Human vs Machine

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Saya sepakat sepenuhnya.

Maintain blog itu repot.
Berisik pula.

Kalau semua ngomong, siapa yang mau ndegerin?

Ada puluhan blog yang biasa saya ‘comment’ sejak 2004, sekarang sudah berstatus hidup segan mati tak mau. Seperti blog ini.

Jaman dahulu, kalau ada seorang blogger kehilangan posting-postingnya rasanya seluruh dunia internet jadi tahu. Sekarang sih kehilangan domain juga ga ada yang peduli.

Suka-suka yang punya.

Saya sekarang juga jarang banget dengan percakapan “ah blog-mu bagus yah, banyak komennya”. Sekarang lebih sering dengar “anjrit, karma gw turun!”

Ada juga yang pindah blog ke Multiply dan jualan batik. Ancur dah hihi.

Suka-suka yang punya kan.

NetNewsWire, RSS Reader itu, sudah jarang saya dibuka. Sekarang malah lebih suka liat blog langsung saja dari browser (pengakuan: lebih suka nonton Hulu ketimbang blogwalking).

Blog ini masih ada karena saya juga nggak tau mau ngapain.

Suka-suka yang punya lah.

(I should update this part a week ago, but I’ve been busy)

After three days spending my time in NY like any other tourists (i.e: crossing Brooklyn bridge during Lebaran), then came the fun part. The business part.

Conference was great. I met and greet with many great speakers such as Fareed Zakaria, Greg Stuart (of What Sticks famous), Kristopher Jones, Brian Clark, and many other including Seth Godin.

I was lucky able to met and greet Seth before presentation about his new book “Tribes”. During his presentation, I also had a great opportunity to discuss about web usability with, well, web usability guru himself.

After countless discussion (and cocktail party) with many other internet companies’ C-level, I got useful insight about current internet industry and where we’ll be in next coming year.

It was kinda like standing on 70 stories building Top of The Rock Observation Deck and see all Manhattan in 360 degrees. You miss some small details, but you see whole city.

You know now why I’ve been busy.

Frightened and excited at same time.

It’s my first time in US and I’m all alone. I got stuck for an hour or so in US CBP on JFK but fortunately it’s only for first timer registration.

Took me almost 27 hours from Jakarta to New York, included 4 hours transit in Hong Kong. Jetlag, of course, but I really don’t care since I never sleep anyway.

Yesterday, I decide to walk in famous Broadway, from 48th Street down to Financial District. It’s an enjoyable 10.5 km walk that took me almost 7 hours. Building architectures are magnificient. I imagined they would be modern and boring like in Singapore, but I was wrong. I stop on several places to catch my breath or just plain sightseeing including Herald Park (next to Times Square), Bryan Park, Madison Square, Strand Bookstore, Union Square, Washington Square, Canal St, Tribeca, Ground Zero, NYSE, and Raging Bull on Bowling Green.

See my route on Google Maps.

I left my map and city guide in hotel. On purpose. Sightseeing is sightseeing. It’s not constantly bounce back between camera, city guide, and map. To assist me with direction, however, Google Map mobile on my GPS-capable BB 8310 is truly life saver. I use Telkomsux Simpati and they don’t charge me with data roaming. Yay!

(Indosux IM3 is no use here nor in Hong Kong. It don’t roam. Stop using it)

Wifi is abundant here. A lot of them are free and fast. Just make sure you always use secure connection each time you log in and have firewall ready; and you’re all set.
You’ll find internet research proofs very useful. I use these:

• Wikitravel New York for general information and a lot of useful tips.
• Goplanit to locate interesting place
• Yelp to read compare places/restaurants/events based on reviews

Overall, it’s a wonderful city. ‘Frightened’ part is no more.

That’s it for now. It’s 4 AM in the morning and I have to take a walk toward uptown and central park, probably make it through Harlem, this morning.

See ya.