struggling dreams

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?

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.