I learned a new word today: bridge blogging — lookee here
As part of my newly given task for my job, I must blog regularly and of course I must read other people’s blog as well. First I thought it’s going to be counter productive, because I will mostly go to gossip blogs. But, eventually, I began to love reading blogs. There are a few blogs that kept me going back: Unspun’s blog (yeah…you rock!); Budi Putra, Yosef Ardi (arrggh…need to subcribe, but my company subscribe already), my all time favorite: Naked Traveller (I’m lucky enough that I have the book) and several of my friends’ blogs.
I like Unspun. I admire his work, especially in terms of utilizing new media for his industry. Great work! Wish I can learn more. I like Yosef Ardi’s insighfull information on things that I most likely overlook (I have disabilities in understanding anything political or economic). I love Naked Traveler because, hey, I like to see new places.
So, this afternoon, I went to Unspun’s blog and learned about Bridge Blogging. And it gets me thinking. I missed the Pesta Blogger, because I was out of town — if only I can be there. I am hopping that this kopi darat for bloggers is not the only one. I’ll make sure I go to the next one.
I wrote my blog in English, actually without any intention to bridge blogs. My mother tongue is Bahasa, but i feel that using English allows me to say things I want to express in much less words than Bahasa — and I need to polish my English too.
As an Indonesian, if you read my blog — you might think that I don’t like my country. Some of my posts are about the great technology used by our neighbour country. My defense is: I’d really want to see my beloved Indonesia to compete with our neighbour in terms of technology implementation. That’s it.
I worked in an IT company before, so I got to learn a lot about technology and how it can help simplify things if used correctly. Lots of time, when I read something about Indonesia’s ‘achievements’ in technology, it will be about some ‘wishful thinking’ effort in technology implementation or having the highest mis-conducts in technology.
I am so happy when I read a newspaper article stating that farmers in one remote area (sorry, can’t remember where) are now exposed to the internet. I was fully supportive of the idea of making Aceh a Digital City post tsunami, but did it actually happen?
Anyway, back to bridge blogging — I am wondering whether there is someone out there that blogs for the sake of bridge blogging. If yes, that person can help Indonesia for our Visit Indonesia Year and Depbudpar must engage him/her immediately.
But he/she must bear in mind, that let’s not too mainly focused on our cultural richness,(its sooo boring nowadays) but maybe to start addresing how we compete with other ASEAN nation in terms of lifestyle, infrastructure, opennes and security.
Knowing that people around the world do read blogs and having learned that my blog could possibly be a bridge, I promise to express my pride of being an Indonesian from now on (forgive me if my wishful thinking mode still on sometimes, okay?)
Indonesia, Dangerously Beautiful (I really think this slogan should be the theme for our Visit Indonesia Year).
I wonder whether there are actually people who blog in English on purpose to bridge blogging?
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