The dark side of blogging…

yuga, this is the webmaster of PBP.

Good evening comrade. To verify authenticity of this reply I will post this code here [DFGRE99998]. This code will appear on the PBP sidebar.

First, I visit your blog at least once a week your links are interesting. And I visited it today and I saw this post. I was expecting you will blog about this because you are the webhost of Cat, and you are the big Daddy because you run PinoyBlog.

Let’s be forthright here and let’s put this in the proper perspective and set aside the anger that was built upon you by the misinformation and “panggagatong” you have received.

First, I did not trash cathcath. I never mentioned her domain name. I only linked to her website in one of my blog posts about delusional bloggers. In my opinion she’s delusional in the same way you think that I have a personality disorder. Freedom of speech.

MV. I merely said there was this podcaster who was boring and linked to his site.

Retz. I felt he was consumed by success that his ego is in orbit, so I made a parody of the PinoyBigBlogger aggravation, and then linked to him on a post about egotistical bloggers. I pitied him because he looked he was lacking sleep because of the pressures of coming up with PBB stuff everyday.

I bump into retz because I have a PBB fan site, which is sleazier.

I was thinking of a delusional blogger and I thought of Cat, whose website I found through Retz. I was just annoyed by those cat-play of words. I was thinking of a boring podcaster and I thought of MV.

My freedom of thought. Right of free speech.

On hindsight, however, I thought that linking to them that way was rude and impulsive. So I removed the links. But then the trackback worked. It was too late, and here was Cat ranting, then MV joins in.

Now, why the biggies of the Pinoy blogging scene would make an uproar over my exercise of free speech is unfathomable, to the extent that you will track my home address (which is not really hard — you can whois some of my 50 domains), follow all my links, check my adsense ID et al.

I know this is business for you and concerns your passion, but brother let’s put some sense to this. If you will read the post on PBP, you will not see any personal attacks against any blogger, even up to now. My posts border on parody and sarcasm but never did I stoop to a personal level against any blogger.

Am I anti-blogger? No, I’m not anti-blogger. A blogger is a webmaster and I’m not anti-webmaster.

Am I anti-profit? No. I profit from the Net.

The parodies on PBP are what they are. Parodies. To put something different, something that doesn’t seem right but somehow makes sense. We need a blog that will annoy, otherwise we’d be talking about the same things over and over again.

Comrade, I know you know that we often meet in the search engines. Where you will see yugatech or his clients, you will often see my sites, at least in Filipino related keywords. It’s just unfortunate that this healthy SE competition would degenerate into a mob attack against me, and I hope you didn’t take this as an opportunity to take our SE game to such low levels.

True you may have never heard of me in the blogosphere because you will never see me commenting on popular blogs or posting on PinoyBlog. Instead, I decided to create my own network of websites. What’s wrong with that? Everybody does it.

And it worked for me because my sites ranked high without me hopping from one blog to another posting linked comments. And I never bothered to exhange links with others. I was fine.

I developed directories of my own, I went to webmaster wars in the white-dominated eBay niche, I contributed to PHP open source projects, and yes even joined the very lucrative celebrity niche, as any forward-thinking webmaster will. I even made some “drama-drama” about my life because that was “hot” during the matrix heydays. That page has long been gone because that’s what it is — drama. It’s web marketing, you know that. I was beyond blogs. I was a web marketer, an old school webmaster, more than a blogger.

I may have put up trash blogs, but who doesn’t? Everybody experiments. It’s a playground. You play around with possibilities, then you abandon them when you realize they don’t work, but still you use them because they’re there.

If I’m making myself look like an idiot on the Net, that’s the way how I want to market myself. This is all just a show. Some provide the boredom, I provide the silliness and annoyance.

Comrade, this is just the Internet. Don’t lose your head. We have real lives. You run servers, I have a day job. We go home, get on the PC, then sleep. Then wake up, then work.

Yuga, let’s play the SE game fair and square. It was fun until some kiddies got poked in the butt and went running to big Daddy.

Don’t throw the whole weight of all your clients — the so called “blogging community” — against a single webmaster, just because he thought somebody among your clients were egoistic, delusional or needed voice lessons. That’s too much flattery for me.

Let’s continue the SE wars without the mob. Wouldn’t it be more fulfilling that you shut me out on your own, and without the help of the horde?

Think of it. Me against hundreds of bloggers. If this was a movie, I would be FPJ.

Happy V Day.

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There will be no blog post about this on PBP.

Yours,

GL