gila!!! Replacement?

Well, gila!!!, the so-called popurls clone for Malaysian socio-political news was originally meant for personal use, but has grown to include many like-minded readers. As such, I think there ought to be some new changes, since it has been pretty much unchanged since I last launch it like more than 1 year ago.

Anyway, it is still a work in progress, but has some of the following new features:

- cleaner interface
- YouTube integration
- better parsing of feeds
- font size control
- background color control

Have a look in the following link! And tell me what you think?

Link

What do you wanna see on SARA?

Well, I've done some improvements on the site, but I'm wondering if anybody liked it?

So if you have any suggestions feel free to post it here. The harsher the better, but no guarantees if they'll be rectified/added though.

Housekeeping…& some DIY

Hi all,

I always love feedback, and since I received quite some feedback from a few bloggers today, I've made the following modifications:

1. Yay!!! Less waiting! – Update rate changed from hourly to every 10 minutes.
2. Less clicking…and more boxes! – Well, you no longer have to click on the title of the post to see the excerpt, just mouse over the title, and a box with the post's excerpts will pop-up automagically!!! (*see below)

3. Improved links – it used to be that you'll need to click on the blog name to go read the post, now you can click both the blog name and the title!
4. My other car's a Millenium Falcon – It seems SARA loads pretty slow in Malaysia for some reason, it seems pretty fast over here where I am, but anyway, some slow-loading elements removed, some code snipped off and streamlined, so it should be a bit faster now…maybe not lightspeed fast yet. =)

Any other suggestions?

Going overboard with PPP…

Well, I've noticed some blogs which used to be interesting has now turned into a pay-per-post churning machines!!! I have no objections with making money as long as they are kinda passive i.e. doesn't mislead some readers to think it's an interesting post but turns out to be something sponsored…but now it's getting real annoying.

So enough is enough and I really hate to do this but I guess you need to be a a**hole once in a while. From today onwards with immediate effect, any blogs with an overwhelming amount of PPP articles will be removed from SARA's database.

How to Trackback to mamakk!!! ?

Wrote on a popular issue and want your post to be read by others? Do you wanna appear on the frontpage of mamakk!!! automagically like this:

Well, you can do this just by trackback-ing to mamakk!!!

The easiest way is to just link to the relevant mamakk article if you're using wordpress, or put our trackback URI in the "TrackBack a URI:" box when you're publishing your post.

And this is how you find the trackback link to the article. From the frontpage:

From the single post page (near the bottom, just above the "teh-tarik" picture):

And that's it!