I’m laughing my *ss off while looking at the official website of the ongoing mini-”coup” led by Antonio Trillanes and that dinosaur Teofisto Guingona. Apparently, these guys don’t have a clue what an improbable mess their website is. It has three columns. Fine, many blogs have three columns. But three columns filled with FULL articles is a different story. No one in his right mind would be able to show support for these numbskulls after trying to read their website. They’ll just end up with a big headache! And I can’t even muster enough strength to talk about their header image. It’s too pixelated to tell if that’s Bembol Roco in the center wearing the black beret.
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Yahoo!’s localization team badly needs a crash course in spelling.

My site, DotA Strategy, hit the 100,000-member mark this afternoon. Too bad I wasn’t able to catch who the 100,000th member was.

Checked out the new Live Search Webmaster Center, Microsoft’s answer to Google Webmaster Central.

It’s new — so new that I find it virtually useless. Since I presume it’s in beta, I expect more improvements in the coming months. But curious that the panel displays something they call “Domain Rank”.
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Another round of PR updates took place at Ratified.org.

From my last post, there were 58 blogs that lost PR and 14 blogs were gainers.

Today’s quite a far cry: 149 blogs have lost PR and 130 blogs were gainers. Interesting to see all those zeroes turn into actual numbers! Eleven blogs broke out today, a sign that there was significant movement in the rankings. Jayvee’s Cellphone9.com came out of nowhere to rank #13 and Karlo’s Pinoy Blogero is now at #51. Congrats to all the other rank winners!

Are you a developer based in Manila? Well, here’s your chance to pick the minds of Google engineers! Limited slots available. This is organized by country consultant Aileen Apolo, who announced it here.

What: TechTalk with Google Engineers (from Mountain View, California)

Topics: Google Gadgets, Google Open Social & other developer products

When: November 19, 2007, Monday, 7:00 p.m.

Where: ACCEED Conference Center (beside AIM, in front of Greenbelt)

How to join: Sign-up your name and your programming language by leaving a comment below. You can check if you’ve been registered by checking out the guest list.

UPDATE: Registration closed.

Noticed a big, big drop in my Feedburner stats once again. My number of reported subscribers has been slashed by more than half, and I noticed big movements in the Ratified.org rankings due to this (I dropped 7 notches). I checked my Feedburner account to confirm my suspicions. Indeed, Google Feedfetcher wasn’t included in my subscriber report, just like 4 days ago. What’s going on Google?

Once again, I’d like to thank everyone who helped make our Mindanao Bloggers Summit last October 27, 2007 a success! This success sparked an unprecedented interest in blogging and blogging-related activities in Mindanao. To keep the momentum, the Usual Suspects has a lot of cool stuff planned out for the not-so-distant future.

I’d like to invite all bloggers from the Philippines and around the world to join our “You Got Blogged” contest. Get a chance to win up to $150 just for reviewing a Mindanao blog! For more details, visit this page.
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