Rad.
If there were ever, ever, one blogger who could be called 'phenomenal blogging superstar' that would be Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad.
Less than one month, and he's got a million hits.
Click his comments section, and you'll see the typical 'First!' scroll down a little and you'll see the urgent screams of second (after comment #10, #25, #Xxxx)
Which means at any one time there are several people commenting on his blog, and all would be clicking 'publish' at the same time.
Dude gets over 500 comments per post. Average. And many comments are blog-post worthy, in length and quality.
There are no crazy photos. Just crazy numbered paragraphs that sounds suspiciously like an old man rambling on (and you kind of sense he's a little bit old behind the ears and inside that brain of his, but you can't help but be awed).
A few years ago there was this old lady character on that Gurmit Singh show 'Just Follow Law' who started a blog called laozhabor.blogspot.com. And we all went like, 'SO OLD ALSO CAN BLOG KAH?'
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Eh don't play play yah. Tun is almost 90 years old already, and he is like THE BLOGGING SUPERSTAR of the century.
How to not tabik lah?
June 18th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I’ll like to see him join Nuffnang. heheh
June 18th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Maybe I’ll tag him with a humsap meme. LOL!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:25 am
he had over 250.000hits five days after the ‘birth’ of chedet.com
amazing
June 26th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Not that hot, if you know what is going on:Read
Dr M, blogger extraordinaire
Dr M has been setting records as a blogger, not only by ‘Malaysia Book of’ standards but surely in any world-class measure.
He achieved one million hits in the space of a month. Malaysiakini reported that within two hours of Mahathir making the milestone announcement, his blog received over 100 congratulatory messages from readers. Yet, in his May 30th post titled ‘The Millionaire Club’, there is now only one comment to be viewed.
Similarly in his debut post, ‘The Appointment of Judges’ on May 1, there is only a single comment extant. I’d written before that it garnered a record-breaking 1,232 comments. Takkan Komen hilang di dunia? I’m not alleging there is anything sinister as I’m sure the majority were nothing short of royally obsequious.
But like the ex-premier’s selective amnesia, the now-you-see-’em, now-you-don’t is disconcerting. PerJARINGan yang belum selesai?
Usually Dr M’s gets feedback in the hundreds each post. Even his ‘Note to Visitors’ on June 22 – an announcement that chedet.com encountered a technical glitch and was temporarily locked out – elicited 70 comments.
So imagine my surprise when I read his ‘Ian Chin’s Great Revelation’ and found it only registered 10 comments. None were critical. One carried the salutation, “Assalamualaikum Tun Mahathir yang kami sayang lagi dirindui…” Gosh, it must feel great to be so universally loved.
On June 18, Dr M blogged, “I have not commented earlier on Justice Dato Ian Chin’s (Chin J) exposé about my misdeeds because I needed time to recall events …” http://test.chedet.com/che_det/2008/06/ian-chins-great-revelation.html#more
He confidently claims, “At no time did I issue any threat against the judges.”
One man’s boot camp is another man’s ‘work camp’. Mahathir’s definition of it: “Courses on ‘Tata Negara’ (National Creed) where “the speakers try to explain Malaysia’s political system with particular reference to the BN concept, ethics and moral values and democracy in Malaysia.”
“I suppose judges also attended.”
After Justice Chin spilled the beans on the boot camp, Dr M’s former political secretary Matthias Chang promptly stepped forward to say that the judge was ‘angry’ because he was not promoted.
A display of vintage Mahathir: “I was told by a judge who was in the same batch as Chin J that he absconded before the course was over. Perhaps he did not like getting up early and washing his own dirty plates.”
What a blast from the past! It eerily recalls his cavalier statement that once perhaps Anwar punched his own self in face to produce that black eye.
About the unravelling of the image of the judiciary, Mahathir has this to say: “The public can then pass judgement on me. But of course if I have to be charged by Karpal Singh, the ardent supporter of Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, that is fine. The world will then know what kind of Government we have.”
I’m gobsmacked. Just as Dr M is incomparable in the political arena, so is he in blogosphere. Never will we see the like.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
eerrrr zorro - because blogspot’s commenting service doesn’t work very well. and comments do get lost. i think conspiracy theories abound - its hard to believe that people love the tun, but people do love the tun. coming up with a theory that something is wrong with the commenting system reeks of blogosphere noob, you haven’t been around very long in this place, have you?
i’m talking about tun m as a blogger and i’m not even close to discussing whether what he says holds water or not. so your point of telling me about the judiciary scandal, is to… what? again?
whatever your motivations, i m not interested. this post was PURELY to talk about tun m as the blogger extraordinaire. and in the land of the minishorts blog, i am queen.