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The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search

I came about the The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search through one of my emails. Here are some slogans from their site.

• The Hunt For Innovative, Commercially Viable Website.
• Web Awards recognizing the very best in Malaysian Youths.

If you go through the list of over 100 websites, you'll notice that a large number of them are blogs. Does that make them commercially viable? No not really. But when you opt to join their ranks, they ask you "How is your site considered INNOVATIVE?" (with capitalization preserved). Is there any innovation in these bloggers? Personally, I think not.

Where is the innovation?

As an experiment, I submitted my Malaysia Air Pollution Index, and see how it fares amongst them.

Disadvantages: haze.net.my gets booted from the list.
Advantages: More visibility for the site.

Interestingly enough they also ask "How does your site bring INCOME?" (again with capitalization preserved). To which I honestly responded "It doesn't".