All Malaysian Bloggers Project
Filed in: Malaysia, Weblog — June 8th, 2007
AllMalaysia.info website launched a project called “AllMalaysian Bloggers Project“. According to the website, the objective is to gather Malaysian blogs under one umbrella site from which readers can find the various blogs by theme. In short, a blog directory.
All Malaysian Bloggers Project is only for Malaysians. You need to be a MyStar member before you can submit your blog. All submitted blogs will be listed.
There are two contests for the project, one for bloggers and the other for web visitors. For bloggers, you only need to submit your blog and put a banner of the All Malaysian Bloggers Project on your blog. The details of contest for web visitors will be revealed later.
The contest period ends at July 29, 2007. The winners will be chosen based on relevance and creativity in design and content of any blog topics in English and Malay (Mandarin?). The prizes are sponsored by Genting.
My two cents
I did not submit my blogs to All Malaysian Bloggers Project for 2 reasons:
- The prizes (free trip to Genting) do not attractive enough to make me fill in another registration form.
- The site does not have high traffic and hardly bring any traffic to your blog (but it gets traffic from yours).
I feel that the judgment of the blog winners will be very subjective. How do you decide who is better if they are writing different topics? How do you know that the blog design is not some free themes? Similar problems were discussed.
Anyway, it’s just a game. Let’s see who are the winners (and the “standard” of the judges) 
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June 9th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Is that a way, at least, to keep track of all Malaysian bloggers in order to control and to monitor them?
June 9th, 2007 at 11:18 am
now you sounded that is another link-bait thing
and oh, do you mean the genting trip ‘do’ or ‘don’t’ attract you enuff? you put do in your post.
June 9th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Discriminate on chinese blog?
June 9th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Well, it only gains traffic from your blog provided you blog about it. So, don’t blog about it
@exif: I highly doubt that. I’d register, but heck, there’s no way they’re going to control/monitor me - I’m hardly even in the country and my blog isn’t hosted there
June 9th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
It gets like 1-2k visitors based on my Alexa estimates.
ps. Not attractive enough for me too.
Hong Kiat said it got him like zero traffic, so results all around doesn’t seem encouraging
June 9th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
The humongous traffic for the small guys however, if you manage to get a recognition from this influential organization called “The Star”… hmm, practically everyone who blogs in Malaysia knows them… (and some read The Star religiously, both online and offline).
Although AllMalaysia.info is not as popular as some of the independent blogs/sites by Malaysians, The Star is many, many times more popular than most of these indy sites. And it has offline power — the mainstream media influence. At least several millions people read the Star everyday — that’s nothing like online sites in Malaysia gets!
I had my deep thoughts on it too, but I on the other hand think, as biased as the results could come out, the project will be considerably a success — one of the big ones, ever. Even if Liew won’t join in, I’m pretty sure, many/most bloggers will.
I also wasn’t really enticed with the Genting prize. I’d rather get a MacBook, an iPod or some other things that I can keep. Been to Genting too many times already…
BTW, many people seem to pick the banner with the flags… How patriotic Malaysians are in light with our 50th Merdeka celebration! Caya la…
June 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
I meant… “That’s something that online sites in Malaysia don’t get”
And you can’t compare Metropolitan College with The Star! That’s like comparing a high school with a university! (bad analogy, I know)
June 9th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
your 2nd point are right…We are actually giving them traffic…less people will find blog from that directory…
June 10th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Great effort. Hope more 40’s Malaysian parents are into blogging.
June 11th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
guys..maybe i’ll check it out..we must stop expecting returns for each favours we do.If it has an objective to unite our bloggers nationwide…why not? I may have a small blog and it doesn’t feed me so maybe I’m biassed in my thinking…but seriously we must support fellow Malaysians in their projects.I myself own a blog directory and I even put liewcf.com in my sponsored lists…do I get anything in return? no! but heck I love this blog so that’s why its there.I subscribe to friedbeef’s ,cypherhacks,hong kiat not to mention clicking on their google ads If i find them interesting…and I read them more often than arrington’s Techcrunch or LockergnomeLockergnome..why? coz Malaysians need to put our mark by supporting and visit each other’s blog…and not form a cartel of highly succesful bloggers linking to each other.Alright you guys can bash me up now….just getting to much into the 50th year thing….hehehe
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