Tammy NYP Sex Scandal

Technorati has proven it's worth by pushing the hottest news of the hour to the top of the charts. This exact system have also been the sole publicity for the recent singaporean Nan Yang Polytechnic sex scandal.

What actually happened was a girl aged 17 years old filmed herself doing certain sexual actions with her boyfriend using their 3G mobile phone. Her phone was stolen and someone uploaded the video on to the internet. The rest is history, right?

No, I mean yes. It became more bizarre than paris hilton's phone sex scandal. The singaporean blogging community is one scary barbarian tribe.

First, it's paedophile. Child pornography. Then, it's asian sex.

Also, there are people out there circulating the video through email or direct downloads. Yes, these people are to be damned for distributing child pornography (not to mention Tammy's own fault for having sex AND recording it).

Technorati Promotes Sex Scandal

What's amazing here is how technorati serve as a promoter of this news to the world. The girl's life is ruined by the singapore blogosphere. With technorati, the entire world get to shares this video.

Tammy scores top five in the top searches on Technorati a few days ago.

Technorati Filters

Today, technorati decided to filter the searches (finally) but at the cost of being reliable.

From their blog news, it is well known that technorati's filter automatically filters out all pornography or sex related keywords. Now there's a new set of keywords added into the roll, Tammy, Tammy NYP, NYP (which is supposed to be one of the most reputable college in Singapore, Tammi (because humans aren't stupid), and some other which I don't know.

Sex Scandal Business and Traffic

Well, as usual things are blown out of porpotion. Valuable resources wasted. There are now ebay auctions on the videos, cafeexpress is selling tshirts of "I fucked Tammy at NYP" and forums created to entertain the hunger of *cough* human desire for free sex videos *cough*

There was a saying, that all major news in blog world are ugly. Either a blog war, or natural disaster, real war, or sex scandals. Believe it or not?

Tags: technorati, sex scandal, paedophile,

Plain Text Editor (PTE) bugs and issues

The plain text editor (PTE) on BlogDrive serves as an alternative for those who can't or just refuses to use WYSIWYG Editor, mainly due to browser issues, technicality or just plain stubbornness. It's useful as a backup tool in case there's a problem with the WYSIWYG.


Posting Date Issue

However, in the last couple of months there's been an increasing amount of complaint regarding the PTE post date problem. It appears that the post date automatically changes to the current date when a user edits a submitted entry. This only affects a small number of users but evidently the frustration of these people are heard.

"The Blogdrive teams regard this as a known issue and are currently working hard to fix it.

In the BlogDrive forum:
Dates of Edited Posts
Can't Change My 'Publish Date'

One of the user pointed out the "bug" for this problem, and it appears to have a very simple solution. If it's correct, I can write up the fix for this very quickly and problem solved. I think I should do just that.

Also, a tip from some unknown sources says this bug is there for a purpose: to help fight spam. It doesn't make much sense.


Other problems

Currently the PTE doesn't support a number of new features that came along with the new WYSIWYG editor. This includes the "Amazon Current things", "Smilies", and some upgraded account features such as "Extra Entry" and "Keywords".


Not Acceptable

The PTE is supposed to be an alternative for using the WYSIWYG editor, a backup. It should be much more reliable because it doesn't include fancy features that usually cauces bugs. Being less competent than the WYSIWYG editor is not an option really.


Conclusion

Overall, the PTE needs a major make over. I hope this is the only reason that's keeping the working PTE without a postdate issue from releasing. As this is the most frustrating of all.

On another note, "Du bist Deustchland" is still the highest search on Technorati for several days now. The Germans sure are excited about the World Cup, and me too.


Tags: WYSIWYG, Editor, du bist deutschland, Amazon, Smilies, BlogDrive

Chitika's Audited revenue less than 50% Unaudited

I finally received the results for my Audited revenue on Chitika. To my huge surprise, Chitika only offers 50% of the unaudited revenue to me. Above that, Chitika still hasn't paid anything into my Paypal Account.

How am I going to pay for the BlogDrive subscriptions?

I was so angry that I quickly wrote a letter to Chitika Support team to complain. Not too long ago, I noticed that I wasn't the only one suffering.

From JenSense word of forum threads such as DigitalPoint and SitePoint are explodingly scary.

Surfing over to Technorati and you'll find some angry bloggers writing their experience. Among them, ProBlogger in bed with Chitika and Audit Fraud. News website reports: Chitika Chikeating and ThreadWatch. There's even a brandnew domain name dedicated to anti-Chitika, Shitika Where's my money???.

I guess what makes everyone so angry is noone expected the audited to be way over 10%. Furthermore, many have helped promote Chitika for it's high paying clicks. What Jensense says pretty much sums it all up.

I hope Chitika gives a proper explanation and then bankrupt after paying me back my money.


Technorati tags: Chitika