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| Unique Visitors: 115 |
| Total Unique Visitors: 512623 |
| Visitors Out: 1472 |
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| Testing WordPress 2.5 RC-1 |
| 2008-03-21 17:58:54 |
I’ve just deployed a fresh install of WordPress 2.5 (the 1st release candidate). After reading Matt’s intro, I was sold! Normally, you see, I don’t upgrade to new versions of software right away. I’m what you’d call a late adopter — partly because I don’t want to deal with the hassles brought on by bugs [...]...
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| Overcharged for a piece of software? |
| 2008-03-20 13:18:33 |
A couple of days ago, I bought a one-year license for Kaspersky Internet Security 7. I used PayPal for the transaction. From the catalog to the checkout screen to the PayPal authorization page, the amount declared was $59.95. That’s $59.95. I have an account on that site and was signed in, so that arvato [...]...
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| And I’m back… |
| 2008-03-15 05:47:47 |
I apologize for the many days when my blogs were down. This and most of my other blogs were taken offline due to a hardware foul-up at my previous host’s supposedly ‘industry strength’ data center. What a dismaying, depressing week it was for me.
The main reason why I chose Hostican.com for my VPS account was [...]...
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| SEO analyzer for everyone |
| 2008-02-07 04:58:29 |
I’d like to share with you a recent discovery I’ve made on the Web: Website Grader. It’s one of those finds that brings a smile to the lips of bloggers and webmasters. This online tool will help you analyze your site’s SEO health. While Website Grader works for all websites, it includes reports that are [...]...
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| Davao Food Trip official blog |
| 2008-01-27 23:34:07 |
Announcements and other stuff about the ongoing Davao Food Trip will now be published in its own blog: www.davaofoodtrip.org. Bloggers who want to join us can sign up at that new site.
And the gastronomic adventures continue…
Sponsored By: 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit - 27 Oct 2007, Davao City...
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| Internet advertising essentials |
| 2008-01-22 03:48:44 |
Here’s what you need to know when you decide to advertise your business via the Internet. There are in fact a number of methods, and just as many platforms upon which to advertise online, but let’s stick to the World Wide Web for now. And to further simplify it, we’ll focus on search engine marketing.
Probably [...]...
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| Davao Food Trip #4: Salutti |
| 2008-01-09 10:49:07 |
The other day, it was fortunate that I met up again with Vince & Tricie Arcenas, proprietors of Salutti. That’s because they’ve generously agreed (in fact, they volunteered) to be the venue of the 4th leg of the Davao Food Trip!
Salutti is a cozy little Italian restaurant, located in the Habana compound on Rizal St., [...]...
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| Davao Food Trip @ Belly’s Grill |
| 2008-01-05 03:27:53 |
It’s now time to call for bloggers for the 3rd leg of the ongoing Davao Food Trip. The next stop will be at Belly’s Grill, on Quimpo Boulevard. This restaurant is best known for their grilled wild scallops, as well as their barbecue offerings.
The owners of Belly’s Grill will be accommodating 10 bloggers on 11 [...]...
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| Top 100 Mindanao blogs |
| 2008-01-05 03:11:38 |
Winston Almendras and I had an idea to come up with Mindanao’s own top 100 blogs right before the New Year. And so now we have it, thanks to Winston’s programming prowess. The first publication is online at MindanaoBloggers.com. In the future, we’ll have an updated list on its own page.
We got the idea after [...]...
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| Blog Year 2007 |
| 2007-12-31 07:36:33 |
Today, the last day of 2007, I was reflecting on the events of the last 12 months. My realization: they were good months. Not exactly as I’d planned, but highly satisfactory.
My greatest achievement for this year was the very successful conduct of the first-ever Mindanao Bloggers Summit in October. Surrounded by bloggers and supporters all [...]...
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| The Big G looms even bigger… |
| 2007-12-22 05:49:34 |
Before the recently-concluded You Got Blogged! Review-a-Blog Competition was over, I received a strange inquiry from a blogger who had wanted to participate. Let’s call him “Manny”. Manny asked me if he could link to the contest sponsors with a nofollow attribute within the link tags. I told him if he did that, it would [...]...
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| Davao Food Trip badge |
| 2007-12-19 03:42:29 |
Notice the new Davao Food Trip badge? Jehzeel Laurente did it for me. Jehz is a very talented Dabawenyo who is (unfortunately) working in the nation’s capital. He is a software programmer and web developer. He’s also my blog-buddy and business partner (whom I have yet to meet in person). Thanks Jehz!!!...
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| Christmas in Davao |
| 2007-12-17 13:56:23 |
It’s been quite some time since I last participated in a tag game. So I thought I’d jump in and do one, which I got from Aileen Apolo. It’s about why it’s so much better to spend Christmas in the Philippines than overseas. (Did I get that right, Aileen?).
What to do: Just share a warm, [...]...
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| Davao Food Trip @ Taj Minar |
| 2007-12-15 18:00:08 |
Good news!! The next leg of the Davao Food Trip will be exotic refreshments at Taj Minar. It’s a new Indian fine-dining restaurant located at Damosa Gateway, Lanang, Davao City.
The first leg, Zakoya Japanese Restaurant, will be on 19 December 2007, but we already have a full complement of bloggers. Here’s your chance to join [...]...
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| Blog Comics |
| 2007-12-15 04:38:27 |
Sponsored By: 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit - 27 Oct 2007, Davao City...
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| Davao bloggers food trip |
| 2007-12-14 15:07:19 |
Why do we do this? First of all, it’s fun!
But the truth is, those of us who blog about Davao and what’s great about our city have a passion. We are driven to produce quality and down-to-earth content about our beloved hometown. So now we have a new bloggers’ gimmick: the Davao Food Trip. The [...]...
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| Choose hosting providers carefully |
| 2007-12-12 04:22:17 |
There are probably as many ways to judge how good a Web hosting provider is as there are providers. OK, I exaggerate. But there really are innumerable hosting companies out there. And there simply is not one set of guidelines that any of us can refer to with any degree of reliability.
That said, I’d like [...]...
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| Ratings plugin |
| 2007-12-10 01:22:47 |
Again I’ve removed PostReach ClickComments, a 3rd-party service. That’s because I found an “in-house” WordPress plugin that does the job: WP-PostRatings. I’ve deployed this plugin on Davao Delicious and Mindanao Bloggers. It’s kinda heavy, but manageable....
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| WordPress Pinoys |
| 2007-12-06 22:43:56 |
Just joined a forum: WordPress Pinoys, a community of Filipino WordPress bloggers. Might be a good place to get to know other WP enthusiasts like myself. For noobs, I’m sure there are topics on WordPress technical stuff. Aside from the potential blog promotions, I hope to also be able to contribute my meager WP know-how. [...]...
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| Why I love site statistics |
| 2007-12-05 14:00:23 |
Lately, I’ve noticed quite a few people in my circles who’ve started to grow aware of this whole business of making money online. And they read and subscribe to various blogs that discuss such topics. These bloggers talk about AdSense, Bidvertiser, AdBrite on one side, and ReviewMe, SponsoredReviews, PayPerPost on the other. Let’s not forget, [...]...
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| Digg gets a facelift |
| 2007-12-04 01:05:58 |
Well waddaya know, Digg.com has been refurbished somewhat. Not a big leap from the old GUI and eye candy, but the behavior’s been upgraded. The whole look-and-feel of the site remains, but you notice changes here and there, and that makes for a refreshing experience.
One thing that seems to have improved is the way the [...]...
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| Nursing board exam results site |
| 2007-12-03 05:05:04 |
The Nursing Board Examinations have just been conducted, and thousands upon tens of thousands of Filipino nursing students are now nervously looking forward to February 2008 when the exam results are released by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). Plenty of websites and blogs cater to this need. When the nursing board exam results come out, [...]...
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| WordPress t-shirts |
| 2007-11-30 11:36:37 |
See this?
I still have three of these WordPress t-shirts, left over from the 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit. My colleagues in The Usual Suspects are going to whip up another online contest to raffle off these collectibles. Watch out for it! I’ll announce it right here soon.
Thing is, they’re all women’s tees, size small, so maybe [...]...
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| T.U.S. mascots |
| 2007-11-26 09:37:04 |
Brader Migs, the funny man of The Usual Suspects, has come up with another gimmick for the gang. Migs is constantly cooking up these playful and interesting ideas. This time, he’s given each member of The Usual Suspects a cute mascot.
Check mine out! I’d like to think it’s a very apt representation. Migs has [...]...
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| Write, edit, rewrite! |
| 2007-11-24 09:10:06 |
When I was in high school, I attended a writing seminar for budding journalists (I thought I was going to become a newspaper reporter, as a fallback career). One lesson from that session that still rings clear in my head is this: Write, Edit, Rewrite. Actually, that’s still followed by more editing before the final [...]...
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| Personal blog #5 |
| 2007-11-21 09:38:28 |
Davao Delicious. That’s the name of my newest personal blog. Oh, when I say “personal” it doesn’t necessarily mean for blogging about personal or private stuff (come to think of it, I don’t really do that online…). It means I own the weblog and nobody else writes for it but me. This is blog #5, [...]...
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| New plugins 11/2007 |
| 2007-11-19 14:58:23 |
Some plugins are headed for the trash bin, as I’ve discovered ones that work better with WP2.3. There’s one that I liked right away: a plugin by the great Alex King, called Articles. It lets you output a list of featured posts anywhere you want to put it. Takes some work, but well worth the [...]...
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| New links page |
| 2007-11-15 07:06:51 |
I’ve moved my blogroll out of the sidebar and put it on its own page. Click here to see the page. See that new menu item above? “Links“...
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| Beware of phishing |
| 2007-11-14 21:02:46 |
Recently, a blogger acquaintance of mine got his Gmail account hacked into and hijacked. The hijacker then proceeded to send out scam emails to this blogger’s contacts, basically asking for money. My friend, Richard, may have been a victim of phishing. As a result, he couldn’t access his Blogger account either, so he had to [...]...
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| [Updated] Blogging 101 now set |
| 2007-11-12 09:31:58 |
Due to some logistical difficulties, this Seminar won’t be happening on the 24th of November. Please refer to this blog for further announcements regarding this activity.
As I’ve mentioned before, we are going to do a Blogging 101 seminar-workshop here in Davao City. This will now be a project of The Usual Suspects. Ria Jose and [...]...
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| Another way to make money |
| 2007-11-10 05:22:03 |
This month I started deploying WidgetBucks ads. I found out about it from Jehz and Winston, the creators of the awesome PRC Board Exam Results blog. I’ve gone through other types of blog monetization, and I’ve rejected some of them already (like Kontera, which was really fugly). Hopefully, WidgetBucks will turn out to be a [...]...
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| Google’s PageRank, bad for PR? |
| 2007-11-04 14:02:18 |
As I’m not deeply into SEO and such, I kept mum when the hullabaloo over the see-sawing of Google’s PageRank system washed over the blogosphere late last month. This blog — after having been pinned with a PR4 from 0 in May — suddenly went one notch down, and then back up again after a [...]...
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| New blog for T.U.S. |
| 2007-11-04 03:31:45 |
Seeing the need for an online presence — and perhaps a group image — the bloggers known as The Usual Suspects have finally come up with a blog site: http://tus.davaoblogs.com. With all the references to “The Usual Suspects” in various blogs now floating around, it wouldn’t hurt to have a site to link to. [...]...
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| Post-MBS1: what’s next? |
| 2007-11-01 07:44:42 |
Apart from the huge amount of blog buzz created by the participants of the 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit, there have also been news and feature coverage by traditional media. A huge photo of Councilor Pete Laviña, myself and a group of bloggers came out on Sun•Star Davao last 29 October… An article written by Walter [...]...
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| MBS1 opening speech |
| 2007-10-28 16:19:37 |
During the recently-concluded 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit, I was asked several times for a copy of my welcome remarks, so I thought I’d share it with everyone here.
(I would’ve posted this earlier, but I had to take a day off after the Summit — while it was exhilaratingly successful, the day after, I suddenly felt [...]...
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| Of anonymous bloggers |
| 2007-10-20 06:41:08 |
It was a very productive — albeit momentarily heated — meeting we had last night, a group of bloggers and an NGO representative together in a workshop at Fwendz Diner. (Btw, try their chimichanga!) It was for the MBS1 Pre-Summit Workshop, where we tackled this concern: the role of bloggers in fostering understanding & peace [...]...
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| Blogie’s blogs now on WP2.3! |
| 2007-10-14 18:03:13 |
WordPress 2.3 at last! I’m talking about ALL my blogs running on WordPress — the 4 blogs that I personally author, my father’s Gospel Reflections, the blog aggregator, and several others that I maintain for other folks. Whew! But it really wasn’t all that painful. It took me just under an hour (including snacks & [...]...
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| WordPress users in Davao |
| 2007-10-07 19:36:57 |
Two weeks ago, WordPress 2.3 was released, and now I’m contemplating on upgrading my blogs from their current WP2.2.2 version. Based on what I’ve read so far, WP2.3 promises to be an exciting development from previous releases — native support for tagging (for better SEO!), plugin ugrade alerts, and much more.
Matt, the founder of WordPress, [...]...
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| Food writing session, anyone? |
| 2007-10-04 18:02:40 |
Davao’s Food Huntress, My Davao City, Dbaa’s Clutter — these are a sampling of blogs whose owners write about dining experiences in Davao. I’m sure there are more out there, though. So, I’m planning a seminar on how to write well about food, with a possible side topic on food photography. (My friends Tope & [...]...
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| OT - Online casino portal |
| 2007-10-03 07:04:29 |
Is online poker, blackjack, roulette or other popular online casino games your thing? Check out this Web portal for a few good ideas: Online Casino Bluebook. It’s a resource site that shows a list of the top 10 online casinos, among other things....
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