PPS Blog

Project Petaling Street (PPS) was but a blogtal (blog-ping-portal) when it first started and recently with huge media coverage along with appearances of blogger faces and the recent PPS bash, it’s now about to take a step further into the local blogosphere. One of the PPS pioneers, Aizuddin who runs Volume of Interactions just proposed a blog for PPS itself.

The blog will contain local flavors such as:

• Politics/Economics
• Social/Arts/Party
• What’s In Your Inbox?
• Makan-Makan
• Blog about Blogging
• A Malaysian’s World Perspective

Other than a huge traffic gain, official PPS bloggers..

..will share revenue gained from ads and make PPS a more interesting place of visit. Now, before you all bounce with joy and enthusiasm I’d like to state the most important requirement from the PPS Blog Wiki:

3–5 postings a week (this is a very important item — a firm commitment is required here)

Therefore, if you don’t think you can handle this responsibility and prefer blogging at your own pace then better not signup. The other rather harsh requirement I found if you choose to be a PPS blogger is this:

Should be unique content, not cut and paste from elsewhere, or from your personal blog.

To my understanding, all the great stuff you might want to blog about would be put on PPS and not on your own blog. I think posting the same post should be allowed. Just that maybe you’re not allowed to link back the continuous article back to your own blog.

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea. But seriously, how does the blog add more value to the PPS website? I agree with Minishorts that the content is quite a lot. I’m also pondering what if the PPS blogger loses traffic to their blog in the long run instead of gaining from it. Not to mention if there’s any possibility of the blogger burning themselves out; Blogger Burnout.

Let’s say you need to post 4 posts a week and you normally do it once a day. Seven days minus the needed number lets you only have three days to spare. And if we count the days that we need to give ourselves a buffer thinking about a blogging topic, it might be spent during those three days. All that accounted for and if you’ve noticed, I never even mentioned for the blogger to put time aside for their own personal blog.

It’s going to be really tight and I think what the PPS blog should be is a journal explaining all about blogging. Yes, there are many local blogs that do it but none of them gain 3,000,000 hits monthly. The PPS blog should speak all that a prospect needs to know about blogging as a medium. It should be a place of education for those who’d like to discover more for their blogs and how they can add more value to it. PPS is the core for the Malaysian blogosphere therefore should pioneer local bloggers to success.

I believe that would work best for the PPS blogtal because a blog and ping/trackback are an arranged marriage. And since I just blogged; Is It a Blog?, about how many are still confused if they’re looking at a blog or a website, it’s time we educated the locals of the difference.

Malaysians need to learn more about blogs for it to really take of in Malaysia. I’m sure many are still weighting the benefits whilst trying to figure out its real value.

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