Category: Blogging Issues
The Blogger Who Showered Me With Stars
The Blogger Who Showered Me With Stars

There is no other wish a newbie blogger sends up to his “star” at night than to have his own self-hosted blog.  And you could consider it a shower of falling stars if a generous blogging buddy would just appear out of nowhere to say, “Hey, I have glass shoes for you”…Ooops, that is Cinderella.  Rather, he may whisper “Hey, [...]

By elmot with 63 comments
The Blog That I Could Now Call My Own
The Blog That I Could Now Call My Own

The long wait is finally over.
After days of tweaking, experimenting here and there, long conversations over Gmail chat and hauling posts from my blog Ani-Mo! to its new home, Pinoysoundingboard.com can now be viewed by the public; and of course, by millions of my loyal devotees who camped on my blog awaiting for independence day.  Hurray!!!
 
Blogger is Like Living With Your [...]

By elmot with 76 comments
Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs – The Return of the Darth Vader
Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs – The Return of the Darth Vader

A pack of dark heavy clouds coming from the east corner of the sky coalesced with the radiant morning sun; until the whole light was covered by the hue of greed and indulgence. Fear enveloped humanity. Everything now was full of darkness and terror.
Slowly, the dark clouds opened up ushering the evil that has once again resurrected from the forgotten [...]

By elmot with 81 comments
Chanting a Blogging Mantra for Rockstar Domains
Chanting a Blogging Mantra for Rockstar Domains

Hum…Hum…Hum…
I am once again trying to invoke the power of the whole cosmos by reciting a new mantra that hopefully could override the basic sad fact that I am a total idiot when it comes to technicalities on blogging.
“I know how to tweak my blog.” Hum…
You got it right. Jan’s latest post announced that I am moving this blog to [...]

By elmot with 73 comments
Who is the Emerging Influential Blogger? Poof!
Who is the Emerging Influential Blogger? Poof!

image by beth

I think I could claim that I made one of the craziest lists of nominees for Mam Janette Toral’s Emerging Influential Bloggers of 2009 with nominees ranging from those who could make you a one sharp-fanged rabid commenter to a blogger fuelled with caffeine on maintaining his 13 damn outstanding blogs with vigor; from one blogger who can [...]

By elmot with 54 comments
The Quickieblogger.com or the Superveryhandsomeblogger.com?
The Quickieblogger.com or the Superveryhandsomeblogger.com?

image from jhay rocas

Yehey! Independence Day! It is a holiday and many of us surely will celebrate our moments of liberation from work and academics with a short vacation over the weekend or flock the nearest malls to cool off ourselves and enjoy a whole day of window shopping happy meals.
I know, I know, let us revere this day. Hear [...]

By elmot with 25 comments
Juggling Work, Thesis and Blogging This School Year

image by eduverseI am back! Once again (coz I have yelled this on my blog so many other times…ooooppsss). Let me therefore correct those reports that were circulating the web that spiked the most searched news on google trends. No, I was not assassinated by those people I nominated and spoofed on my Craziest List of Nominees. [...]

By elmot with 31 comments
Elmot’s List of Ten Emerging Influential Blogs 2009!

image from beboI can’t believe it, but this is actually my 100 and first post since I started blogging. Wow! Now, I am hearing throngs of my screaming fans…somewhere. And if I could only twist some arms from blogger.com or I was just plainly a tech genius that could find ways to escape the natural talent of [...]

By elmot with 41 comments
I Am Now An Emerging Influential Blogger! Geeh!

image by seth jonesWhen it rains, it pours.
I haven’t never really appreciated these words only until lately when I would wake up from the middle of the night because of precious some text messages saying I won this or that and they were all for my taking. And I could say that I was like some hyperactive nuts [...]

By elmot with 40 comments
I Am Back; One Quick Post

I have not been able to make a post for the last 5 days. My blogging big brother Jan already sent me an email which only now that I have read asking what happened to me. They haven’t even seen my shadow on the blogosphere.
So many news already happened, with the most prominent that of Ted Failon. [...]

By elmot with 14 comments