I know a traffic puller story when I see one and the latest sodomy accusation against Anwar Ibrahim is one such story.
It’s about a police report lodged against Anwar by a 23-year-old aid, claiming that the politician had sodomised him on Thursday, June 26.
Anwar’s news hit the blogs after midnight
I came to know of the story well before midnight last night. Had I blogged about it, I would have been among the first tell the story in the form of a blog entry.
Heck, I could have been the first to blog about it in the whole wide world as other bloggers, I noticed, only started to post entries about the issue after midnight.
This blog would have benefited in the form of a spike in the number of visitors, notwithstanding that most Malaysians were asleep during the hours when the story unfolded.
Information everywhere but not a post to blog
I was at home, sitting in front of the computer at around 11pm when I came to know about the story. I had all the information I needed to write a blog entry — enough to tell that a police report had been lodged against Anwar.
Had I blogged about it and consistently updated the blog entry right till the wee hours, I could be assured of hundreds of visitors to Jaxon’s Review in a matter of hours.
It’s all in the intention
But I chose not to blog about it and in a sense, failed in my task as a blogger.
Why? It was because I had problems with my intention in doing so — that is, to take advantage of the situation just to pull traffic to this blog, and not so much about wanting to inform others. I guess it’s a problem of conscience. Too much of it.
Timid blogger
In a way you can call me a timid blogger — one who had difficulties getting past his conscience; who could not bring himself to blog about other people’s embarrassing situation.
Strangely, it had happened to me before — in the case of the sex video scandal involving a former health minister.
I had the information more than a day before the minister himself confessed that, “Yes, I’m the man in the video.”
Yet, I had chosen not to post a blog entry about it. My conscience failed me.
Blog world is no country for timid bloggers
Looking back and on hindsight, I should have gone on and blog about Anwar last night for I have now come to realise that the world of blogs — I hate the term blogosphere — is no country for timid bloggers. It’s a cruel world out there, offline or online.
So from now on, if I ever find myself in a similar situation again, I will just let my conscience go down the drain.
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Well it’s all about how you want your blog to be labeled as. In my case, I couldn’t be bothered to dissing people or to read these whole political agendas. Guess I’m one of those timid bloggers too huh? I juz blog about the things I wanted people to know. And that’s about it hehehe..