Yesterday the number of spam caught by Akismet on my blog mencecah jumlah lebih daripada 100, 000. As you can see in the print screen below…
Congratulations Suanie.net! Here’s to another 100,100… maybe in the next 3 months.
(if only they were visitors count)…
So says Prof. Michael Keren from the University of Calgary. According to this article (courtesy of ST):
[...] Michael Keren, who has written “Blogosphere: The New Political Arena,” suggests individuals who bare their souls in blogs are isolated and lonely, living in a virtual reality instead of forming real relationships or helping to change the world.“Bloggers think of themselves as rebels against mainstream society, but that rebellion is mostly confined to cyberspace, which makes blogging as melancholic and illusionary as Don Quixote tilting at windmills,” the author says.
I don’t know if I want to change the world, but as someone who owns a blog for x number of years, I find it very blah that people would write books about blogging.
“The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Blogging”, “Ultimate Guide to Blogging”, “Blogs Rocks: and other blogging delusions” etc with simplistic, overwhelmingly general bold statements such as the one uttered in CSI: Miami (or NY) not long ago; “Bloggers love to leave hidden messages in their blogs”, are utter crap.
Maybe 5 or 10 years down the road, yes feel free to write whatever psychological theories associated with blogging and how it has affected teens and their transition into adulthood and how bloggers *did* change the world, but right now, I *think* it’s a mash of rubbish, even when talking about blogs in the US and UK (and of course Canada).
Sure, the Internet has taken over many people’s lives; today I can’t imagine what it is to be without Internet connection (though I can go without Internet for a week), e-mail is so easy to use and plays an important role in communicating with lots of people that I normally wouldn’t contact, and websites and blogs give me an alternative view of the mainstream media, which is fabulous.
But I actually have a blog, and as for now I am comfortable enough to say this: there are no rules in blogging, not really anyway.
Feel free to read all the “Top Ten Blogging Mistakes” written by other bloggers. But if you are all right with your blog, what do you care what other people think? (obvious rip-off from a Feynman classic).
One of my favourite blogs, Demented Reality has a layout that I rather dislike. Yet I return to his blog every week (in high hopes that he would have updated). Michael Ooi writes on a blog that’s grey on black, which my eyes in their advancing years cannot take (hence I highlight whatever I’m reading, and so on and so forth). But he likes his blog, I like that he likes his blog, so what right do I have to comment on the template? Zero, nada, zilch.
If you are not looking to compete with the network of bloggers making $$ via blogs, and you feel comfortable with your blog, don’t change (since you are not likely to change the world anyway :P)
What about getting into trouble with the law, as Jeff and Rocky so recently exemplified? Apparently according to Jeff and Rocky, they have the right to write within jurisdiction of the law, and that includes writing and exposing NSTP’s flaws so obvious in their faces. Apparently according to NSTP, that’s defamation and they are within their rights to take action against defamation.
It is going to be a landmark case for bloggers and the blogosphere in Malaysia, but honestly speaking, I wouldn’t want either party to win. Don’t really feel like elaborating.
The only example I could associate with blogging is this: blogs are like cars. You double park your car somewhere, you get the summons, not the car.
(Cars have rules, that is for JPJ to deem it fit to be driven. Blogs on the other hand, if the html and css are not correct, then it would be published in a weird way, and would be un-read-able anyway. So, in this case, tak pass.)
That is why I quite tulan with people who have never driven a car before in their lives, bought one, pimp it up and exclaim to the world how hot it is to drive in the car. Wrote a manual on the car too.
Fuck, I am really deviating from the topic. Will continue tomorrow. Or something.
So I started the whole blog award thing last year because I thought these kinds of horse shit awards are… well, horse shit. If you have read my entry last year, I’d explained why it’s just a popularity wankfest.
This year I didn’t have a look at any on-line award thingy, because I don’t have time and because I really don’t give a shit. But I am lacking of things to blog and so it’s a good idea to recycle the Suanie Awards. Maybe I’ll make it an annual run. See my mood how.
Besides I wanna honour y’all.
So…
Without further ado…
Presenting…
THE (now) ANNUAL SUANIE AWARDS 2006!!!!!!
Thank you ladies and gentlemen, thank you. As usual, let’s skip the nominations and go straight to the winners, because it’s my awards show and I say so.
Freshie Blog of the Year goes to… MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN!!!!!
Congrats congrats, you lot are fighting a worthy cause and I like books and I wanna free the books and that’s why you lot are so deserving of this award that comes with no money, no status, but with lots of moral support. That’s what’s important, right?
The Best Original Blog goes to… THE SECOND HAND WONDERLAND!!!!!
Congrats congrats, you’ve been the most consistent personal blogger I know, while the others change, fade and flicker, you remain the same. That’s good, keep it up!
The Cyah & Come Back Again award goes to… JAY SO RULES!!!!!
Yeah I understand how and why you feel the way you do. But please reconsider, won’t ya? That’s why this is not a ‘Farewell Award’…
Best Malaysian Socio-Political Blog (for now) goes to… REDUCED AND RECYCLED!!!!!
I always love your insightful posts (when you bother to update so take this as a hint kthx).
Best Reality TV Blog goes to… CULTURALLY PRECONDITIONED!!!!!
Honestly I don’t know of other reality tv blogs, but if I had read more reality tv blogs, you would have won hands down anyway 
Down With The Man award goes to… OPEN MALAYSIA BLOG!!!!!
Even though I don’t understand half of what is written, I still support whatever is written. Yay!
Funniest Blog Entry goes to… SULTAN MUZAFFAR’s Misi Suara Mawi!!!!!
It’s short, deathly sweet and I still get the giggles reading it today.
Satu Misi, Satu Suara, Terus ke Mawi Anda!!!!
Bestest Haiku Blog goes to… MADHAIKU!!!!!
Again, I don’t read many any other haiku blogs, but you are so great that you outshine everyone else! When I grow up, I want to write haiku just like you! ph33r le haiku aura!
Bestest Puppies goes to… LAINIE!!!!!
Normally I wouldn’t like to recycle my awards, but in this case you win hands down
Special Achievement Blog Award goes to… HANTU BOLA!!!!!
Honestly I don’t know what you guys have achieved, but whatever it is (define your own achievements here) it must be great!
The two final awards go hand in hand.
The Bestest Blog Award goes to… YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS AND JUBILATIONS ALL AROUND! CONFETTI AND CORNFLAKES IN THE AIR!!! POP THE CHAMPAGNE AND [censored]!!!!!!!!! You are ALL so GREAT I could hardly catch my breath.
And with that, here’s another award for ya…
Yay!
Congratulations to all the winners :D :D
I won’t be around for the weekend, knock yourselves out.
If you are one of the 5 people who click around my sidebar, you’d notice a MadHaiku listed somewhere at the bottom, under ‘Deep Thrustings’.
Don’t ask me how I categorised the links under the more explicit names. I used to have a reason, but I’ve since forgotten it so now it’s there for old times sake.
But the focus is on MadHaiku, who leaves his comments on my blog as ‘mad’. Who is MadHaiku?
I get drunk.
I write haiku.
Usually in that order.
So go visit MadHaiku. He’s great. Kthx.
I watched Endgame (the play Lainie, the play), the ‘review’ is at moNSTerblog here.
Previously: Wangi Jadi Saksi.
For many reasons, I am very self-conscious when writing such ‘reviews’. I am not a professional critic, and there’s a part of me that is always afraid that someone might blow my cover and berate me soundly for misspelling a name or twist a fact or something. I am always worried like that, mostly because I feel like a fraud myself.
That was why I was glad to have Lainie to chat with yesterday when I wrote the post. When it comes to plays and musicals and having to write a lot more (and better) than just ‘go watch it, kthxbai’, my writer’s block is just a block, full stop. Whenever I hit a dead end (which seemed like most of the time) I would kacau Lainie for inspiration.
lainie : copy and paste the synopsis should be quite a few words already
lainie: synopsis? sysnopsis?
suanie: jalan cerita
lainie: sysnosisp?
lainie: never actually know how to spell or even pronounce that word.
suanie: synopsis
suanie: i cant spell exxageerratte
lainie: hahhahaa
lainie: exaggerate?
lainie: exagerrate?
lainie: exxagerate?
suanie: something liddat hahaha i have NO idea
lainie: exaggerate feels righter.
suanie: ciggarette… took me 2 yrs to spell that properly
suanie: stupid letters
suanie: spaghetti… took me one comment from an anal commentor for me to get it right
lainie: it’s spelled that way ka?
suanie: if not i would have spelled it spagetthi
lainie: i’ve been spelling it cigarrete for ages.
lainie: but i tend to say ciggie.
suanie: holy crap
suanie: u are right
suanie: my god
lainie: hahahahahahahhHahahHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAhahahahhahaaaaaaaaa
suanie: i cant even spell cigarrette
suanie: however that’s spelt
suanie: jesus
For all my efforts at not sounding lame, go read it here.