Malaysia Study Found No Evidence That Blog Readers Support Oppositions
Jun 18, 2008 Around the Word, Blogosphere
This study, Peranan dan Pengaruh Internet dan Kewartawanan Bloggers Terhadap Pengundi Semasa Pilihan Raya Umum Malaysia 2008 (The Role and Influence of the Internet and Journalistic Bloggers on Voters during the 2008 General Election), was conducted by a few researchers from Universiti Teknologi Mara’s Communications and Media Studies Faculty.
They found no concrete evidence that blog readers tend to support oppositions. I think most readers turn to blog because they want something different, they want to know what others think and they want to join in the discussion as well.
This is what found in Malaysia, how about those in Singapore?
Study: Blog readers not opposition sympathisers
Tags: blogs, Malaysia, politic, reader, Singapore, Universiti Teknologi Mara
Princessa @ Sabrina So Famous Now, on Paper Again
May 28, 2008 Blogosphere, Jialat dot Com, Singapore
Sabrina is on newspaper again. Check out today’s Mypaper, page B6, Chinese section. She was on Digital Life last week if I am not wrong. Must be earning quite a lot!
Click HERE for enlarged image. I don’t dare to do image link at the moment. I scared leh, kiasu.
Tags: Blogosphere, blogs, Mypaper, Princessa, Singapore
Blogs of Taiwan/Hongkong Artists
Jan 24, 2008 Celebrities, Gossips
I came across this Taiwan website, called TimLiap.com, 提姆网. I know nothing about this person Tim. What attracted me is that in this site, there is a collections of many many many Taiwan/Hongkong based artists’ blog address. There are a total of over 1300 blog addresses listed there. Just to name a few, like 柯以柔 (水果妹, I like her!), Tanya Chua, those little girls from 黑涩会美眉, the lead vocalist of Soda Green, 苏打绿, 青峰, ect, ect. Really aaaaaaaaaaaaa lots! Some blogs of famous Taiwanese politicians are included also.
The address of the page is: http://www.timliao.com/starblog.html (Warning: this page is in Traditional Chinese)
Thanks Paikia.com for the info.
Tags: artists, blogs, Celebrities, Hongkong, Taiwan
Email from Josh Lim, Advertlets Announced Compensation Plan
Jan 11, 2008 Blogosphere, Money
Open my gmail and saw a mail from Josh, same title as the one he sended out few days back, “Advertlets.com - We’re Sorry”. Initially I thought it was a repeated email. Upon reading it, then I realized it was about their compensation plan to bloggers, about their recent domain name cock-up.
Here is the details:
Hi Advertlets Members,
Some of you may have noted this over the past few days, but we wanted to make sure before notifying our members. We’ll like to officially announce that we are fully back online now as DNS servers internationally have now resolved. Hence, all issues regarding the code have been resolved and you can reinstate your Advertlets Ad units.
However, if you have problems accessing your account, please contact info@advertlets.com. We noted that some members have misspelled e-mails (eg, gmial.com), so please ensure that your e-mail address is entered correctly for us to validate your account and contact you if needed.
We understand that the recent service downtime caused much inconvenience, and we aim to make up for it. As our Singaporean members might have noticed today in The New Paper, we have announced our compensation plan. As compensation for the recent downtime, you will earn an additional 10-20% extra on top of all legit earnings the month of January. The amount will be calculated at the end of January, and credited within the first week of February.
The ratio of the percentage increase will be based on the duration of time you have been with Advertlets. Members who have been
with Advertlets longer, will receive a higher ratio. We hope that this is a suitable compensation for the downtime period faced, and hope you can accept this as a sign of our commitment to not repeat mistakes, and to continue to deliver better service in future.Hence, we advise you to reinstall your ad code formats as before to maximize your earnings from Advertlets. Just as a general guide, the maximum number of ads you can place per page is 4. Here are notes on our ad formats, to help you optimize your placements. They are arranged in the order of which will bring you the best results when placed on your blog, most optimal ad formats first.
-165×240 (Sidebar ad, to be placed high up enough the page to be visible without scrolling)
-336×280 (Best between blog posts, or after posts in the comments section)
-468×60 (To be placed on top of the page, good for those with international traffic)
-180×150 (To be placed inside posts, sidebar, etc)In addition, we will have more campaigns in the next few days to blogs, as well as a new premium ad format (720×90) that will deliver better earnings through its prominence and placing. The new ad format will be part of Advertlets 2.0. Please contact us if you would like to test out the new ad formats together with more exciting features such as earning graphs, trend monitoring, social features and more.
Thank you. We look forward to delivering you a better blog advertising experience. Please contact info@advertlets.com or myself at josh.lim@advertlets.com if you have any questions in future.
Regards,
Josh Lim
Advertlets.com
My earning from Advertlets has been very very little since start of 2008, like what I said here. They said it is due to the contract expiry of previous advertisers. I got the feeling that, even with 10-20% more, it is still very very little. But I shall see what happens at the end of this month…
Tags: Advertlets, blogs, compensation, Money
Nuffnang Gliterrati Club and…question
Jan 7, 2008 Blogosphere, Jialat dot Com, Money
I received and email in the afternoon from Nuffnang. It is about their about-to-launch Gliterrati Cub. This is said to be a exclusive club for Nuffnangers who have no others ads from other South East Asia Oriented ads networks, except Nuffnang’s. Well, I am not going to explain more on this club, you can just go over to HERE or HERE to read the details. (Don’t worry, you will not be re-direceted to some parking sites!)
Upon receiving this, immediately a question came into my mind. It is very common that bloggers nowadays have more than 1 blog, some even have more than 10. Let’s say I have 5 active blogs registered with Nuffnang under same publisher account. Then, all the 5 blogs must be clean from other South East Asia Oriented ads networks, except Nuffnang’s? If I keep 4 with Nuffnang and 1 with, say GrabMyAds or Nufflets or Advertlets, then I will be kicked out from the club and become a Non-exclusive member. Am I right? Actually I have replied Nuffnang’s email with my question to Ming, but haven’t got any reply yet. Anyone can answer my question?
Something I found funny from that email:
Dear Nuffnangers,
Today Nuffnang has successfully established itself as the blog advertising market leader in both Malaysia and Singapore. As such we have also faced increasing pressure from many of our loyal exclusive Nuffnangers to enact an exclusive program, rewarding them for their loyalty.
We have always kept it as no secret that we often give priority to our exclusive Nuffnangers in everything from community events to even the serving of ads.
However with the establishment of the Nuffnang Gliteratti, we have now crystallized these benefits as part of our community policy.
Please note that the Nuffnang Gliterati will take effect automatically from the 13th of January 2008.
To view the benefits of being a Nuffnang Glitterati, click here.
Best regards,
Ming
Co-Founder
Nuffnang.com
You guys notice anything? The name of the club was actually mentioned 3 times in this email, but all with DIFFERENT SPELLING. I wonder if they guys are sure which name that they are going to use? As for my title of this post, I follow what I saw from their official site.
