Waldner, where art thou?

Naalala ko yung mga panahong mas kilala ako sa tawag na Nitrosaint. Hindi pa karamihan ang nagagawa kong website nung mga panahong 'yon. Isa sa mga ginawa kong website ay yung Badsaintz Website. Offline na siya ngayon pero nagawan ko naman ng back-up kahit papaano.

Habang binabalikan ko yung mga ginawa ko noong araw, napadaan ako sa forum ng high school batch namin.

Ilan ito sa mga screen caps ng mga nabasa ko.



At ngayon, eto ang tanong.... SINO SI WALDNER?

Clue: He's a blogger from Mindanao who's now in Manila. He consistently attends blogger meet-ups in Manila.

Asan na kaya yung taong to? Di na umuuwi ng Davao. Amf

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Google or Wordpress?

I was preparing for school and the thought of wearing a geeky shirt came to me. I have several geek shirts in my closet, Ctrl+alt+del shirt, google shirt, wordpress shirt, 0 comments shirt to name a few.

Since I'm having a dilemma if I should move out to wordpress or not, i had an idea of posting this shirts here. Hehehe.. Just for fun.



I ended up wearing the wordpress shirt. ;)

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Moving out to wordpress or not

I have been contemplating on moving out to a new blog platform this last few weeks. I already asked Jehz and a couple of bloggers if I should or should not move to a new platform. My desires of leaving blogger for a newer platform increases everyday. I find a lot of needs which my existing platform can not provide.

I'm eyeing on migrating my BatangYagit.com to wordpress. Most of my non-blogger blogs are using Wordpress. I find wordpress more robust as compared to Blogger. Back-end design is also easier using wordpress, so as front-end design and blog aesthetics.

The cons of moving to wordpress are the following:

• It needs more maintenance. I have to make sure that my blog uses the most up-to-date version of wordpress. And sometimes, upgrading is a pain in the neck specially on a major version change.
• High risk of losing traffic. Since I'll be moving out to a new platform, there is a risk of losing traffic since the URL of my posts will be changed. A large number of my previous posts are optimized for search engine traffic.
• Paid bandwidth. Since it is self hosted, I'd be spending money for my bandwidth. My blog will have limited amount of resources. There is no assurance that my blog will be up forever.
• Need for a hosting provider. I have an existing web host but I don't think it can manage to have another load of traffic. My idea is to get a new hosting account from Gossimer.com. I've been looking into their services and find them ok. They have a few selection of hosting plans I can choose from. I'm deciding if I'd go for their Starter Plan or go big time with their Business Plan.
  

Up 'til now, I haven't decided yet. I'm still on the process of thinking whether my advantages outweighs the cons that I have mentioned.

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Beware of Nursing Friendster Profiles

Beware of friendster profiles owned by nursing students. They might contain things you don't want to see.

I was browsing friendster yesterday when I was faced with a lurid sight. I was eating my lunch while waiting for my browser to load the page. I was shocked to see a gory picture of a blood-covered wounded hand. It's a very unpleasant thing to see especially when you are enjoying your lunch.

Why do some people love to post these kind of savage photos in a place where people expect to see nice things?

My suggestion, the next time you open your friend's friendster profile, beware of the horrendous things to see.

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My First Video Blog - YGT Episode 3

Wow, I'm not sure if there's a need to post it here. I published my first video blog. It's an interview for You Got Tech blog, a techy blog for the none techy people. Thanks to Cris (Cris Works) for editing the video.



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On blogging and making money

This is an e-mail I sent to the Mindanao Bloggers mailing list. This is for those people who monetize their blogs. Please read.

Good day guys,

A couple of days ago, I made an entry (Jobless dilemma) with an in-line ad link. The entry was not a review of the advertiser, neither his site nor his products and services. (at some point, the entry's topic is related to the advertiser's ad).

But to my dismay, last night, when i checked the comments on that post.... I received a comment from someone. The person said "Maniniwala na sana ako kaso may sponsored links sa ibaba. Kaduda-duda na tuloy ang post nato.". WhaattT?? Ok......zipped

Let this be a reminder to us all, (especially those who monetize our blogs), making money out of our blogs is not bad. In fact, it's a good thing. But compromising our content for the sake of earning defeats the purpose of blogging. And placing an ad does not invalidate the message you are convey to your readers.

I would like to quote what Kuya Blogie said (a comment to that post): "having in-post ads doesn't invalidate the post's message. monetizing blogs is now an accepted activity"


Kind regards,
The Yagit Kid - http://www.batangyagit.com

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Si Batang Yagit sa taong nagdaan

Naging maganda ang taong 2007 para kay Batang Yagit. Ito ang taon kung kelan namulat siya sa mundo ng blogosphere. At para sa pagpasok ng panibagong taon, ito ang ilan sa mga highlights sa buhay ng batang walang magawa sa buhay.

• First time ko na pumunta ng General Santos City
• I had Smart Broken installed at home
• I worked in Coca-cola
• I went to Camiguin
• Revealed, bought and read Bob Ong's 6th Book
• Pissed with someone else (Chewable issues).
• Rebirth of Batang Yagit (includes redesigning the blog, more posts, more blog hopping)
• Worked in Cerveo Computer Systems
• Launched Davao Hot Spots and bought DavaoHotSpots.com
  
• First time to vote during Elections
  
• Worked with the SMS Gateway Project
• Went to Manila three times this year
• Went to Baguio twice this year
  
• Joined the link train
• Successfully created a new nickname for Ate Aileen ***
  
• Had a meeting with Miss Google Earth Philippines, The Usual Suspects, and some SEO Specialists
• Got linked with a lot of bloggers in the philippine blogosphere.
• Earned few thousands (pesos) from blogging
• Earned a few dollars from AdSense
• Bought BatangYagit.com
• Upgraded my hosting account for DCNHS
• Part of the Ratified.org's Top 100 Blogs in the Philippines
• Bought several domains
• Attended the Mindanao Bloggers Summit
• Been part of The Usual Suspects
• Went to Brunei and Malaysia
• Received a Boy Bastos Award
• Chosen as a finalist for Karlo's Pinoy Blog of the Month
• Launched PRC Board Exam Results (providing Nursing Board Exam Results)
• Received thousands of comments and subscriptions from my other blogs.
  
• Made 208 posts for 2007
• Crashed a server couple of times
• Finally, PR4....from PR0 to PR4. Wohooooo!
  

Sa ngayon, eto pa lang na-aalala ko. Hmmm... To sum up everything, naging maganda ang 2007 para sa blogging career ko. Naging maganda ang response ng blogging community sa mga kalokohang pinaggagawa ko sa aking blog. From web developer (Nitrosaint) to content writer (Blogger Batang Yagit), ganun ang naging transitions ko.

I'm hopping that the coming year would bring more blessings for my internet career. We still have lots of time to enjoy, more blogs to discover and more posts to make. Ciao 2007!

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The Top 100 Mindanao Blogs

Several bloggers in Manila have published their own versions of the top blogs in the Philippines. Most of them are using blog juice as a basis for ranking the blogs. While talking over coffee with Ate Ria (riajose.com) and Kuya Blogie (robilloblog.com), we came up with the idea of making a list for Mindanao bloggers. Since we have a reliable source of registered blogs in Mindanao, we thought of using it as reference in determining whose blogs are qualified for the list.

Yesterday, I started working on the idea on how to rank the blogs.

1. Use Blog Juice - the idea seems to be good since TLA has this application which can calculate the blog's blog juice. The bottom line, you have to input each blog url and set its category in order to get its blog juice.
   
   
2. Use Ratified Rank - Ratified.org uses PR, Technorati and Feedburner data to rank the top 100 blogs in the Philippines. Ratified.org is updated everyday and keeps a fresh record of the blog's statistics. The catch, not all mindanao blogs use ratified. Second, most of the blogs listed on the top100 blogs are from Luzon. Lastly, Kuya Andrew (the owner of ratified.org) is in Bohol for his family reunion.
   
   
3. Use a new ranking system - This is the final option left for me, to create a new ranking system for the top 100 blogs. The idea seems to be difficult at first but I was able to plan my algorithm. I can utilize technorati and feedburner APIs to get the blogs popularity (rank and subscribers). I created an application which runs through the list from Mindanao Bloggers Directory and sends out queries to technorati and feedburner. The formula I used is this: 40% for feedburner, 55% for technorati unique blog links, 5% for total technorati links.

The list is available at Mindanao Bloggers. Congratulations to those who made it in the top 100.

I'm planning on doing a resume service for next year. It seems like a good project.

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Mga hiling ni Batang Yagit ngayong pasko

Hindi ko namalayan, magpapasko na pala. Naging abala ako sa iba't ibang bagay at hindi ko na namalayang ika-24 na pala ng Disyembre. Ilang oras na lang ang aantayin ko at kakain na naman ako sa kaunting salu-salo ng aming pamilya.

Gaya ng ibang batang yagit sa mga kalye, may inihanda rin akong wish-list para ngayong pasko. Inaantay ko ang butihing Santa na tutupad sa mga kahilingan kong ito.

1. HP Pavillion DV2614TX
   
   Feature-packed ang laptop na to. Maganda at mabilis. Kaso may kamahalan.
   
   
   
2. Apple Earbuds
   
   Kanina lang eh nalaman kong nasira pala ang Earbuds ng iPod ko. Nakakalungkot kasi mahal ko pa naman ang headphone na ito. Oo, mahal nga 'to. Nasa P1700 ang isang pares nito. huhuhuhu
   
   
   
3. Sony Ericcson P1i
   
   Crush na crush ko ang phone na 'to. Symbian na Sony Ericsson. Ito ang pinakapaborito ko sa mga P-series ng Sony Ericsson. Gumagana pa naman ang K608i ko kaya ok lang.
   
   
   
4. PSP Slim
   
   Bagay na bagay ang gadgy na ito para sa mga batang katulad ko. Ito ang in sa mga bata ngayon. Di ka lang nakakalaro, nakaka-internet din ito.
   
   
   
5. Paypal Credits
   
   Kailangan ng bata ang paypal credits upang matustusan ang kanyang mga pangangailangan sa internet. Para sa donasyon, maaring i-click ang button sa ibaba.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Yun po ang mga mumunting kahilingan ni Batang Yagit ngayong kapaskuhan. Maligayang Pasko po sa inyong lahat.


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DigitalPuto: A new Batang Yagit blog

I bought two domains this week. Last Thursday, out of boredom, I bought a domain for Awitenista. It was a great buy since I was able to get it at a lower price. Thanks to that magic coupon Kuya Blogie gave me to get discounts in buying domains from Go Daddy.


Just this afternoon, I launched another website. I call it Digital Puto. It's a photo blog which I share with other amateur Davao Digital Photography practitioners like me. As of now, there are four of us who contribute for the said blog.




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Ang Paboritong Pantalon ni Batang Yagit

Ito ang paborito kong pantalon. Kung naaalala ko ng tama, binili ko ang pantalong ito mga tatlo o apat na taon na ang nakakalipas. Size 31 ang waistline at medyo loose ang fit. May rusty at faded design yung harap.

Paborito kong gamitin ang maong na 'to. Mga isa o dalawang beses kong ginagamit ito sa isang linggo. Pero nung mga nakaraang buwan, medyo hindi ko na nagagamit kasi nagkaroon ng punit sa bandang tuhod ng kaliwang paa.

Nasira 'to nung summer nang mag-practicum ako sa Coca-cola. Hindi ko maalala kung pano pero sobrang gamit na gamit ang pantalong ito sa trabaho. Marahil kaya ito nasira.

Kahit na may punit na ito, sinusuot ko pa rin siya. Hindi nga lang sa eskwela kasi bawal magsuot ng pantalong may punit.

Talaga namang nagmumukha akong Batang Yagit tuwing suot ko ang pantalong ito. Pero pag may nagtatanong, sinasabi ko na lang na 'style' yan. Hehehe. Palusot ano?


Update:
Naalala ko tuloy ang mga Sulating Pangwakas ko noong nasa elementary pa lang ako. Ka-level ng Ang Paborito kong Aso, Si Nena at ang Pusa, at Ako si Batman.



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Batang Yagit now part of The Usual Suspects

It was on November 8 that I had a conversation with Kuya Andrew, Ate Ria and Kuya Blogie when Kuya Andrew invited me to join the The Usual Suspects. It was unexpected. The invitation was casual. Few moments later, all I knew was I'm already receiving thread discussions from the TUS Mailing List. Whew! I was also invited for my first meeting with them at the Basti's Brew in Victoria Plaza.

The day after that, Ate Ria texted me and informed me that she already made my intro post (A Batang Yagit Conquers the Internet!) in the TUS Blog. Hehehe.

Another figure from TUS made a review/feature (Blog for professionals' exam results) for one of my sites. Kuya Blogie featured Jehz and Batang Yagit in his Ang Dabawenyo blog. He discussed how we came up with our PRC Board Exam Results website. He's now also part of our team.



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Review BatangYagit Blogs and get a chance to win $150

Yes that's right. Review any of my blogs and get a chance to win $150.00 from digitalfilipino.com. Ate Janette of the Digital Filipino is generous enough to give out $150 for the best entry in the You Got Blogged! blog review competition.

You Got Blogged was first launched on MindanaoBloggers.com. The competition gives focus on the true nature of blogging: that is, serious and meaningful content development. Only blogs from the Mindanao Bloggers Directory are allowed to be entered into the competition.

Now it's my turn to shamelessly encourage you people to review my blogs.

• The Student Chronicles
• Batang Yagit
• Davao HotSpots
• PRC Board Exam Results
• Batang Lakwatsero
  

The following people already made their review for my blogs.

• Batang Yagit got blogged! by Jehzeel Laurente
• Davao WiFI Hotspots got blogged! by Jehzeel Laurente
• Enviably Amusing by Caesar Balatero
• Review of PRC Board Exam Results by Conrad Miguel Gozalo
• An Exceptional Blog of an Exceptional Blogger by Richard Diongson

Join now!


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On spamming and how to control it

My friend Jehz was fired up with lots of spam comments in his blog. Just a while ago, my friend posted his own article on How to stop Blogspot Spammers?.

The solution he suggested was to TURN ON the Comment Moderation feature of Blogger. Yeah, this one is helpful but there is one more better solution he missed. Blogger is equiped with a Word Verification feature for comment postings. This gives added security in preventing spam messages from coming in.

I would also like to congratulate him for migrating from the old blogger to blogger 2. His blog looks better than it was before. :P

Peace Jehz.



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I ranked 3rd for the October Pinoy Blog of the Month

I was lucky to even rank 3rd in Karlo's Pinoy Blog of the Month. Few weeks ago, I made a campaign for this contest. A few responded and pledged their support for Batang Yagit. I am thankful to these people and to those who voted for Batang Yagit.

Why 3rd?



The judging was based on the following criteria.

• Blog Content - 50% (Is it enjoyable to read? Does it entertain? Is it informative? Is the content valuable?)
• Design 25% - (Is it good to the eyes? Is it easy to navigate? Is it user friendly?)
• Reader-Author Interaction - 20% (Are there any interactions between readers and authors? Is there reader participation on the comments page? Remember, a reader-author relationship is important in making a blog grow!)
• Pinoy Factor - 5% (How well does the blog portray its pinoy image? Is it Pinoy enough to be considered a Pinoy Blog?)

The total score from these criteria comprise 60% of the total score. I got 48.53% of the 60%. Not bad though. I was thinking that I got low on the Reader-Author Interaction. I seldom post replies on the comments from my readers. I apologize for that.


Congratulations to the other winners of the contest.


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Live Blogging for the 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit - Photo Posts edition

Bob of Mindanao.com showing pictures of his travels in Mindanao.

Chikai of Blogsilog.com received her medium size Google t-shirt.

Other Live Blogging for the event.

• Live Blogging at the Mindanao Bloggers Summit
• First Mindanao Bloggers’ Summit on going

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Too much traffic on my new domain

A couple of days ago, Jehzeel and I launched PRC Board Exam Results. It's a web archive intended to provide recent results board exam results published by the Professional Regulation Commission. Since then, we've been doing serious campaigns and SEOs for the site.

Yesterday, the PRC released the LET August 2007 results. My english teacher friend woke me early in the morning just to announce that the results are already released. I immediately jumped to my computer to make posts.

An hour after I made my posts, the website experienced problems. Some users receive an Internal Server Error message. Sometimes, the wordpress loses its connection to the MySQL Server. We were able to fix the problem when we divided the results into several pages. It reduced the server's load.

When I checked the traffic in the evening, the site statistics showed that my site received 20,000 page views on that day. Wow. That's the highest traffic I received for a single day statistic.

SELaplana, another site which posts board exam results, even crashed because of the huge traffic.






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Batang Yagit is now PR4

Yepee! I'm just glad Google Bot did not miss my blog when he last made a Page Rank check on the web. After I bought BatangYagit.com, from 2, my PR went down to zero. All of my hopes went down also. But now, I can brag my PR4. Hahaha.

I'm in NCCC Mall now for the 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit. I'm excited for the day's activities.







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LET August 2007 Results finally released

After a long wait, the results for Licensure Examination for Teachers last August 2007 is finally released by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) this morning.

Here are the list of passers.

• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (A to B)
• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (C to D)
• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (E to F)
• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (G to I)
• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (J to L)
• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (M to N)
• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (O to P)
• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (Q to R)
• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (S)
• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (T to V)
• LET August 2007 Results - Elementary Level (W to Z)

LET August 2007 Results for Secondary Level

• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (A to B)
• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (C to D)
• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (E to F)
• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (G to I)
• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (J to L)
• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (M to N)
• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (O to P)
• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (Q to R)
• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (S)
• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (T to V)
• LET August 2007 Results - Secondary Level (W to Z)

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Blogs to See

Ei, I've been busy helping several friends create their blogs. I'm on an unexpected and unplanned create-a-blog campaign right now.

Blogs to see.

PRC Board Exam Results - Check the latest exam results from PRC

Peaceful Dystopia - Insanely insane. Have you seen my ambigram? I got it from him. Want one? Ask him.

The Best School Nurse - Look who's blogging? It's your high school School Nurse

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