How to Reply Hate Mail?

As much as hate mail generally symbolizes someone out there hating you, there are advantages and disadvantages of receiving hate mail. The great advantages or benefits you could say is that there’s someone who’s taken an interest to what you do. The other huge benefit that some hate mail give you is the excuse to break away from work awhile and have a relieving laugh.

The disadvantages of hate mail is knowing that someone really hates you. I don’t like people hating me, especially when there’s no real reason to it. The other thing about hate mail is that the writers don’t give you a chance to reply to them personally and because of that you’ll have to try and communicate with them by other means.

So is this hate mail an advantage or disadvantage?

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Amazon Advertisement Improvement

As I was administering some of the posts over at Blogs Malaysia and leaving comments to what I thought of them, I came across one blog that had several book covers that I assumed were Amazon links.

Upon rolling over them, I was definetely greeted by an Amazon advertisement or recommendation but I’ve noticed that Amazon finally has done something to help their affiliate program members.

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dPolls an AJAX Poll

I just visited Darren’s Problogger website and found him featuring something nifty I thought it would be great to share with everyone.

Introducing dPolls, an AJAX based poll that you could create for free. When you’d like to create a poll, you need to register a free account and verify the email address you’ve used in the registration. Once that’s done and verified, you’re on your way of creating your poll very easily.

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Blogs Malaysia

It’s been a very quiet blog new year and it’s good seeing not that many flame wars being thrown around. Most of them nowadays are the stale fights with common bloggers. I suppose that’s a sign of a good year ahead.

But even the new year has some things in store for all of us. Like Blogs Malaysia when it first launched last year, generated much hype but towards the end of the year it faded away like old news. Have bloggers lost their interest or is it that every one is still hung over from their new year party.

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9rules Network – The Making

Current episode:
Episode 2: Power of Custom Fields

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It’s big, it’s black (or at least used to be), it’s got an organic type logo, it’s The Making of the 9rules Network. After a few nudges by some fans, Colin starts to tell us the tale of how 9rules was built.

The first article published at the moment is about how 9rules was built on WordPress for their first round. Colin explains why and how he used to start of the 9rules network in an instant. And as he says, it really wasn’t that difficult.

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