Two days ago, Paramore live at Ancol, Jakarta (August 19, 2011) proved that they deserve today’s the “best rock band” title. The Parawhore (paramore’s fans) enthusiastic responses just confirmed it. Am I not being objective here? For once, I feel like no need to be objective for this matter and I have every right to dictate my truth in this blog.
See this video, witness how the Paramore and Parawhore made my point..
Look at that amazing crowd! After that Ancol show, I’ve just realized that Indonesian Parawhores heart paramore to their bones.. I hope Hayley can endure this era of Paramore longer..
On my sister’s pre wedding dinner at Rimini, Italy, I met my brother in law’s cousin (Edoardo’s cousin) who has an internet-music collaboration project. Name is Valerio Mastropietro, a passionate guy with great interest in music and the internet. He shared his thought about his project, what I called a musician network.. He, however described it as a music collaboration portal and communities.. We’d drown our selves on that particular for a while and continued it in Rome at his smokey music room… Then led me to write this..
Valerio’s basic idea is to exploit this technology medium (internet) for a better collaboration platform for musician everywhere. Few he said were about musician finding partners for song completion, music arrangement, sharing equipments, general music venue information, independent labels, distribution and more.. My dumb capitalist first thought was songs exchange between local musics. eg. Indonesian songs to be translated into Italian with few modifications on instrument or music arrangement.. Well, dumb isn’t it..
I was so excited to get involve in that project.. until then I browsed around to find out about the existing music portal or specifically, a social network for musician. I found out these two sites very helpful: Which social networking site is most useful to you and list of social networking websites (wikipedia), which then I filtered it to get the musician related only:
Not all above is about music end to end music production collaboration platform. Some only do the marketplace. Anyhow, as an internet enthusiast, I feel that some of those actually has already has functions that Valerio told me. Oh.. yes, he did say that it would be much better if the project is done by musicians.. for whatever that means, I support his cause..
exactly a year ago my birthday wishes to you led us to a problem.. then few days later a calamity happened. That was the last friendly conversation we had..
I can’t undo any of those evil things I had done to you.. Surely I live it regretfully each day..
I wish you and Donita have a much better life today..
Pranav Mistry from MIT demonstrates his experiment of integrating physical world with digital world. The way I see, this will be available on the market real soon, and of course will make gadget giants redefine their future gadgets. The idea is not new whatsoever, ‘the how to’ is recently revealed. If you haven’t watch his presentation yet, please do and share your comment..
This also create an awareness to software/web developers of what is going to be hot on the market in near future. The internet won’t be the internet again, because almost everyone and everything is in it, using devices and services to access the most organized informations. Just like Google has it in their mission..
However, worry not for everything is easy to find/to do.. The life and universe remains the biggest mystery..
Can Indonesian develop sort of devices? Ups.. Sorry the appropriate question is “would Indonesian develop such devices?”
For me, there’s an issue that I never been through before.. and I have to go through this time.. In this matter, I have to choose wisely, wether I should act like a king, peasant, loser, coward, knight, lover, or simply a gentleman.. but never be a hero…
For me is cleaning things up. Clean up the mess that disturb everybody.. It was a true mess from the scratch.. when it was published, people in my circle know.. Google and all other social tools I joined, make it even worse… I have to clean myself up..
That post was meant for a destruction… What, who, where, how… doesn’t matter anymore.. It ruined some people life.. and of course mine also.. I had deleted it… and more cleaning jobs…
This post is a part of being myself. I’m not an Englishman.. I am Indonesian!
Off those Twitter directories such wefollow.com and twellow.com, which they can perform query on (single) location, I built a directory of Indonesian Twitter friends myself. The main reason is to make it easy for me and friends to find Indonesian I (we) follow. Also it would be easier to look up without submitting different locations on those public directories.
Not all of my Indonesian friends listed on the page. It’s not that I don’t want to but most caused by their locations aren’t generic for Indonesian, like living abroad or location that doesn’t exist in this planet. Mahadewa (lives in London) and Aulia (lives in his iPhone) are perfect example for this. To solve it, I will add them manually to the list.
More about Indonesian (Jakartans) Tweeters, we use @jtug (a twitter bot) as a tool for broadcast within ourselves, a hub to any (Indonesian) strangers and many other contextual purposes. I also tweet at @jtug whenever I want use Indonesian language in my tweet. JTUG is an acronym for Jakarta Twitter User Group.
oh.. the lazy me… It’s already 2009, about five months since my last post. I skip 2008′s review and 2009′s forecast posts, probably I have forgot everything I did last year.. good or bad… (sorry for the opening rant, this is a personal blog anyway)
What I’m about to share is how this social media really make things change. You, most likely never met me in real, but somehow we can easily be connected in social tools like Twitter and Facebook then people have this impression just like we went to junior high together (confession: I did not have many friends back in junior high). There’s nothing new about this experience if you have been using Facebook or Twitter for years and you live in North America or Europe, but it’s new for me, an Indonesian, even with ‘at least’ years of experience with active accounts on Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg and Facebook.
These are new for me.. My father recently joined and make tons of various posts in Facebook. The 67 y.o also made friends with hundreds peeps…
On second thought, I will do 2008 review and foresee 2009 posts. Personal updates for sure.. (enjoy)
uh. btw. according to this site, I joined Twitter since September 2006.
Indonesian “Pesta Blogger 2008” (blogger party) is over but everyone who involved still enjoy the hype left in pins, t-shirts, images, blog posts, and some videos. Of many unrecorded conversation I listened (which I wasn’t really Event Organizer (PB’08) insider nor a person to listen to) I chose to capture a tweet conversation of Budi Putra and Chef Mark about initiating a regional wide blogging party. A SouthEast Asia Blogging Party.. See the little Twitter conversation below…
Personally I wish somewhere else than Jakarta but still in Indonesia will host such event but in the spirit of SEA (and ASEAN), I dare Malaysian government to take active part and host the event.
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