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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

Got this email from a Marikenya.com reader Rinzi of Las Pinas City

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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

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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Challenges and Sorry State for www.Marikenya.com

This site has experienced a lot of downtime these days. My depression regarding the site’s sorry state was totally down. It was difficult for me to address easily the site’s problem for two reasons: first, I don’t have a back-up of my site; and second, it happened during the time I was extremely loaded with work.

The first downtime happened because I was tricked, scammed, and desolated by a fake web hosting service named eznet-hosting.com (you may check the site’s former content by google and yahoo cache page for this site). I would be divulging more information about this scammer in my next posts. Although I was too shocked about the catastrophe that befell my blog, I was able to act after a day of wishful thinking (it was just a nightmare). My friend hosted the site, put on the backup he kept before I transferred (almost four months outdated), and I put on the finishing touches (redesigning it and putting everything back) plus writing new posts. Before I left Manila, I was happier and forward looking that I have done much for the site.

That’s what I thought. When I checked the site after coming back Sunday evening, I immediately panicked when the site won’t show up and would return errors. The worpdress prompted me to upgrade or update the wp version. I asked my host to do this for me and when he signaled me it’s done, I excitedly went to my site and was more shocked that it reverted to its old state (March, 2009) – my plugins are gone, my widgets, my articles, and everything else — except the header design, were all gone. This second event was too much for me so I ended up crying hard.
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Effects of The Hosting Scam

It’s been almost a week now after I was scammed by a pretentious hosting company but I can’t still move forward easily. There’s so much to be done (because I almost lost everything), but I’m confused and too depressed to start somewhere.

I still can’t believe this all happened. I’ve worked so hard to establish marikenya.com and in a matter of seconds, my site’s gone from the blogosphere along with my money (the advance payment for a year-worth of hosting). It was all too… surreal.

I wanted to cry but even my tears won’t go down. I was too stunned to think and decide what to do next. It was only after a day I made my first move by seeking the help of a good friend Neil who helped me establish marikenya.com and who hosted my site for years. Thank God for his immediate action, I was able to put marikenya.com online again but my articles from later part of March to July are all gone and not retrievable anymore. The reality is way too depressing for me.
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Marikenya.com is Back!

After almost tree (3) difficult days of downtime, www.MARIKENYA.com is up and running! The story about this downtime is a long one and once I’m done with the important things I need to put back to this site, I would give you a complete rundown of what transpired why this blog site was down for days and what miseries I experienced because of what happened.

In the meantime, I would like to give my sincerest gratitude to the following:

  • God, for making me think clearly despite the panic attacks and sudden emotional bursts due to depression;
  • Neil, for saving me once again and helping me get through the mess. He’s the one responsible for bringing back Marikenya.com to life;
  • Avid blogger friends and readers, for notifying me and expressing concern about the site’s downtime. Thanks people!

    The cause for all this site’s miseries is our hosting service provided Eznet-hosting of www.eznet-hosting.com, which simply ran away with my sites’ databases and one-year advance hosting payment for my two blogs. This site just decided to abandon its subscribers just like that. I don’t know how we’ll ever get back to this hosting company but we will definitely not take this sitting down.

    To all of this site’s subscribers, thank you for patiently waiting for the site to go up and please bear with me while I am trying to put back in order. I’ve lost four-month-long articles as a setback of this event but I wanted to always look at the bright side of things. So again, thank you for remaining an avid reader and subscriber of this blog.

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    The 2008 Philippines Best Humor Blogs
    Marikenya’s Toilet Humor and Her Vote

    I am joining this campaign because (1) I am basically a humorous person (although marikenya.com is hardly a humor blog) and (2) I am doing this to support my brothers and sisters at WordPress Pinoys who I came to love(teary-eyed).

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    This Project Lafftrip Laffapalooza is brought to you by the master of humor himself — Maximus Rexx II aka Badoodles.

    Ready for my votes? I am not. Nobody dared buy my vote yet and am still waiting…

    Waiting…. waiting… waiting…

    Shucks, seem like no one’s that interested.

    Let me vote then —

  • My TOP ONE!
  • Jon Cabron’s Blog. He’s hilarous. He’s one of the reasons I became addicted to WP-Forum — to read the violent or malicious reactions and musings of Jon.
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  • My TOP TWO!
  • Maru’s Blog. She’s hilarious. A female version of Jon perhaps and I love to taste her polvoron (of course for free!)… The last time I checked, she still offers free polvorons and a stash of the prize money for those who will vote for her. :D

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  • My TOP THREE!
  • Defpotec Blog.I saw his blog from Maru’s listing and I was automatically curious, maru’s description of her addiciton to his blog is enigmatic. I paid it a visit and though the @#*ng cheap monitor of my pc won’t allow me to get a good view of the pics in his posts, it made me happy. Hey man, my boss scolded me for laughing and talking alone!

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    So there! (I just mimicked this “so there…” chuva from call center people who seem so fond of this remark) If you’ll notice, I just voted three, I still have room for two more and may I remind you again, my vote is for sale.

    :D Smile! (The vote-selling part is partly joke… but then… cge na nga, joke na lang!)

    For more information on this contest, please visit this site.

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    New Friends in my New Blogging World

    I feel very wonderful today because I got this notice, notification, link alert or whatsoever from joanjoyce blog and when I visiter her site, I found her blog on friendship.

    Honestly, I felt a lump in my throat and…. (sniffle… sniffle…) I felt awed and very happy. I never thought that just after two weeks in my new world (the blogging world), a blogger like joanjoyce already consider me as her friend.

    Thank you so much sis for making me feel happy today. Honestly, I’m enjoying my blogging so much and it gives me a nice kind of high whenever I visit blogs such as yours and join forums where I talk to really cool people in this blogging industry.

    Let me then thank you and all my friends who supported me in this endeavor and for all of those who visited and continue to visit my site. It is still a very young site but I am trying to improve it everyday.

    For my new blogging friends…. this is for you!

    A Toast to Friendship
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    My Friends — joanjoyce neil kengkay ambo jen palitoking glitch

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    Pinay Scandal… in the Mind of Pinays

    Pinay Scandal… Indeed is searchable in the internet today because of the magnanimous information containing malicious contents. Websites are selling Filipinas, and sadly, for sex and porn.

    Just an hour ago, before I read this blog by marhgil, I was thinking of putting in my site the words “proudly marikenya” because I thought, as a Filipina, I’m a proud Pinay but locally, I’m a proud Marikina girl. Thinking of those porn links that will pop out of google when you type the words pinay scandal… should I think twice before I proclaim myself as a proud pinay?

    I don’t think so. I’m a proud Filipina, period.

    No ill-minded and ruthless porn website owners could make think otherwise. Although in the mind of many, especially in the mind of those horny and horrific males, pinays are associated with scandals and porn flicks, I still stand with my belief that nobody, even the world wide web, can tarnish and diminish the integrity of Filipinas.

    Last month, I was searching in the internet for successful Filipinas since it was the assignment of my nephew. I was dumbfounded that there is no website or articles in the result that directs me to my key words! See the result of my search in this screenshot:

    pinay scandal???

    It’s so disgusting that when you use the word Pinay or Filipina, the search engine would produce links to porn and dating sites but not on articles or sites that proclaim and dignify Filipino women.

    I hope that this blog and the blog of marhgil would serve as an eye opener to us all Filipinos to do something about “us.” Let us stop fornicating our culture and our Filipina women. There’s so much about Pinays that is worth celebrating and honoring.

    From now on, I would write and post more in my blog about stories of successful Pinays. Let’s see if my posts would make it to the search engines.

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    See the blogs posts of Filipinos who are rallying the point on Pinay Scandal…

  • Pinay Scandal by Marghil
  • “Pinay Scandal” Idea by Neil
  • Pinay Scandal by JoanJoyce
  • Pinay Scandal, Anyone by MyGlitch
  • The Pinay Scandal Story by Ambo
  • The Best of Pinay Scandals by Rhodilee
  • Pinay Scandal by JeanGrey
  • Pinay Scandal by Ada
  • Moderately-Confused Pinay in Deutschland – Pinay Scandal by Cheh
  • Pinay Scandal o Iskandalosang Pinay by Kengkay
  • Pinay Scandal by Caryl
  • Pinay Scandal Revealed by Glitchline
  • Pinay Scandal by Stentorized
  • Pinay Scandal on the Web by Philippine Elections 2007
  • Pinay Scandal by BabyFace
  • Pinay Scandals… by Rhyannefranz
  • Pinay Scandals: Earning Big Bucks? by Nika
  • Hit List ng Pinay Scandal by Kwentong Kengkay
  • Sex and Pinay Scandal Videos Sell by BloggingPinay
  • Pinay Scandal in Baguio City by Reynz
  • Pinay Scandal Videos by MountLaurel
  • Pinay Scandal / Pnay Scandal: 18 Above Only: Warning: May Change Your Viewing Habit by Ceefive
  • Pinay Scandal Links and Contest Update by Elizar
  • Pinay Scandal Advocates by Lestat
  • Pinay Sex Scandal by CultureShiok
  • Pinay Scandal Traffic, Monetization and Cleaning The Web by Dericx

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