Can Your Mum Navigate your Blog?

Tech-savvy grandmaI was speaking to a friend recently and she told me her mum reads her blog now. She’s not afraid and most definetely not paranoid of this. After all, I think it’s soon going to be the norm all around the world. As best you can to hide it, search is becoming more powerful and personal information is being shared open through social network sites.

So instead of fighting it, why not help mum to navigate your blog? Or is your blog not mum-friendly?

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Stop The Blogging! Halt The Press!

Stack of newspapersRemember when I said bloggers should experience a blogger burnout at least once in their blogging journey. Well, preliminary symptoms of blogger burnout is most commonly found in difficulty of coming up with posts based on the schedule of your blogging strategy.

If you asked a blog guru or blog celebrity what they do when in this situation they would suggest a 101 ways for you to overcome it. It could be from aggregating other blogs to make simple lists but I’ve found an ultimate solution you will most definetely find helpful too.

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Are Social Networks future Escort Services?

EscortbookWhile visiting a friend’s blog, I noticed she had an entry titled; dating vs sexual services. I’ve known her to churn out great entries with constructive feedback but this one was just hilarious.

As humorous as it was, I then began to wander how a scenario such this could be linked to our available social networks to date. To bring you guys up to speed, recently when she logged into one of her social networks (most today have more than one) she got a message from some guy. The guy started a conversation with her but soon nightmare soon came. The guy was saying how he was coming to visit Malaysia and he asked how much will it cost for her to escort him.

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Nuffnang joins Honda to Save Rhinos

Honda Save the RhinosWhat does Nuffnang and Honda have in common now? Though Nuffnang’s logo colour would resemble a new stylish Honda Civic 2.0 in blue, both of these company’s are taking responsibility to help save Sumatran rhinos.

Honda may have pledged RM5,000,000 (yes – six zeros) over a period of 5 years, Nuffnang requests bloggers to give back something to these habitual animals. Instead of donating in monetary means, all us bloggers just need to do is contribute a blog entry in effort to spread the awareness of the Sumatran rhinos rescue project.

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Pirated Lim Kok Wing University website

Panda ThiefWho said piracy only belies in audio, video and software. Heck, we even got it for websites. Ever thought no one would dare copy a mutli-national corporation or large organization’s website (not leaving out small-medium as well)?

Well, on the Internet today anything is possible. Even similar or how some may call it, pirating of a website. It’s not the first case to happen and it’s involved big names to lesser known names. One of the recent ones in the international scene was from 31Three; Original VS Pirated. The most recent local case involves pirating of Lim Kok Wing University’s website.

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How to Write a Blog Disclaimer?

Sheriff StarA blog disclaimer is becoming more and more necessary to have nowadays. Especially with all the suing going on and not to mention our natural behavior to rebel against any system or law. As much practice you put into responsible blogging, you will stumble upon unavoidable situations where you happen to offend someone.

So how to write a blog disclaimer to cover your a** and help save your skin? What will you need to write in the blog disclaimer to protect yourself from any angle? To be honest, I’m no lawyer but here are some blog disclaimer writing tips and tricks to help you write your own blog disclaimer.

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How to Measure Your Blog Addiction?

How many articles or posts are you blogging daily? 3? 5? 10? Do you blog about every little thing that might have happened today? Do you blog in the middle of a meeting to cover it? And lastly, how do you measure your blog addiction? Do you know if you have it? Well, a simple … Read more

The Malaysia WordPress (WP) Blogging Seminar

Updated August 8, 2007:
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During the recent weekend (Saturday – August 4, 2007), I invited myself to my first Malaysia WordPress Blogging Seminar preview at the Crystal Crown hotel. It was conducted from 3pm to 5pm by two Malaysia internet marketers; May Ong and Steven Wong.

Their announced qualifications during the preview were May is a certified Internet marketing consultant while Steven who has the same certification adds self-proclaimation being an expert in Web 2.0 marketing. How does he come up with that – he clarified during the end of the preview.

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Nuffnang Bugs Report

Normally, I’d churn out a full length website review whenever I’m doing this but I’m going to make things simple today. Everyone knows about nuff-nang. Nuff as it’s pronounced ‘enough’ and nang as it’s pronounced ‘bang’ with an ‘n’.

So to save you from embarrassing yourself or to rather save Timothy (founder of Nuffnang) some breaths, all together now…nuff-nang. If you said ‘nang’ as in ‘nangka’, you’re doomed unworthy of nuffnang. Just kidding…

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Would You Pay for a Blog Seminar or Workshop?

The Bloggers Buff 2007 doesn’t count though it was called a workshop come forum come Malaysia bloggers gathering. Lately, I’ve noticed a growing number or trend of bloggers, internet marketers and entrepreneurs starting seminars and workshops.

You will more likely find them covering common topics like building a website, making money online, online marketing tips, learning how to use Flash and the list goes on. However, the most popular Internet seminar or workshop is to make money from blogs.

So what would participants expect to cover?

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