In the local scene today there are a number of emerging networks, aggregators, blogs and ever growing number of authors who are aiming to steal the limelight from the more popular. Nowadays if you’d like to have a popular face in the tech section of the newspapers, just start a blog and make sure you spam them to visit your weblog.
Nah, just kidding. You might be able to pull it off but I’m not supporting it. The best method for these authors who want their websites to reach an average of 100,000 views or unique visits per day need to invest their time in alternate methods. Such as submitting and joining to aggregators or networks that constitute to Web 2.0 – supposedly people empowered.
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In my eyes, PlanetMY without a doubt is more like a blog aggregator than a portal as it explained itself in the About Us section.
Planet Malaysia started in Nov 2005 by JLCHANNEL, as a small portal attempting to link different Malaysians who share the passion of writing blogs, as well as promote and encourage blog writting in Malaysia.
The PlanetMY project for the meantime is more like a place any blogger could visit and get the inside story of some participating bloggers in the project. I, being one of them submitted my details to see what’s the gist of it.
So far I wouldn’t say that it has done a lot for me but I suppose it might be because PlanetMY still has opportunities to mature further.
Instead of merely providing latest updates of subscribed bloggers to PlanetMY, why not build the project nearer towards the goal of allowing Malaysians to share the passion of writing. Simply develop the project into highlighting an article or author.
And since some people have been pushing about Web 2.0 to be very important, allow others to rate the list of authors. Those who rate themselves should be banned automatically for such scandalous and immature behaviour.
Other than that, I think PlanetMY might want to reconsider the list of updates on the homepage. By the time a person scrolls halfway down, newer updates might’ve already come in.
Something is bugging me about the title being the only link to continue reading an article. Though I understand bloggers could implement a ‘continue reading’ link themselves after the excerpt.
Overall, I say PlanetMY is very young and it should take this advantage to think of the future for it becoming a real portal for Malaysians to share a passion for writing.
Danny, THANKS for your comment. We’ll try to make it better. BTW, I have change it to update every hours.
I expect greater things from the team. :)
And who else wants a FREE ‘consultation’ of their website, please do let me know via the comments.
Cheers.