Comments on: WordCamp Philippines 2009 – With Great [Blogging] Power Comes Great Responsibility

By: JimmyBean

JimmyBean — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:53:16 +0000

I don’t know If I said it already but …Excellent site, keep up the good work. I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,

A definite great read..Jim Bean

By: gaguri

gaguri — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:39:30 +0000

“I just wonder though, what exactly do the readers of Scrumptious look forward to? Fangirl posts (I’ve been failing in fangirling as of late)?”

Oh yes, more fangirl rage pls =D. Sometimes I want to go on fanboy rage mode too on my blog but I try to restain myself…

By: usagijen

usagijen — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:19:27 +0000

@Kabitzin: I can see how the 3rd party commenting system can be useful for those wordpress.com blogs, but hm, do they actually have this choice? Sucks if it’s one of the limitations of being hosted in wp.com…

@Ryan: read it ^^ I’d still say, you should’ve been our speaker hehe. Then again it might just be a case of me setting the wrong expectations… though the speaker should’ve informed us of the ‘limitations of the talk’ beforehand ¬_¬

@hazy: I should remember not to fail in informing people next year! hehe. Thank you for reading and getting something out of this babbling. Whether or not you want to set deadlines for yourself is all up to you! If you want to finish writing MOAR in a certain amount of time, I guess. Just make sure to do it out of love and fun!

@schneider: haha, I actually wondered if I should spell that “snobbloggers” Glad to see you in your own blogging rhythm then!

@ghostlightning: oh yeah how I could I forget the roots of that! I feel ashamed TT__TT

@Zeroblade: In the right time, right place, inspiration will come, my friend! For next year’s wordcamp!!

By: Zeroblade

Zeroblade — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:41:40 +0000

GJ on the post – I don’t think I could write up anything meaningful when it comes to these things orz

Also WordCamp 2010 gogogo

By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:42:02 +0000

Good job! Makes up for my failure to join you there hehe. Just to make it clear, I learned how to do the ‘Further Reading’ section that has links to similar articles both mine and by others from The Animanachronism. No surprise there. Iknight is mai idol KYAAA

By: schneider

schneider — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:40:44 +0000

Lots of inspiring stuff here in this post. Also, I read snobloggers as sno-bloggers.

I can relate with blogging becoming a chore, but I did discover for myself some methods to make it fun again. So no problems there~

By: hazy

hazy — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:19:36 +0000

Lol, no worries. Sounds like it was an interesting camp yet again. Maybe I’d be able to go again next year. ^^

I think maybe my expectations are a bit blurry to me at this time. Or maybe having no specific expectation or convention is good? It allows me to write about various stuff while keeping my enthusiasm to write about it intact… I’m not sure if what I said made sense. Lol. My blog is a hodgepodge of various things fangirlism, episode & manga summaries, sharing a bit of j-music, etc. I only write when I feel like writing so it doesn’t end up feeling like a chore, but sometimes I fail in that department too. I agree with responsible blogging and I try my best to do so and be as accurate with info as I can be. I think bloggers owe it to themselves and their readers as well. Like what Mr. Arao said, “Because people (readers) deserve no less.” I write what I know and I don’t try to write like someone else, if not, I’d only be kidding myself, no? I’m also glad I haven’t really experienced blogging burnout so far (hmm, maybe because I don’t really blog that much?) xD) I have a ton of drafts though… Maybe I should try setting some kind of post deadline for myself sometime.

Anyway, to stop myself from waffling any more… You did a good job on this post!

By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:42:28 +0000

All sorts of delicious informations

On Wordpress as the Ultimate CMS:
It’s quite funny you mention this because I was talking to mellow bunny in the #melative freenode channel the other day about that. I have to disagree with Wordpress as the Ultimate CMS, mainly because it is not “meta” enough, or rather because it is a finite solution at the core; a system for posts and pages.

I’ll be writing a little post and tracking back

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:17:50 +0000

Thanks for this info! The plugins look interesting, I will have to try some out. I’m not so sure about offloading all things to 3rd parties for performance, especially if you are self-hosted, but it might make sense for those on wordpress.com (due to limitations on free accounts).