Articles on Internet Related Rumblings
Spam 3.0: Are you using Digg to game me?
Just moments ago, I received a comment on my previous post. Wanting to upkeep my “SOB-ness” and hoping to make another friend from this blog, I hurried to see what the comment was about.
I was elated because it was from someone whom I’ve never seen commenting on my blog before. I thought my [...]
Blogging for Education
Today, I realised how much I was reading online in my subscribed feeds in Newsgator. As of now, I have over a hundred and fifty feeds (that’s not a lot compared to many other bloggers, by the way) subscribed in Newsgator, and everyday, I would log in and read the updates from these blogs.
Not [...]
6 Predictions for 2007
Amrit tagged me do my 6 predictions for 2007 last year (:mrgreen: that sounds really long ago isn’t it?)… and I’ve really been thinking about it, and I’m ready to take the challenge.
Here goes:
I think more corporations are going to start to embrace blogs as a means to reach out to its customers.
The Fortune 500 [...]
All professional bloggers are not bloggers
Amrit from Content Blog highlighted an couple of articles yesterday about people calling everything blogs. Actually, this thought was in my mind for a while, especially when I was posting about the Corporate Blogging and Internet Marketing yesterday. Its so true isn’t it?
If you trace back to why blogs are called blogs in [...]
Does it make sense to host your site outside the US?
After the Taiwan quakes and not having very smooth Internet access these two days, I was thinking - unless you have a very good proportion of your visitors coming in from your home country, is it ever worth hosting your site in your own country?
The issue comes with two concerns.
First, it is undeniable that USA [...]
Asia’s Internet access wrecked by Taiwan quake
Today, I was unable to access the majority of the overseas websites, for a large portion of the day - I thought it was my own computer, or the connection between the router that was giving me the problem, but I later verified it with a couple of other friends whom I’ve met online [...]
Do you watch the TV for news?
I was catching up on my feeds and I came across an article written by Steve Rubel from Micropersuasion about How TV Will Become the Ultimate Open Content Platform, where he discussed the future of TV and why and why won’t it replace the Internet for distribution of information.
But seriously, how many of you actually [...]
Google says : No more images near your ads
Google has finally cleared up the policy of having images near their ads, and here’s what they said:
We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads. If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that [...]
Now in Singapore, you can make money online even if you are homeless!
Haha! Guess what was in the local news today!
For the next 3 years, there will be free wireless access for the public!
Here is an excerpt (source from ChannelNewsAsia.com):
From 1st December, everyone in Singapore can enjoy free wireless access at public areas islandwide.
Not only does this come a month ahead of schedule, the offer has [...]
Technorati’s Top Place Usurped by a Japanese Blog
I just surfed on to the Technorati top 100 5 minutes ago and I noticed this.
Engadget is #2? And number one is WHAT? cururu.jp? … and it has 187 thousand blogs linked to it?
No way. Something’s wrong, and something has to be fixed. Check out the links to the blog.
If not, it [...]
Tan Kian Ann is blog marketer based in Singapore. He now works with individuals and small businesses reach out to the world using blogs. 


