struggling dreams

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

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.

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.

This, of course part of my experiences using online services like twitter, facebook, friendfeed, qik, ustream, tweetscan, tweeterboard, and more. I just can’t list all here but I will list what found interesting reading and what I do on the web today.

• Upgraded this blog. Now, this blog already using wordpress 2.5. I also dumped the old coffee theme because too many incompatibility with all latest wp engine. I am not into this theme but to find a free and easy to customize theme was never easy for me as I always picky and conservative about design. So I hope this condition is only temporary.

• Read post about monetizing widget in Web Strategist Blog by Jeremiah Owyang. He announced it in twitter last night, and because I believe he’s on the right track on social media, then I paid a visit. Just when I was about adding comment to his monetizing business model through widget list, I found that Rodney Rumford already did much better than what I wanted to add. Credit to him, and I started to follow the founder of facereviews.com. Of course he is good, he’s on it every second.

• I blocked an “unknown facebook friend” named Widyanto Duta Nugroho and reported him on spam act to the facebook customer service. He spammed badly and I never had a real conversation regarding his act (he didn’t response to my messages). I believe, I did help other facebook users.

• I tried few of twitter related services again. These services actually do best for twitter experience: tweeterboard, tweetscan, and quotably.

• Read a post titled “what does facebook actually do for me” by Chris Brogan which he actually asked everyone who follow him on Twitter (or anywhere), and he got loads quality comments. I also added my perspective, bit unique one as I believe that its most comments come from English Tongue (American and English), that probably positioned us, the Southeast Asian as newbies (we are and I explained about it).

• My curiosity. A comment from Chris Brogan post leads me to another good blog, specifically a post about how Robert Scoble (a tech-geek blogger) loves/hates facebook and somehow loves twitter. The blog owner is Hutch Carpenter and he did write very good posts. I shared one on my facebook profile.

• Guess what? Hutch’s post about his blogging experience made me land on another very much worth to visit blog belongs to Louis Gray. Read a post about posting statistic and watch interview video of Scoble by Pete Cashmore from Mashable. From the interview post, Scoble said that he did not know Louis Gray who make it to Techmeme Leaderboard for sometime, of course commented by Louis. As for me… I checked out Techmeme Leaderboard and Technorati Top 100 for most visited blog.

• From a tweet by Aulia Masna, I know that I missed an event, an Id-Mac Gathering which I always wanted to go. More from him, there will be British Council Bloggers Day event sponsored by ChIP on Sunday which also my curiosity at most, but all seat are reserved. I’ll pass another offline blogosphere.

• Subscribed few feeds from above blogs to my netvibes, update and customize mybloglog, watch John Spencer on qik covering something about Celine Dion. No, I don’t forget to check out my facebook.

Referred by Jeremiah Owyang's update on twitter… a summary of a 'shaker' book titled 4-hour workweek by Timothy Ferris. This book suggest few steps to have more and work less… if you want to enjoy life more… note what interesting..

Outsource your life

Please see if you think you need it..

How do you like to work only 4 hour a week but still earn more?? Go buy and read the book and tell me if you ever make it 4 a week. Please.. 

As for me… I say no to this book. I rather put it as a distraction to what I am. Misdirection and another obstacle in my struggling… see my blog title. 

Bertepatan dengan hari ulang tahunnya, saya mendapat kesempatan untuk mewawancarai Roch Basoeki M, seorang penulis, pengamat dan aktivis sosial, budaya, dan politik Indonesia. Pada wawancara singkat ini, beliau ditemani oleh editor dari buku yang sedang dikerjakannya, yaitu Jainul Dali Munthe, pendiri dan ketua The Institute of Public Service. Berikut video wawancara mengenai buku tentang permasalahan Lumpur Lapindo yang sedang ditulisnya.

Tidak terekam, cerita beliau mengenai permasalahan Lapindo dan perputaran uang adalah bagian yang sangat menarik yang tercetak pada bukunya. Buku yang belum berjudul tersebut dijanjikan akan mengungkap banyak hal yang tidak diketahui oleh masyarakat. Bukan karena disembunyikan oleh pihak-pihak tertentu, melainkan memang banyak hal tidak pernah muncul dalam bentuk pertanyaan. 

Sebelum menulis buku ini, beliau bersama rekan-rekannya dalam Forum Komunikasi Perduli Bencana Negara (FKPBN) aktif dalam menggalang kepedulian masyarakat terhadap bencana negara di mana musibah Lumpur Lapindo ini adalah salah satunya. Berbagai kegiatan FKPBN yang dilaksanakan mungkin kecil artinya secara materiil bagi korban lumpur Lapindo, namun secara moril sangatlah tinggi. Pada peringatan hari Sumpah Pemuda tahun lalu, warga korban lumpur bersama-sama dengan FKPBN menyatakan perjuangan mereka adalah perjuangan bangsa Indonesia. Peringatan itu dihadiri antara lain oleh Rieke Dyah Pitaloka, Franz Magnis Suseno SJ, Slamet Rahardjo, dan beberapa tokoh lain yang perduli.

Hal istimewa yang terjadi pada peristiwa itu adalah warga korban Lumpur Lapindo menganugerahkan Lumpur Award kepada Franz Magnis Suseno yang sebelumnya menolak menerima penghargaan Achmad Bakrie Award.

Wawancara video ini adalah yang pertama kali saya lakukan dengan menggunakan kamera N70, dan skill yang pas-pasan jadi mohon dimaklumi keterbatasannya. 

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 Hi pembaca..

Secara saya memperhatikan di statistik blog ini bahwa terjadi minat yang tinggi terhadap video lumpur lapindo, maka saya rasa ada baiknya para peminat tersebut menemukan lagi lebih banyak mengenai video lapindo di blog saya ini.  Sebenernya alasan saya ngumpulin video ini adalah untuk mendukung kegiatan ayah saya dalam menggalang kesetiakawanan sosial.

Video Sidoarjo ini dibagi enam biar ga terlalu beratin bandwidth. Lokasi file nya juga di server NET di IIX, so mudah-mudahan yang pake dial-up pun juga bisa nonton dengan ga patah-patah. Kredit dan kepemilikan dapat dilihat dari video itu sendiri. File original mungkin bisa di dapet di youtube.com dengan keyword "Lumpur Sidoarjo".

Semoga dengan liat video ini, terjadi pemahaman yang lebih baik mengenai situasi di lokasi bencana. Silakan menyaksikan….

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I just found this page yesterday. Right after Erwin Sudarsono told me that he typed his name in Google search box and he then said, I made him famous…

go ahead… check it out and tell me what you think. Please not about hair… LOL.

Solace Magazine: About a Dreamer

That what I called Struggling Dreams. When dreams exists only in your subconscious and your daily routine, your so called normal life, your short-term expectation and other not so important things in the way. Dreams that left abandoned while people around you tell that you're doing good, that you're performing well, that you will become somebody that they think you really up to… but they never understand what you really really up to…

Dreams are struggling to exist and we often bury them during our daily activities. People don't understand our dreams, they only think that we up to something. Thus people tend to discourage, misleading and give confusing opinion on how to achieve in certain topic.

I say dreams are life essences. Something that moves you to the right path, the most encouraging, the purpose of your life, the vision that build mission you should accomplish. Something that one should focused in.

Dreams are always good because they built by heart, soul and most beautiful life experiences. For all beautiful experiences are the best lessons.

This post just like some other things is a reminder for one to live the dreams and never leave them behind due to whatever else that could be "current obligation". In such situation, never bury but keep. Let them struggle within…

To live the dreams is to live the life. The most precious in life is you, yourself and your dreams.

"Sometimes living out your dreams
Ain't as easy as it seems
You wanna fly around the world
In a beautiful balloon" (life, by desiree)

other says: unveil power of your dreams, your life value, never been there – never done that

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