Albert Tanutama

Won’t be updating this blog for a while I suppose… The place that I’m going does not appear to be that Web-friendly. But I do hope to find some internet connection tho Cheers!

Haven’t been blogging for a while… Does that mean the hype of blogging has passed for me? Hmmm,… I don’t think so. I still love blogging. It’s still a great way to establish a community, or personal network. In fact, I’m surprised to know that there are still few other people that read my blogs And, I’m morally ‘responsible’ to make their visit to this site worthwhile…. This makes me thought of RSS.

Like them, reading blogs is one of my primary surfing activities. I typically launched my FeedDemon (it’s a great newsaggregator, but I’m impressed more with its supports. Lots of new enhancements at no cost. Way to go against piracy) and IE. Using FeedDemon, I immediately download the latest news from my “A-List” of weblogs, like BoingBoing, Slashdot, Wired, Scoble, my weblogs (for backup purposes), and even my gmail. (Well, I do not really find it useful for the time being, but it’s kinda cool, reading your mail using news aggregator).

Using IE, I will look at different newspaper, local and from my hometown. I spent more time reading, but less information. The advertisement is really annoying, and downloading will take some time. Therefore, I only read some news that catch my attention and interest. Not a way to go ahead in the future.

Google news is another site that I’ve never missed to visit. It’s an amazing innovation. I visited it often. It allows me to get a better glimpse of what’s going on in the world, much more than other newspaper. The news are more reliable because it aggregates from different sources. Easy to find biases. It’s clean. The site structure is straight forward. I haven’t used the news search feature of it tho. Other aggregator site that is a must-see for me is fullasagoog. Great site to keep in touch with Flash and web designer community.

Well, so what’s my point here? I guess, I’m trying to say I found aggregator is really a great way to go, and I’d love to see more sites take into consideration of supporting this, that is to use RSS. One features of RSS that is less often highlighted is to preserve information. Much better than bookmark. It gives the context. And after a while, I’ll have good personal information sources that is easier to search than launching google.

I haven’t really looked into the portal. But, so far, I prefer to have multiple sites serving specific purpose, rather than one multi-purposes information portal. Maybe because I haven’t noted really great portal. At present, I’m satisfied to have google as my homepage.

Met my friend, who’s a financial planner. Now, I’m thinking that weblog would be a great channel to establish his/her presence as credible and expert financial planner. First, a blog would be a great way to keep track and archive what he/she has learned from the training. Second, by writing good advises, people will likely perceive that the person is an expert in the fields. Third, people benefited from learning the importance of financial planning. It might be hard to understand the advantage of giving a way free advice if it actually is the source of income. But, I believe blogging is a great way to market the service and at the same time, contribute to the society.

I’m currently reading Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mob. Really great book! Amazingly insightful, and I think it’ll worth for me to buy. This book describes changes in the information society because of information communication technology, especially with the availability and pervasiveness of mobile technology. There are quite a number of interesting theories and quotations which I think pretty relevant with my projects. I’ll post more on his book in my next post.

And, I’m currently thinking, I should also post about what I’ve learned in my IS course in my blog as well… I think good blog requires effort to put your thought in it. Repeating and linking to interesting sites without adding value to it does not make a blog interesting to read. It is just another information portal. I think I should do this

Finally, some links:
SBY is elected as new president, let’s hope for better social, economic, and politics.
Bush – Kerry 1st presidential debate transcript, I’m looking forward for a safe and worry free trip to US again someday…