DO YOU REALLY CALL YOURSELF A BLOGGER?
Well, if you do, AllMalaysia.info - The Star Online's information portal, is planning to undergo a project to bring all and sundry in the Malaysian blogging community together, minus all the recent "sticky stuff" to ease readers in finding various blogs.
The AllMalaysian Bloggers Project (AMBP) is an undertaking of the people behind AllMalaysian.info, all of whom believe strongly in the freedom of speech. The main objective of this project is to gather ALL Malaysian blogs under one umbrella site.
It is also a contest with great gifts and prizes sponsored by Genting - City of Entertainment.
Am I qualified?
You must be a Malaysian blogger to enter. Your blog can be about anything - as long as it is unlawful, pornographic, or in, er, bad taste - but only those with a Malaysian slant will be considered for contest prizes.
How to submit?
First and foremost, you have to be a MyStar member. If you're not, please register, it's free. Log in with your Mystar ID and simply fill in the details in the Blog Submission Page.
The following are required:
- A thumbnail of your blog (resolution: 100x75)
- Your blogging name (online nickname or pseudonym)
- A short description of your blog in not more than 25 words.
- URL
Apart from free publicity, if you're not into the contest, then do it for the readers and submit it anyway. AllMalaysia.info believe that the blogging culture is one that should be encouraged; that bloggers should be allowed to express themselves. This project is to bring all you like-minded souls, all you online scribes, together in one place. It makes it easy for your target audience to find you, and it helps us to organize events - both online and ground events – just for you bloggers. So think about it. It’s time to really reach out.
So, if you are a serious Malaysian blogger, click here to begin.
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I see this as a step backwards in preserving the anonymity of bloggers in Malaysia. Not me, as my identity is well blown up among my blogger friends and my readers. But the thing is, to be a MyStar member (I *am* already a MyStar member since the early 2000's), you're required to fill in information like house address and things like house address, date of birth, gender, phone number, things like that.
If I had my way, I would like to have this blog-listing exercise be run separately, and not not associated with my current MyStar account that I have (I use it for contests). It's just my opinion, what do you think?
I wish this project will promote more Malay bloggers to balance the number of chinese bloggers representing Malaysia.