This week is one of the most tiring days of my student blogging life thanks to the impending arrival of finals week. It’s nice to know the Pinoy blogosphere is still having fun without me. Sniff.Here’s a recap of the latest news and interesting posts in the Pinoy blogosphere throughout the whole week:

• The recent verdict on the Joseph Estrada “Erap” trial has caused quite a stir on a number of political blogs in the Pinoy blogosphere. Here are some interesting reads on the said issue:
  The Erap Plunder Trial: A Recap of the Coverage by The Jester-in-Exile, Law Student Par Excellence (heh, he wishes)
  A Guilty Verdict For Erap Is Bad For All Corrupt Officials
  A trap of his own making
• Coy from Cokskiblue has uncovered yet another click fraud invitation that is less blatant than the one I exposed here in PinoyBlogero. Instead of asking for clicks through link-baiting, the said scam targets unsuspecting users of Friendster.  Check out the post here.
• Blogger.com has just recently released Blogger Play, which is a new feature that automatically collects pictures that are posted on blogpost blogs and shows it to others through a slideshow that is updated in real-time.
• Paolo Mendoza from PaoloMendoza.com shifts his blog’s focus and concentrated on talking about “making munnies online”. Yep, the Philosophical Bastard is now teaching everyone how they could earn money through their blogs. Expect a different approach on the world of money making.
• Yatot from RandomThoughtsofMe says that one of the popular things to do in the blogosphere today is to stir things up with a little controversy. What he did was he listed down ten Pinoy bloggers and ranted about the things he doesn’t like about them and attacked them one by one! LOL!
• An interesting piece of writing about the latest gaming fad, Defense of the Ancients (DotA) had been circulating the net lately. The said write-up claims that DotA is devil worship and playing it is like defying God. The author made some word association to make the game seem evil and even a true-to-life testimonial of a boy who was saved from the evils of it. Myk from Lee Flailmarch has stumbled upon the said article and shares his thoughts about it.
• Pinay Wordpress themes designer, Beng Hafner from the blog Kauderwelsch, was accused of stealing graphics that she used on one of her themes. I saw both their works and they are almost exactly similar to each other. Find out the difference by checking out their blogs.
• Users hosted under Philhosting.net are frustrated over the number of downtimes that their servers are experiencing over the past weeks. Allen from Silkenhut.com exclaims, “Their tagline, ‘Affordable Solutions for everyone’, true… but what about reliability?!” I had the same problem when I was still hosted under them just weeks ago, the downtimes were a threat to my blog, which is why I decided to look for a new webhost. Philhosting.net, what is happening to you?

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