struggling dreams

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?”

It was the darkest year of mine. So goodbye 2009!
Derrick tweeted it then showed in friendfeed.. turned out 24 others liked it.

what is recency to you?

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!

Do you have comment?

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.

enjoy the list.

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…

the initiative: southeast asia blogging party

I believe that somebody else had already mentioned about this initiative sometimes in the Pesta Blogger 2008, since also attended few foreign bloggers from SouthEast countries like Malaysia, Philiphines and Singapore. This post simply appreciates the initiative, then spread it and hopefully becoming..

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.

What do you think?

About 10 years ago I wrote on Parahyangan Catholic University web column about how music should be distributed and charged in this interconnected age (I missed that archive). Since then I had this believe that the industry should reform or die. Of course you can’t take that literally… the music will not die, top musicians most likely remain in wealth and the loyal audience will always listen… built playlist… and sing… and mix… and also make music..

What will be dead then?

No! The record label will still exists only their role won’t be the same again. They will seek into fit business model that shall generate at least at equal fortune value as their did before the mp3 invented. I predict only a few can survive… that because to serve today they need to go through a major paradigm shift which I doubt they will… yes, you can say that.. Post Power Syndrome.

Over decades record label strive to be in control on music supply chain and other related business. Key that makes them in control is they hold many exclusive rights including for copy (mechanical) and copy distribution, some also extend to performance right and related legal power in which they alleged to protect the artists. In action they really did control distribution until internet and mp3 joined in… They completely failed to control the internet distribution and digital duplication acts by user (audience) and pirates… They dramatically losing control… Ok, once or twice they won over trial like when stupid metallica stood up against napster.. really stupid metallica… even I am a fan.

Now they don’t have the ultimate control of music produced by musicians distributed by others… meaning they lose part of distribution right and worse, artists have much more alternatives to promote and publish they works.

What will be dead then?

The only thing that dying is the mindset of controlling distribution and sources of creative works.

Let me introduce you to Gerd Leonhard who tagged himself as a media futurist, although I think he’s more than that… he is a futurist. Gerd wrote few publications on above phenomenon, also the future regarding music and everything else that involve digital distribution and creative product… Yes, a bit about intellectual property (will discuss it later). His (relatively) new book is music 2.0 in which he provided alternatives for readers to procure it… you can download for free and pay as you like or you can buy it from amazon at very low price. It’s clear that he wanted it to have the widest distribution as possible. Lots you can learn about the future from mr Leonhard… even Google people spare to invite him on a presentation about the future of digital content and the end of control.

Mr. Leonhard is not fighting the cause alone.. There are others that persistently wrote about how music industry should democratically built. Latest related posts from names like Techcrunch, “who needs music label? …” and “..(TotalMusic) come back from the dead“, from the Inquisitr, “Is the music industry digging its online grave“, from arstechnica, “Music 1.0 is dead“, and more… music 2.0.

You probably think I’m dreaming and this is not really happening… please check the Nine Inch Nail ant the Radiohead free downloadable album.. also emerging music online services like MySongStore, YouLicense, and more…

Okay… now where the piracy stands?

First, piracy usually hides not stands… Second, it is a legal term for unauthorized use or reproduction of someone’s creative works… So pirates are hiding somewhere behind internet.. which could be much in larger number than non-pirates. Could be fact that internet democracy votes for piracy?

Me? I do download free music and pirated music.

Am I feeling guilty about it? No, Not at all… I support the artist by promoting them and of course I like to watch their performances… also vote them as my favorite if I have to…

US Government does have a strict set of law regarding Intellectual Property violation act. Why don’t you comply before they get to you?

If I can make a deal with Bush or Obama… I say stop pirating if only they also stop making atmosphere hole and sign the Kyoto Protocol. Fair??

• ** I just got back writing after months not post. The cluttered things still.. So apologize to whom reading this post as rant.

• ** I like to go deep on Intellectual Property, historic materialism, on morals and ethics.

This is a simple update… Most likely will be deleted and replaced by a better post.

It’s obvious that I need a better time and idea management, so I can post more and having my blogs regularly updated. Yet, to be community manager of whatever community occurred by things I initiated.

The cluttered things on my head… frustrated me… in this post, I’m just trying to be honest to my readers…

To: Paul Caridad Sanchez

cc: Oprah, Schwab, BBC, NBC, Mommies, Twitterers, Geeks

bcc: The World

Subject: simply want to be your friend

hi Paul,

Ok, I got your attention now. Instead of replying via Twitter DM, I like to do it in a post where I can be more than 140 characters, thus (probably) give your video few extra hits from my network and Google search result. I am not really sure this works… but hey, let’s give it a try.

You asked me what inspired me to follow you. To answer that, I have to memorize my twitterring activities in a past few week.

Twitter has been the center of attention for social media analyst in the past few months, and I read what those social media guys write about it. So many, then I decided to actively follow more people just to have sort of “experience” added on comprehending what those guy blog about. Not as much as you do but reasonably sufficient for me.

Note: I still don’t get it how Jake Marsh, Calacanis or Scoble listen to tons of twitterers, I suspect they frequently check at replies or utilize tweetscan and summize more than everybody else.

Here’s how. I find people to follow from some references like these:

• A post by Jeremiah Owyang to encourage social media people (who follow him) to connect each other. I checked you weren’t there.
• Twubble by crazybob definitely helps to find like-minded, friends of friends to follow. This could be the connector.
• Nice posts I read and happens that the blog owner have a twitter account. Did not read yours until yesterday.
• Tweetscan result (I did on intention to find people to follow only once, with keyword “South East Asia”, “Asia”, “Indonesia” and “Jakarta”) which clearly, you never listed there.
• Random picks from friends’ follow. Possible connector
• Random tweets. Possible connector.

Knowing the one to follow is important for me. I don’t want too much noise and could worse, spams in my page. Simply say, I tried to be bit organized on listening whilst I don’t want to miss good contextual tweet either. So I do these things before decision to follow:

• Check the Twiterer’s bio and stat. Recency, how many updates, friends and followed. You are a digg addict, then must be interesting links come out from your tweets. Your stat says that you need more followers (friends).
• Visit the Twiterer’s website and found out more about the person. You won on this

Ok, enough all about social media, twitter crap. Now, here is why I follow you. I watched all your videos, visited your lousy blog, and helloed @you. Then I conclude:

You are a great man and I want to be your friend. I empathize your cause, admire your spirit and think that your doing is a portrait of struggling (see this blog title), thus will actively support you. Your presence in this blog could inspire others…

About your blog. Please do post properly, so people can track you conveniently then you can benefit more from organized feedback. You would benefit more from a mention in a Seth’s post, of course the blogosphere.

About the your video view count. I think your old 8 wishes & 10,000 miles video is a bit overtime by last message loop. Approximately you wasted 2 minutes, whilst youtube counts a valid view only for a full view (a research by tubemogul). Probably missed some view counts there. You were doing better with the new 8 wishes but way too little views compare to the old one.

look forward to hear your updates. Good luck and God Bless You

cheers

For everyone: to know about Paul Caridad Sanchez, please view his 8 wishes video and don’t stop until the video end. Also, don’t forget to visit his blog

Oprah, please interview this nice guy.

I don’t know if they know Indonesia is populated by hundreds of million people and we do have internet in our computers. comScore made a report on trends and prediction about Internet titled “State of Global Internet“.

Internet usage is low among Southeast Asia countries except Singapore and Malaysia

are you sure about this? I wasn’t sure they did it right in Southeast Asia coverage. The flaw begins just when they did not count Indonesia in. Simply say please look at the fact that Indonesia is no.4 in world population. Even though Indonesian Internet Users only 9% of its population, still it 4 times than the whole Singapore population (including Singaporean who never use internet).

Although Indonesian international bandwidth mostly using Singaporean or Malaysian channels, it should never be problem for a company like Comscore to trace the request origin.

Alternatively please see:

• google.co.id ranked 3 in Indonesia (alexa) with over 500 million daily pageviews. See Alexa
• Asian Internet Usage

Just like other Internet geek, I like comScore but their flaw coverage on southeast Asia could mislead region specific business interest and overall internet usage mapping.