Money in Blogging
I’ve been asked many times if there’s money in blogging and if ever it has, how to raise it.
The first time we discussed about blogging was in 2007 when the group of Kevin Ray Chua and the rest of the members of the Cebu Bloggers Society visited “Hi-Tech Ta Bai!” radio show.
CBS confirmed there’s money in blogging if done appropriately with search engine optimization and links with other bloggers.
Professional blogger–Abe Olandres of yugatech.com says he’s making blogging as his main source of income.
POLL SURVEY RESULT: Which portable landline are you using?
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Prepaid Load–Extended!!!!
Good news for all of us prepaid mobile users. The telcos have finally gave in to the great clamor of the consuming public to extend the shelf life of the prepaid load credits.
This, however, came out upon the prodding of some Senators who grilled the National Telecommunications Commission and the telecommunication companies during the recent hearings of the complaint raised by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.
Here’s the new validity period for prepaid load credits…
POLL SURVEY RESULT: Are you in favor of registering prepaid cellphone users? Why?
Many have consented on the proposed act by the National Telecommunications Commission to register the consumers of prepaid SIM cards. Anyway, most of us are not afraid of it hence we’re not doing bad or evil. See the results below.
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“Never Sick Again” Food
I’ve got a copy of this food tip from somewhere in the net. Click the image to open the PDF copy.
Update: “Load Theft” Hearing
Just read this article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer– “AMID CASE OF MISSING ‘LOAD’
NTC: Telcos fought rules to protect consumers“.
My attention is being catched by the article hence i have been actively advocating for the stoppage of the disappearance of prepaid card credits (”load theft“) from the subscribers’ cellphone accounts. I had once filed a complaint against Smart Communications in 2007. Read my previous post: “Gikawatan ko’g Smart Load“.
As if they’re trying to prove they’re not remiss of their job, an official of the National Telecommunication Commission told the joint Senate Committee on Public Service and Trade and Commerce that as early as year 2000, NTC could have been prevented “Load Theft” and imposed stiffer penalties against erring telcos to protect consumers.
POLL SURVEY RESULT: What is/are the best feature/s of your mobile phone?
The choice for hi-speed mobile internet connection and good quality images topped in our extended survey– What is/are the best feature/s of your mobile phone?
Both features got 15% share of the more than 100 votes cast in our poll survey. Here’s the complete result:
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Why We Need an Advertising Code of the Philippines?
Education Secretary Jesli Lapus caused for the pull out of the “Spelling Bee” TV ads of air cargo forwarding service LBC Express Inc. in May after “it drew a flak from local officials and parents over its wrong message”.
There were two versions of the TV ad before it was pulled out by LBC from the air. The “remittance” and the “affordable” versions where both spelling bee participants answered “LBC” as the spelling for “remittance” and “affordable”.
Many times i’d told my advertising class that the rule always applied in advertising is “always tweak the rule“.
Poll Survey Results: What is the content of the media files you usually uploaded to the web?
I’m ending this poll survey with a conclusion that at least a sector of our online community is indeed uploading sexual or scandalous media content to the web. Here’s the complete result after a week of soliciting your opinion:
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“Hidden Cam” and “Hayden Cam”
note: this post has been updated!!!!
“Hidden Cam”
We used to label news footage taken without the knowledge of our news sources as “Stolen Shots”. But since the phrase has a negative connotation being the shot a stolen one—the newsroom had decided to rename it to “Actual Shots”.
The footage in coverages that are planned to be taken with cameras hid from the people around the location shoot was named as “Hidden Cam” shots.
“Hayden Cam”
Actress Katrina Halili and Dr. Hayden Kho dancing in this video recording.
As regards to the sex video recordings of Dr. Hayden Kho with at least three of his former girlfriends—psychologists consider it as sexual voyeurism.
Globe DOLE OFW Hotlines
Globe Telecom has recently inked an agreement with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) establishing a 3-prong communications facility.
Dubbed as 3-Way Asenso Connect, the service includes a hotline for landline phones (2-917), Text hotline (2917), and the DOLE website (www.dole2917.com.ph).
These facilities enable the workers to access information and services on local and overseas jobs and other services provided by the DOLE, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).
Poll Survey Result: What is your Operating System?
As expected, most of our Poll Survey participants are using Windows XP operating system. They’re representing 79% of our poll participants.
Thank you for joining in this poll survey. Please join again in our next Poll Survey starting today until the next two weeks– What is the content of the media files you usually uploaded to the web?
Asus Ultimate Overclocking Show
Even with the absence of a formal invitation, my journalistic traits just dictated me to appear during the first ever computer overclocking competition in Cebu Saturday afternoon at the SM Entertainment Plaza.
Two groups vied for the title of being the best overclockers–Cebu Extreme Overclockers and the Sugbo Elite Overclockers.
64 out 88 Water Refilling Stations in Mandaue City Sans Sanitary Permit!!!
It was not totally surprising to me that only a few of the water refilling stations in Mandaue City has the mandated sanitary permit.
In her appearance before the Mandaue City Council last Wednesday, Assistant City Health Officer Dr. Dominga Obenza cited their sanitary inspectors’ report that only 24 out of the 88 water refilling stations in the City has complied the Sanitation Code of the Philippines.
Livelihood Skills Training for OFW
The USC-Kapamilya, Negosyo Na! Season 4 (KNN4) is calling all displaced Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) to avail of the Livelihood Skills Training workshop on May 23 (Saturday) at the Cogon-Ramos Gym in Cebu City.
Various skills and business opportunities are being lined up for this wholeday training (9am-4pm) and free of charge for all OFWs and their families.
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“Expensive” Laptop for the Judges
Court judges deserved a high-performance laptops considering the bulk of their paperwork and legal research. But the Cebu City government doesn’t need to spend P80,000 for each laptop.
My former computer mentor now City Councilor Rodrigo Abellanosa, who is also a computer wizard and owner of a computer school, raised the alarm bell when the cost estimate for each laptop was presented to the City Council lately for deliberation and approval.
Abellanosa may be right when he described the estimate done by the Management Information and Computer Systems (MICS) as “expensive”.
Curious about it, i made my own canvassing at a computer store in SM City and here’s the specs and corresponding prices for two brands:
Poll Survey Result: Where Did You First Watch the Pacquiao-Hatton Fight?
I was thinking that more online people were watching the Pacquiao-Hatton fight over the pay-per-view service rather than the irritating and “very” delayed free tv broadcast. My poll survey proved me wrong. Although, there were those who streamed the fight’s broadcast and shared it with the rest of the world. See the details below:
Pacquiao-Hatton Fight’s Pay-Per-Views in Cebu Rake Millions of Pesos
Here in Cebu, my source said Skycable raked about P3 million in Pacquiao-Hatton fight PPV connections from both individual subscribers and paid and free PPV viewing venues.
Skycable is charging as much as P80,000-P100,000 for large PPV paid viewing venues…
Poll Survey Results: What Are Your Summer Activities?
It’s not a surprise to me that “web surfing” tops the activities among the survey participants in this poll. In this modern world of technology, people have lots to do in the net–from ordinary chatting to blogging.
Globe’s HSDPA Areas in Cebu
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| How is your Globe Visibility connection? Is it doing well? Here are the areas/places in Cebu that according to Globe Telecom it has 3G/HSDPA signals.
Please check your Globe connection and help me complete this table by listing down in the COMMENT BOX the details of your connection: signal strength and actual internet speed. |
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PLACES/AREAS SIGNAL STRENGTH ACTUAL INTERNET SPEED Asturias Balamban |
| Bogo |
| Carmen |
| Carcar |
| Cebu City |
| Consolacion |
| Cordova |
| Daan Bantayan |
| Danao City |
| Dumanjug |
| Lapulapu City |
| Liloan (Yati,Liloan) No/Ltd Service- 1 bar 1kbps to 100kbps+ |
| Mandaue City |
| Minglanilla |
| Naga |
| San Fernando |
| San Francisco, Camotes |
| San Remegio |
| Sibonga |
| Sogod |
| Talisay |
| Toledo
This table shall be updated once new inputs from Globe Visibility users will come in. |
Text Choice of the Day in KNN4
Today’s episode of the USC-Kapamilya, Negosyo Na! Season 4 is highligted by the selection of the best opinion from the listening public.
The Text Choice or Best Caller of the Day is chosen based on how the opinion stirred further discussion of an issue during the program.
For today’s episode, a belt bag from the USC-College of Commerce Alumni Association, Inc. is at stake. More of this giveaway and other items shall be won by our radio listeners.
I’ve Got a FREE Temporary License for ActiveGif Creator
The EasyAnimationTools has just granted me a FREE temporary license (valid until Dec. 31, 2009) for its Active Gif Creator Version 3.2.
The Active Gif Creator turns your still pictures into an astonishing animated or slideshow presentation.
If you had observed i had put lately two animated images on the rightmost sidebar of this blog–the one for the Hi-Tech Men and the other is for the Downloadables. However, there’s an embedded text at the upper left of the screen which reads–”AGif–UNREGISTERED”. It tells us that the version of the Active Gif Creator i was using was a Free Version.
Conficker Eye Chart
If you can see all six images in the boxes below, then you’ve got no worry of Conficker worm in your PC or laptop.
Conficker Eye Chart – Baylor Mirror
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McGruff SAFEGUARD Unguarding 3G-modem PC
My online activities on my laptop at the time it is connected with the internet via the 3G wireless modem are not recorded.
I have observed this for several instances when i checked my online activities at my McGruff account. While the rest of my online activities when i am connected using broadband or DSL lines are all intact at the McGruff site.
McGruff is a computer-monitoring software that records all online activities designed to protect children from predators. It can record chat messages, emails, visited web pages and can even grab passwords.
A Blind Man’s Mobile Speaks…
“Mobile Speak” is a screen reader software installed on a mobile phone or personal digital assistant (PDA) that enables the user to hear, in speech form, whatever information displayed on the screen. The application greatly helps blind persons. It has also an interface for Braille devices.
Mobile Speak is created and developed by Code Factory.
I’ve been trying to help some blind persons who approached me to install on their mobile phones a screen reader. Finally, i’ve installed a full version of the Mobile Speak into the Nokia 6600 of a blind man–Jojo Mendoza. He’s very happy now he could hear the messages on his mobile phone.
For supported phones, click here.
Call me if you want a Mobile Speak installation on your mobile phone. (pldt portable: 5183097; mobile: 09195088589)
