Tag: blogging

  • Cisco Human Network Photo and Video Contest

    Just a reminder if you like photography and videoblogging. Cisco’s Human Network blog — hosted by Asia Blogging Network — has a contest. Submit your photos or videos and win some great prizes (digital SLR camera, digital video recorder, and wireless router Linksys by Cisco. For details, read the contest entry page. Can I Join?…

  • WordPress will be much better with your help

    As WordPress users, we can contribute to its development in many ways. But, if you do not involve actively in the development, you can get involved by participating in a survey. This survey will help WordPress developers to determine which features should be on the top priority for WordPress 2.8 (and/or 2.9 and beyond) .…

  • New design for this blog

    I have been very busy in the last few weeks, many things to do. I needed to recharge my energy. And this is the result: a new design for my blog. I created this theme for fun, at least to keep my mood in balance, to bring my mood back to the other design work.…

  • Videoblogging, anyone?

    I decided to start a videoblogging now. When I am with my camera digital, sometime I capture videos and photos. So, why not bring the videos online? I know it is probably not popular — especially in Indonesia. But, why not? After doing comparison steps among some video hosting providers like Vimeo, YouTube, blip.tv, Yahoo!…

  • Pesta Blogger 2008

    Last year, I joined Pesta Blogger (Indonesian Bloggers Gathering — official site). It was a great event (Flickr photoset). More than 500 bloggers gathered at Blitz Megaplex. This year (2008), Pesta Blogger will be hold in Jakarta again. At first, it was scheduled on October 25th. The commitee announced that it will be hold in…

  • Jason Calacanis Switches to WordPress

    Remember Jason Calacanis? He said good bye to blogging few months ago. Now, he moves his blog to WordPress. Why? Because he does not want to be on the Blogsmith — Weblogs Inc.’s blog platform — anymore? (source)

  • The BOBs – Best of the Blogs: Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards 2008

    Just a reminder. This year, The BOBs (Best of the Blogs) 2008 has been started on August 31. Compared to the last year competition, this year Indonesian bloggers will have an opportunity to join the event. So, if your blog is written in Bahasa Indonesia, you may join. The award will be given out in…

  • Remote Publishing Settings in WordPress 2.6

    If you’re using desktop blogging client to publish your content, and you’re using latest WordPress version (2.5.1), you should have no problems at all. But, if you upgrade to WordPress 2.6, you should adjust some settings. I tried to publish using a regular method (setting up a blog, pointing to XML-RPC gateway, inserting username and…

  • Image styling in blog entry

    When we write an article in our blog, sometime we insert images/photos to support our article. And this can be done easily, no matter what blogging platform we use. For example, using WordPress we can upload image using uploader tool, and with few clicks the image will go to entry editing screen. For better formatting…

  • Some glossaries related to webhosting

    When we jump in to the internet life, like or not, we deal with many new vocabularies. We get new words like email, attachment, domain, and also webhosting. If we deal with blogging world, sometime we see other complicated words to understand like webhosting, dedicated server, virtual private servers, etc. It’s a good thing if…

  • Telkom blocked more sites

    A sad news for people in Indonesia who use internet, including bloggers. Few days ago, some people reported that YouTube was blocked from their internet providers. Telkom Indonesia as the largest internet provider in Indonesia followed the action. According to the news release (in Bahasa Indonesia) Telkom blocked these following sites (including blogging service providers):…

  • Google Launched Google Ad Manager

    Last year April 2007, Google acquired Doubleclick for for $3.1 billion. This week, Google introduced another service — still in beta — called Google Ad Manager. What is Google Ad Manager, anyway?

  • SimplePie Updates

    Last week, Geoffrey Sneddon of SimplePie planned to leave his role developing SimplePie. As a reminder, SimplePie is a code library (written in PHP) that can be use to do creative things using RSS and Atom feeds.