PBS Interview: What drives your blog?
Hi Pinoy Blogger,
We’re currently preparing an entry for PBS Interviews and we’d like to invite you to be a part of it by kindly answering briefly the question below:
Most dictionaries define the verb drive as “to guide, to control, or to direct.” Whether you are driving a car, a nail, or a golf ball, you are guiding, controlling, and directing it at that moment.
Everyone’s blog is driven by something.
*What is the driving force in your blog? What is the purpose of your blog? What motivates you to blog?
We’re hoping to receive your answer not later than December 28, 2007. You may either reply in english, tagalog or any other filipino language together with an english/tagalog translation. A couple of sentences or maybe a paragraph would do but if you prefer to make your answer longer and decide to make an entire post out of it, that would be fine as long as you provide us with a brief summary and the URL/permalink of your long post.
Bato, papel, gunting world championship
Back home, when we were still kids, we called this game “pik”, probably the Visayan way of saying “pick”. The game is played by two players first holding hands and then, on the count of three, releasing the hold to do a gesture of a “bato”, “papel”, or “gunting”. The rule is simple: Bato wins over gunting. Papel wins over bato. Gunting wins over papel.
And guess what? I have just learned from the Thinking Blog that there is actually a professional competition for the game complete with an annual world championship at that. This was held last October 13 in Toronto, Canada with a total of $10,000 in prize money. In the championship, a woman bested a man to become the first ever woman world champion. Read more at Pinoy Seminars.
gib lab
wala ng tatalo sa pasko ng pinas.
ang pasko ang tinaguriang pista ng mga pista na hindi natin pinagsasawaang abangan taon taon para ipagdiwang. ito ang araw na kung saan maaari tayong makagawa ng mabuti para sa iba. ang araw na maaari tayong makapagbigay ng kung ano ang nararapat para sa isa. lahat ng tao, aligaga sa pagbibigay ng konting makakayanan. lahat ng tao, abala sa pagbili ng maaaring mairegalo.
ayaw kong nakakatanggap ng regalo
pero hindi ako nagsasalita ng tapos.
My Chemical Romance Will Rock Manila
The popular group My Chemical Romance is about to rock Manila as they are off to perform at the Fort Bonifacio Open Field this coming January 25, 2008 (friday, 8:00PM).
MCR will be the first international band to rock Manila this 2008 after successful tours of major international music icons such as…continue reading here…
Divorce
I work for a company that employs people from around the world. Because of that, I had the opportunity to immerse myself in the different cultures of the people I worked with. I got to know Americans, Italians, Brits, Australians, Japanese, Chinese, Indians and many more.
Because of this diversity, very interesting conversations materialize during lunch or coffee breaks. One such discussion was about arranged marriages and divorce. You see back then, I had a colleague who had requested for a month long PTO (personal time off). When we asked, he revealed that he was going to meet his future wife and her family for the first time.
Champions of the First MAPPA 9-Ball Challenge !!
Pics on the Makati Pool Players Association’s (MAPPA) First 9-ball Competition are up!
Could be an interesting read for pool players and fans alike! And I kid you not!
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Teach your AdSense What Ads to Display
Ever get frustrated every time your AdSense units display advertisements that are not related to your blog’s theme or content? You know, ads like beaches and resorts showing up on your sidebar when your blog is talking about cooking?
AdSense makes use of a very powerful technology which determines what relevant ads it should display on your ad units. This tool scans your blog, locates keywords, and picks up the most appropriate advertisement to display. However, like any artificial intelligence, it is not that perfect.
Based on AdSense’s calculations, it may have assumed that your blog is talking about beaches and resorts because you have used a lot of these keywords on your blog post. Even with Adsense’s new feature that let’s you filter unwanted ads, you still don’t have full control over what advertisements Google chooses for your blog.
But don’t fret, you can still getting those cents from AdSense. All you need to do is to how it what keywords to choose.
StumbleUpon Traffic = Bad Traffic
Originally posted on my blog, Build that Geek. [original post] I recommend commenting through the original post.
I have been using StumbleUpon to promote my blog for three months now. It’s giving me traffic more than any other this-type-of-programs in the Internet. But why do I call it bad traffic?
- It gives you a lot of untargeted traffic. You may notice in your analytics tool that there has been more than 20 entries from StumbleUpon in a minute for your first minutes. That’s approximately one (1) visit every three (3) seconds from a computer. Care to waste your precious bandwidth with a bot?
- StumbleUpon visitors doesn’t comment. They tend to just read your stuff, then press the Stumble button (to go to another page).
- They don’t read your ads. Why would they care if they can find more relevant interesting stuff in just a click of a button? [Lower CTR]
Still not convinced? Then try making your own list! Hahaha.
But I’m still very grateful to StumbleUpon, they gave me this paradigm “pageviews are just numbers, what matters most are loyal visitors”.
Hady Mirza Is The First Asian Idol
Singapore Idol, Hady Mirza, has just bagged the honor of being the very first Asian Idol after competing with other five “idols” from different parts of Asia.
I really didn’t expect that he’ll win considering the fact that he came from a small country with a very small population, but I believe his appeal (as compared to other contestant) really helped a lot. Actually, I was betting for our Mau Marcelo and Mike Mohede of Indonesia. continue reading here…
I am joining A Mini SEO Contest
Well I am joining the contest sponsored by Marhgil Macuha , I was on the first page for the last days but now I am on the 2nd page. I really don’t know why. So I have to strive more now to be back on the First Page.
There are only 2 reason, I am Lazy or the competitors are very eager to go on top for Marhgil Macuha Key Word. That is I have to find out.
Anyway I am on top at yahoo and who knows before the end of the contest I will be out of the first Page.
Let us see the result on January. I just hope I will win he he he you may want to subscribe to my feeds thru Email since every end of the contest I usually post my tips and techniques as well as the mistakes I did why i win or loose.
Dexter from Techathand.net
