Project Petaling Street Blog

I look forward to Liew being a problogger too. I don't see why some people needs to be so negative.

On a side note - We think GLOCAL!

Nobody bother to install spam blocker in this blog? Because im looking at alot of Poker and Drug in the trackback section

yeah, how come Kahsoon can post one? =p

to earth: good one!

It all boils down to logistics and marketing.

Country of origin of the blogger is important because it has a tremendous influence on content, relevance, relation, and presentation style.

An American who blogs on baseball, will have a far bigger audience, far more relevant content, far better ability to relate to his audience, and be able to write it the way Americans want to read it. The "America" bit is important because that's where the biggest audience (hence market) is.

Malaysian bloggers... do they have sufficient content, style, relevance, etc to write stuff that the market (read American & European) would want to read?

It's not a level playing field, and the other guy is on his home ground.

Ok, Here is an idea for Malaysian bloggers.

If you can blog in Chinese, then you have 1.3 billion people up north as your audience. The ad companies are willing to pay lots of money to anyone who can get the attention of this untapped market.

Mainland Chinese, especially the younger set (read that as the market), like to hear about success stories that they can relate to. Malaysians, especially those of Chinese origin, will be able to relate to them. They will find it relevant because of cultural links. They have no style and no money and no idea what is really going on, so you can get away with almost anything, as long as it can pass of as "stylish" and show some fake photos to prove it. (Almost everything in China is fake or pirated, so that's culturally ok).

As to content, blog away on Lifestyle, Fashion, Wealth, Wine, Women, Song, Technology, Your terrible mother-in-law, Ginseng wine with baby mice, How to make the best smelly tau-foo, A Chinko in New York, Making it big, How to skunk a billion bucks from someone, How not to go to jail for skunking a billion bucks, Julius Ceasar was a Chinese, I am Admiral Cheng Ho's descendant (he was a eunuch), etc.

Man, we could get away with murder....

In China, fake and pirated products are sold as such. Consumers know it is fake, and the knowledge is reflected in the price.

I have seen through fake stories in some blogs which the author tries to flog off as authentic. Once you start doing that, you lose all your credibility.

Unless of course, your blog is a satire or joke blog where no one is expected to take the contents seriously.

How about anonymous blogging? Visitors will not know where the blogger is from, right? And are you saying that only Americans play baseball?

one day, some day. some problogger in Malaysia will have his/her blog raking in billions on the NASDAQ. Shall we vote on who that could be ?

Tinkerbell - It is not about whether people take your blog seriously. It is about how many people visit the blog. The higher the visitation, the higher the advertisement fees that can be levied.

Yvonne - If you are anonymous, who are the ad people going to pay money to? How to be professional if there is no income? The baseball example is to illustrate that content, context, relevance, relation, etc must be right.

Hello Freddie. Then are you saying that only Americans have the relevant content, context and relation to baseball?

Yvonne, I am saying that when it comes to baseball, an American blogger stands the best chance of attracting the largest audience and thus, advertising/sponsored revenue. Next would be the Japanese, who are also baseball freaks.

I you can do a damn good Phua Chu Kang blog, no doubt it will attract a atrong following and audience among Malaysians and Singaporeans. But with a combined population of less than 30 million, advertisers will not pay much.

If you can blog well in Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Indonesia, you will have a potential audience of 240 + 24 million people. But how many of those read blogs? Not too many, hence also low revenue potential.

Basically, it's simple economics. What you blog is what you "sell". What readers read is what they "buy". Now, do you have sufficient relevant material, to sell to a sufficiently large market? If the answer is yes, then advertising money will flow in. Otherwise, I don't think much will happen.

I think Freddie has a few good points there. 'Problogging' is about gettin your blogs read, the more readers the better. And secondly.. it's all bout the $$ u'd earn. I think i'd haf to revise some of my econs now :)