• Business Channel (7 blogs)
• City Channel (26 blogs)
• Film Channel (10 blogs)
• Health Channel (6 blogs)
• Sport Channel (6 blogs)
• Media Channel (6 blogs)
• Lifestyle Channel (4 blogs)
• Hobby Channel (4 blogs)
• Science Channel (8 blogs)
• Music Channel (3 blogs)
• Tech Channel (10 blogs)
• Tips Channel (4 blogs)
• Travel Channel (9 blogs)
• Writing Channel (5 blogs)

Personally, I want to say thanks a lot for you, AsiaBlogging readers and communities, who have supported us by visiting, reading, commenting and giving us your valuable feedbacks.

AsiaBlogging also begins to be recognised by the infocomm industry in Indonesia. Some big companies, some of them are the Indonesia offices of the global’s big boys, have team-up with us to conduct blogging-related activities.

That is why, the last but not least, for all our partners: Microsoft, Nokia, Intel Corp, Excelcom, Indo.com and Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Republic of Indonesia, who have advertised with us, I would like to say thanks a bunch for your trust and cooperations.

Bravo blogging!

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

It took our team a while to fill the directory, but yeah, it’s here now!

The work goes on though; the team will continue to look for exceptional blogs to be featured there. In the meantime, if you think that we’re missing something, do let us know by filling the form here.

Happy blogwalking !

Karena itu dengan gembira kami mengumumkan pembukaan lowongan sebagai blogger di My City & My Travel.
Syarat dari kami hanya satu - yaitu Anda musti memiliki gairah / passion blogging dalam topik tersebut !

Andakah orangnya ? Daftarkan segera di form yang telah kami sediakan disini.
Mari bersama-sama kita nge blog di jaringan ABN, dan bersama-sama kita bentuk dunia baru kita.

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 :).

According to her, the conventional media (or the press) –which is known as the fourth estate– and blogging as the new estate are going to complement each other. “As long as the rules of the game and boundaries are mutually respected, there are many things to be learned from each other,” she said.

Jennie also mentioned Asia Blogging Network (ABN) as a maneuver of the new estate from Indonesia:

…a collective effort to unify Indonesian and other Asian blogs has been executed through the establishment of AsiaBlogging.com, which might eventually form a group of influential pundits and opinionated bloggers and broadcasters. Such a unifying effort is an admirable accomplishment, as the selection process would elevate the credibility of Indonesian and Asian bloggers as equal counterparts to the conventional press.

We hope our blog network could mean something for the world of blogging and Web 2.0 and could be one of trusted sources and readings in the new media era.

It will gather all recent articles globally. It is a good place to start reading the fresh articles. Anyway, it will be updated every hour. If you want to read latest entries from certain topic, feel free to subscribe to main topic RSS. You will find the RSS link addresses there (look at the orange icons). For all RSS lovers, you can grab our planet RSS and subscribe into it. Enjoy!

PS: Thank you Feedburner!

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.

What’s new?

Here are some new and improved features you will find in our new design.

• Asia Blogging Network Global Update — You can find recent articles posted from all blogs in our network in front page. Currently we have 65 active blogs in 14 domains, and more domains and blogs will come. Previously, we only display ten newest articles. Now, you can browse up to 80 recent entries. You want to find older articles, just click on the “Next” link.
• Better content management — We still use Wordpress for our main site (and also for all blogs in our network). And we do not have plan of switching to other platform. WordPress works perfectly for us. We will share a little secret. As you can see, there are other sections beside news here: Column and Press Release (and also ‘pages). We want to make them have a better information. For example, if you read an article written by our guest bloggers, you will find it easier to read other articles (by other guest bloggers). The same scenario will be used when you read press release.
• Read, read and read — We updated our Live! page. It’s cleaner now. In the sidebar, you will see a list of blogs in our network. You can read the recent articles from a blog by clicking on its name. So simple, right?

I will stop writing now. It is not a perfect design. We will not stop developing and give new interesting features. Enjoy the new look! Ideas, comments, or suggestions? Do not hesitate to pass them.

Despite the growing risk, few Asian companies have established policies that formally address employee and CEO blogging.

Since blog is one of communication means, the leader like CEO can use blog to communicate with his/her customers, stake-holders, employees, media, and even with his/her rivals!

It’s nice if Asian companies and CEOs could create specific model of this new media and communications tool.