Archive for October, 2008

BlogRush Shuts Down

Remember back in 2007 when Blogrush.com promised to bring a flood of visitors to your site? Well, that site had been good to me. Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending on your point of view) they shut down. Sigh. They still “owed” me more than 720,000 impressions. But that’s okay. The experiment was quite worth it (speaking [...]

Squidoo and Giant Squids

If you like to build a lot of useful, high quality lenses in Squidoo.com, then you might want to join The Giant Squids. That’s a group of motivated Squidoo lensmakers, or people who want to put information about various topics all on one page. There are many benefits to making it into this VIP club. [...]

Steven Purugganan Speed Stacking Wizard

Have you tried speed stacking? It’s that set of 3, 6, 3 cups which you stack up and down as fast as you can. There’s a certain sequence that you have to follow, where you build a stack of 3 cups, 6 cups, and even 10 cups. You end the sequence by bringing the cups [...]

Moleskine Philippines Giveaway 2008

Would you like to win a beautiful P1,200 Moleskine Notebook for free? Join the Moleskine Notebook Giveaway 2008 contest today! There are several contests being planned in coordination with Avalon.PH, a Philippine internet shopping and online store that carries, among other products, Moleskine notebooks. UPDATE: The Avalon.PH – Viloria.net Moleskine Philippines Notebook Giveaway 2008 has [...]

Hairspray in Manila Tickets

The Tony award-winning musical Hairspray will be staged by Atlantis Productions here in Manila from November to December 2008. Hairspray, set in the 1960s, is about Tracy Turnblad, ” a big girl with big hair with a passion for dance.”

Nuffnang Philippines Awards 68 Bloggers

Nuffnang Philippines recently chose 68 bloggers who helped promote the Nuffnang ad network. I’ll be posting the list of 68, and will eventually present some kind of write-up on some of those bloggers. In the meantime, here are the lucky bloggers who each got awarded around P500. Just remember, however, that the payout is somewhere [...]

Let’s Go Green Conference 2009

Next Step Events Inc. is organizing the first Let’s Go Green Conference and Exhibit with the theme Creating Businesses with Sustainable Product and Services. The event is slated for January 28 and 29, 2009 and will be held at SMX, Mall of Asia, Philippines.

Funniest Blogs in the Philippines 2008

There’s an entirely different world of blogging that goes beyond the usual make money online, angsty experiences, travel, food, political, business, or tech blog. Yep, I’m talking about humorous blogs. It’s a good thing I happened to stumble upon JaypeeOnline.net’s 2008 Philippines 10 Funniest Blogs, which revealed me to the site known as KwentongBarbero.com (check [...]

Dance Heads Philippines

It was good to see Robbie again after 5 years, and to bond and crack jokes with cousins while feasting on lechon (recipe from Negros), lumpia (with pepper), dinuguan, japche noodles, softwrap lumpia (what’s the real name of this?), and loads of dessert.

Conspiracy Oct 2008 Sked

Here’s the October 2008 Sked of the Conspiracy Garden Café 59 Visayas Ave., QC (Across Shell Gas Station) 9206517/ 4532170 http://www.conspi.net The info comes from my friend Yna Miranda-Dalisay.