Momonolog

I often amuse myself how much time I spent for writing blog posts. My latest post about deaths took four hours to write and research.

Now why do I willingly waste (if you call it unproductive) precious time like that? Because I like to have my facts correct. Critics (esp. the lame one) tend to attack one’s opinion by attacking wrong supplemental facts, not the arguement itself.

The good thing is you learn so many things during your research. Now I know that diarrhea is the top fifth killer in poor countries. The legendary HIV, which barely touches the top 10 killers in rich countries, is third most deletrious disease in the third world counterparts. Some kids are born with HIV, while many parents are losing their adult descendants due to AIDS. That is just painful isn’t it.

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“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.

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Why do we have to respect old people? If they are not worth respecting, would our respect be worthwhile?

Shouldn’t the respect be given to respectable people, regardless their age?

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