Author Archive for Maverick
An interesting piece about Malaysia’s attempt to be the champion of the Malay world, even though Malay is an ethnic grouping and not a race, except in Bolehland where its Constitution specifies what a Malay should be, including being a Muslim.
What if you are an Orang Melayu from Indonesia who’s a Christian?
HONG KONG: In a [...]
Budi Putra writes that Indoensia has the hgihest growth rate for Facebook among SE Asian nations.
Facebook is getting more popular now in Indonesia, it has reached 645% growth rate last year!
At a growth rate of 645% in 2008, Indonesia has been the fastest growing country on Facebook in Southeast Asia, outpacing growth in China, India, [...]
MSN Indonesia strengthens media arm
by Anita Davis 7-Jan-09, 17:10
JAKARTA - Microsoft’s MSN has moved to broaden its presence in Indonesia by partnering with news companies MNC Group and Metro TV to include video and print coverage by the networks.
The deals allow MSN to upload entertainment and sports news provided by MNC Group’s [...]
Competition is good.
Spurred on by newcomer Jakarta Globe’s 48 all-color pages and a more progressive layout, as opposed to the Jakarta Post’s dowdy, anachronistic layout in 24 pages, the Post is finally putting into place long overdue changes.
From Monday, Unspun’s been told, the Post will have a new look and size and number of pages. [...]
Happy New Year everyone as we knuckle down to brace our or embrace 2009. Therse are interesting times indeed. Unspun was out vacationing in Vietnam and Malaysia and came back to Jakarta last week to recuperate and to save up for the next vacation.
While Unspun was away, however, there’s been a couple of interesting developments [...]
The scene was quite incredible. Thousands of Vietnamese jubilant because their country’s football team had just drawn a draw, and hence a victory, over Thailand, and coming out in force on their ubiquitous bikes to celebrate. “Vietnam Vo Dich!” (Sounds like “VIetnam Voing”, meaning Vietnam Wins) They chanted as they blared their bike horns.
Unspun’s not [...]
Have a few minutes before dinner and the hotel has free Wifi so…
It appears that Mediacare’s Radityo has been as busy as Santa’s elves before Christmas.
Today he posted in his Mediacare blog a long, rambling treatise on the legal subtleties between gratification and corruption.
The purpose of this Yuletide fare?
Well, Billy’s lawyers have been [...]
This is likely to be Unspun’s last posting for this year as tomorrow he and family head for Vietnam for Christmas and Malaysia for the New Year. It’s been an incredible year for us so far with lots of crisis and issues management cases, especially in litigation support.
Then there was Pesta Blogger 2008 as well [...]
Interesting to note that the Jakarta Globe, while still bereft of a decent web site, has begun Twittering.
Curious to know more about the Globe’s effort, Unspun texted to an over-50 editor to ask who’s behind the Tweets.
“What’s Twitter?” asked the editor. Oh oh asking the wrong generation.
Explanation followed, light shone through and Unspun was given [...]
There is one lesson that those who dabble in the blogosphere and the Net should never forget: there is nowhere to hide.
It’s OK to advocate something, its OK to be passionate and to take sides but at all times you need to disclose your motives or where you are coming from or your street creds [...]
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