Asia Blogging Network

Asia Blogging Network (ABN) has been gaining more appreciation as a new media. Some industries have recognized this blog-base media as their reliable news partner.

After a chain of tense selections, today ABN has just been approved as one of the official media to cover the events of Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2008. This international annual jazz event will take place this month, from 7 to 9 March 2008, in Jakarta Convention Center.

This is considered as a breakthrough for the ABN. For this grand event, this year ABN will specifically send one of its blogger, Benny Chandra, as a reporter. Benny Chandra, a daily blog writer on ABN Musik Indonesia channel, has previously reported some jazz musical events. Now he will report directly from the event location. Be prepared! The reader of ABN Musik Indonesia channel could now get in touch with current events in Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2008, in texts and pictures, only at http://mymusicblogging.com/musikindonesia

Almost all capital cities in Java Island have been seized by the blogging armada: Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta. Surabaya will fall soon.

The troops were from the alliance of Nokia Indonesia and Asia Blogging Network, led by Nokia’s Eka Anwar and ABN’s Budi Putra, supported by Enda Nasution, Ikhlasul Amal, Fany Ariasari, and Thomas Arie Setiawan.

They spread the new ideology: people power, pervasive journalism, the new fourth estate, Web 2.0. They want the information and the expression to be freed, faster, and faster. The virus they spread has infected students and young people on those cities. They hold it, they submit it, they love it.

So that’s how a blogger reports on Nokia and ABN collaborated blogging roadshow, including workshops on some high schools. To read the detail, visit our Press Release. Resistance is futile. Everybody is happy :).

Kronning? It is an mobile activity where you could post shortly what you are doing and where you are. This activity is now facilitated by ABN, through its new service introduced today: Kronologger. “It is a simple and practical social network activity model,” said Budi Putra, the CEO, “that allows the users to keep in touch, knowing the activities and location of each other.” Check his Press Release here: asiablogging.com/blog/208/abn-introduces-kronologger/.

Kronologger could easily be access through Internet-connected PC and cell phones (GPRS/PDN/EVDO/3G/you name it). When you access it with your cell phone, Kronologger would detect it and displays its mobile-optimised page, which would save the bandwidth required. The current development will allow the users to post (and to sign up) through SMS. “That’s the elegance of micro-blogging activity,” Budi continued proudly.

Kronologger is developed by Kukuh T Wicaksono, an application developer who works and lives in Jakarta. He just got married two months ago. Honeymoon? Certainly. But between necessary activities of honeymoon, he has been improving Kronologger to be integrated with similar services such as Twitter and Jaiku, as well as blogging service such as Multiply and Wordpress.

So, guys and gals, what r u waitin’ for? Sign up now, and start kronning now! Visit kronologger.com.

Asia Blog Network (ABN) has published a cooperation with PT Arunti Indonesia. The collaboration allows the ABN readers to access information through SMS. “The new feature enables our readers and bloggers to be updated with recent information wherever they are,” stated Budi Putra, the CEO of ABN. “This facility needs no registration, because of its nature as pull-SMS. The information is only sent upon direct request,” continued Janto Djojo, as the Managing Director of PT Arunti Indonesia.PT Arunti Indonesia is a company that provides mobile information services through pull-SMS system. Its center is in Singapore. But it starts its operation in Indonesia and gets ready to be ABN’s business partner.

In the first phase of the collaboration, Indonesian SMS users can access news from My Sport and My Film channels. The request is simple. User needs only to send a keyword by SMS to short-digit number: 9456. The keywords provided at present are: LigaIndonesia@ABN, LigaSpanyol@ABN, LigaItalia@ABN, FilmKorea@ABN, and FilmMandarin@ABN.

“For example, when we’re curious about anything regarding the Indonesian team in Asia Cup, we can just send the keyword LigaIndonesia@ABN to 9456,” said Budi.

In this first phase, only Telkomsel’s and Indosat’s GSM customers could use the service (Kartu Halo, Simpati, Kartu As, Matrix, Mentari, IM3). The service needs no registration or other kind of membership. User will be charged with normal SMS tariff only. No premium SMS charge!

Entering 21st century, science gains more attention from the society. Separating what science is and what science is not, is no more interesting, except for lesser number of people. People are interested more in applying the result of scientific research, in exploring more in science to improve their live and business, in educating their new generation more in science, to enhance the society with scientific principles rather than traditional old sense. These “Scientific Logs” try to be involved in society for their interests in science. It discusses the current discoveries, the implication to society, and it also discuss small scientific essays for children. Enjoy:

• Ancient Asia (in English)
• Animal World (in English)
• Biotech (in English)
• Astronomy (in English)
• Discovery (in English)
• Pernik Ilmu (in Indonesian Language)