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Attack of The Splogs 2007-10-19 00:57:35 I’m disturbed. I’ve been reading Blogigs for quite some time and this question on asking if splogs will harm our blogs. I’ve been the target of such especially my posts about Bali got me thinking. I think I’ve approved a few as a trackback.
I must say, I went to those sites and was attacked by Adsense and Kontera and other money making schemes. Basically, the sites provide link to the original source and some excerpts. In addition, they contain various topics and are not focused in any topic. I’m starting to wonder if I should mark them as spam. Maybe I should.
Here’s why sploggers splog, one theory is that Google is not the target. However, isn’t Google the most used search engine? As someone who had 2 whole posts plagiarised, I started using Creative Commons a.k.a. CC. However, it seems that CC was a double-edged sword in 2005.
Sploggers made use of its vulnerability at that time to plug more clicks. Another way to check if your posts have be
Reason #2184 to Switch from M1 2007-10-25 06:52:22 Had a very disappointing call with M1, again. I think I should switch telco by end of this year. I would like to change my current handphone to another model because this Dopod 838Pro is starting to give me problems. Since my contract has ended, I want to make use of this chance to upgrade. So, I called M1 to check if I would be getting any voucher. Ah, here, the standard model answer was given.
“The voucher is given out based on the plan and the amount of the plan.” Oh, so I have to be an Ultimate mobile phone warrior who pays M1 at least $300 per month so that I can get a voucher to upgrade my handset after the end of the 2-year contract.
I know Starhub gives me the voucher at the end of 2 years. I just received it. Even when my plan was paying them a miserly $30 per month. As a Hub Club member, I can even upgrade my handset at the 21st month without paying the extra $100.
Moral of the story, switch telco by this year when the handphone number can be kept without having t Read more:Reason
Privacy? Pish Poff! You Don’t Have Any! 2007-10-22 20:41:51 Receiving unwanted advertisements on your mobile? I had and still having. ^$&*# I have even received calls from companies representing credit card banks like Citibank, UOB, HSBC and OCBC. I wonder how the heck they managed to cull my personal information. I wonder why they are allowed to do that. And I wonder why the heck do contest sponsors allow the very private information to be sold or given to third parties.
Reading today’s Digital Life on the culling of private information set me thinking. The question asked was “What if you receive an SMS recommending coffee at the very place you are at just as you are contemplating what to drink?” Have our systems become so good and integrated that our information are no longer within our control on how it is being flowed? Why is that we can’t sue them for abusing the privilege to get the information? Do banks even protect our account privacies in the first place?
If banks can freeze the accounts because of a warrant Read more:Privacy
Review: Tatarah - Lowest Unique Bid Wins 2007-10-29 22:46:51 I first saw the advertisement for Tatarah was on the MRT. The ads were vibrant as the logo is colourful. This site is different from eBay in such a way that the lowest unique bidder wins the item. Initially, I was excited with the idea as I don’t have to bid too high and still be able to afford it.
The bidding style is not new, I’ve heard of the lowest bidder wins auction during my degree course. It originated from The Netherlands or Holland. Another site that has this concept is Red Toucan whereby there is no bidding fee. Tatarah has a name that is hard to pronounce and remember the correct spelling.
Such a style of bidding method means closed bidding. No one knows how much the bid is as this means there won’t be any lowest unique bid. Tatarah has a quota for each item to be bid. This means bidding early despite the closing date being 5 days away. It has a minimum amount of processing fee of SG$1 excluding GST which I fail to understand why there is a GST when the fe
WP Plugin Voting Time 2007-10-29 22:13:07 It’s voting time! I was looking forward to looking at the Wordpress Plugin
Group Writing Project posts started by MarcoRichter.net and was rather surprised that only 5 including mine to be in the final compilation. So, does that mean that most of the available plugins are able to do the jobs and hence, the limited number of entries?
Before I vote for my favourite post, I’ll like to list the finalists.
gratemedia.com wants an eMail plugin.
techzilo.com wants help with SEO.
myweightlossforlife.com wants better relation between posts.
thewritersmanifesto.com wants a social plugin.
itlife.escrito.info wants help with insulters.
Looks like I can’t vote for mine While the SEO plugin was rather useful, I believe one of the features like showing excerpts is already available as a plugin itself.
To avoid the suspense, I’ll like to vote for my favourite post, it’s the plugin for Social submission by TheWritersManifestoBlog. I do agree with the doing away with &ld Read more:Voting
Slow To Catch Up With Trend 2007-11-22 03:41:02 The dust seems to have settled down for now for Big G and PR. I’m getting frustrated here because we are supposed to have only one source of “legal” way to make some money and it’s to be only from Big G.
I’m slow again. When it was just picking up, I didn’t utilise it. No wait, I couldn’t because I was using a free host that didn’t allow me to put any scripts. Now that I’m starting to catch on, Big G says “All those selling text links and paid posts shall have their page ranks reduced!” Something to that effect.
I have resorted to doing adsense, surveys, paid posts, participating in contests and reviews. Aye, I have to do so many things just to earn some spare cash hosting fees?
So, what else can I do? Wait? Or don’t care what it’s doing and just carry on my methods to earn some miserly amounts? I’m not saying that I want to be like some A-listers and sit at home and blog all day without worrying whethe Read more:Catch
Step Towards a Change 2007-11-21 02:02:50 I’ve come quite a long way since I have been doing IT. 7 years is a long time with me being in the support group for 4 years and development started in the 4th year. I have been demoralised in the past (from year 5) and changing companies doing the same thing didn’t help at all. It came to the point when I didn’t want to look for any job. I just wanted to stay at home and do absolutely nothing.
Just eat, sleep, surf the net and meeting friends or travel. With quite a number of years doing what I’m currently doing, I have started to get bore. Somewhere along the way, I lost my interest in Lotus Notes development. I got depressed at the thought of going to work every morning.
I want to cry when I’m sitting in front of the computer and the task that I have been assigned. I wanted to go home immediately. I felt that I didn’t want to have anything to do with development or support.
Finally, today, I nearly cried while sitting at my cubicle. I had been fee Read more:Change
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