Just recently, PayPal emailed me this: Dear Sustines Laplana, New Withdrawal & Receiving features are now available! Withdraw Funds to Your Debit or Credit Card. We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new withdrawal feature, allowing you to transfer funds from your PayPal account to your Visa branded debit card or credit card. Learn [...]

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Last October 3, 2007, Google announced the offering of the new payment method to Adsense publishers in countries like: Argentina, Chile, China (Mainland), Colombia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, and Romania. And this new payment method is the use of Western Union Quick Cash in which Adsense publishers, especially those who are Filipinos residing in [...]

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After I published my post on reaching the 500 mark of this blog’s feed subscribers, one of our visitors emailed me this: SELaplana, It is very much inspiring to know that a blogger like you who was called by other Filipino bloggers as idiot or dumb successfully reached the 500 mark of feed subscribers and [...]

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When the BlogRush widget was released, I thought I need to write a post about it. But then after learning that this widget works as a way of exchanging ads, I then decided not to write about it. But the email of Mr. Gonzales urged me to talk about BlogRush since he opened up points [...]

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There’s a saying that goes, “Drunkard can never get home.” That’s actually my translation to the Filipino saying, “Ang lasing ay hindi makakauwi kailan man sa kanilang bahay.” I don’t know if you already heard that saying, but I heard that often from my Father when he’s still alive. Every time I missed something, my [...]

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Mindanao bloggers are set to attend their “First Mindanao Bloggers Summit” on October 27, 2007 at NCCC mall. If you are blogging about Mindanao, or blogging in Mindanao, or came from Mindanao, then why not attend this very special event for you. You might spend money while staying in Davao City, but that will not [...]

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A fellow Filipino blogger recently emailed me this: I am certainly amazed on how much traffic you’re generating on your site and It really serves as an inspiration to me. I just want to ask on how you were able to do that? do you think it is possible to generate much traffic with the [...]

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I was in my hometown (San Agustin, Surigao del Sur) when I heard the news about the arrest (…arrest or not arrest?) of the blogger behind the “Boy Bastos” blog, Mark Verzo. According to the report, it was Senator Loren Legarda, the author behind the Anti-Computer Pornography Bill, who accused Boy Bastos of pornography (calling [...]

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I failed to give lovelinks to my community’s blogs for the month of August 2007 due to the vacation I took last September 2 to 9, 2007. But being late is better than never giving lovelinks at all. And here they are: Comedians-TV Hosts Joey De Leon and Willie Revillame, with Former Mayor Joey Marquez [...]

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Moshin Naqi’s post, “5 Ways to Overcome Blogging Shyness and Be More Productive,” reminds me of my old self. 1o years ago, I had no face to face other people thinking that they would criticize me and thought negatively about me. Moshin’s descriptions about a shy one are all true: “Shyness is characterized by fear, [...]

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