PenangBloggers.com launched

Yes, a domain name for the Penang Bloggers portal! And of course, after about two years, a whole new refreshing design. Even the back-end script has been rewritten from scratch. Perhaps I should say, it's a totally different script. Previously, the ...

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Meet up in Penang

Okay, I just went to a meet up this evening, riding on Yvy's cozy car. We reached the Ice Ice Baby Restaurant just about time to have lunch, with Lucia, n305er from n305er.com and Christopher from PenangLive.com. Later, Jeremy, so-called ...

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Malaysia Blogger Map

Few weeks ago, I've launched the Malaysia Blogger Map web site. It is one of my experiments to test a very cool Flash-based mapping application called worldKit. If you've never heard of it, don't worry, it's not too late for ...

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Automatic tagging system

A lot of sites have implemented tagging systems nowadays. We tag our bookmarks on various social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, de.lirio.us, Furl, BlogMarks, Simpy and Wists. We also tag our photos and images on Flickr. We even tag the ...

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Commenting system in weblogs

A weblog is called a weblog if it contains these basic features: Content, either syndicated or from your brain Permanent hyperlinks, often abbreviated as permalink Daily, monthly, yearly, and/or categorical archives RSS and/or Atom subscription feeds Commenting system Without them, the overall blogging experience is not ...

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Missing in action yesterday

Yesterday was the second annual International Weblogger's Day. There was a Penang Bloggers meet in Prangin Mall. Kew couldn't make it there. Andy couldn't as well. Peter Tan couldn't too. Kenny bailed out at the last minute. Me also then. ...

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Tags and folksonomy

These few days, I've added some tags links for my link roll section on the sidebar. Using Magpie, the del.icio.us's RSS feed is parsed and displayed as HTML output. At first, the output is coded as such: <ul> <li><a href="hyperlink" title="description">title</a></li> ... </ul> Later, I ...

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Reasons not to

Reasons not to read or visit my weblog: I am not a frequent blogger. I am not a handsome guy, unfortunately. No, I'm definitely not a young pretty girl who'll post sexy pictures all over. I don't post jokes, funny things, or ridiculous stuff. I ...

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Another bloggers meet in Penang

This morning, I just went to the third, I mean, fourth bloggers meet in Penang, with Kenny Lee, an active blogger from Kedah. I guess this is the fourth meet because the third was arranged by Lucia, as few bloggers ...

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Malaysia Bloggers logo

I once read a very interesting article written by Andrei Herasimchuk. It's about the potential rebranding of the W3C logo, added with a little sense of playfulness. It inspires me and opens up a new dimension in my understanding of ...

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Bloggers meet in Penang

Yesterday, the bloggers meet was great. I enjoyed it. Really. Before the meet, I was kind of hesitant to go because I have a problem with transportation. At first, I asked my friend, Will Sen to give me a lift, but ...

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Let's blog

Weblogs are everywhere. My friend, Kah Peng, has a weblog. My cousin, Chze Hong, has a weblog. Quite a number of Malaysians have weblogs. Even newspapers keep reporting about the widespread of weblogs. So, what is the fuss here? Why ...

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