Adsense Preview Tool

When building a new weblog or website, the common ads you’ll want to put is Google’s Adsense. But the problem with Adsense was that you need to await approval before you could display them on your website. Also, it’s only after approval that you can see what kind of ads will be hosted based on your site’s content.

Well, here’s a handy dandy tool I picked up from Sitepoint.

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The Daily Blog Read Meme

Allow me to first explain that a meme isn’t the same as ‘mei mei’, which in Chinese means little sister. A meme in blog talk is an idea or project that’s shared through other bloggers normally through recommendation. However, there is no harm in anyone picking it up and running it on their own.

I’m not sure where this meme started from but I’m having a go at it from Edrei’s blog, Footsteps in the Mirror. This meme is quite fun because there are lots of questions you’re given or you could self create as long it’s within the theme.

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Be a Merdeka Blogger

After the visit to London by ol’ Tunku Abdul Rahman, many Malayan (not known as Malaysian yet) gathered at the Merdeka Stadium awaiting words they long to be uttered ever since their soil was visited by foreign power. These words made into phrases was to congratulate them of their country spirit and declaration for the country’s independence from the British empire.

That day was on 31st August 1957; where Tunku Abdul Rahman stood on a podium with several other British officers seated behind him facing the abrupt Malayan crowd. When his speech had ended, he shouted this word continuously that is now one of the most celebrated words of our country.

He shouted, “MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA!”

(mer-de-ka is the Malayan translation for freedom).

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Store Wars

Isn’t really a parody of the Star Wars saga. And no, don’t worry as I’m not going to be blogging on the trilogy. I be blogging about Grocery Store Wars done by FreeRangeStudio. It’s simply an excellent short film done in stop motion and I believe it should be worth an award or nominated for an award.

A little about the studio. They’re actually a group of creative minds that don’t just design. They’re a group of humans aiming to do better good in this world with their talent. Most of their portfolio involves creating work for a better cause. The context of Store Wars tells about harsh processes our food goes through with delivery on reasons we should support only organic food.

On their official website, you can view the video or download it right away. You can also view the great making journey and join the fun by looking at the characters. My favourite is ChewBroccoli. Anyway, have a look at the website and video, HERE.

Who Links To Me

Is a rather cool little thing going on. I spotted this while reading the blog; The Silent Room, that you can visit HERE. It was located almost at the bottom of his sidebar just above the ‘Malaysian Bloggers demand a systemised building evacuation for the disabled’. Was there reading about how someone plagiarised his articles and artwork too. *gasp* But I guess you do get people like that online.

Anyway, what Who Links To Me does? To me, it’s kinda like a tool to just see who’s linking to your blog or articles out there in the humongous blogosphere. It doesn’t function by going to their website and entering your URL. It requires you to place a link on your website and you MUST ping weblogs.com.

It’s need on having to ping weblogs.com makes it a bit of a hindrance so unless you’re really curious who links to your blog then I guess it’s alright to use this. On the other hand, I like the concept or idea behind this because they’re kinda killing two birds with a stone now. They not only offer you a utility such as this, they also get to promote themselves for free and if Google’s Pagerank still exist, they get tons of it.

If you’d like to find out more on this, proceed HERE.