“While we have over 130,000 Indonesian blogs; most of the traffic are occupied by useless unimportant topics”—a fellow blogger said.
Doesn’t that statment feels like a disembowelment of our overconfident ego? But my gut says it’s true. 
I am not going to delve into whats important and whats not. But if we dreamt of blogs replacing conventional media, we should start pruning well-written blogs on big-issue matters. This responsibility are twofolds, frankly.
See, having tonnes of good blogs on important subjects is, however, not enough. Good big-issue blogs needs good readers who are smart and concerned on the subject matters. If blog readers is still incapable to give proper comment on serious blogs like ndorokakung.com and priyadi.net, those great blogs we wish to have will be pretty much useless.
10 responses so far ↓
-tikabanget- // Feb 15th 2008 at 9:31 pm
agree.
harus punya pembaca yang pintar untuk topik yang mendalam.
feha // Feb 15th 2008 at 9:58 pm
man, i just don’t agree with blog being so serious…..
firstly blog was invented to express it’s owner feeling….not to be politicize like that…..
Please bring back the nature of blogging
Dont get me wrong. I didn’t say that we dont need non-serious blog. Heck, my primary blog is highly non-serious. If people are blogging just to have fun, make friends, and get a good laugh then do participate on that kind of blogs; I’m not complaining, I am very excited in fact.
My statement above is in the context of “making blogs in par with MSM.” If we would like blogs to be a threat to conventional media, it should posses the good characteristics of MSM.
dina // Feb 16th 2008 at 2:07 pm
That’s right..
I notice that most of the comments in ndorokakung.com have very little to do with the essence of the posting. It doesn’t lead to a discussion. Not that it has to or anything but I think it’ll be great.
tukang usil // Feb 18th 2008 at 7:04 pm
horeee … akhirnya momon pake wordpress
iphan // Feb 19th 2008 at 10:40 pm
Masih sedikit, orang Indonesia yang ngeh, kalo blog bisa dimanfaatkan sebagai media alternatif, untuk bentuk jurnalistik baru, yang diperkirakan bakal berkembang pesat dalam 10 tahun ke depan : citizen journalism. Termasuk anak komunikasi macam saya ini
jadi dapet ide untuk topik BAB 1 metode penelitian komunikasi saya semester ini
So, bikin blog di sini juga ternyata? Haha
Akhmad Fathonih // Mar 17th 2008 at 3:40 pm
Banning “useless” comment is not necessary, “useless” comments are future potential “good” comments. You should not remove their existence. Instead, push it invisible via some sort of vetting mechanism.
Good and smart reader is not what you really need. What you really need is care reader which really paying attention to what you write though he/she may not be able to submit comment due to some limitance
okay, okay, just ignore above paragraphs :p
If you want to be a real threat to MSM, make a blog network.
Anyway, what’re exactly good characteristics of MSM you are referring to?
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Akhmad Fathonih // Mar 19th 2008 at 3:13 pm
wah, dagdigdug ini mendisable trackback kah? manual aja klo gitu
http://blog.neofreko.com/index.php/2008/03/19/podcast-blog-dan-mainstream-media/
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