Passionland

Imagine that one day in Bread Talk or other bread stores in town, you find this “weirdo” breads, called Body Bakery. Check this out. And sorry..really really sorry, I don’t have any intention to make you puke for this “disturbing” pictures.. I just thought this idea is crazy enough, but who dares to say that he’s not CREATIVE? hehehe…  “This brings weird to a whole new level. Thai Fine Art student and artist Kittiwat Unarrom is the son of a baker. All that baking exposure growing up has been a clear influence, but his artistic need to see things a little differently definitely flared up as he created the tacitly named “Body Bakery” - brutally, gruesomely, almost unbelievably realistic looking sculptures of dismembered human body parts sculpted entirely from bread.”

This morning I read my Google Reader and I stopped at this article. The first ever black (Afro-American) US President, made another “breakthrough” movement. He gave the Presidential address using YouTube. This new US President -Mr. Barrack Obama- seems like very updated and technology minded. He’s been using internet as one of his mainstream presidential campaign. He also uses Facebook, and many other social networking sites. And now, if he is consistently doing the presidential address at YouTube weekly, he will write a history as the very first President who is giving regular speech via YouTube.  

Let’s just wait for another “tech-breakthrough” that he will make in the future. From what I read, Barrack Obama will have ‘trouble’ to sacrifice his beloved Blackberry to his Secret Service, for the security sake and confidentiality of his emails. (Is there anyone who knows Obama’s BB PIN? so that I can chat with him, hehehe…)

Begitu powerful-nya sebuah Facebook, sehingga hari ini, 4 November 2008 di saat US sedang mengadakan pesta demokrasi (US Election Day) untuk memilih the next President of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, facebook memasang skin untuk homepage nya dengan image ini :

Walaupun we all believe that kesadaran berdemokrasi di US sudah demikian tinggi, tapi tetap saja situs social networking mengajak masyarakat luas -khususnya US citizen- untuk menggunakan hak pilihnya. Saya sih berpikir, mungkin untuk warganegara US yang malas or “lupa” nyoblos, begitu check situs Facebook, then merasa tertegur “loe warga yang baik ga, nyoblos donk..”In this same day -hari ini- harusnya saya juga ikutan nyoblos di Pemilihan Gubernur Jatim putaran II, tapi honestly speaking saya ga nyoblos tadi… “Abisnya, ga diingetin ama facebook untuk nyoblos sih.. hehehe” 

Have you tried the new search engine www.cuil.com? Can they beat Google? I don’t think so… but that’s the same thing crossing my mind when www.google.com came out - I said to myself, “Google won’t beat Yahoo, coz Yahoo it’s already too big to catch by Google”

As we all know… what happened later… Being first it’s not always good. Being the market leader is not that easy to hold.

Let’s watch and monitor how Google maintain their leadership ;-p

I bet they will…

Kalau octokers punya passionland, MTV punya MTV Sticky (www.mtvsticky.com) …

Untuk sign-up ke blogsite ini aja kita perlu approval dari adminnya, yah sama sih kurang lebih sama passionland, tapi kalo passionland bisa dibuka public, ini gak bisa… Pas sign-up pun kita juga mesti ngajuin alasan yang jelas kenapa mau ikutan… Dan kalau gue gak salah, gak semua diapprove sama adminnya…

Sedangkan untuk contentnya, MTV sticky ini kurang lebih kayak trend centre-nya MTV. Di blogsite ini staff MTV di seluruh dunia posting hal-hal yang dianggap deket dengan audiencenya MTV. Selain itu, blogsite ini tujuannya juga untuk filtering informasi. Jadi kan kita sering dapet spam atau berbagai forward-an, nah gak semuanya itu gak berguna kan… Jadi lewat MTV Sticky ini, membernya saling merekomendasikan artikel-artikel yang bagus dan worth to read/know.

Mungkin perbedaan MTV Sticky dengan blog kita ini ada di newsletter yang dipublish oleh MTV. Jadi dari tema-tema yang paling populer threadnya, MTV nyusun majalah per 3 bulanan dengan tema-tema tersebut. Tentunya, majalah itu juga ada value lebihnya, yaitu informasi-informasi tadi udah didukung oleh data riset…

Mungkin karena blogsite ini MTV tetep dekat dengan audiencenya, tapi mungkin juga nggak.. soalnya gue sih sekarang udah jarang banget nonton MTV secara isinya reality show, tapi mungkin gue udah gak masuk itungan target audiencenya mereka, ya gak?