I started to write about “What’s Common Amongst Bloggers” and then shifted to this instead. While jotting down my thoughts and at the third paragraph, I recalled something else.
It was in 2007. I was one of the few approved featured columnists at Indonesia Matters. Now that I think about it, Indonesia Matters was my first introduction to blogging, in a second hand way, because whatever I submitted at Indonesia Matters had first to be edited under the watchful eye of the owner before he published it.
While at Indonesia Matters, one of my articles was selected by Global Voices.
About Global Voices
Global Voices, a highly respected organization is not under the auspice of Indonesia Matters. It is an independent organization that….
seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.
The Article selected by Global Voices
Using a pseudonym, IamIsaid, I wrote an article about the practice of the “Dukun“in Indonesia. Dukun is in Indonesian language means Shaman.
The said article was spotted and selected by Global Views as “Indonesia: Shamanism in Indonesia“
No longer with Indonesia Matters
I ended my stint as a featured columnist at Indonesia Matters because I believed that it was heading in the wrong direction.
My pleas went unheeded with the owner of Indonesia Matters. He had to stop the fanatical and protracted bashing between rival Islamic members and visitors at the Blog Forum.
In a personal email to Patung, the owner of Indonesia Matters, I warned him that his laissez-faire management of Indonesia Matters would eventually hurt his Blog Forum. It did. Indonesia Matters was rated Number One amongst all Indonesia blogs when I was active and it has today dropped to Number Five.
I have always believed in your writing prowess, Windy. No other blogger can ever beat you. Anyone who refutes this is definitely in trouble, LOL!
Losing one of their caliber writers is Indonesia Matters’ loss. I have always admired you for writing without fear or favor.
Keep it up!
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Windy Reply:
June 16th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Oh thank you Lainy,
There are bloggers out there who do write better articles that I do. Writing for Blogs has a restraint in that it cannot be too long and there is not sufficient time to do better research on the subject matter.
Like I have once described it recently, blogging is somewhere between journalism and writing stories. It’s not an easy mix of two different styles of writing.
You write very well too.
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