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05:06:58 am on July 30, 2011 |
Marketing 2.0 ist a kind of product development, where the product quality, distribution, brand, and other aspects are not viewed as the sole responsibility of the brand owner. Somehow, the brand has been considered as belongs to the community. Promotion is not in the form of communication, but instead in the form of conversations. And product quality is also considered as the responsibility of the consumers. It makes sense! The consumers have some objectives to improve the value of their lives, and therefore require support from the environment, including various commercial products, thus we as consumers have the interest to make those products well managed, developped, and grow better.
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04:59:34 pm on July 5, 2011 |
When we talked about elegance, usually we refer to designs: product, web, programme, etc. But, while we’re in it, we can discuss about elegance in life: how to put maximal simplicity to our way of life, while maintaining the highest performance possible in it. Life is beautiful, right?
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04:25:46 pm on March 20, 2011 |
I was seriously reading a book on my Kindle, when suddenly an office mate denounced, “I never like ebooks. I like the sensation I felt when turning the book pages breathing their aroma.” This is certainly a stale statement without a new nor authentic idiom. I hear them too often. And no need to mention the statement to me either, before the character spent her time to see my book shelves (in both houses), plus some books that are still homeless off the shelf.
Surely, that character would also need to calculate: how many trees must be destroyed to accommodate my interest in reading that had never come down so far.
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01:58:51 am on December 15, 2010 |
I blog this entry using my Amazon Kindle. This device is not optimised for browsing or even for making notes. I guess they put the keypad here just for searching function. Anyway, I bought this device only because of my passions to books and how I always want to be in touch with them. An iPad would be an overshoot.
This Kindle has accompanied me to a seminar trip in Hongkong. I saved a Wikitravel page here and used it as my travel guide. Some books have been loaded in it: my favourite books, new inspiring books, technical references, IEEE journals, some papers, etc. Too bad I cannot use it for writing; except blogging when I can reach a WiFi access.
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02:17:38 am on November 9, 2010 |
Last night we had a gathering with Yahoo Indonesia. I guess it was 60% Budi Putra’s party, certain percent Koprol’s party, and less than 10% official Yahoo business party
. I didn’t quite like the menu at Oakland’s Loewe, but I love the atmosphere of the gathering. It was like a personal-style of Pesta Blogger, with the real Rara the Blogger President of 2010, Eko Juniarto the seasoned blogger since 20th century, Diki Chickenstrip, Wisnu Mahmood, Aulia Masna, Harry Sufehmi, Rendy Maulana, etc.
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07:15:26 pm on November 5, 2010 |
“Bless God, bless heaven, but I don’t need them.” — …
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04:09:42 am on November 5, 2010 |
This is a test of using a less-favourable platform for my blogging activities. Let’s see how it flows
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05:38:51 pm on October 18, 2010 |
«Quand cela arrive, je sais tu ne me défendre.» — mon père a dit.
J’ai choisi les mots du ciel: «Et pour quoi faire? Un homme suffit seulement sa propre défense.»
Il sourit. Demi étonné et demi fiers.
Le sourire qui me manque le plus.
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04:20:06 pm on October 2, 2010 |
I was taught about God in Indonesian — a language without gender. And surely I was taught that God is in any aspect incomparable to human being. When I learnt English, I was shocked that God is referred as masculine — as ‘He’ and ‘Him’
. God has a gender. But then I treated it only as lingual limitation. To be honest, I don’t even know how God’s gender is referred in Arabic. I don’t think I’d need to know 
. I will always treat it as lingual limitation. God is always genderless, and always incomparable to human being.
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04:17:42 pm on August 12, 2010 |
Some months ago I moved my “coffee blog” to CAFE.VC. Then last month I used the previous domain — KOEN.CC — for my “travelling blog”
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Update: I’ve changed my mind. Now my “coffee blog” moves to KOPI.PRO.