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..
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.
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
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.
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