The Philippine local distributor of the Havaianas flip flops is recalling several of its havaianas children’s flip flops following the move in US to recall some children’s havaianas due to violation of paint standards. Reportedly,the decorative paint used in the flip flops contained levels that are in excess of the US federal standards.
List of Recalled Havaianas Flip Flops
Recalled havianas flip flops are primarily children’s flip flops and include the following: Read the rest of this entry »
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Is the Secretary of the Department of Tourism planning to run for a major political position come 2010? I wondered about this after checking out the web site Awesome Philippines.
I first learned about Awesome Philippines through a blog post by Tech Pinas. Tech Pinas described Awesome Philippines as the new promo website of the Department of Tourism but after checking out the images in the google ads and the Awesome Philippines banner, I have come to conclude that Awesome Philippines is Ace Durano’s website.
Check these out:
Google ad promoting Awesome Philippines
When somebody is making extra effort to get noticed particularly in a time near the elections, I can’t help but think that person is planning to run for a major political position.
So, am I right in saying that the website is promoting Ace Durano and not really the Philippines?
I just wonder though why the footer of the Awesome Philippines site has this: “Copyright 2009 by Philippine Department of Tourism. All rights reserved.” Did the DOT pay for this site? Why make another website when we already have the tourism.gov.ph WOW Philippines site?
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Has anyone been experiencing the same trouble that I have with blogsvertise? I have been doing posts for blogvertise since 2007 but it started to cause me headaches in 2008 particularly after my main website’s page rank decreased from PR 4 to PR 3.
Sometimes, Blogsvertise would be rejecting posts, advise you to to rewrite the entry and after several tries and rejections, you would end up being advised to remove the post because your blog does not comply to the advertiser’s requirements .This happened to me in March 2008. Blogsvertise made this assignment available in my grab task and rejected it later because my site was PR 3 (and they made the assignment available for my PR 3 site and did not even gave specific requirement that the assignment is for PR 4 and higher sites only).
The worse thing is that, sometimes, Blogvertise will be rejecting the task (that you can’t resubmit) only after the post (and the paid links) are already in your site for several days. Just today, I got a rejection email for a post I submitted last February 9. I was told to remove the post today February 13 because the advertiser cancelled the campaign. Can’t blogsvertise do something to protect their bloggers from advertisers who commission posts and then back out after the article is already made?
Anyone having trouble with blogsvertise too?
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I have my own stories of being a victim of copyright violation as a writer and a blogger. I would be spending time– sometimes even hours to research on some blog posts that I make only to realize that somebody else would just copy my work and paste it in their adsense monetized sites.
I am no commercial composer or a big time artist but as a blogger, I do understand the sentiments of Mr. Gary Granada against the GMA kapuso foundation. According to Mr. Granada, GMA kapuso used his work without permission and without pay.
Learn more about the issue by listening to Gary Granada’s recording:
I have not heard nor read about GMA’s side on the issue yet but I can’t think of a reason why a lone musician will go against a giant TV network except to seek for publicity. To seek for publicity, however, does not seem to be the reason in the case of Mr. Granada. It seems that his right as a musician has really been violated and he only seeks reprieve for this injustice.
Did GMA intentionally use Mr. Granada’s work or is this a case of copyright ignorance? Either which, this is a shame to GMA. The network reportedly helps in fighting piracy and it has failed in upholding the most major of all reasons why video and audio piracy is illegalized: to protect the rights of artists and musicians.
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I was surprised to see that payperpost now only pays around $1.5 in some of its 200 word assignments; and $1 to even half a dollar for a 50 word review– an outrageously low offer when you compare it to other previous payperpost assignments.
I hope I only missed some instructions. I hope PPP advertisers do not make the recession an excuse to pay less.
Updated January 19:
It turns out payperpost will be doing this for the month of January only (hopefully). Read between the words in the payperpost blog and you will realize this (low paying ads) feature is experimental. My take? If bloggers keep taking the low paying opps, then payperpost may continue or make this .50 or so per post offer permanent in the future. Why pay more when bloggers are willing to work for less?
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