And now for something lighter. When Gail asked me for help on how to encourage her husband to post more, I could not resist but give my “no post no love” business model for blogging.
To Marc, hey bro, dude, really sorry about this. But your wife really asked for a creative way on how to make you blog more. And I really had no idea that she would make this public. I guess since the pay per post business model for bloggers was attractive, I decided to twist it a bit. And hey, you’re married! May you guys enjoy the rest of your lives together.
Here’s a tip: why not aggregate posts from other blogs so that you have a feed thing running. That way, you will rack up at least 10 posts per day and get well .. 10 … you know. [DIGG]
There have been two things that I’ve found to be recently disturbing.
The first was the seeming misinterpretation of my post about PWIT and Pinoy Tech Blog – as if there really was some controversy going on. My intent was to help promote PWIT as the cast and crew involves people whom I have worked with in the past – people who have helped me in my career (Howard and Adel come to mind as they taught me almost everything I know) and personal life in various ways. That was it. Help promote PWIT. And thanks to the person too who cited that the original post I made was not controversial compared to the PTB post that was picked up.
The second post hits closer to home as it involves a small misunderstanding of a post I recently deleted out of frustration. One of my closest ever friends drew plans of building a blog network composed of all-Pinoy talent. I remember we were sitting down for coffee when he was narrating his plans to me. The only question I could ask him at that time was “are you doing this for profit or for amor?” My purpose for writing that post was to help promote the network for him. Again – help promote the network. Sadly, I received comments that led to a questioning of who really founded it in the first place. Why do we have to argue about this? Aren’t we all glad that we finally have a local blog network? Why do we have to celebrate it with a debate on who owns it?
Sometimes I wonder if spreading the link love is still worth it. I know that people are entitled to their own opinions but I just hate it when things get out of hand when all you wanted to do was help.
I do apologize, really, if misunderstanding was caused – maybe it had something to do with my post “spin” and not the point of the post at all that made a difference.
Sigh. At least the traffic peaked for everyone. That’s a good thing.
Have you ever stumbled upon a website that you thought should win something? It never really crosses your mind at first – in the same way how you glance upon a hottie walking down the opposite side of the road. I mean, your first reaction wouldn’t be “hey I bet that lady could win a Miss Universe.”
*clears throat* Anyway, going back to awards, DigitalFilipino is accepting entries until the 18th of February under several categories including Corporate, Tourism, Services, etc …
Nominate a site now by posting a comment on or before February 18, 2007. It should include the following:
Website name:
Website url:
What makes this website outstanding?
Back in high school, our physics teacher taught us that falling from a certain height, anything can be used as a deadly weapon. Such was the case with the falling cow that was thought to be a military weapon back in the old days – legend says that a cow had been airlifted to be transported to a far destination. The “cargo” fell off the plane somehow and crashed into a farm house killing its occupants.
Today, the art of falling has been reinvented into the fearsome RAWR BOMB, a deadly combination attack that was invented with the release of The Burning Crusade.
Xxorn of Durotan demonstrates the druid’s fearsome RawrBomb technique. The technique, originally developed by Siiren of Warsong, involves a druid positioning himself above his enemy in flight form, shifting out of flight and into bear, and feral charging a target right before hitting the ground.
Almost three years ago I had my first encounter with a Crumpler Bag. It was called the McBain’s Lovechild – a slightly smaller version of McBain, which fit my 12 inch iBook like a charm. Ever since then the Crumpler brand has had a cult following – whose majority of members were obviously from that other cult of Mac lovers.
Fast forward to three years later – today. The Crumpler Store is now officially open. Their sexy bags were once being displayed at Power Mac and Digital Walker but it is time for them to have their own stall – across Krispy kreme at Serendra, The Fort, together with other big name brands like the Crocs Store and Havaianas Store.
Testimonial: I once used the Crumpler sling bag during a typhoon to cover my head from the rain. When I got home, the bag dried quickly (it’s made of signature Chicken feathers or something like that) and my iBook was dry. Well, these bags aren’t cheap (be prepared to spend P3,500.00 – P10,000.00), but they sure are durable and attractive.
