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Today is the last day of 2010 and I am here at Starbucks Ayala Terraces Cebu typing my last blog entry for the year. Wow! How time flies so fast! A little over two decades ago, this place used to be a golf course. Now, the place is filled with high-rise buildings, a world-renowned hotel and a popular mall. I simply sat down and couldn’t help thinking about 2011.

What are your predictions and expectations for 2011? Me, not much. But here’s my list:

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Popularity: 13% [?]

The above is a question asked by lots of my blogging friends. After almost five years of blogging, I somehow can’t push myself to write a single post into this blog. I even somehow wasted an opportunity when my time came as the “Featured Blogger of the Week” in my P50 group. I actually planned to write a post, but the draft remained a draft.

The post I published prior to this doesn’t require enough thinking. Well, copy-paste a previous article, update, then publish. The real work will come when the results of the October 2010 CPA board exam will come out next week. Even the optimization part I failed.

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Popularity: 19% [?]

I haven’t been around the blogs of the other Philippine bloggers for quite some time now. My blog visits are mostly spent on my own sites, my close friends’ sites, and my group’s sites. Other blogs I used to visit no longer have new updates. A lot of them also changed their blogging directions – from personal to catch-all blogs, which are rather more on news. So, what’s the latest news around the Philippine blogosphere? Here are some of the news I gathered:

1. iBlog 6 on April 16 and 17, 2010. – This is a two-day event wherein the first day is targeted for entrepreneurs and businesses wanting to tap blogs to promote their products and services. The second day is meant for everyone else interested in blogging. If you are interested in SEO, Gary Viray will speak about it on the first day while on the second day, Marhgil Macuha will tackle the topic. And if you want to see your blogging idol/crush or whatever, this is the time you’d be able to see them in the flesh. Registration is FREE!

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Popularity: 11% [?]

Perhaps you declare yourself a blog addict after writing 1 or 2 entries a week for more than a year. You gain a number of friends, subscribers, readers, influence and authority. Readers crowd on each topic you post. Your posts are quoted everywhere, from the popular to the mere copy-pasters. You’ve created three or four more other blogs of different niches, and you now start earning real money. You’re in the elite circle. You’re now enjoying stardom in twitter, Facebook, and in whatever latest social media available.

Quit Blogging

But then you pause for a minute and ponder. “What will make you quit blogging at this point in time?”

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Popularity: 9% [?]

This post is quite late considering that it’s already 20 days past the New Year. I initially wanted to post something else but the draft got stuck somewhere I could not find. The topic was about quitting, and really far far different from the title of this post.

Anyway, since goals and plans are becoming a yearly thing, I will write here my blogging goals for 2010. No copying please.
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Popularity: 10% [?]

Wow! 32 days without a new post! This is a new personal record for me, a record which is not good at all. The long period without posting anything is like I’m slowly killing my own blog. Less updates, fewer visitors, less Google-love, lesser revenues.

In my past post about “What Keeps You from Posting Regularly?”, I wrote this:
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Popularity: 11% [?]

Pacquiao vs Cotto round by round results as imagined by this blogger. The fight will happen in less than 10 days so be sure to watch Pacquiao vs Cotto live on your PC, TV or in the nearest movie theatre. (Tickets at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas might have been sold out already, so you better watch it on pay-per-view). I don’t mind whatever prediction you have on your brains right now. This one is mine, and I am enjoying myself as I typed the words for this post.

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Popularity: 20% [?]

Three of the influenza bloggers were very busy chasing traffic early this week. We even competed against each other. Bloggista wrote about it here, and Thirdworldgeek had his take here, too. If you don’t know what I mean, just take a look at my last four posts. Names, names, names. These are the names of those who passed the October 2009 CPA Board Exams.

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Popularity: 18% [?]

Imagine these things happening when you meet with online fellows face to face for the first time. “Ah, you look younger and slimmer in your avatar!”, one may say. Or you may have a preconceived picture of you blogging idol. “Does he really look like a rockstar?” And perhaps you try avoiding someone because you passionately wrote something against what he’d written in the past. Oops…

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Popularity: 10% [?]

There is a very easy way to upgrade your WordPress version. How? That same question lingered in my brain for more than a year. I tried to seek the answer but got lost in the jungle of techie instructions. I was also afraid of losing my precious posts should I make a false move. First it was 2.5. Then it was 2.6. and 2.7. And now it’s 2.8.4. Can you guess what version I was using prior to this upgrade?

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Popularity: 10% [?]