Archive for August, 2007

August 31st, 2007

Pinoy Evil Blog Awards Polls Now Open

[photopress:paolomendoza.jpg,full,centered] Voting for Paolo Mendoza's Pinoy Evil Blog Awards has begun! This awards is the best thing that happened to our blogosphere before Malu Fernandez ate her way into the limelight, albeit to the dismay of our heroic OFW's. My blogger friend Winston Almendras of Batang Yagit informed me about the ...

Posted in Blogging | 5 Comments »

August 29th, 2007

Looking for Ratified.org Sponsors

Ratified.org Philippines is now accepting advertisers. For a small monthly fee of $25, you get a site-wide sponsor link right on top of the tag cloud sidebar. With more than 450 Filipino blogs already under our radar, this is a great way of promoting your site! [photopress:ratified_ad.gif,full,pp_image] For more details, ...

Posted in Announcements | No Comments »

August 22nd, 2007

Blogging News

[photopress:roundup.gif,full,pp_image] The biggest blogging party is all set for tomorrow, August 23. Nameplates are being printed, but it's not too late to register. Kudos to Aileen Apolo. [photopress:roundup.gif,full,pp_image] [photopress:mrs_fields_logo.jpg,full,alignleft] Jayvee's Blog and Soul movement launched yesterday at the Manila Pavillion, with a pile of cookies to boot. Mrs. ...

Posted in Blogging | 11 Comments »

August 16th, 2007

Twitter = Tabloid 2.0?

[photopress:twitter.gif,full,centered] I must say, I've become addicted to Twitter. Twitter has become my daily tabloid, where all the news, gossips and blind items are fed. All you gotta do is follow the right people (like me, wink2x). Sometimes I find myself spending too much time refreshing my browser ...

Posted in Web Apps | 4 Comments »

August 13th, 2007

Calling All Aussie Bloggers!

[photopress:ratified_australia.gif,full,centered] After 444 blogs ratified and counting, Ratified.org expands to the land down under, Australia!

Posted in Announcements | 4 Comments »

August 10th, 2007

The Biggest Blogger Party!!

[photopress:taste_asia_party2.jpg,full,centered] Still reeling from last month's ultra-successful Blogger Food Fest? Well, hold your horses coz a bigger, better blogger's party is coming to town!!

Posted in Announcements | 6 Comments »

August 9th, 2007

Making Money At Home Through Your 13-Year Old Child

Is it right to ask your own child to be your ghost writer? I've been having my suspicions about this kid ever since he started blogging about "making money". I mean, he's only 13 right? How can he talk about moneymaking like it's a piece of cake? Where ...

Posted in Asides | 33 Comments »

August 5th, 2007

The Fastest Internet

I wish I can say the same thing for my crappy MyDSL. This lucky 75-year-old lady in Sweden boasts a 40-gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection, so far the fastest residential Internet speed recorded. Sigbritt Lothberg, hardly the web cybergeek, has her son Peter, a networking expert, and his friend Hafsteinn ...

Posted in Tech News | 2 Comments »

August 5th, 2007

WordPress Plugin: Daily Top 10 Posts Improvements

I decided to address a number of the complaints and suggestions some readers made about my Daily Top 10 Posts Wordpress plugin. Sat down at my favorite wifi-enabled cafe (Yellow Hauz) for 5++ hours and voila ... version 0.3 is born! Improvements in version 0.3:

Posted in Announcements | 6 Comments »

August 2nd, 2007

Elton John: Close Down the Internet!

First, Elton John hates the iPod, now he wants the Internet closed down. Elton John claims that the Internet is "destroying good music" and "stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff". He continues, "Instead they sit at home and make their own records, ...

Posted in Bizarre | 3 Comments »