Category Archives: web tools
Where Are the Children
Posted in blogging101, Environment, Philippines, Photos, web tools, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged children, park, playgorund, trees
The End of Blogging is at Hand
Is it the end of blogging as Social Media and Microblogging sites gain momentous popularity?
Let me rephrase that, is blogging so 2006, said with emphasis on soooo and with rolling eyes? (this was the year I started blogging, LOL). Did people lose their passion for blogging?
Should I get my tumblr account then? I already have a Facebook page for my teacher blog and am thinking of doing another Facebook page for my other blogs. Nah, probably not yet but if blog traffic don’t improve, I might do that soon, if only it drives traffic to the blogs. Real traffic and not spam comments.
Years ago, when bloggers were still a source of honest-to-goodness-unbiased-and-not-given-freebies-and-tokens-to-create-buzz-marketing reviews of everything from restaurants, products, resorts, colon cleansing, spa, hotels and products and services, blogs were revered.
Now, people are more discerning and can sniff a real review from a not-so-real one. I’ve got people asking me about this because they’ve read the same contents in blog posts from one blog to another.
Netizens, especially the younger generation have too little attention span to read or write blogs so they love the 140 character status updates of Twitter -> to please follow me there: TeacherJulie (why, they even make this as a public announcement for friends to avoid spending on sms, 😀 ), the status update in Facebook and the reblogging and copy-pasting in Tumblr.
I’d stick to blogging. For now.
Tummy Fillers
Just recently I launched a food blog called Plateful of Fun Tummy Fillers.
This is not updated regularly since I don’t have much food photos, either food I cooked or food we had when we dine out. We don’t really have fancy meals cooked at home. The children love to have hot meals with lots of flavorful soup so we usually have stews, the regular “Filipino” viand.
I don’t usually cook oily food because I want the children not to get used to oily food. Who doesn’t enjoy grease every now and then, I do but if I do this regularly, I’d be needing slimquick and/or hypertension meds or I’d end up very sick. So, there, no thanks.
For variety, once or twice a week, we have pasta for dinner which the children absolutely love.
Posted in blogging101, Me, web tools
Tagged food blog, Plateful of Fun, Tummy Fillers
Maria Aragon Lady Gaga Cover Goes Viral
I was probably one of the few hundreds to view this video of Maria Aragon Lady Gaga “Born This Way” cover at 300,000 + views last Wednesday or Thursday and now this has more than 6 million views! Wow!
Maria Aragon, of Filipino descent born and raised in Canada, is making us proud. But for me, it doesn’t matter if she has Filipino blood or none, she is a joy to watch.
In the other video at the radio station when she cried while talking to Lady Gaga, I felt like crying too 😀
You got a long way to go young lady and I hope you do get to enjoy what you love to do with your feet firmly planted on the ground.
Slow Upload Time
Last night, it took 3 hours and 30+ minutes upload time for a 4:02 minutes video to load in Facebook. It was my first time to load a video there and thought it’s going to be my last.
Gah! I took a speed test and got a very dismal result which I didn’t do a screenshot with.
I still have several videos to upload and thought today would be better to try again. So I had to check first to see the upload speed.
I guess I’m wrong. I’ll probably just read about seo link vine reviews today and load the videos when it’s upload time is faster. Sigh…
