Penulis & Blog

  Penulis & Blog 
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Last Saturday morning,Firdaus and me went  to DBP to participate in a seminar with the above title(Writers & Blogs).There,I met Fauzi Shafie,my schoolmate and my friend Jiwarasa who is one of the panel speakers.(My thanks to Firdaus for the photo shown on the right)

First,let me congratulate DBP for taking this initiative.Jiwarasa has articulated very well about his experience in blogging and showed the landscape,terrains and landmarks in the cyberworld and blogsphere.
Puan Nisah Hj Harun also elaborated very well about the roles of blog for writers.For more detailed report on the event,please read this.

I am grateful that I have met new friends and learnt a lot from the two speakers.By the way,I was sitting next to the senior officer of DBP and I managed to whisper to her that this is a good event that needs follow through and action plan to increase more blogs written in Bahasa Melayu.Rightly used, blogs can be utilised to achieve a few objectives of DBP.

By the way, the new minister of Information and Sport/Youth have recently acknowledged the  importance of blogs.

Comments

[Adib]

Below is the link to Puan Nisah's posting about this event:
http://annyss.blogspot.com/2008/03/bertemu-bloggers-helvy-tiana-rosa.html#comments

[Saiee Driss (Pak Asdy)]

Terima kasih kerana berkunjung ke laman pantun saya. Saya merasa amat terharu dan terhormat.

Hari ini jumlah pengunjung ke laman saya melonjak hampir seratus orang dan saya dapat banyak idea baru untuk memperkasakan laman saya itu.

Komen-komen saya masukkan ke http://saieedriss.blogspot.com , termasuk berita tentang Astaka Minda.

[Zamri Mohamad]

Sayang sekali tidak dapat hadir. Tetapi, saya sangat gembira apabila mendengar Pak Adib sudah menulis memoirnya. Moga-moga dapatlah segera saya memilikinya dalam bentuk buku apabila terhasil nanti. Saya doakan Pak Adib agar sentiasa bersemangat dan sihat dalam berkarya. Mohon doa Pak Adib untuk saya ya!

Zamri Mohamad
www.motivasimindamu.blogspot.com

[Adib]

Pak Asdy,
Terima kasih kerana mengambil masa mengunjungi dan menulis komen di blog saya.Tahniah kepad Pak Asdy kerana mendapat sambutan yang baik.
Zamri,
Terima kasih kerana memberi semangat kepada saya untuk menulis dalam Bahasa Melayu(Cerita hidup di kampung).Thanks for your doa.

[Jiwarasa]

Pak Adib,

Thanks a lot for showing up. I really appreciate your attendance. It was another bonus meeting Bro Fauzi, after 20 years!

[Adib]

Here is a relevant news about the roles of blog from NST today:

PM concedes BN lost online war during polls
By : Newsdesk

KUALA LUMPUR, Tues:

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Barisan Nasional lost the online war to win votes in the March 8 general election.
“We didn’t think it was important. It was a serious misjudgement,” he said at the opening of Invest Malaysia, an investment conference.

Last year, the country had more than 13.5 million Internet users, or just under one in two Malaysians. This was a third more than in 2005, when there were 10 million users.

The World Wide Web allowed parties like the DAP, PKR and Pas, which have long complained of bias in the traditional media, to reach voters in their offices and homes.