And the soap suds keep building up. The Malay Mail is going to town digging the dirt on Manohara’s mum and boy is there dirt there.

This article in USA Today contains interesting information related to using Twitter as a marketing and corporate communications tool.Of particular interest, further down the story, is how Twitter can be used to improve customer service. The question is: are any Indonesian companies/institutions ready to embrace such technology?

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The US Embassy in Jakarta is nothing but a hive of activity, in cyberspace (see Facebook page) and now, it seems under water as well.The Embassy, an ardent supporter of Pesta Blogger, is now running a competition for underwater photography, but it ends today.

So try your luck, submit your photographs and who knows, you may even win a camera and underwater case, or even a free trip to Bunaken. Now, Unspun’s got to look for his diving photos…

Unspun thinks the Government of Indonesia is on the right track with getting Blackberry to open up a local office here. With up to one million BBs sold in Indonesia by the end of this year RIM should take this market seriously.

Gone should be the days when Indonesia is considered a backwater and has to be serviced by Singapore. It is a huge market and it should flex its muscles as a huge market.

Unspun himself is a disgruntled BB user. The synchronization with Mac computers suck an up to now neither BB nor it vendor PocketMac has not seen it urgent to address this problem.

The bluetooth sucks as well and its almost impossible to transfer files between BB and Mac. It does not have tethering capabilities – the ability to use the phone as a modem for computers – either.

The address book is also screwed up, showing multiple entries for one name – and the worst thing is that there is no one to bring it to. The online forums BB maintains are crap – try to find a solution that works for Mac synchronization, for instance.

It’s so frustrating that Unspun is thinking of shifting to an iPhone 3G(S), now that its hit Indonesian shores.

In Malaysia the politicians have really nothing better to do but to think of things that would be considered really stupid by right thinking people.

Here’s another example of Bolehsia’s intellectual caliber of its politicians. Do Malaysians even realize that Indonesians do not even come close to them in anal-ity (is that a word?) when it comes to race/religion issues?

Does this mean that only non-Muslims abuse their maids?

Poor Unspun, after all these months sweating it out on the gym, abstaining from eating his favorite sam chan, and eating rabbit food for dinner he now discovers that all that abstemious behavior is for naught.

Under the delusion that a six-pack tummy is the epitome of health Unspun all this time, Unspun’s finally learned from the article below that the one-pack that Unspun’s been sporting all these years is actually the healthier choice.

So there Ade Rai! You can sit on your sit ups! Unspun is going to sit on his ass and have another serve of the sam chan…

The same sentiments as expressed by Nathan Burke in the clib below has been percolating on Unspun’s mind, but he’s not got around to blogging about it.

Like Nathan, Unspun cringes and badly feel the urge to unspin the people who make a virtue of personal branding. It’s all about your personality, your reputation and yourself not some marketable commodity you can manufacture and get away with it.

Here’s another survey that reaffirms what we already know: that new media is here to stay and the smarter PR professionals have girded up to use it well.