Banda.PH is my photo blog dedicated to Philippine bands. I used the Hemingway theme for it and customize it a bit so that it would only show one blog post. Originally, the theme was designed to have two posts that are placed side-by-side. Then, instead of choosing the Wordpress tags to appear on the footer, I placed it on a page by customizing the theme. The pages and the posts were indexed easily by Google. Thanks to Google’s Webmaster Tools.

Justin.TV is like the popular TV show Big Brother in some ways. Justin wears the camera 24 hours, 7 days a week. And that is even if he’s in the bathroom or on a date. And according to the website, he’ll wear the camera until the day he dies. It was launched on March 19 and it has been running online for nine days already . (more…)

Is Carl Ocab a Darren Rowse in the making? I’ve stumbled upon his blog while I was checking my recent visitors via MyBlogLog’s widget here in my blog. While I was browsing his blog, I’ve seen that he made a modified Wordpress theme and I commended his modification of the K2 theme making it Adsense ready in my Pinoy.Tech.Blog post. It is indeed a first time for me to read a blog of a thirteen year old who talks about Adsense, search engine optimization (SEO) or anything that is relevant to blog monetization. Check out his blog and maybe you’ll get started monetizing your blog like what he’s doing.

My blog is blocked in China! I tested using the website Great Firewall of China. John Chow’s test result is also the same as mine. However, he mentioned that when he was in China, he was able to access his blog and as for my blog, I was not able to access it there. Thus, I was not able to blog there. So I did an offline blogging instead. I just wrote everything in Microsoft Word and saved the document. Then, I just copied and pasted the entries when I got back in Manila.

Spreading some link loving!

Bembang Blogs - Not blocked
Kiss Fendi - blocked
Thoughts in Binary - Not blocked

I just hoped that my URL is not blocked in China as suggested by their disclaimer:

this version 1.0 may report sites as being ‘blocked’, while there are only technical reasons for their unavailability.
It’s greatfirewallofchina.org’s aim to collaboratively build a community that will be able to visualize Internet censorship in an increasingly accurate way.

The T-Shirt Project has a website! I’m pretty sure that you have heard of Spoofs Ltd. which owns the brand Spoofs. Of course, a lot got amused with the FedUp shirts and as well as the Bokia shirts that wearing a Spoofs shirt became contagious. Spoofs Ltd. also owns Branded and is popular amongst the gig-a-holics where you could spot one wearing a “Giniling Festival Nakamamatay” shirt. There are also shirts (under the Malisya brand) that are not suitable for minors for its message. The website is soon to be e-commerce enabled. Thus, you could shop online in the near future! Prior to shopping in their website, you must first create an account. However, let’s just wait for the online shop to go live.

Please do support our fellow Pinoy bloggers in the Travvies Travel Blog Awards. The following blogs included are:

Let’s Visit Asia by Ruth Schaffer
Europe String by Melissa Atienza Petri

Both blogs are under b5media and are finalists under the Best Destination Blog. Cast your votes now! You may only vote until February 28.

Submit now your nominations for the Philippine Blog Awards! The following award categories are: Best Technology Blog, Best Travel Blog, Best Entertainment Blog, Best Personal Blog, Best Home & Living Blog, Best Socio-Political Blog, Best News & Media Blog, Best Business/Entrepreneur Blog, Best Sports & Recreation Blog, Best Fashion & Lifestyle Blog, Best Photo Blog, and Podcast of the Year Award. Special awards will also be given such as Blogger’s Choice Award, Best Blog Design, Best OFW Blog, Best Free Custom Theme, and Best Blog Plugin/Extension.

MyBlogLog is a social networking site made for bloggers. I joined just this month after finding about it from Cesar. One thing I noticed about this site is that it has no ads. Their business model is something like that of Flickr where you need to upgrade your free account for a cost (25 USD per year) so that you could maximize the built-in statistical tools. The statistical tools will tell you where your readers came from (links), what they have read in your blog and your outgoing links. If you have a free account, you will only see the last 10 of it. (more…)