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FTC Rules to fine Bloggers up to $11,000

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 17 replies

posted: October 6th, 2009

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated their rules to include a stiff penalty to bloggers (and even Twitterers/Tweeple) who do not disclose their interests with commercial products and/or services.

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Here comes Pay Per Tweet

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 16 replies

posted: August 10th, 2009

With the continuous growth of Twitter worldwide, I thought it’s only a matter of time before someone does a Pay Per Post marketplace. So there you go — Pay Per Tweet — make some money online by tweeting.

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Google caught doing paid post in Japan

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere , Gooooogle. 14 replies

posted: February 10th, 2009

Google was doing some marketing campaign in Japan thru an agency called CyberBuzz and paying bloggers to post about Google Widgets.

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Why Copyright Infringement is a touchy subject?

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere , The Internet. 21 replies

posted: February 1st, 2009

While discussing cases of copyright infringement over a dinner meeting the other night, I was told that when such cases go public and pushes thru in the courts, it becomes a sensitive issue — it’s because all of us have committed some copyright infringement of some sort at one time or another.

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Pownce is shutting down

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere , Freewares. 4 replies

posted: December 2nd, 2008

Another microblogging service bites the dust. Got an email just now announcing the shutdown of Pownce (similar to Jaiku, Twitter and Plurk).

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Check out Senate Bill 2150 and House Bill 3306

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere , Curious. 10 replies

posted: October 11th, 2008

These two new bill (The Right to Reply Bill) has recently drawn some attention as it recognizes the rights of persons to reply to media reports or commentaries that are erroneous, unfair or biased against them and injurious to their reputation.

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Why Blogger isn’t that popular in the Philippines?

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere , Pinoy Bloggers. 29 replies

posted: August 16th, 2008

During a cocktail party held yesterday for several folks from Google Asia-Pacific, the Product Manager from SEA asked me this — while blogging is huge in the Philippines, why isn’t Blogger enjoying the same popularity? I gave him some figures off my head as he wrote it down. And here are some reasons why.

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Ars Technica sold for $25 Million Big Ones

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 6 replies

posted: May 19th, 2008

One of my favorite blogs to read has just been sold. TC broke the news last Friday that popular tech blog Ars Technica was bought by Conde Nast.

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Universal McCann’s Social Media Research

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 11 replies

posted: May 10th, 2008

I was sent this PDF file containing Universal McCann’s Social Media Research for March 2008. The research surveyed 17,000 internet users in 29 countries. It’s an 80-page report that covers topics on blogging, online videos and social networking sites in general.

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Cuban blogger gets Journalism Award

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 10 replies

posted: May 9th, 2008

This should be an inspiration to a lot of bloggers out there. A Cuban blogger, a 32-year old woman named Yoani Sanchez, received a Spanish Journalism award for her 13-month old blog.

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Massive Blog Hackery Exposed

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 35 replies

posted: April 7th, 2008

Tony of DJI talks about an unexpected outcome from TailRank’s River, a blog monitoring service. A large number of blogs turned out to have been hacked to promote spammy content and affiliate links.

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The Brian Gorrell Story on Media in Focus

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 86 replies

posted: March 25th, 2008

Since the Brian Gorrell blog has emerged a couple weeks ago, I tried to steer away from it because of its libelous nature. Obviously, tens of thousands of people are visiting this Australian guy’s blog about his Filipino ex-lover and the $70,000 money the latter owed him that it has gotten him much attention from the press. This evening, we taped the panel discussion at ANC’s Media in Focus discussing the social and legal ramifications of this phenomenon.

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Malu Fernandez gunning for Master Link Baiter of the Year

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 33 replies

posted: March 12th, 2008

I’m amused with people who speak their mind and exercise their freedom of speech whether or not they’re correct, morally upright, or just plain misguided. At least, they stand and own up to their words.

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All Healthy Ecosystems have Parasites

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 8 replies

posted: January 22nd, 2008

That’s what Founder and former Technorati CEO David Sifry said when asked to comment about the latest numbers and development in the blogosphere.

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Giz got balls!

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 10 replies

posted: January 15th, 2008

The recent controversy over the recent CES has gotten everyone hyped up. One Gizmodo editor pulled a prank by turning off a few TVs with a remote and eventually got banned from future conferences.

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Top 10 Predictions for 2008

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 21 replies

posted: December 31st, 2007

Last day of the year 2007. As we head for another year, let me venture a fearless forecast for 2008.

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Comment Trolling Has A Psychological Explanation

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 11 replies

posted: November 21st, 2007

The hot item over at TechCrunch is all about comment trolling having some psychological explanation. Well, of course, every human action has some sort of psychological explanation except of course if one has a bout of epilepsy.

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How to deal with arbitrary feed subscribers?

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 3 replies

posted: October 31st, 2007

One of the fastest ways of getting feed subscribers is by offering RSS-to-Email subscriptions in your blog. This gives visitors a way to get updates from your blog even if they’re not familiar with feed readers like Bloglines, Netvibes or FeedDemon. However, this option also opens you to accidental or arbitrary subscribers.

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Want to opt-in?

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 56 replies

posted: October 8th, 2007

Every so often, a company, media agency or PR firm would contact me and ask for help on how to reach specific bloggers. Given that most of them are still uninitiated and do not have a comprehensive understanding of the local blogosphere, they find it hard to initiate the engagement.

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Rushing for BlogRush?

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere. 12 replies

posted: September 19th, 2007

BlogRushI’ve been reading a lot about this BlogRush traffic exchange program in the past couple of days from almost all big blogging sites around. However, every time I hear about some structured traffic exchange program, I shy away from such campaigns due to several reasons. Let me share why I think BlogRush isn’t something to really rush about.

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