Links worth checking out
Websites and weblogs that I maintain:
Grupo_com is my first website (a collaboration with my partner Rhea for our Journalism 109 class in UP CMC). We used hardcoding in HTML to create this site and I got some positive feedback from people regarding the usefulness of my articles especially the one about the Philippines' staggering debt problem.
My first attempt at a blog: the original Gimikera Is In.
I was also assigned to be a thread starter in the Travel section of Solidaridad, the UP Alliance of Student Publications and Writers' Organizations.
Of course my main focus is now on this blog hosted by Friendster/Typepad.
Websites of interest:
My first organization in UP CMC, the UP Communication Research Society has several online homes. The first one was the we used during our time and the second one is being maintained by the current members of CRS. They even have their own forums now.
My other organization was the Union of Journalists of the Philippines (UJP) and you could see us in the alumni section of the old site while the resident members also have their own online presence. They even have their own blog now.
Web Resources:
Submit the URL of your site/blog to Link Popularity Checker and get a free online report of its popularity ranking in Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN, and Teoma (Ask Jeeves).
SiteUptime is a free website monitoring service that watches your website 24/7/365 and notifies you if your becomes unavailable.
The Blog Herald promises more blog news more often.
The Mirror Project collects pictures of people and cameras being captured in any kind of reflective surface. Submit your self-portraits as well.
The Hand Collector showcases creatively decorated hands from all over the world.
WebRanking.us offers free link popularity measurements.
WastedBlog.com has plenty of fun links for you to see.
The Ageless Project is sending the message that the personal, creative side of the web is diverse and ageless. You can submit your site/blog here.
Get a fully functional analog or digital clock for your website or your desktop from Clocklink.com.
MyBlogLog is all about tracking which of your blog's outgoing links are making readers click; in the simplest, most non-intrusive way possible.
To submit your site to several search engines for free, try the Search Engine Starter.
Try submitting your blog / website to Site Tutor - the new power directory.
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The first fan listing I've joined is this one for Friendster since I really love the features offered by this social networking site.
Forums Worth Posting To:
As a blogger/webmaster, one of the most effective means of promoting your site is to join a variety of forums and post in the threads with a link to your site as your signature. People can then click on your link and generate more traffic for your site.
I have chosen the following forums and online communities based on my interests, hobbies and personality.
USTExchange was the first online community that I joined. I've been a member for around two years now and I use my headline animator as my signatrue for this forums. They even have a members' blogs section now and I was one of the first people to avail of it.
Femalenetwork.com is a pretty educational and active forum for fun, fearless females.
Starpie is a forum that deals with any topic under the sun. As a Web Writer, I was tasked to post to this forum on topics involving video games and movies.
Blog Party Forum is a place where bloggers talk about their passion for blogging.
Feedburner provides an interactive forum where users can post questions and get solutions from the administration. I askd help from them regarding the use of my headline animator as my Yahoo! signature to which they responded to but their steps were quite unclear. I finally got the solution from Yahoo! Help but it was still incomplete so I modified the procedures they sent me.
Click here to view the procedures to follow when using your headline animator as your Yahoo! email signature.
Airfagev is the online home of "proud Pinoy Smartphone users" like me. Check their forum topics here.
Online sources of news feeds:
Syndic8.com is the place to go to find RSS and Atom news feeds on a wide variety of topics.
FeedBurner is an RSS/Atom post-processing service that allows publishers to enhance their feeds in a variety of interesting and powerful ways. This is where I got my dynamic headline animator.
If you want to read RSS feeds online, point your browsers to the RSS feed reader of Yourfeeds.com.
Blog Traffic Exchanges:
One of the ways bloggers can promote their blog is to join blog exchagne programs.
One of the first traffic exchanges I joined was Blog Explosion. I find it very user-friendly because of its simple interface and you can have fun while playing in the Battle of the Blogs or listig your blog in the Blog Rocket.
Blog Clicker is a free blog traffic exchange community. For every two member blogs you view, you get one visitor to your blog (2:1 ratio).
Move up the ranks with Blog Soldiers and see your stats increase.
Traffic Soldiers also gives you the chance to move up the ranks just by surfing.
You are given 100 credits automatically once you join BlogXchange.us.
Blogexchange.net is a free weblog and fanlisting 'banner button' link exchange.
Blog search engines:
Pinoyblog.com is a free service for Filipino blogs and bloggers. It is open to all Filipino individuals who are either: (a) a Filipino citizen or (b) of Filipino ancestry irrespective of citizenship.
LS Blogs, a directory and search engine for bloggers, provides a brief description of your blog as well as a screenshot to entice surfers to click on your blog. Here's my profile.
Popdex is a website popularity index that provides the PopScore of your site.
Syndicate your blog with the SynBlog.com Blog directory.
www.2RSS.com is a free RSS directory where you can submit your RSS feeds.
Deskfeeds.com is a simple Blog and RSS feeds search engine.
Plazoo is a Dutch project that was conceived as a place to search (RSS feeds that is).
Search4Blogs is a blog search engine that is divided into several categories.
Rice Bowl Journals is a very good blogging community for Asians. 
I registered in Diarist.net, a worldwide directory of online diarists, journalers and bloggers.
Another site worth linking to is Blogarama.com, which contains several informative articles on the blogging phenomena.
Blogs by Women lists weblogs written by the fair sex.
Blogdex.net is a research project of the MIT Media Laboratory tracking the diffusion of information through the weblog community.
The Blog Universe is another blog directory and blog tool resource.
Globe of blogs aims to be one of the most comprehensive weblog listings online.
Blog Search Engine is a Web search resource for finding weblogs.
Blogwise.com is a site about about developing a portal to blogs around the world, efficiently, quickly and nicely.
Yet another blog search engine and directory is Getblogs.com.
Blog Rankings will give you a rough idea on how your blog performs relative to others.
Top Blogs will track your incoming hits and allow you to be ranked on their list.
Feed Shark will track your feed and provides a one click submission service to 21 different feed services.
Wil's Domain is a pioneer in recognizing the best Weblogs, Web sites and portals online.
Bloghub.com is an online directory and community where members from around the world gather here and exchange ideas.
BlogSweet is a directory that separates blogs by category.
Your Weblog Here is a Directory of blogs from all around the world.
SpiderHub.com - List Your Site
ReadABlog - submit your blog / RSS feed
Most Popular Websites - Web Directory
Blog Catalog is a listing of Blogs from all around the World and lists them according to categories.
BLOG-WATCH.COM - Weblogs Directory
Try adding your site to the Blog-Weblog-Directory, a Directory And Resource For Bloggers Who Want Visitors.
The NITLE weblog census is an attempt to find as many active weblogs as possible, across all languages
To showcase your blog genealogy, sign up for BlogTree.com and record which blogs inspired you to create your own blog.
There's always something new at URLSpotter.com.
The BlogOsphere ZoO is your neighborhood coffeehouse, here in the vast land of blog.
Dirone.com is a free web directory organized by words and related words.
MetaWebSearch is your engine for top search results and free site submission.
Top100Bloggers.com is another blogging index that allows you to rate your favorite blogs on the Internet.
Link Mania is a free link exchange worth submitting to.
AddMe allows you to submit your site to numerous search engines in eight easy steps.
Lookseek will index your site for free.
If you want to know who's blogging near you, you can try submitting your blog to Feedmap and get your own BlogMap.
You should also try linking to Link2Blogs.com for free traffic for your site.
