I think it's amazing what Jakarta does to one's mental equilibrium. I use a public bus across town, one I might add with limited stops, a/c and a reasonably comfortable seat, one with enough legroom. I know from experience that there is no point in getting het up by the gridlock even though it's generally caused by traffic policemen or lanes of cars shoving their way across the main stream into the lengthy lines attempting to access the toll road entrances.
At such times I'm a stoic. When I get home I chill down even more with a mandi before checking my emails and the Jakartass stats. Today's initial trawl, however, has got me somewhat further bemused.
The following letter/appeal needs an answer and you might be it ~ if you fit the profile that is. If you do, follow it up with Simon Owens directly, but with a copy to me please.
I think I should add that there have been other folk suggesting that they'd pay me for any syndication they do of my posts, but apart from freelance copyediting and writing which has resulted from my 'fame', I've received nothing from any of them.
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Hey Jakartass,
My name is Simon Owens and I'm doing work for a new news organization that will be launching soon that focuses on news coming out of 13 Asian countries. As part of our project we'll be actually approaching bloggers from these different countries and paying to syndicate their content. I wanted to reach out to you as a Indonesia blogger and ask for suggestions from you about independent bloggers within your country that you think are producing the best content. Ideally, the bloggers would:
1. Write primarily in English.
2. Fit into one of these demographics: political content, enterprise/business, popular economics/new media, society, arts, wine, travel, green / environmental (obviously there are a lot more political blogs than these others, so we're looking especially hard to fill the non-political niches)
3. Already have an established audience. They don't have to have thousands of readers a day but would hopefully have already a community of regular readers.
Do you have any suggestions to add to my list? Please let me know and I appreciate any help you can give.
A Female and a Toothbrush refers to a search for Schapelle Corby Toothbrush. For some reason Jakartass was one of sites visited as a result.
Other sites make interesting connections.
A cigarette lighter, a toothbrush and a toy robot were recovered from the stomach of ... Schapelle Corby has drug sentence cut. The case against palm oil. Woman's leg found on beach...
Highlights from Monday's show included how an electric toothbrush can be used to ... the lines of New Idea's "world exclusive", in which Lindy has written to Schapelle Corby ...
... were involved in the brawl, using improvised weapons such as sharpened toothbrushes. ... Drug scum deserve nothing less. Ken. Schapelle Corby is 'clinically insane': psychiatrist...
With friends like Mr Trowell, Schapelle Corby certainly is in very deep trouble. ... chargers, I advise that my family's retention of the manually operated toothbrush is ...
... please, brothers, calm down — the beating the Mohammed showed is like the toothbrush ... during test flight of his Jetpod "flying taxi"... read more 'Broken by prison' Schapelle Corby ...
... would have huge bursts of frenetic activity, scrubbing the floors with a toothbrush ... Schapelle Corby : "I am being really positive. I have to be. Otherwise, I just — like, it ...
