Blog Attack!
Gee, it was only hours ago when I wrote my review of Star Cinema’s I’ve Fallen For You, which I watched in last night’s premiere as a chaperon to my younger sister and her classmates. Usually, I post the review the day after I watch the movie.
Now the entry is flooded with comments by angry Kimerald (KIM Chiu + GERALD Anderson) fans, the lead stars of the movie.
How did this happen?
I checked out my dashboard and noticed that the biggest referrer is PinoyExchange.com, an online forum. Someone posted this along with a link:
Movie review ng nanood ng premier kagabi. Di siya nagandahan.
Movie Review: I’ve Fallen for You
That’s where it started. I’ve had comments saying that I’m part of some campaign to ruin the movie, that I have no right to post my opinion on the film, that I’m a frustrated film writer, etc. Worse, there were calls to delete the entry or shelve it for two weeks because it might affect the opening weekend gross. And in the forum, there have been posts insinuating how arrogant I am to post this during the opening day! (Perhaps I’m their equivalent of Malu Fernandez)
Personally, I think it’s absurd that an unknown blog’s review will actually affect sales! The Kim and Gerald tandem has such a large fan base, it’s bound to rake in monster ticket sales no matter how many reviewers say that they didn’t like the movie.
Even my sister is telling me to compromise and keep it hidden for a few days just to cool the heads of the fans! But that’s because she’s a Kim-Gerald fan herself who does not want to be ostracized the next time she drops in a shooting.
But this raises important questions:
- Who says what to write in our blogs?
- What can we write and not write? The funny thing is that most of my critique centered on loose elements of the plot, not Kim and Gerald themselves.
- What is the difference between a fair and an unfair review?
- Should bloggers compromise?
- When should bloggers compromise? I’m really concerned about my sister’s interests. She says she can manage, “dyahe lang.”
- Will the angry fans ever hack my blog?
Oh well, that’s life on blogs — we’ve got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and stand up for what we write.
Is Your Blog Taking a Lot of Time to Load?
If I were to describe the internet users of today in one word, I should say that the word “impatient” sums them up pretty nicely.
A few days ago, I fancied trying out Internet Explorer in viewing my blog just to check how things would turn out compared to FireFox. As expected, their differences already showed just as the pages on their screens started loading. And it was at that time that I found out something very unsettling.
If I got the timing right, it takes about a minute or so for my main page to fully load using Internet Explorer and around 45 seconds using FireFox under a DSL connection. My observations may seem insignificant to some but such an amount of time is already alarming for both web developers and internet specialists.
Internet users are known to be very impatient people. They don’t want to wait and waste their time. They want their food as hot and as fast as possible. One minute is already a lot of time. It may be okay for a regular reader of my blog to wait and endure a whole minute, but for a new visitor? Highly unlikely.
Small Potato from WPDesigner once said in one of his reviews that “you have less than eight seconds to keep a user in front of a loading screen“. So if it takes more than that, chances are, your visitors might give up waiting for your blog to load! Gasp!
Hilarious Zay-T-E hearing
Mar Roxas’ turn to ask questions now. LIVE transcript of the hearing by Manuel Quezon III plus a few comments in Inquirer Current Blog. And it’s confirmed, Abalos bribed Neri as disclosed by Newsbreak a week ago. The transcripts from Inquirer Current’s live blog around 10 today:
N[eri]: Let me give you facts. Chairman Abalos came to visit me at Neda, I forgot the dates, looked at calendar. Sometime last last year, early this year… I cannot recall what we discussed, frankly, I have poor memory… But I believe we had lunch meeting arranged by Chinese embassy, one or two Chinese officials of embassy and of ZTE, Abalos there with us. I left meeting before dessert because ZTE officials were heavy smokers, couldnt stand smoke, dont know what transpired. Then a golf game at Wack-Wack.
V[illar]: Long game?
N: Nice game, Chairman was charming. Something he said surprised me. He said, Sec. may 200 ka dito. Since he was host, I chose to ignore it.
V: What did you say?
Experience the ShowBiz Church
Paolo Lorenzana recently published an interesting article, Jesus Christ & Superstars – a timely revelation for Filipino churchians. Paolo named the most luminous and influential showbiz personalities who had a spotlightenment and has now become visible envoys of Victory Christian Fellowship: Kitchie Nadal, Carmi Martin, Donita Rose-Villarama, Piolo Pascual, Sam Milby, Toni Gonzaga, and Rica Peralejo who’s currently under the discipleship of actress-turned-evangelist Coney Reyes.
In that same commentary, Paolo daringly wrote his observation that “the God of Born-Again Christianity seems to have become an all-encompassing manager and publicist in the realm of showbiz, shifting past scandal into salvation and turning sexy stars and drug-dredged lotharios into disciples”. That’s an intriguing viewpoint but it’s just a confirmation of Rick Ross’s evaluation of controversial religious groups (Rick Ross is a cult intervention specialist).
MP4 performs well in market
Since the first MP4 came into market, MP4 seems to have been under great pressure from its rivals including video MP3, smart-phone, psp and so on.
To survive in the market, MP4 manufacturers have been spending accelerated efforts to advance their products. The MP4 product line has been expanded a lot. In addition to ordinary ones, high-end MP4 players with improved and multiplied functions are also available in market.
The player market is developing rapidly and the market of MP4 has been consolidated and expanded due to continuous innovations in industry. A report of Chinese MP4 player market in the first quarter shows that 478,800 sets of MP4 worth 708 million were sold in the first three months of this year. The total sales volume in Chinese market is predicted to top 2 million sets this year.
How do you upgrade to wordpress 2.3?
When doing your upgrade to wordpress 2.3 , I suggest you test it out by first using a local copy on your computer.
NEVER DO AN UPGRADE ON YOUR SITE WITHOUT TESTING IT OUT LOCALLY FIRST. When you do it locally, you can still recover your local blog when something wrong happens.
Disclaimer: This guide will try to help you in your attempt to upgrade your existing blog to Wordpress 2.3. I do not claim that this guide will work for you 100% flawlessly but this is just how I did it. It is up to you if you want to continue reading however, please do not blame me when something goes wrong. ^_^
Now if you are ready to upgrade to wordpress 2.3, click here.
Filteany’s New Home- Lifting the Petticoat
I am a complaining child but she reasons out that it gives my cute dress the much needed puff. I also saw it on other girls my age who painfully scratch their legs and alas! they get slapped on the wrist. Whenever I try to reach out under my skirt to scratch my www.filteany.com
Enjoy the latest Vlog from Filteany. Thank you so much for the comment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wBBbFCX01A
Yes, my dear friends
I moved to another site in cyberspace. Check out the new face of
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See you there!
More photos, more videos, more interactive menus and easier for you to send me a message.
Movie Review: I’ve Fallen For You
Why did I watch the movie in the first place? My younger sister and her classmates got tickets to the movie premiere. Who else would chauffeur them from Alabang to Megamall but me?
[Although the plot is quite predictable, I have been advised to warn my readers that there are portions here that may be seen as spoilers in this review]
As advertised, Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson play two teens named Alex Reyes. Girl Alex is a hardworking kid from a family that’s tight on budget. Boy Alex is rich, smart, and wishy-washy. He has a crush on her, she has a crush on him, and they get to know each other better by pairing up for a tandem bike race. Brace yourself for a dragging litany of scenes that would make Kim-Gerald fans “kilig”!
But the audience shrieking is cut short when the pair discovers their family’s past. It would explain why girl Alex’s mom is always in a bad mood (and I thought it was just menopause!). When the problem is resolved, one might begin to think, “thank God it’s ending!” But no, another problem arises.
Lino Cayetano Deserves a Better Project
I have to admit that I was disappointed because >> read more >>
Myanmar: military regime’s ouster just around the corner
Meanwhile, another interesting happening to watch out for is the snowballing of various anti-military junta marches and demonstrations in several towns and cities of the formerly silent country of Myanmar.
What started as a few disparate rallies against oil price increases has now escalated with over 100,000 peacefully marching in the streets of the military-ruled nation’s capital last Monday.
The PBS BLOGYaNiHaN and FilipinoBloggers.com
Join us now! Promote Pinoy/Filipino blogging! Tara na! 
promote blogging now and later blogging will promote you!
Here’s an invitation from Kartik of FilipinoBloggers.com
to quicken things I am starting on a new plan, which is to invite people to write about their own blogs and add links by themselves.
So those of you who want their blogs to be included, just send
mekartik your e-mail address andIkartik will mail you an invite to join the site.Send to (kartik_kiran@ yahoo.com) me an e-mail with the following as
subject: Re: Send me an invite
and promptly
Ikartik will send you the invite.
…and don’t forget to do the same thing at BLOGYaNiHaN too. Just register and blog about your blog or about other pinoy bloggers blogs. Upon registration, you can immediately publish your entry. Just make sure that your post really promotes pinoy blogs, no more, no less
tenk yu Tenk Yu!
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