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Marikenya Meetup with a Reader
One of the many blessings of having this blog is actually getting to know people whom I would never meet in my lifetime if I haven’t made Marikenya.com my online trademark. Read the rest of this entry »
Blogs and Sites Owners, Beware of Trademark Domain Name Scam!
Posted by mhel in blogging, general, technology on July 27th, 2010
This week, I received an email from a China company which sent a jolt to my spine:
Dear Manager:
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Shanghai, China. On July,19th,2010, We received HUATAI Company’s application that they are registering the name “marikenya” as their Internet Trademark and “marikenya.cn”, “marikenya.com.cn” ,”marikenya.asia” domain names etc.,It is China and ASIA domain names. Read the rest of this entry »
Marikenya’s New WordPress Fusion Theme Header and Look!
Noticing something new with the site? Oh yeah, I worked hours to achieve this new look — the marikenya.com’s new header and widgets all in cool blue shades. It took me time to put together the new concept for this blog but I am very pleased with its look. I mixed in the concept two of my favorite passion: family and traveling.
Thank goodness I am using the free theme Fusion which is quite customizable and of course, my photoshop 7.0 software still do the job well. I’d like to give credit to Jabey dela Paz, a brilliant photographer, whose Marikina riverpark photo I included in the header. The rest of the photos I took from my travels all over the Philippines. Read the rest of this entry »
Upgrading to WordPress Version 3.0
Posted by mhel in blogging, technology on June 25th, 2010
Is your blog using WordPress platform? Have you upgraded to the newest version yet, the fast-becoming popular WordPress 3.0? If you are an amateur blogger and only knows how to manipulate your WP blog dashboard but not the cpanel and other too technical requirements and tools use in website management, here are the basic steps in installing and upgrading your wordpress 2.8+++ versions to the newest one, the WP Version 3.0.
Feedburner Counter Reporting Error Again!
For regular readers of Marikenya.com, you may find something to be missing — the Feedburner counter at the right sidebar. I removed it intentionally as I am very frustrated about it. Feedburner is again erratic and disgustingly returning erroneous feed counts.
Last night, before going to bed, I even checked Marikenya.com’s feed count and very thankful for its daily increase which was 706 subscribers before I slept. You can just imagine how I dropped my jaw (again!) when I saw the feedburner count at 3 subscribers tonight! See this screenshot from my feedburner account for marikenya.com:
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Quick Tips for Starting Bloggers
Have you been wanting to set up your own blog or blog site? Why wait?
Setting up your own blog or personal website is very easy specially if you will opt to use free blog platform services as all you need to do is register with them and voila, you can choose your own domain name and have your instant blog in minutes! The hitch is since it’s hosted free, you will have to bear having the platform host together with your domain name. Here is an example: yourblog.freeplatform.com. Another hassle is that you will be promoting the ads and other services of the free platform service, there are even platform service which do not allow the blogger to advertise while other free hosting company advertise through the blogger’s site but do not offer profit-sharing to the blogger.
If you have just setup your own blog or blog site, whether its free-hosted or self-hosted, the next step is to write good contents to make it readable and interesting. Blogs simply do not establish followers, blog writers make a lot of efforts to establish his/her blog by writing well-researched and well-written articles or blog posts.
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Letter On Setting Up an Online Newsletter
Posted by mhel in blogging, general, technology on January 8th, 2010
Got this email from a Marikenya.com reader Rinzi of Las Pinas City
Mabuhay! I am a regular subscriber of Marikenya.com. And I await regularly your mails. I find the online newsletter interesting and informative.
I want to learn how to encode and design an online newsletter like Marikenya. Would you be able to teach me online or have a session or two with you at your office?
Do you use a special software for doing the newsletter?
I plan to put up regularly a similar newsletter for our prayer group in Las Pinas City for distribution in the Internet.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Thanks.
Rinzi of PDCC Holy Family Prayer Group, Las Pinas City
First of all, Rinzi, thank you for regularly vising Marikenya.com and for your subscription and for always taking time to write. Let me answer your questions one by one:
Q: How to encode and design an online newsletter like Marikenya?
A: What you are receiving from Marikenya.com whenever there are new articles are called feeds, in a way yes, it is already a newsletter but online newsletter may be different from that of feeds. I have designed an online newsletter in the past before for another reader who operated an online boutique and I used an MS office program called Microsoft Publisher. With the one you are receiving from Marikenya, it is called Feeds which is delivered via a third-party free online company called Feedburner.com which is now owned by Google.
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Increased Hacking Incidents Poses Need for Information Security Courses
Posted by mhel in blogging, general, technology on July 30th, 2009
Anywhere around the world, there are security bridges in technology — hacking incidents on servers, online banking accounts, websites, and blogsites. There are also a lot of online criminals (termed as scammers) lurking around the net waiting for the millions of internet users to trust them and soon as they do, they would rob them off their money and online investments. Surely, technology opened an opportunity for online crimes to be committed. Unfortunately too, policing and security is lacking in this area.
I can speak clearly of this as I have been recently victimized by a scammer which ran away scott-free with my money and my blog’s database. I tried investigating this bogus geek and found out a lot of information about him but after learning so much, the next question is — where can I go to ask help? Clearly, there are no cyber crimes law yet that would protect “small mediapreneurs” like me from scammers.
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Recuperating from Hosting Scam
Since I came back from Iloilo last weekend, I already avoided the feeling of needing time for resting and sleeping. Relaxing, even for some time, is not allowable at this point.
After Marikenya.com rested for days because of being victimized by a fraud hosting service, it was reverted to a sorry state last Sunday which ruined my stress-free weekend at Iloilo. I attended a seminar in the said province but the whole trip was so relaxing and fun. Once back, I needed to complete the prelim exam questionnaires for my two college classes, design and facilitate various trainings, and design different promotional materials. In short, this week is one the hardest week for me in terms of work load.
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