I have enrolled into the DoFollow BlogRoll. I am so happy to announce this. It is not that I do not want to Follow but I just only discovered how to do it over the weekend! Call me slow or whatever, I am not that technical mah!

Anyway, as soon as I read about it and finally understood how to implement it after reading a few times, I got it done!

If you would like to participate too, you first need a WordPress hosted blog on your own domain. Then download and install the DoFollow plug-in from Semiologic. By the way, they have some of the best WordPress plug-ins. After uploading the plug-in to your plug-in folder, activate it from your WordPress admin panel.

And then create a page for the DoFollow BlogRoll and just copy and paste the blogroll code from Tricia’s page. Drop her a comment and when she adds your blog to the blogroll, you will instantly be linked to all the other blogs that are on the blogroll.

You may wonder what benefits you have by implementing DoFollow. When your reader leave a comment on your blog, it is an instant link back to his/her own site. This will encourage more people to comment on your blog. I am sure all bloggers love more comments. Anyway, the more links there are between you and your readers, the more popular your blog will be and hopefully Google will revise your Page Rank upwards in the next update. I know your Technorati Score will definitely improve!

Since this weekend when I decided to increase the readership and popularity of my blog, I began to actively search out other blogs to read and possibly comment if I could relate to them. As you may have noticed, I also joined the DoFollow Blogroll and increased my link out in the hopes of reciprocal link backs.

One of the blogs that I came across that is worth mentioning is a personal blog by the name of The Capitalist Chronicle. The most recent post is about being fleeced by a computer repair shop. Boy, can I relate to that! You may have read my post not too long ago that my computer kept hanging, which the problem is entirely different from what happened to The Capitalist, I would like to point out that my computer was in that condition AFTER I brought it home from the computer shop. Sometimes one wonders if these shops purposely create problems for us so that we continue to send in our computer for them to repair.

Another post that put a smile on my face is that after SIX long months, The Capitalist managed to change his screen name from the default “admin”. Haha, I remember the first time I hosted my own blog. I had to ask my webhost how to change it!

The Capitalist Chronicle is a blog that I really can relate to. For one, I love his writing style and his rants are what I would rant about to, but after reading his posts, I don’t feel the need to rant on my own blog anymore because, hey I don’t feel so bad anymore knowing I am not alone!

If you are looking for a good read, check out The Capitalist Chronicle.

It’s the fourth one come June 14th, 2007. I remember blogging about it last year and placing a button on my sidebar. My, how time flies. It’s less than one month to International Weblogger’s Day and as a dutiful blogging, I’m helping to spread the word by blogging about it and telling my friends, family and monkeys about it.

Rio, the founder, will be holding a meet and greet session in New York City on June 14th, 2007 with the theme “Solidarity”. Paul, I wanna come to NYC!!!!!

Bloggers are required to ponder on how we can come together to overcome problems that have plagued the world. Can bloggers do something by just blogging responsibly?

So Malaysian bloggers may be required to register themselves and be monitored sometime in the future. It may not be now but who knows, since some smart minister mooted the idea.

If you would like to be a part of the 4th Annual Weblogger’s Day, head over to http://inweday.org/ to register even if you already did it last year. You will have to register yearly.

After waiting for a few months since the ban feature was implemented on PayPerPost, the reasons for the bans were finally revealed yesterday. While I, along with all posties waited with baited breath, when it was finally revealed, it was an anti-climax.

It is kind of funny to receive bans for mundane things like too many links or disclosing that the post was sponsored. These could be resolved if the advertiser just dropped the blogger a note. And one advertiser even said that my blog was MFP which made me go, “WTF!” The blog in question was set up in March 2006 where I published a post a day from the very first day. I believe the company only went live in June, 2006 and I only joined them in October later that year. Tell me, how would it be possible for me to set up a blog three months ahead in anticipation of something like paid blogging?

Really, when it was said that advertisers can ban us for just about anything, we did not know how true this would be until all was revealed yesterday. Some even received bans without a reason. Ermm maybe the advertiser was too pissed off to even type a few words mlm

Ahh anyway, now that everything is out in the open and the ban has now changed to bench, life goes on. At least I have stopped accumulating bans since early February. Maybe that was then when bans were finally explained to advertisers.

It’s all STILL good in the end.