The Quality of Pings on PPS Lately
I've heard a lot about this lately, a lot of people talking about it, well complaining about it.
And it's struck me too, the quality of content on PPS has dropped dramatically, I guess it's inevitable for any kind of unrestricted system, as the volume increases, the quality decreases, the same can be said for music or TV shows or movies even.
Due to this the traffic generated from pinging PPS has also dropped, not that this effects me much as my traffic is about the same if I ping or not.
It also makes me lose faith in the blogosphere, and the quality..where are the good new blogs? Sometimes I read every ping on PPS looking for a new gem, I've found a handful decent writers in the past year or so, and even they aren't consistent. There are some good ones though (Pink Pau, Sabahan and a few others).
Why are the good posts by the same old people from the same old blogs.
Sometimes I feel like my blog is getting lost amongst all the crap, well honestly..perhaps my blog is just part of the crap.
I've been meaning to write about it for quite some time, but I never got around to it, it was really prompted after the whole 'Kahsoon' thing when a bunch of people started imitating his linkblog style and flooding PPS with crap no one cares about.
There are a bunch of new blogs doing the same thing now (e-globe1, TheTubeVideo, OffBeatEnough etc..).
I mean seriously if I want to see 'funny' videos I'll go to break.com if I wan't to see stupid pictures and viral emails I'll go to boreme.com.
All these pseudo pro-bloggers, then there are quite a number that just paste articles from other sites in a hope that they will strike it rich..
Easily spotted as they have more adverts than content..The 'original' content is usually misspelt and grammatically incorrect.
Quite a few of these have thankfully died off, obviously the creators weren't as motivated as they once thought.
Zzz boring all the same loads of pro-blogger kind of blogs alex allied, financially independant
Creating, running and having a successful blog is not as easy as it seems, it takes a lot of work, effort and in some cases technical knowhow.
PPS has also gotten flooded with myspace kinda blogs, journals about irrelevant stuff, no real content, just whinging, whining, emo..
These people have as much right to ping PPS as say Paul Tan or Mack Zulkifli, but really I wish they would realise no one really wants to read their shit, and keep it somewhere else.
I still do use PPS as I don't have room for everyone on my RSS list, so I check PPS to see if the blogs I like have updated.
I'd really like to see PPS version 2 come out, with the ability to block certain blogs, as some people like to ping 3-4 times a day when really they have nothing to say, they are just making a 1-2 line commentary and posting an entire news article.
Voting like SpyMy might be a good idea too, but well that idea failed as no one in Malaysia is interested in promoting anyone except themselves.
People just submit their own links and move on, they don't vote nor submit links from others sites or resources...but well that's another rant for another day.
I've kind of lost momentum with blogging lately, most because I haven't been doing much or eating anything different..
My traffic is at an all time low.
Should I keep blogging? What should I write about? Does anyone even care?
I've taken up a new hobby, photography! So pretty much everything has revolved around that, I'm setting up a new site for my pics, tips, photoshop tutorials etc..
Looking for guest writers too.
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must be emo.
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def
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yea ... cant say it any better myself, kinda bored with it all ledi ... is this the future of blogging?
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well.. sometimes the-no-good post you think might be someone's good.. hehe... btw, it really drops a lot (perhaps i'm contributing the the dropping as well) :p
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i'm a pseudo blogger...
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heck, the quality of pings are so uninspiring, even I am lazy to blog...
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Change topic.
Never stick to a particular type of post.
Go from politics, toys, sex, tech, etc..
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Hopefully, PPS 2.0 has a better system that only allows Malaysian blogs. Also, perhaps they should reject overly advertised blogs or blogs with irrelevant content.
But I agree with you at every point you've made, the quality of pings have decreased.
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And also overseas Malaysian blogs. It would be sad if people like us got left out.
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Ho hum.
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Hear hear.
Let's not forget the auto-ping floods.
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i think ppl are afraid/feel unqualified to vote that's why voting never really took off.
will be looking forward to your photography blog then =)
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I'm really sick at ppl who pings 3-4 times a day, mumbling about everything that nobody cares.
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maybe you could start a photography blog
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emo is the in =P
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do you care about me, ky?
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A photo blog would be great. Those digital SLR cameras can make a hard drive look awefully small. I think they shoot in RAW format too and then you don't need floppy disks for saving the pictures. It'd be like looking at photos through a microscope.
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Beer?
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Speak thee of deserting the Sphere, young Jedi. Jaded, you say you have become. While some wisdom in your observation there is, a Jedi Knight you are. The younglings need you, for who else would there be to defend them from the revival of the Sith and the coming of the Dark Lord ?
The Dark Lord of the Sith feeds on disharmony and is pleased.
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Photo blog is a great idea.... you do not have to read anything !
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Some are good and a lot are bad. That's the internet for you.
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you need decaf.
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solly if u are disturbed by my posts flooding pps lastnight as i did not realise i had a trackback while updating all the broken links....didn't mean it.
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I don't really mind the content as long as it's original.. blog is supposed to be personal and original imo.
I really have bad feelings about some blogs flooding PPS in particular those with all those CnP YouTube videos as you mentioned, that's close to spamming perhaps.
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yeah. haven't found any new blogs worth reading lately. boring, the blogosphere has become.
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Exactly. The quality of pings in PPS ain't as good as it should be. People are just pinging pointless entries all over the place. Really kills the blogosphere quality. I'm not using PPS like how I'm using it before >_
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I know at least one blogger ready to follow Mack's footsteps, because of the dulling blogsfera. I think Mack's departure alone brought down the sum quality by a lot.
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no idea on the recent blogging thingy.. but i think there r still alot of good bloggers out there..
the idea of photoblogging is a cool idea.. can get visitors like me (a noob in photoshooting)
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you blog cuz you wanna record, maybe sometimes not that important to have readers or have public interest. Due to the fact you surely gotten news somewhere or done sometime others have done.
well, keep recording and ur son might just see how great a tiger can be
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Most of the PPS ping blogger is good at cut-and-paste technic.
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hey, let's co-host a photoblog site like pps.
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Hey, no pinging twice! (but I'm guilty of it too =p)
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Hmm, I guess you don't blog just because of traffic right? I'm sure whenever anyone start to blog, it takes them some time before anyone know about it & ever care to come back for second view...
Well, anyway, it's still depend on yourself, if you already lost interest in blogging...
~TheAngel~
@ My LIFE Story
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Never Stop Blogging, all my contents are original, no pasar malam style posts
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3rd Paragraph. I believe you mean something Affects you. Or something causes an effect.
It was kinda funny when after reading that para, and then there you wrote bout sites with misspelt content and incorrect grammar. I know typos are common, but it just struck me as funny.
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Everyone speaks of PPS 2.0, but will it really be a 2.0 or just a version 2?
Will PPS remain as a place for any new writers to try and fight their way in discovering stardom or will more of the blogs with actual content start leaving PPS for its loss in sight towards actually bettering the local blogosphere.
Besides, the PPS blog itself is more than dormant and what news has there been its hard to say because it isn't announced in PPS itself.
Oh, let's just create our own PPS 2.0. I'm sure we can do a better job somehow.
Cheers.
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Hey, I read your blog and find many of the topics you write about very interesting and useful. Your trip to Angkor series was excellent and I enjoy your food critiques.
Perhaps you can blog more about how you use that impressive DSLR. Tips on how to take good pics would be very helpful to a newb like me.
Keep up the good writing!
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matthew: eh, what pasar malam style type of posts? I did some posts about my trips to the pasar malam.
Is that kinda shit boring?
As for me I think as long as they want to talk about what they are going through (diary blogging style) then thbat's good because it's personal.
THen we have those commentaries and opinions(ie. your blog, st) which are the more intellectual voices in the blogosphere.
the only bad apples amidst the pings are the CnP and bloggers who don't know how to split their posts into paragraphs.
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SpyMy sucks because the only shite that gets voted is sex videos of Tammy. The site overly (and TACKILY) promoted that crap in other people's blogs, even putting a link right on the front page "Download Tammy videos here!". Result - credibility out the wiiiindow.
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there's digg.. but blogs don't get very good votes i think. PLus it'sgotta be tech related. Which leaves malaysian bloggers with PPS. I still wonder how active Spymy is..
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Hey dude. I strongly support you to build your own photoblog since you got that D70. Photoblogsphere is still not common here in Malaysia, but it'll be great if the number increases on that. Maybe your inclusion in photoblog perhaps, will bring lots of influence to the photoblogsphere in Malaysia.
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My new blog's up and running. Have a good read now.
Btw, not all emo blogs suck. I think it depends on the presentation...the writer. As usual.
I feel your angst about lousy blogs on the run. Whenever I come across one of them, I wonder why some people force themselves through the pain of writing/typing at all, just to get their content (or lack thereof) bitched about in return.
I made a faux paux. Didn't realize the unwritten 7-mins-per-post rule in PPS. Hope they don't delete all my pings because of that flooding mistake. :/
Cheers.
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[...] Shaolin Tiger spoke on how the quality of content on PPS has dropped dramatically couple days ago. Well, I can’t comment on that really because definition and acceptable level of quality differs from one to another. [...]
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[...] Yes the current state of a certain part the Malaysian blogsphere is likened to a pile of overused toothpaste that has been squeezed out of the tube and reused because people are too lazy to buy a new one. It's not exactly clean, it's not exactly something that's worthwhile. It just is what it is. Something that was once fresh and new but has turned into something that deserves to be tossed away. [...]
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alot of people have this habit of churning news into blogposts which really vexes me. i don't think the quality of posts should matter on blogtal like PPS; it is, in essence, an indicator of malaysian writing in general (though that's biased, seeing as a good majority of malaysians don't blog).
PPS is a reflection of malaysians blogs in general. imho, i think we're just average, save for a good few blogs here and there. some of the best malaysian blogs don't even ping PPS. the level isn't sliding, it's just that there are more blah bloggers obssessed with getting hits just ping PPS. the end.
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[...] I am going to rant nevertheless.As you know, my kid is only 14 yrs old and I must say he writes pretty good. Whatever you see on his blog is written by him with bits taken from forums he joined. I drilled into him that if he is seriously going to keep a blog, he gotta follow my rules. I.e. no blind copy and paste except for important and useful parts, no hotlinking and no f-word. The photos are taken by him and my #3. [...]
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Being in PPS doesn't make us moderators and the content's quality doesn't need justification to be there. That's what I like about PPS, it doesn't judge but of course if there's extreme violation in spamming, we bloggers would have intervene someway or somehow within our boundaries. It's democracy in action with a little dose of commercialism.
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Simple explaination. Quality went down because I stopped pinging. Durrr..
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I have to wonder though, what exactly is the quality of a good blog. Aren't most blogs about "journals about irrelevant stuff, no real content, just whinging, whining, emo.."
So what is a good blog?
I do agree, however, that well written ones are few and far in between. I don't know, I'm just particular about not blogging in manglish. (Heh)
There are far too many personal blogs on PPS (but I think there will always be this case) but not many blogs that are topical blogs like on fitness (http://www.dailymuscle.com), finance (Argh, forgot his URL), spiritual (well, mine is sorta pseudo-religion-personal).
Say, is anyone interested in creating a Carnival? A Carnival is where bloggers send in their links based on a certain topic/theme. The set of links will then be hosted on a particular blog.
For example, I participate in the Christian Carnival where they blog about Christian stuff. Ocassionally, I try to join other blogs like Carnival of Dogs (pet lovers!) or Carnival of Finance.
Carnivals are a good way to narrow down your reading selection, and also to sieve out all those 'lazy' blogs.
I notice that there aren't any Malaysian Carnivals out there. Maybe we should create one??
I've always wanted to create one, but I have no idea how to publicise it ... not to mention I'm SUPER busy to manage it.
Oh well, just a suggestion.
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well... blogging is itself a journal at times
does PPS state explicitly on personal thoughts/blogs (besides the obvious spam/ad-pseudo blogs)?
PPS has gained popularity. and such is the effects of being more well-known imho.
still PPS has at times its (rare) gems. personally browse it once a while to see what might be interesting. The title of a post is often a dead giveaway
*shrugs*
ps. glhf w/ the photography
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PPS is alive and strong, almost has a life of its own now. I find it very interesting as a social experiment actually.
As you notice, my presence there is hardly ever felt any more, for good reason: i'm hardly ever there (though i browse it once a day or so).
But its hits and page views are higher now than ever before, on growth rate of 5% per month. Nothing spectacular, to be sure, but it grows. More members sign up, more pings incoming, etc.
No matter what happens to PPS now and in the future (PPS 2.0 will come someday, i suppose), i don't think anyone can begrudge its success. Its done what it was meant to do, and done it quite well. I don't think anyone can ask anything more of an app that lives on the Internet, especially one that has lived a good 3 years (and still kicking!).