Crimson Crux

Last week, I wrote about my new role in the problogging site Performancing.com. These are exciting times for Performancing, which is sporting new services and resources for the problogging community. Some of the features which might strike your fancy:

• Adsense Revenue Sharing — “We’re sharing 70% of all AdSense revenue generated by your own content…Additionally, you earn 10% of all AdSense revenue generated by users that you refer to Performancing.” Sign up here.
• Earn $10 For Front Page Blog Posts — “If we like your blog post enough to [promote] it to the front page, you’ll earn $10.” All blog posts made by Perf users appear on the Performancing Blog, and we’ll sift through these daily.
• Digg, Reddit, Netscape Voting Help — “Need a little nudge on your favorite social voting site? If you post a link to your Reddit, Digg, Netscape, etc. submission in our new social voting forum we’ll vote it up.” More info here.
• Blogger Jobs — Job postings are free! Visit the Performancing Blogger Jobs board.

Finally, here’s a summary of my Performancing posts this past week:
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Friends, I’m now writing at Performancing.com, one of the Net’s best information sites for professional and non-pro bloggers alike.

I started reading Performancing a year ago, and the tips and pieces of advice I found there helped me a lot in my early blogging days. So when I was approached by J Angelo to regularly write for the site, I grabbed the chance without second thought. (Thanks for the trust and vote of confidence, J!) Performancing.com is now my biggest problogging gig, both in terms of reader reach and compensation.

Performancing carries the tagline “Helping Bloggers Succeed”, and I’ll be dishing out writing, problogging, SEO, and website monetization tips. I’m also thinking of sharing tips for niche-blogs (e.g. literary, health, sports) based on experience.

Check out my first two entries: the perfunctory intro post, and Images: Another Problogging Ace Up Your Sleeve.

See you at Performancing.com!

One of my all-time favorite games, Rome: Total War definitely has its quirks. The picture above says it all. Now, this bug had me also thinking, Costner’s Waterworld might be due for another video game version, this time in 3D!

These past days, I’ve once again turned to PC games to help relieve stress. A few bugs of the amusing type (such as this, as opposed to the gameplay-ruining, insanity-inducing ones) certainly go a long way in stress management.

However, even with rare but bizarre graphical glitches, RTW remains a fine game for the ages. If you’ve been visiting this blog since its Blogspot days (highly unlikely!), you’d remember I gave RTW’s expansion, Barbarian Expansion a highly positive game review.

Enough talk — I’m off to crushing the Senate and the People of Rome, as well as their lap dog Houses! (Yeah, I’m against ‘em this time around, playing as the Macedonians — a ‘non-playable’ faction made playable by a quick game file hack, hehe.)

I was supposed to write this post last Sunday, but a bout of asthma (now running at five days) deprived me of the chance to do so. The Philippine Blog Awards Night wrapped up an exhausting week for me, and here’s a brief recap of the event.

Ia and I left the blog awards pretty much satisfied with the results (but not with the programme — more on that later). The complete list of winners can be found at the 2007 PBA site, but here I’m giving extra recognition to three of my blogger friends who bagged the big prizes:

• Best Socio-Political Blog: Dean Jorge Bocobo’s Philippine Commentary
• Best Blog Design: Jorge Cosgayon’s Far from Neutral Notions
• PhotoBlog of the Year: Eric Isaac’s Señor Enrique: Wish You Were Here

Ia didn’t win the Best Tech Blog plum, but she took home something…big. Really big, as in worth thousands upon thousands of pesos. Read her latest blog entry to know more. Hint: it’s from the Adobe User Group Philippines.

Now, some thoughts on how the event was held:

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