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DTI bloggers
2008-03-23 19:16:00 Today I’m going to conduct another blogging seminar at the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) - Region 11. The first one was last 1st March, and it was for SMEs in the Davao Region. This series of seminars on blogging as a tool for communication is a project of the DTI with the collaboration ... More About: Blogging , Bloggers
Blog-crazy
2008-03-22 21:42:00 This has got to be my ultimate favorite piece from Blog Comics! Truth is, this blog has been PR 0 for sometime now, from a 3 only last month. Who knows what’s churning in the minds of people in the Googleplex… Sponsored By: DVO Bloggers Network - the Davao blogosphere More About: Crazy
Video blog: WebbAlert.com
2008-03-22 19:31:00 Found this cool show for keeping myself up-to-date with what’s going on in the Web. It’s called “WebbAlert - Your Daily Tech Roundup” and it’s hosted by Morgan Webb (she was an FHM model once, I hear). For now, the show comes out Mondays to Thursdays. Check it out: from WebbAlert.com The content of the vlog might ... More About: Video , Video Blog , Blog
Testing WordPress 2.5 RC-1
2008-03-21 23:58:00 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 ... More About: Wordpress , Testing
Overcharged for a piece of software?
2008-03-20 19:18:00 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 ... More About: Software , Piece
And I?m back?
2008-03-15 11:47:00 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 ... More About: Back
Davao Food Trip @ Belly?s Grill
2008-03-15 11:15:00 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 ...
SEO analyzer for everyone
2008-02-07 11:58:00 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 ... More About: Analyzer
Davao Food Trip official blog
2008-01-28 06:34:00 Announcements and other stuff about the ongoing Davao Food Trip will now be published in its own blog: www.davaofoodtrip.org. Blog gers 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 More About: Official
Internet advertising essentials
2008-01-22 10:48:00 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 ... More About: Advertising , Essentials
Davao Food Trip #4: Salutti
2008-01-09 17:49:00 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., ...
Davao Food Trip @ Belly?s Grill
2008-01-05 10:27:00 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 ... More About: Events
Top 100 Mindanao blogs
2008-01-05 10:11:00 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 ... More About: Blogging , Blogs
Blog Year 2007
2007-12-31 14:36:00 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 Blog gers Summit in October. Surrounded by bloggers and supporters all ... More About: Stuff , Year
The Big G looms even bigger?
2007-12-22 12:49:00 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 ... More About: Google , Blogging
Davao Food Trip badge
2007-12-19 10:42:00 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!!! More About: Badge
Christmas in Davao
2007-12-17 20:56:00 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, ... More About: Stuff , Davao
Davao Food Trip @ Taj Minar
2007-12-16 01:00:00 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 ... More About: Events
Blog Comics
2007-12-15 11:38:00 Sponsored By: 1st Mindanao Blog gers Summit - 27 Oct 2007, Davao City More About: Comics
Davao bloggers food trip
2007-12-14 22:07:00 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 ... More About: Events , Blogging , Bloggers
Choose hosting providers carefully
2007-12-12 11:22:00 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 ... More About: Hosting , Web Hosting , Choose , Ovid
Ratings plugin
2007-12-10 08:22:00 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. More About: Plugin
WordPress Pinoys
2007-12-07 05:43:00 Just joined a forum: Word Press 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. ... More About: Wordpress
Why I love site statistics
2007-12-05 21:00:00 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, ... More About: Love , Blogging , Site , Statistics , Google Analytics
Digg gets a facelift
2007-12-04 08:05:00 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 ... More About: Facelift
Nursing board exam results site
2007-12-03 12:05:00 The Nursing Board Exam inations 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, ... More About: Blogging , Results , Site
WordPress t-shirts
2007-11-30 18:36:00 See this? I still have three of these Word Press 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 ... More About: Wordpress , Shirts , T-Shirts
T.U.S. mascots
2007-11-26 16:37:00 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 ... More About: Stuff , Mascots
Write, edit, rewrite!
2007-11-24 16:10:00 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 ...
Personal blog #5
More articles from this author:2007-11-21 16:38:00 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, ... More About: Personal , Blog 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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