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July 21, 2006 20067 12:36 am | In SARA | Comments Off

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SARA Tag Cloud: Quick check on popular topics!

July 20, 2006 20067 1:06 am | In SARA | 3 Comments

Wondering why the jokes were drying up and all? Yet another update about SARA? Well, the boringest one was busy creating something new for SARA, spent a couple of days doing it but stupid me didn't realise there were lotsa smart people out there on the net.

While having a mindblock (ermm…or you can call it distraction =P) in the midst of boring coding, I came upon a site called ZoomClouds which created what I wanted exactly. Could have saved me a couple of hours/days if I've found it earlier =P Anyway, I thought why reinvent the wheel (or cloud for this matter) right?

So lazy me just copy-and-pasted the code from there to here so you can see this nice box here, which contain lotsa words –> they all represent the hottest 100 topics on the Southeast Asian blogosphere now. Click on the small little tags to check out the related posts and the ones with bigger fonts mean that there are more posts about them, the smaller ones are just smaller issues.

So you like it?

Anyway, for the full version, try this link. There's also a smaller one on SARA's sidebar.

Also, some internal upgrading were done to the feeds on the sidebar, they are all hosted locally on the server now, so it should speed up loading time as well. Last time I counted with my stopwatch, it saved about 30s of loading time on a 3Mbps connection, so hopefully it'll be more enjoyable.

badSARA buttons!

May 25, 2006 20065 2:07 am | In SARA | 3 Comments

Hi guys,

If you wanna add yourself to badSARA, pls reply below in the comments and if you would like to show your support, add this button to your blog using this code:

Currently all kinda baddies are welcomed, unless it's content to do with pornography, racism, hacking, piracy or warez.

Add your Feeds to SARA here!

May 24, 2006 20065 1:38 am | In SARA | 14 Comments

Hi guys,

If you're interested in adding your feeds to SARA, pls enter your blog address and feed in the contact form below.

This will allow your blog to be noticed by Google and many other search engines and is a very efficient way to build your pagerank/search engine ranking. It's completely free and I reserve the right to judge the suitability of your blog for our audience =)

Also, so as not to waste your time, only post if your blog falls in these categories:

1. from Southeast Asia only, preferably in English
2. is not a hatesite/gospel site
3. is not a splog
4. is not commercial

Linking Back to SARA

And although it's not compulsory, it would be great if you can link back to us by using the following code:

Requirements

As there are many other local sites to submit your links to, SARA tends to be a bit more selective in choosing which sites it'll link to.

Also, since I read quite a few blogs to and go "blog-exploring" I'll also add some blogs by myself but only if they ping other places or are very popular.

So here's the template for requesting a link from SARA, just fill up the following details:

Name of blog:
RSS Address:
What's your blog about:

On Ads in your Feed:

Since Google and Feedburner has decided to allow for the monetisation of blog feeds, this might actually clash with our own ads and thus violate some of the Google TOS, so from now on, any feeds submitted to SARA which has ads on them will be removed without notice.

On Blog Posts Set in the Future

I know some ppl like to put up an announcement or something which is set at a future date, and this will actually appear on SARA but on the date you set. So, if you're do this, I have no choice but to take your blog feed away so as ppl won't keep on seeing your blog post all the time. And when it's all over, I might consider putting your blog feed back but sometimes I can forget, so pls post here if you wanna do so:

Ok this problem is fixed now. But your future post will be stamped on SARA's server as a current post.

Blogger Assassinations & badSARA

May 23, 2006 20065 11:13 pm | In Money Tips, SARA | 19 Comments

In just the short 10 months since I've started blogging and reading M'sian blogs, I've witnessed at least 3 attempts (XX, Kahsoon, MenJ) to "assassinate"/"silence" bloggers and I'm sure there were more. I might just be the next one in line after this post but help me understand this: Why is there a need to gang up against bloggers who make mistakes or present views you don't agree with?

I'm not sure if this is a M'sian thing. In fact, the only chance I got to work with M'sians recently was in a recent community activity over here in London and I have to say the actions of some people really surprises me - backstabbing, rumour mongering, talking behind ppl's backs, etc and all for what? Just a small event which most of my Brit friends couldn't understand why I'm kicking such a big fuss about.

Is it just to bring some excitement to the blogging world or are we just trying to pick trouble in our small community when there's already enough troubles in the real world? Please lah.

Anyway, since I'm so addicted to blog reading, I would like to invite all these so-called rejected bloggers to submit your feeds to a special section of SARA, which I'll call badSARA for now.

Please suggest more feeds in the comments section!