What is the score of your blog post?

November 4, 2010

Honestly, I got the idea of the title of this post after looking at the cover page of Darren Rowse & Glenn Murray’s e-book: “The Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers.” The subtitle of the book — ‘Score your posts out of 100’ has inspired me to come up with the title above. I’ve just downloaded this [...]

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Disasters’ Relief Efforts by Captain Budi Soehardi

October 28, 2010

My dear cyber friend, Captain Budi, the 2009 CNN Hero finalist, is organizing the disasters’ relief efforts to help the victims of Mt. Merapi eruption, some 30 km north of his old home town of Yogyakarta, as well as the victims of the recent tsunami disaster in Mentawai island in Indonesia. I’ve just got off [...]

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Jakarta Flashmod – they did it!

October 12, 2010

Most of the times, I’d skip the Facebook video. However, the simple comment my cyber friend Sylvana has posted on this particular video had caught my attention: Cool flash mob – makes me miss Jakarta for once As soon as the video started, I recalled the Antwerp Station Sound of Music dance I saw in [...]

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Woman Faked Cancer

August 10, 2010

I came across this story tonight. Honestly, it’s sad to read or watching a tragic story like this. Imagine, what will you say if you work hard to help someone like this girl, and it turns out that it was a hoax? This story just reminds me to be very careful before I start to [...]

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Rest in Peace Mr. Gesang – The Great Composer of Bengawan Solo.

May 21, 2010

They kept asking for the same song during the happy hours, and that surprised me in the beginning. It happened more than 30 years ago, when I was a grad student in Japan. Anytime someone knew that I was from Indonesia, they would request the same Indonesian song again. The song was, Bengawan Solo or [...]

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100,000 blog subscribers in two years?

May 15, 2010

Yeah, that number puzzled me. But that number is right! The title of this e-book is “How I Got 100,000 Subscribers in Two Years: Lessons from Zen Habits.” But wait. I just went to check his blog. As of today, the subscriber number has increased 75% since the time the e-book was published. It’s 175,000 [...]

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