Happy New Year!

December 30, 2006 · Posted in Web 2.0 · Comment 

This could be my last blog post for the year 2006.  Tomorrow, I would be busy cleaning up the house as my grandmother used to tell us to better welcome the new year with uncluttered environment. Better clean the house and the mind as well. Read more

TLA for Bloggers

December 29, 2006 · Posted in Blogging · 3 Comments 

Finally, text-link-ads is now available for Blogger users. Here’s another opportunity for Blogger users who have high page rank and high page views to monetize their blogs created on Blogger.com. (Zarah and Von!) Read more

Reviews of 2006 and Predictions for 2007

December 23, 2006 · Posted in Web 2.0 · Comment 

Darren has chosen the ten winners of his latest group writing project. 282 entries in all and I don’t have the time to post them all here. Read more

Shall I Claim this as a Lost TLA Cheque?

December 22, 2006 · Posted in Blogging · Comment 

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been awaiting the delivery of my second TLA cheque via regular mail. This was how I got my first TLA cheque a few months ago. Usually, TLA cheque arrives 4 weeks from the date it was sent out by the TLA office. Read more

This is Your Usual Blog Anniversary Post

December 21, 2006 · Posted in Up Close and Personal · 12 Comments 

Today,  this blog and the domain aczafra.com turns one year old. I don’t wanna sound too melodramatic and recount what have happened to this blog for the past 365 days, or whether this blog and blogging changed my life (although a lot of things have happened, but I’d rather not disclose them). Nonetheless, here’s a recap of aczafra.com in 2006. Read more

5 Reasons Why Filipino Bloggers Will Make it Bigger in 2007

December 20, 2006 · Posted in Web 2.0 · 18 Comments 

While everybody else joining Probloggers group writing project on reviews and predictions, are writing on general topics and ideas, let me be regionalistic on my entry for this contest by writing about Filipino bloggers. Why? Because I am a Filipino, a blogger, and hoping to make it big in the blogging world someday. Enough said, here are five reasons/prediction why I think Filipino bloggers will make it bigger in 2007. Read more

Digg Gets a Facelift and New Features to Boot

December 19, 2006 · Posted in Social Bookmarks, Web 2.0 · Comment 

Everybody’s favorite “social information diggers”, social bookmarking tool, or simply Digg sports a new widescreen look to give its readers better reading pleasure. Read more

I Am Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

December 18, 2006 · Posted in Up Close and Personal · Comment 

Yes, you read it right. I am one of the bilions of YOUs, named by the Time Magazine as Person of the Year 2006. Congratulations to me. Read more

Increasing Blog Hits as Seen on WP-Shortstat Plugin

December 14, 2006 · Posted in Blogging · 3 Comments 

I’ve been observing the behaviour of my installed WP-shortstat plugin this past couple of days since I noticed that there has been a considerable increase in the hit counts. A couple of months ago, this hits stat averages around 1K daily. Read more

Road Trip to Zoobic with an Encounter with an Arrogant Traffic Enforcer

December 13, 2006 · Posted in Road Trips · 2 Comments 

Just came back from a two-day R and R at Subic Bay Freeport in Olongapo City to check out Zoobic Safari and Ocean Adventure. We booked at Zoobic Safari Lodge (aka Crown Peak) for an overnight stay. It was a good break despite the bad weather due to typhoon Reming. Read more

MSN Live’s Answer to Google Books

December 7, 2006 · Posted in Library and Information Science · 2 Comments 

MSN’s Live Search Books has been released in beta version. The Live Search Books portal is a pretty simple interface with a simple blurb and the MSN live search box. Read more

Christmas Gadget Wish List

December 6, 2006 · Posted in Up Close and Personal · 4 Comments 

Christmas is a few days away and what a better time to post my Christmas Gadget Wish List but now. These items are very basic tools for other bloggers and you’d be suprised to find out that I still don’t have those items despite blogging for a year now. Yes, I am an impoverished blogger. Read more

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