You might remember that the official repository of WordPress themes was once hosted at themes.wordpress.net, but unfortunately had to close down for several reasons. Today, WordPress Themes has reopened at a new location at WordPress Extend, a fitting parallel to the Plugins section. Continue reading the whole post…

I’ve noticed that Plurk is slowly pulling some of my non-Internet friends and acquaintances. A sign of increasing popularity in the Philippines, perhaps? If so, I guess it’s time for me to shove a blog post about Plurk down your throats. I’ve been a plurker for more than a month now, and by Blogosphere Law, that means I can already act like a Plurk expert! So here, ladies and gentlemen, is a list of requests demands for all veteran, newbie, and future plurkers. Read it and live your Plurk life by it for the common good.

1. Make your user name short and sweet. For those of you who still don’t have a Plurk account but are seriously considering getting one, make your user name as short as possible. During discussions, people may link to your Plurk profile by typing your user name preceded by the at symbol (e.g. @baddie = baddie). Don’t make it a hassle for them to type a really long user name. Also, avoid using alternating letters and numbers (e.g. b0p01s). It’s annoying.

2. Go easy on your display name. When you reach 40 karma, you’d be able to change your display name. This is fun for you, and if you manage to change your display name into something funny or entertaining, it could be fun for your Plurk friends as well. But, don’t overdo it. Changing your display name regularly can be annoying. Also, don’t use special characters. It may look cool for you, but it will probably look like garbage in other people’s eyes.

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If your blog posts, site content or work is original, then BEWARE. There are lurkers, thieves, bandits ( or whatever you call these a-holes) who are waiting and always ready to steal any of your online works.

THIS THIEF MAKES A LIVING OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE’S WORK.

PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD and let this thief learn his lesson.

Three excellent Slides were published over at SlideShare. It talks about hot to market to the Gen Y, what is Social Media, and how to do marketing the Web 2.0 way.

Come click this link and start the slides.

If your Internet Explorer browser is not loading but you are sure you have internet connection, you could try to download Mozilla Firefox as an alternate browser thru the following steps:

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Click Start, choose Run, run CMD
2. Enter ftp dahmer.vistech.net
3. Enter the user name: Dell
4. The cursor will not move while you type the password. Enter 254163
5. Enter BIN.
6. Enter get internet.exe
7. The file download will start and might take between 50s(cable) to 20min.(dial-up). There will be no progress indicators. When the download will be over Ftp will display

More after the jump at http://techalang.blogspot.com

Visit these sites:

http://www.obnoxiousqueer.com
http://foodelity.blogspot.com
http://meneaters.blogspot.com
http://mailboxatrandom.blogspot.com

I am one of those who found difficulty in accessing the blog of the world’s oldest blogger - Olive Riley of Australia who passed away last Saturday. Her URL http://www.allaboutolive.com.au is not loading.

She was 108.

Here’s the temporary blog created for her.

Please continue here …

And the NEW MISS UNIVERSE 2008 is Ms. Venezuela (Dayana Mendoza)!

More at http://www.obnoxiousqueer.com

Pls. visit other sites:

http://meneaters.blogspot.com
http://foodelity.blogspot.com
http://mailboxatrandom.blogspot.com
http://techalang.blogspot.com

For a preview of the WordPress For iPhone, click here or view below: Continue reading the whole post…

Hey, have you seen this?

It’s the new look of Gmail called “Redesigned”, want to know more?

Click here NA!

These days, a lot of blogs are holding contests. It’s a trend that bloggers are quick to adopt because of the benefits they could get out of it. That’s because a blog contest is a powerful marketing tool to get blogs better exposure. Get more traffic, backlinks, readers, Technorati ranking, etc; it’s all about increasing blog stats to improve your blog’s authority.

What’s a blog contest?

A blog contest is just your usual online contest that is conducted by blogs to build publicity, recognition, and/or networks. A blog contest cannot be a contest without prizes. These prizes range from entrecard credits to real cash, gadgets, advertising spots, reviews, and other valuable online merchandise and services you could think of. Getting entries to win usually requires a participant to do some things that will benefit the contest host and his/her blog.

How do you benefit from holding blog contests?

Your blog can benefit from a contest in a lot of ways depending on your contest’s rules/mechanics and how well you promoted it; but generally, these are the areas where you’ll see much improvement and what most contest runners hope to improve after conducting it:

• More backlinks
• Increased Google, Technorati, and Alexa rankings
• More readers (subscribers and return visits)
• More traffic

How to Setup a Blog Contest?

Running a contest is not as easy as it looks. It requires a lot of effort to coordinate with everyone you want to get involved from its conception to the handing-over of prizes to the winners. If you’re planning of running one, here’s a guide which could help you.

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Lineage II - South-East Asia or L2-SEA goes 2x XP, SP, and Drop Rate for LIFE!! Yeah you read the right, permanent Nx Modifier for NCsoft’ Flagship Game.

Also, the 3rd server Cadmus, will be going online and ready to welcome new Etherans. Finally, from July to August, the server will be on 3x XP, SP, and Drop Rate.

AsianMedia is the Game Service Provider (”GSP”) of Lineage II for South-East Asia.

For the official newsletter (sent via email) and announcement visit YOUrLineage.

I am inviting all Mar Roxas for President in 2010 supporters to join the Friends of Roxas 2010 (FOR 2010), a social networking site powered by Ning.Com.

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Have you been bitten by the Twitter bug? If you still haven’t heard of Twitter, I’d have to wonder under which rock you have been hiding all this time. But never mind, just crawl out of the hole you’ve been hibernating under and join the rest of us Twitter addicts who have absolutely nothing better to do.

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JenSomeone’s first ever remix in ccmixter.org

special thanks to Scott Altham!

special thanks to Kevin Rivers of WaTunes!

Special Thanks to Kevin Rivers of WaTunes for speedy upload to Napster of Identity Theft!

Here’s the link to Far Side of the World on Napster

After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready…. Read more here…

Basically, keywords can do a lot of magic to your blog in terms of traffic through search engines. It is because search engines understand your blog through keywords. When someone tries to search for a certain keyword through Google, Yahoo, or MSN, it will show results of the sites they have indexed containing the word that someone is looking for. Depending on the keyword consistency of the page and the site as a whole, the search engines display their results according to the authority of the site on that particular keyword from the strongest to the weakest; where traffic, most of the time, is exclusive only to those who are displayed on the first to the tenth results page. By using keywords effectively in your posts, theoretically, you’ll increase your traffic from search engines because you’ll get your site displayed on the first five or ten search result pages of your keywords. At the same time, you’ll have audience who are interested in what you have to say or offer because you appeared in their searches.

The concept might be simple to look at from this point but, frankly, it is a lot of work. SEO practitioners call it “keyword research” which was first used on traditional websites. Bloggers adopted the idea because, basically, blogs are websites too but with a much different purpose compared to the traditional ones. The strategy behind the practice is basically building your site/blog or article around keywords to optimize it for search engine indexing. The question now is how to boost your traffic using keyword optimization? Here’s how…

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Miracles to happen in this world

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If you are a blogger, a website owner, or a commenter, you may have notice how comments are fragmented since Web 1.0 and how it gets even more fragmented today - Web 2.0. Discussions about defragmenting Comments sparked up in the Comments space and the Blogosphere these past few months, especially with the growing popularity of services like Disqus, Intense Debate, and well the two most pointed-out fragmenter today - Shyftr and FriendFeed (to which I’ve said, it has been like that since Web 1.0).

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