Blogs are parasites? This is how journalists consider blogs because according to them blogs wouldn’t exist without the reporting done by newspaper. Okay, let’s take the definition of the Wikipedia on what parasite is, just to make it clear what is it really. According to the Wikipedia, parasite is: A parasite is an organism that [...]

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I am currently thinking of having a contest on this blog, just like what other John Chow community members did on thier blogs. This is of course one way of letting blog’s visitors interact with me and encouraged them to be part of the activities of this blog’s community. And the most important thing, it [...]

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People at the Digital Point forums are now talking about Google’s way of ranking it’s own content on its SERP. This is about the YouTube page which is ranked 2nd when searching for “shoe” as shown on the imabe below: Axemedia has this message: I think it’s silly that youtube pages are starting to pollute [...]

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What’s better, buying ad space from an A-List site, or from the so-called “blind network” where your ad is published in thousands of sites whether categorized as A-List or not? This question is raised on my head after reading the press about Quigo. It seems that the press is telling us that Quigo, although has [...]

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I was absent on my blogging job yesterday (Sunday, February 25, 2007 – Philippine time) and I missed the MyBlogLog answer on the reaction of bloggers on the way MyBlogLog tracks the Google Adsense Ads traffic. Eric posted four (4) or the so-called clarifications: 1) Tracking outbound links is what caused us to launch MyBlogLog [...]

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Okay, it’s time to answer a question sent through email: What can we get from participating in forums? Well, participating in forums is like participating a discussion with friends. Or if you’re fun of talking about what people do (monkey business) then there’s a lot of forums for that. Now for bloggers or if you’re [...]

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Matt of WordPress revealed that WordPress.Com hosted blogs can now have the javascript button of Digg by just adding the code “[digg=http://digg.com/url_to/story_on_digg]” (without quotes) directly into the post. To add this to your post, just put in [digg=http://digg.com/url_to/story_on_digg] and it’ll be transformed into a “Digg This” button. (Your story must already be submitted to Digg [...]

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It seems that Eric and his team are now serious in moderating Yahoo! owned MyBlogLog. Today, I received a notice from its admin telling me to this: “Don’t freak! We didn’t delete your messages, we just hid those not from your contacts“; and explained this on their blog: All users now default to only seeing [...]

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I know, lot of bloggers want their blogposts to be on the homepage of the Digg although they know the so-called digg-effect that their blogs might experience after Digg sent thousands of unique users in just particular times. Some of them even applied tricks and spams which most often ended up nothing. Google Blogoscoped posted [...]

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I am currently blogging using the SMART Bro connection. Of course, I am still here in an internet cafe here in Maasin City for I don’t have my own internet connection (you know, I’m just a poor blogger). Actually, I was just forced to use internet connection of this cafe because BayanDSL connection is to [...]

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