Go Mobile, and Click Publish

Nearly two years ago, I posted on my other blog platform on Multiply, which is accessible only for contacts, about going mobile for checking this and that on the internet. Then I stopped doing it because of some reasons. The reasons were my mobile screen was way too small to read such long posts or I was not patient enough to push the keypads on the cellphone to write posts, and publish my content. Besides, I never like to post short content. Not that I say I “never” post the kind of content, but I just don’t like it.

Dan sebagai salah satu wujud dari strategi mobile-nya, WordPress hari ini secara resmi meluncurkan aplikasi WordPress untuk perangkat mobile Nokia yang bisa langsung diunduh dari Nokia Ovi Apps. Di aplikasi ini, pengguna WordPress bisa menulis entri blog langsung dari perangkat mobile dan juga melakukan pemeliharaan seperti mengatur komentar dan juga mengunggah gambar dan video. More

The main idea of the article is that WordPress is going mobile. WordPress users can blog via Nokia Apps. Speaking of blogging, of course it also has something to do with uploading pictures or videos to support your piece of writing. And you can do all mobile. 

This is kinda tempting news, seriously!

I imagine reporting “LIVE” about some events I attend to, or places I (we, optimistically saying) will visit.  I really don’t need a piece of note to note down all the things I see, and feel when I get in touch to the new experiences. I really don’t have to spare a special time to jot down words for reportage. How cool is that!The down-side of “postponing” writing is that I will lose the mood for a piece of writing. I begin to lose the first sensation I feel when I, say, visit new places. And that will affect to the way I write; the boring language, perhaps.

IF this mobile-writing  really accessible to my future cellphone later, then I will be somehow excited, and want to give it a shot! I imagine reporting things “LIVE”.  And I might not miss a thing to include in the writing. I don’t know whether there will be some down-sides of this kind of tempting facility. But, I guess I need to be careful when to blog and when to not blog, you know. It’s like protecting your privacy!

I salute to those who can be so “honest” about themselves on the blogging platform; telling their daily lives in great details, and supported by portraits or pictures. I am not one of those, at least I don’t think I can do that, not that often.

Another down-side I can think of is that the time I will have for blogging. My passion for writing is big. Well, not that big enough (yet)!I don’t want to spend the whole of my time for LIVE reportage- That is absolutely N.O.T  N.I.C.E at all. Perhaps I really should feel blessed with my tendency to blog long content ( I hope they are not senseless kind of content). I need my life for the ones I love, and for OFFLINE live. This is quite insane ; that there are two kinds of lives: OFFLINE live, and ONLINE live. Ah well, isn’t that the world crazy??

In the meantime until I get my new cell-phone, I will sit in front of the computer, and write. Later, if the new cell-phone comes, I’ll give it a try- and will tell you how it goes. BUT for sure, I will think of those I love, and other passions I have for. Then publishing mobile is just a tool to be more creative! but it should not be the tool to keep me away from those I love, and other passions I have for. I have decided to pick a phrase today :

“Go for what you are into, but just don’t let them control you.”

Now it’s time to go back to work!

Lu2Ar

Tick-tock: 30 Minutes is All I Can Give!

From GOcomics.com

Remember a few years ago when you did not even know the words or phrases, such as “Blogging”, “social networking” such as “Friendster”, ‘Facebook” “Twitter” and all that jazz would emerge a few years later?

When they emerge, and have won public attention, some people might think the world is getting smaller, and smaller. Privacy is getting violated more easily, Self-pride is getting bigger and bigger. I might be able to think of some other effects of these modern words or phrases on human beings, but I do not think that’s necessary to list here. Gak Penting! as an Indonesian says. I can’t recall when I first used the service of these kinds of social networking, but it could be around 1999 in my first year of university student. I was introduced to a social networking by a friend, then by some friends. I guess I was pretty left behind at that time. I kept on being convinced about how good / fun / extraordinary such social networking sites were. Having been a bit curious about what they had been talking about, I decided to sign up, but just signed up meaning I was passive, well quite passive regarding trying the features the site offered me as their user.

A few years later around 2006, there was another similar social networking site I knew. Again! I was introduced by a friend, my Australian friend. I kept on being fed by some info on how different this site was. OKay, I signed up, just signed up meaning just the same as the previous social networking I signed up. I have to be honest, the site was indeed a bit different even though they have the same concept as I’d say their ancient social networking. The site suggested by a friend was simpler, neater ( not so many features), and of course more practical at some point. I had no contacts by that time; only I myself, and a friend who suggested me the site. The site, which is called Facebook, was not mushrooming yet in my country, and probably not in many other parts of the countries you see on the world map either. In my opinion those sites like Facebook or Friendster or some other similar sites offer the same concepts, such as:

1.Letting the users being open ( at least to yourself at first); They help you express yourself. Some people have difficulties in expressing themselves especially in public, I mean really public audience ( real audiences in a real life, not a life behind your computer desk.)so maybe these sites could help you a bit before you put the lesson into practice.

When I say being open to yourself is because these sites urge you to speak up, update whatever you are doing, whatever you have achieved in your life. Just say your words! no matter whether people are listening (read: reading) what you posted on your walls. It’s time to share, show yourself up, get the attention of people. People are basically selfish creatures, I’d say. There is an ego inside us!. People like it when they feel so important. When they get the attention they want, it will arise their self-pride, their confidence.

But maybe this concept is not true to some….

A site is just a site

At the time I joined, my contacts were only one or two, less than ten. I did not even know them well, hehe. But the “good’ thing having small numbers of people ( especially those I do not know that well, but know enough that they are descent people.)was that I could just yell on my walls whatever I wanted to say without having felt to worry somebody might have thought that I am silly, etc. I was “aloud” on my walls, yet I still kept my privacy. I still do.

Now there are some changes! Facebook has become more and more popular. It gets more and more audiences, thus walls are getting more stuffy, crowded, sillier, funnier, etc. The getting-more-popular Facebook has transformed me into believing that I shall not shout some things on my walls: I’ve come to realize I need my space.

2.Enabling the user being connected with friends, family whom you do not meet often. For the sake of friendship, some people claim.

While some people have taken a path of deleting facebook accounts, I choose to be a part of it until now. I have family, and friends far away. It is my privacy whether I am close to them or not, but I choose to communicate with them at least on a regular basis. People may say I can just do that via e-mails, Yep! I can, but the hindrance is that people are just too lazy to write e-mails sometimes. Thus, facebook which limits characters (134words something) posted on the walls is a great help.

I know how addictive these social networking can be. Somehow the people behind these sites (which are already booming) are very good at reading what public wants to stay happy with them, to be their addict users.

I know how bad these social networking can be. You just don’t have time to read news, do your own off-line life, focus on your work at the office, do your projects. I even once read that some people had postponed their work for some months, because this Facebook is so attractive that they were so curious about what was going on now in their circle of friends or they just couldn’t stand sharing their lives.

To me, and right now…

I choose to take control over Facebook instead of it takes control over my life, well, that’s too extreme, takes control over my routine, heehe. You are good, but only for those who know about time management. So, this is to warn me myself: 30 minutes is all I can give to you dear Facebook.

I think I shall be careful with blogging as well, but all is fine so far, so once again:30 minutes is all I can give to you dear Facebook.

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