wind of change to the better, not only for the people of America but to the rest of the world.

Yes, hopefully.

Informasi didapet dari milis sebelah, terima kasih kepada mbak Dinda.

Kabar baik untuk penggemar sushi (termasuk saya dan keluarga, terutama anak-anak). :)  City Vibes itu gedung baru di samping stasiun MRT Clementi, yang dulu-nya gedung tua yang ada bioskop Clementi tua dan McDonalds di bawahnya itu.

Disclaimer: saya sendiri belum pernah kesana.

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From: Adinda Presanti
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 21:03:48 +0800
Subject: [imas_sg] Sushi

Tadi sore ke ShinTokyo/Ramen Ten -Halal- di Clementi City Vibes (dekat MRT,
gedung yang baru dibangun). Karena baru buka, ditawarkan promo khusus sushi
piring putih, biasanya $2.30 jadi $0.99 sepiring. Pilihannya banyak sekali
dan enak2… Grilled unagi sushi sangat recommended, cakep benar rasanya.
Tapi lebih mahal, $4.30 (ga ada diskon).Tempura sushinya juga enak2.

Untuk minuman, blue soda yang pakai green tea ice cream asik sekali.

Sekedar nyebarin info, sebagai customer yang puas
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I read today’s TODAY newspaper and learned that the COE for cars above 1600cc has dropped to S$200 on yesterday’s open bidding exercise. Does this mean that now is a good time to buy a new car (or change to a new car) in Singapore?

Hmm… not really. Especially, considering that we are expecting a ‘sharpest, longest’ recession ever.

I’m reading here that Sony is considering exiting the Sony Ericsson joint venture with Ericsson, after the joint venture was posting a $247 million loss for 2008.

Hopefully future supports and services for Sony Ericsson phones, including my Xperia X1, will not be stopped.

Sejak entry kron saya di Kronologger di-link ke update Twitter, Plurk dan status Facebook saya (via ping.fm), saya memang selalu nge-kron dengan menggunakan bahasa Inggris. Hal ini mengingat teman-teman saya di Twitter, Plurk dan Facebook tidak semuanya bisa mengerti bahasa Indonesia. Namun, ternyata saya juga kadang menerima “protes” dari beberapa rekan kroner yang tidak mengerti entry kron yang saya tulis.

Jadilah, sejak beberapa hari ini, selain tulisan kron saya yang berbahasa Inggris, saya juga menulis terjemahannya dalam bahasa Indonesia, yang saya masukkan ke dalam kolom komentar di entry kron tersebut. Semoga bisa membuat rekan kroner yang kurang mengerti bahasa Inggris untuk bisa memahami tulisan saya.

Ternyata, rekan kroner Vetamandra juga ikut menerjemahkan entry kron saya ke dalam bahasa Jawa. Terima kasih banyak, om Veta. :)  Entry kron saya pun sekarang menjadi tri-lingual, bahasa Inggris, Indonesia dan Jawa. Hmm… apa perlu saya bikinkan terjemahan dalam bahasa Sunda juga, biar jadi four-lingual? Mari kita lihat sampai kapan om Veta bisa “kuat” menjadi penerjemah tidak resmi entry kron-kron saya, hehehe…

Omong-omong soal bahasa di Kronologger, saya mengerti kalau Kronologger memang lebih diperuntukkan bagi orang Indonesia, mengingat interface yang digunakan Kronologger semuanya berbahasa Indonesia. Apakah Kronologger mempunyai rencana untuk go global dan mengembangkan sayap dengan menyediakan interface berbahasa Inggris? Biar menyaingi Twitter atau Plurk, gitu… :)  Mungkin om Kukuh bisa komentar?

I would like to wish all my Christian friends a very merry and joyful Christmas. I also would like to wish everyone a very happy and prosperous new year 2009.

Apologise for not updating my blogs for quite a while. Seems that I would need to take a break from blogging activities for now. I might be actively blogging again some other time later, who knows?

Furthermore, I’m currently having some technical issues with my self-hosted WordPress- based blogs, namely Minda Indra and Planet Indra, which I haven’t had the time to fix. I hope to fix the issues ASAP when I have the time.

In the meantime, you will still see me actively micro-blogging on Kronologger (which in turn will also update my Twitter and Plurk, as well as my Facebook status). I will also still be updating my photos to Multiply. So, I guess that I will still see you around.

P.S. Writing this entry at IMM, using my Sony Ericsson Xperia X1.

Setelah down selama beberapa minggu dan sementara digantikan dengan situs saya yang berbasis Gregarius, akhirnya situs Planet Indra saya sekarang bisa aktif kembali dengan tampilan seperti biasa, berbasis WordPress dengan menggunakan plug-in FeedWordPress. RSS feed Planet Indra pun sekarang aktif seperti biasa, setelah “meninggal” selama beberapa minggu, mengingat situs Gregarius saya tidak men-support RSS feed.

Saya terpaksa membangun baru situs Planet Indra dari awal, karena saya tidak berhasil memperbaiki database lama yang digunakan. Kelihatannya sih database-nya sudah corrupted. Jadi saya install ulang WordPress dan membuat database baru. Ngga apa-apa, toh cuma blog agregasi. Saya juga memanfaatkan kesempatan ini untuk meng-upgrade WordPress-nya ke versi 2.0.11 dan FeedWordPress-nya ke versi 2008.1105.