22 sites, blogs investigated by MCMC - face dead end for oversea blogs

Posted on May 29th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

Read this news at The Star:

22 sites, blogs investigated by MCMC

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp…

Quote:

Deputy Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum told Senator Sharifah Azizah Syed Zain in Dewan Rakyat on Monday that out of those blogs investigated, the commission had also forwarded three investigation papers to the Attorney-General’s Chambers.

“Most of the blogs and websites are being operated using platforms from overseas and efforts to obtain evidence necessary for action often come to a dead end.

“Therefore, it’s very hard to take legal action against these blogs,”he said.

Since my blog is just a personal blog, I guess I won’t be in that 22 sites list (there are hundreds thousands of blogs out there), but they have raised an interesting issue of blogs hosted oversea are very hard to take action against. I believe this includes those using bloggers.com, blogspot.com, wordpress.com or personal hosting using oversea server/hosting company.

Beside the high price of local hosting, this is a good excuse/reason to host your blog or website oversea.

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Project Petaling Street - being SPAMED!

Posted on May 25th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog, Computer / IT.

Project Petaling Street website (http://www.petalingstreet.org) has been filled with SPAMS today (as of now…there are just way too many spam posts to distinguish the real blog post.

I guess spammers have found out the trackbacks URL of petalingstreet.org newsfeeder, hence sending lots of spam post to that site.

We shall see the site admin cleaning up the spam posts soon, and ban that spammer site from posting again. Hopefully there will be no change of the trackback URL.

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No blogging recently…

Posted on April 18th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Rojak.

No blog from me recently…because I am very busy…

Busy with my business…my study…my hobby…my family…my sitesss…etc.

No blog from me recently but this…just to tell you I am busy…busy…busy…

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Wordpress 2.5 RC1 - Released!

Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

Wordpress has released their latest version of the ever popular blog software - Wordpress 2.5 RC1 on 18th March 2008 (5 days ago)!

It seems to have some new features that make posting and using wordpress more fun, but I have yet to try it…backuping my site at the moment before I upload the new version over my site.

RC1  - what does it means?

With a RC1 at the end of 2.5…it means the software is not a full release yet. RC = Release Candidates, which is very close to full release, and according to Wordpress team, the software is very stable and has been tested by many, and is very close or same as full release. Software cycle normally is beta, alpha, RC then only full release. So, you can see that RC release has actually gone through beta and alpha stage, so it should be relatively stable and safe to use.

Yes, I am going to install it later and post a report on it. My most wanted feature: Multiple upload - is now in the new release! I have wanted this feature for a very long time (currently using an multiple image file upload plugin which got errors after uploading). Standard feature on Wordpress is definitely BETTER than plugin, and I would want to keep the number of plugin to the minimum in my blog.

You can read about Wordpress 2.5 SEAK PEAK at:

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/25-sneak-peek/

Happy blogging!

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Talk about politics in Malaysia…can we?

Posted on March 11th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

In Malaysia…

1. Can we post and blog about who we like and who we don’t like (Politics in Malaysia)?
2. Will we get detained by ISA without trial and behind the bar forever?
3. Are we allowed to share our personal view and dissatisfaction in our own blog?
4. Will we get charged for blogging without solid proof?
5. Can we reply to comment in other’s blog related to politics in Malaysia?
6. Are we FREE TO TALK in our own blog?
7. Is politics blogging dangerous?
8. Can we hide behind blogger.com, wordpress.com, blogspot.com?

What do you think?

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I don’t play computer games…

Posted on March 1st, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

I read some blogs registered at BlogMalaysia today…and in one of them I read about the latest (is it latest?) computer game called Age of Empire III.

I still remember the AOE first version, very very nice graphic and very interesting strategy game. Yes, I used to play that, together with Command and Conquer. I am not expert in these game though (one of my room mate was really good in this strategy game, set the game speed to the fastest and he can still manage to conquer).

No…I don’t play computer game anymore nowadays. Not interested anymore. My last PC game was Final Fantasy X. Spent a few months finishing the game…quite tiring and addicted. Waste of time actually…

Instead of computer games, my not so new hobby is actually computer related as well. I kinda like to spend my time in my websites (ShaShinKi, BlogMalaysia, PentaxWorld, PhotoMalaysia…etc.). Today I spent US$20 bucks to purchase some codes and improve the design and features of BlogMalaysia. I have always wanted the Browse by PageRank feature, but can’t justify to spend the money for the codes before seeing BlogMalaysia is going to last or not. I am not a programmer myself, so I can’t write the codes myself. So I will have to get some codes and modify it to my existing BlogMalaysia design. Yeah…still have to spend hours in merging the codes to BlogMalaysia, but the final result is quite satisfying.

Hope more will join BlogMalaysia…we have over 100 blogs now…and we are growing. Be the early bloggers to join us!

I don’t play computer games…I play with my websites.

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BlogMalaysia - Over 100 blogs now!

Posted on February 28th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

Glad to see that BlogMalaysia.com has more than 100 blogs registered in the directory now!

Just a month+ old, BlogMalaysia.com is growing well…and many bloggers has show support by volunteering adding BlogMalaysia link logo in their blogs:

Besides directory, BlogMalaysia.com is having a forum for bloggers too now! We have a two very dedicated forum staffs at the moment, one is:

APPLE - a very dedicated blogger who is great in blog design as well as art design. Her blog updates frequently, with various type of informations and news. A good example for new bloggers to follow.
http://www.xiaoyenzi.com

Another one is:

Alvin - a buddy who I know personally, very knowledgeable person with good experience in forum management and serving.
http://alvinjani.mylovepress.com

Do take a look at their blogs, and of course don’t forget to register your blog for FREE at BlogMalaysia.com!

Happy blogging!

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Ten Ways of Making a Blog Terrible

Posted on February 25th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

Ten Ways of making a Blog Looks Terrible

By following the 10 steps below, 99% chances you will be success in making your blog looks terrible… Try it at your own risk…

1. Use default design
Be it at Blogsphere, Bloggers or Wordpress, use the default design given and don’t add any new things/widgets to it. Use the default colour and layout, so that everybody that use the same blogware will have the same look as yours. Users will come and forget about your blog in no time. This is the first successor move in hit and forget blog.

2. Blog name / Domain
Create a blogname/domain url with more than 10 characters and more than 4 vocal sounds.
Eg. http://www.blogextemehardremem.com

People will never be able to remember your domain name, even if they did, they will never spell it write (because you spell it wrong in the first place).

3. No photo, no picture
Use only TEXT in your blog. Make sure there is no picture and no text. A picture worth a thousand words? Nevermind, type one thousand words each time, don’t replace it with any picture. Show that you are a great typewriter.

(more…)

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Featured Blogger at BlogMalaysia.com

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

I checked my blog statistic today and notice something “weird“.

I have a dramatic increment of visitors since 11th Feb 2008. That’s more than doubled!

That was the day my blog becomes Featured Blogger at BlogMalaysia.com!

Yes, the impact seems huge…especially since BlogMalaysia.com is still a new site.

Every month, there will be newly selected Featured Blogger. How to qualify? Makes your blog unique and nice, with banner in your blog, then you will stand a chance to be featured!

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