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”.
Geez, we don’t need The Star to report this.
CEOs in the country are generally unhappy with the state of Malaysian broadband services, according to a recent survey.
Not just CEOs buddy, everyone.
More than 170 CEOs were polled during the exercise, which is officially known as the TEC-MIER confidence index survey.
Looks like we don’t have any confidence at all then.
Granted it is better than previous dial up modem, but comon. We are promised 1Mbs, we don’t even get that. No, not just for P2P networks, but also normal web traffic, viewing webpages, youtube everything. It’s slow, and crappy.
So quickly after posting my previous blog article, it seems that it has been quickly spun around. Perhaps after the absurdity of it all and all the public backlash/feedback.
The Government’s plan to register all bloggers using locally hosted websites is merely to collect a data rather then to censor the contents, Deputy Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said.
Collecting data? Like what? You don’t need people to register to collect data, what sort of data do you want to collect exactly?
We have web spiders for a reason!
“The plan to register bloggers is merely to assess the situation and keep track on how many bloggers there are in the country and on the information provided by them.
Impossible with the rate of blogging. Your wasting alot of time, man hours, and money doing this.
Blogs go on and off, they may have a lifespan of a week for all you know. You want us to become a K economy, then let us be knowledgeable and decide for ourselves what is right or wrong. Else we will just continue to be mindless drones.
