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Nap Time Rocks

Nap Time Rocks (www.NapTimeRocks.com) is a blog about Parenting, Photography, and the Fab Find Adventures of a full-time mom, who uses an interesting photo interview in her About Me section.

Aside from those topics, you’ll also find several short stories penned by Ris.

I was pleasantly surprised. It isn’t everyday you bump into someone who likes to write. And blog. And follow communities such as WordPress Pinoys.

It’s fascinating how you can get to know a person you used to often exchange “Hi’s” with a little bit better thanks to Facebook. It’s strange how you get to know someone more, after you no longer see her.

Such is the power of the internet, I guess.

Essential Twitter Tools

Jeremiah Owyang lists his Essential Twitter Tools. Looks like Twitter is becoming more popular, what with the numerous “so-and-so is following” notifications these past few days.

I dunno… it feels as if there’s a surge in people using Twitter.

No Follow, No Fun?

I was reading Macuha.com’s Getting One Way Links the Evil Way, when I stumbled upon the comment by Yugatech. Here’s a quick excerpt:

I missed the days when SEO was an unknow term in the blogosphere and everyone was linking out like crazy. Then Google invented nofollow and people abide by its rule as if it were the government. It’s no fun anymore.

I wonder why it’s not fun anymore… Back in the those days, people were not conscious about SEO. They just linked to web pages they found interesting, simply because they wanted to let their site visitors know about those other sites.

There were no SEO tactics or plans or any “Aha… I would like to send Google PR juice to that site.”

It was simply: “I want others to know about that site.”

So when we fast-forward to today, some bloggers will link to you using a no-follow tag. In other words, you don’t earn any Google search engine points. But you still gain traffic, right? You still get exposure, don’t you?

So… why isn’t it fun anymore?

For me, it’s still loads of fun! And if blog owners decide to use no-follow, well… it’s their blog. 🙂

And if you want a do-follow link to your blog, well… you can do something about it. 😉

Webhosting Does Not Last

I wonder if you can still count the number of times you’ve switched from one web host to another. I’ve tried. And hoped. And even thought I had found THE host to stay with.

Yet sadly, even those which were reliable for the past two years are recently experiencing frequent downtimes.

For some reason, they choose not to communicate with their clients about this.

Oh well. Perhaps it’s time to move to another host.

Janina San Miguel – Bb. Pilipinas 2008

You’ve heard about how Janina San Miguel won in the Bb. Pilipinas 2008 beauty pageant. And since her use of the English language was less than stellar during the Q&A portion, a lot of people complained.

Why did she win, some people wonder.

How can someone who cannot communicate well in English win Miss World Philippines?

Check out the comments posted online, particularly the ones written in English.

…there must be a misunderstanding or miscalculations with the scores last night…

They were given trainings and enough exposures bago pa ung event itself. lets wish her luck nalang on the upcoming Ms. World pageant….Nevertheless, she don’t deserve the title.

Oh my goodness! VERY elementary fragmented English and yet she can’t barely complete it…

i can’t believe she managed to reached college with that grammar… where the hell is your communication skills…

I guess the pageant was mistakenly judge…

…so sad and so embarressing.

i can speak fluent English at the age of 12. She’s a COLLEGE student. BroadComm major not to mention. what the hell is happening in our society? is this a clear manifestation of degradation in our country’s education system? had it been me, i’ve already committed suicide. this is very humiliating.

if i am ur english teacher ill give u a grade of 5… being a first timer is not an excuse gurl! u better enroll in an english proficiency course… and by the way.. is that what ur english teacher have taught u?

hey guys! tell me.. did she really won the pageant?!

This is so intolerable!!! If she goes to represent our country, then the Filipinos would be known as a bunch of people who does not know how to speak straight English!!!

shame on you janina…how did u won???intriguing huh…wat d heck….

your English is not that good so better keep it up haha….

so does this means that the pageant is all beauty and no brains???

Here’s the response of Janina San Miguel.

Here’s my reaction to this whole thing, after viewing Janina’s interview and post-incident response: First of all, I’m not from UE nor am I a friend or relative of Janina. Still, I wonder how we can help more Filipinos–at least those who wish to do so–speak better English.

No, I am not judging Janina’s communication skills. I am acknowledging, however, that a lot of my fellow Filipinos do struggle with the English language. And I can’t shake the feeling that things are getting worst. (Just kidding! I meant “worse.”) 😛

Will online English tutorials help? What do you think?

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