The Vox UPIS 1980 Reunion Page: http://upis1980.vox.com

On Tumblr. http://ping.fm/HMBR0, the UPIS 1980 Reunion blog.

The UPIS 1980 blog site is now open: http://ping.fm/VvBz6

The UPIS 1980 Reunion blog on Posterous.com: http://ping.fm/rqDqZ

The UPIS 1980 Reunion mirror blogs are also open. On LiveJournal: http://ping.fm/dPLKG

The UPIS 1980 blog site is now open: http://ping.fm/oWJlX

We're preparing for 30th Anniversary reunion. Follow our Facebook Page: http://ping.fm/5dD69

Visit the UPIS website: http://ping.fm/hGuGQ

RT @VeronicaTanBK: Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

RT @DrySpring: Nicole Fuentes Interview with BookWenches about "Keeping Her in the Light": http://ow.ly/1cHhJ

UPIS Batch 1980's 30th Anniversary reunion: follow the Facebook Page: http://ping.fm/kuogM

Visit the UPIS website: http://ping.fm/KbKDE

tired and sleepy, and my work day hasn't started yet.

RSS Feeds for Multiple Sites

First off, what are RSS feeds. RSS is the logical successor to what in the late 1990's was called "push technology." It's basically a sign-up service, where a website update is sent to the client's feed reader.  This is not an email service, though there are email clients and webmail which can double up as RSS readers. 

Nowadays, RSS is defined as "really simple syndication."  And it really is simple.  It's so simple that most bloggers can activate this on their blog without any problem at all. It's just an option switch, turning Atom/XML on.

The good news is that RSS sends a message to RSS aggregators informing them that the website has been updated. And the aggregators broadcast this to other aggregators.  And if you are signed up to receive the feed, you're informed of the update.  Why is this a good thing? For the blogger or website owner or webmaster, he doesn't have to maintain a subscription list, and have the email sent to the subscribers.  Maintenance wise, that is so neat.

And as I mentioned earlier, even a newbie can have RSS turned on.  And with that, the world knows when a blog is updated.  This is an advantage because even without knowing it, the blog is being listed for search engines. There's no need for the search engine spider to go to the site and crawl all over the directories.

On my part, the last point is the one I really like.  Significantly, this can be extended further by submitting the RSS feed or channel to more RSS aggregators. This is part of my job. It makes the blog more easily seen by search engines, and has a positive impact on page rank.

The fun part is that I do also this on my own and for free with some other blogs I like reading. It's my way of sharing these blogs with the rest of the world. (Of course, this works only for publicly readable posts. Private posts stay private.)

--Andoy
16 Feb. 2010

Posting to Multiple Sites

Lately, I've been experimenting with posting on multiple sites, not just for status, micro-blogs and blogs but also for pictures.

Maybe, that should be specially for pictures. Lately, I've been into multiple sites for social media networks, and other sites. It's a bother to update all of them at the same time. This way, I update once, and all of them get to receive the updates.

For posts, I've been using Ping.fm. For pictures, I found Pixelpipe. The good thing about both is that you can use your phone to send pictures from your phone directly to the sites (via email) or you can use WAP (specially for Ping.fm).

Pretty cool.

--Andoy 15 Feb. 2010

had 2 whole green olives, 2 slices black olives, 2 caper pcs, and a slice of pickle. new kind of midnight snack.

watching THE BIG BANG THEORY season 2. feels like reviewing for an exam.

in a taxi in the middle of traffic and the driver says: "akala ko ba walang traffic sa marikina."

in a taxi in the middle of traffic and the driver says: "akala ko ba walang traffic sa marikina."

valentine's day sucks. feeling anti-social. hiding under a bed seems like a good idea just about now.