I was interviewed for a blogging-related issue. Watch it tonight, March 12, 2009 at 10:15 PM. QTV is channel 11 in Manila.

I’ll try to post an online version of the interview when I get my hands on a copy.

Update: I was told the interview would be airing next week. Instead, I’ll be uploading a copy of the QTUBE interview with Peter Juan, who was featured for his online-based work. I used to work with Peter back at dotPH and numerous other ventures (in which, unfortunately, we didn’t earn our millions, but we got much experience from).

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What you pore over at 12 may be the most important reading that you do, according to a piece at citypaper.com. In hindsight, I think I was a lousy reader back when I was 12. Sure I had a very imaginative mind. I was such an introvert, that I mostly retreated to my computer games and other stuff that normal kids my age did. But most books I read that time were those assigned in school, and I could say that pretty much anything assigned in class is something that a twelve year old kid would definitely find uninteresting.

But when I read something that I find interesting, it really does captivate me, and my whole world would then revolve …

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When the Asus EeePC 701 first came out in the Philippines, I snapped up my own unit. Never mind that it was a PhP 18,000 impulse decision (I guess I had a lot of spare cash lying around at that time), but in hindsight it was well worth it. The EeePC 701 had a tiny seven-inch screen, a very limited storage of 4 GB. But it was very portable—something a road warrior like myself (or so I think) would definitely find useful.

Since then I’ve had two other netbooks. One was an EeePC 900, the “upgrade” of the 701. And the other was an HP Mini note 2133. Both the 701 and the Mini note have since been sold, with …

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The wife and I are fond of watching the early evening news, and one of the issues these days is the apparent lack of supply of LPG (or propane to some of you folks), which is used for cooking and nowadays also for fuelling LPG-equipped cars.

According to news sources, we do have enough supply, but it’s in the distribution chains that the supply is being limited. And so there is an apparent shortage.

We got worried since it was more than two months since we last bought LPG, and we were due to buy a new (refilled) tank soon. So it happened that this morning, we did run out, and when it was noontime, I loaded the empty Gasul tank …

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A lot of people are trying to make a good living off of blogging, but sad to say, most are not successful, at least in terms of being able to monetize their blogging activities enough to quit that day job.

Sadly, most think that blogging is easy money. But that is not the case. Blogging is hard work—or at least it involves a big amount of effort in writing, marketing, planning and even socializing. Most people would not get that, and think that the fact that you’ve opened a blog, put in some ad units, and posted a few posts would already make you rich.

But I’ve come to think that the age of monetizing blogging purely for the content …

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