Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

One More Reason Not To Use Blogger/Blogspot

Just a couple of days back (or is it yesterday?), the Indian blogosphere, and to an extent the international blogosphere, started simmering with the news that the Indian government was clamping down on several “radical” sites - most notable among them being Blogger, Geocities (and even Typepad it seems).
Some commenters are asserting that this is […]

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Blog for Engadget: Once in A Lifetime Chance

Okay, maybe the title was a bit of an exaggeration, but really, how often is it that you get a shot at writing for one of the biggest gadget blogs in the world?
There are 3 positions open too: Night time editor and weekend editor over at Engadget Classic, and morning editor over at Engadget […]

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

Competition Rules!

Recently, two pieces of good news arrived at my “doorstep” - Bloglines (my first-choice feed reader), that is. As a Malaysian, it was great that:

Commission Junction (CJ) was now accepting Malaysians again, and
Paypal was setting up a regional office in Singapore, which could possibly lead to Malaysians being allowed to withdraw Paypal funds officially.

One wonders […]

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Number of Japanese Blogs Has Tripled

…almost. Compared to the 3.35 million figure for May 2005, the total of 8.68 million Japanese blogs at the end of March 2006 represents a 2.6-fold increase.
More statistically-minded bloggers would probably have guessed this rate of growth months before, when David Silfry published his April 2006 State of the Blogosphere report - where 35% of […]

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Recent Google News Bites

Along with the recent Joel Comm saga has been a slew of interesting blog posts, announcements and rumors related to our two favourites, Google Search and Google AdSense:

“Vertical Image” Ads, a.k.a. Image + Text = New Ad FormatGoogle is having an international beta test on its new ad format, where a contextually-relevant image is placed […]

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Joel Comm’s “Made for AdSense” Saga

Leave a blog for a few days, and thousands of interesting stories pass by. One of the most interesting throughout the past week must have been the hoo-hah over Joel Comm’s upcoming “Made for AdSense” programme, i.e. Instant AdSense Templates.
If you want some background on the issue, I suggest reading the extended coverage by […]

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Blogging Provides Non-Web Opportunities

A few days back (three to be exact), Paul Stamatiou blogged about how he landed a gig with Yahoo as a Blogging Intern.
It might not be a full-blown job offer like the one Steve Rubel received in February, but there’s little doubt that you’re talking about a great experience and networking opportunities in a […]

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

The Blog Herald Redesigns: Above-Bottom-Fold Layout Introduced

As was announced earlier, The Blog Herald (TBH) has undergone an “extreme makeover” design-wise - switching from its relatively drab prior three-column design to a newspaper-ish multi-column above-bottom-fold layout courtesy of Chris Pearson. Yeah, that’s a mouthful all right. So, you’ll have to check out the site itself to understand what I mean.

Remember when we […]