I missed iBlog5 event last year since I’m outside the country (RSA 2009 and other official stuffs the following weeks). So when I learned about iBlog6 via blog posts of other pinoy bloggers I immediately registered.
iBlog6, The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit will be held at the Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman on April 16 and 17, 2010 from 8AM to 5PM. Registration is… Read the rest of this entry »
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Conference
My Pinay Scandal post turned 1 year yesterday. As a tribute to that post, I’m revisiting it now and will be giving some updates on the post itself and the ideas and characters behind the post.
- That post gave Menardconnect.com some 9000+ page views (around 20+ views per day)
- Post is still PR1 as of writing
- Some links in my original Pinay Scandal hitlist are
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Pinay Scandal
I got a comment from my The Sandwich Guy Incident post that I did yesterday. The folks from the mentioned food establishment released a statement regarding the incident. To give the other side of the story, I am posting their official statement here:
This is our official statement:
The Sandwich Guy abides by the high standards of the food industry in sanitation and food handling. All its branches… Read the rest of this entry »
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fastfood
Update 02.01.2010
The Sandwich Guy posted their official statement regarding this incident. You can read it on their website: The Sandwich Guy Official Statement . I have also copied the text of their statement in my The Sandwich Guy-Official Statement post.
I got this “disturbing” incident via email. Methinks that the email (and its contents) is already making rounds since yesterday (judging from the tweets and… Read the rest of this entry »
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fastfood
What is honey88868? Or will it be better to ask “Who is honey88868?”.
I know Honey is a popular term of endearment among couples (see my related post here). And 8 is a lucky number among the Chinese. Honey88868 might be a username in some social networking sites. Although if somebody with that username (or a name of a girl followed by some random digit numbers) follow me… Read the rest of this entry »
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google
I’m happy to announce that Menardconnect.com is now PageRank 3!!! This is the first time this blog got PR3 so this is some sort of a milestone for me and my blog
. And to add icing to the cake: Google also gave out another Adsense check as a New Years gift!!!
Actually there are this blog’s pagerank have its up and down moments. I got PR1
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google
I got another Google Adsense check recently but I have not created a blog post about it immediately due to some other pressing matters (I just tweeted about it). And I since I mentioned in my earlier blogging post that:
P.S.
Other Pinoy bloggers who helped me in one way or another deserve some link love posts too, but alas, that’s worth another post or two in the future… Read the rest of this entry »
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Adsense, google, thank you
I met Yugatech in the 2nd session of TrendLabs BlogCon. I was really inspired by his success in blogging and as a sign of my gratitude to him for that wonderful Blogcon session, I am giving some link love and shout-out post for his holiday contest.
Yuga is really big time! He is giving tons of prizes for his The Yugatech Great Gadget Giveaway… Read the rest of this entry »
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twitter
Yehey!!! My blog turned 1-year old this week. The first post was the Hello World done December 2, 2008; the same day when I registered menardconnect.com domain and set up the hosted Wordpress platform. The second one (and I believe a more formal and complete article) was the Eraserheads Reunion Concert CD Review posted on December 4, 2008.
After 196 posts, 874 legit comments, 6379 spam comments… Read the rest of this entry »
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anniversary
Congratulations to Wordpress for winning the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. I first heard of the new from a twit from Beau Lebens which I RT’d and then read about it in the Wordpress blog post by Matt.
Wordpress is popularly known as a blog platform but it can be a powerful CMS tool. This is one of the… Read the rest of this entry »
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Wordpress