Blogs’ Ranks

Why does it always have to happen when we’re in Austria? I remember that in June I lost my PR 5 and all my PR 4s went down to PR 3s.

Now My Pink Notes, The Two Geeks, and My Take on Things went down from PR 3 to PR 2, Bizarre Marriage and Vienna Lopez went down from PR 3 to PR 1, Digitally Designed went from PR 4 to PR 2, Blogleafs went down from PR 4 to PR 1. Penny Wise, a blog formerly located here, is still PR NA.

My friend’s blog namely Pages after Pages went from PR 3 to PR 2 and A Lady’s Chest, previously PR 0, now have a PR 1.

So basically all my blogs’ PRs went down and I have a very good feeling why it happened. After almost a year and more or less 7,000.00$ total income from blogging, looks like it’s going to be downhill from here on but I will still keep my eight blogs.

Surprisingly, Blogxi.com now has a PR 2. Considering that I just finished the site about a few weeks ago and it was launched like 10 or 12 days ago, PR 2 for Blogxi is not bad.

Going to Wordcamp China 2008

Finally, I got the email I’ve been so eager to receive.

Hi, Vienna

The event starts at 13:00pm and ends around 17:00pm. Location is on Fudan University campus, check out the map here: http://china.wordcamp.org/location/ (by default it shows only the Beijing location. You will need to click on the button to the right in order to get the Shanghai location).

Matt’s talk starts at 13:30pm. Afterwards, all the talks and discussions will be in Chinese, so you might want to grab someone and ask them to translate for you. Many attendees are very fluent in English, so I am sure you will find many people to chat with.

With the RMB20 registration fee, you will get a T-shirt of the event and enter a raffle.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

-Liang

I am so going to the Wordcamp Shanghai China 2008 and I am so not going to miss any of it. :).

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Finally WPMU!

I remember mentioning that I gave up on working with WPMU already but the day after saying that, I got back on my feet and start all over again.

I am happy because this morning, I finally made it work. “It” is a blogging community I’ve been dreaming for months now and I will not tell you just yet where to find it because though it’s 99% functional, it is still not ready.

I want to make a landing page like that of edublogs.org but that is beyond my narrow and obsolete web designing skills. I tried to look around the net if there are free downloads for WPMU landing pages but I haven’t find anything until now.

Installing WPMU is similar to that of installing a WP single user blog but the difference is that you don’t get a lot of support with WPMU. If you go to WPMU’s support forums and read, you’ll notice that replies to questions are not so friendly like in WP single user forums. Some questions are left unanswered and few are lucky enough to get cold answers. Why? My guess is that the people behind WPMU somehow like to protect their work from people who want to use and earn big bucks from it but without contributing to its development.

In my case, I just really want to create a blogging community where my friends can create their own blog because I am really tired making blogs for them.  Right now I am already thankful to the people behind such great things like WP and WPMU and if this blogging community grows in the future to something which is bigger than what i expected (you see, I am just “one person” with minimal web designing, coding, and marketing skills so that is like punching the moon!) then well I dunno… right now, I  am just so contented and happy that I am able to install WPMU and that it is working.

Giving Up on WP MU

So I gave up on the idea that I can ever install Wordpress MU in my webhost account. I only signed up for a webhosting plan that gives me Cpanel and I am on a shared web server. I can’t touch my DNS settings and I can’t get support from my webhost to edit my httpd.conf file.

So I cancel the hosting plan I dedicated for Wordpress MU and I am still waiting for the refund. I don’t know if I’ll be interested to install Wordpress MU again but it is not likely so. Two days of trying to install it and fighting with an unsupportive webhost didn’t exactly inspire me to continue.