Lost Friends of MoBlog

There are some people at former SingTel MoBlog whom I wish to stay in contact, but with the moblog's demise, I am not sure if these people have alternative blogs. If you are reading this blog entry and know any of the URLs of these people's alternative blogs, please let me know. They are:

alexks, anarchista3, angelpeh, annachua85, ashnisa, benitatata, blackstar, bluetulip, Carmen, cheryldee, congzi, DizzyLizzy, Dollipop, eclektic, Emi, Erika, estherix, Fleur, fRoStYgiRL, garfield, gEoOo, hazelroxanne, Heartsling, hitChic, HostSara, iamesther, ice3, irises, jiah, jiejie, jolju, Juan, jumper12, kawaiicandy520, lachicabonita, Lagoon, LeAnNa, leeena, lenenattie, listener, LSQ, manjarockstarr, Melt, Mishysya, MisirLou, nicolechen, passiongal, princessELOISE, PrincessEvie, purpleRose, SashaE, seraphina2511, shuyee, silversw, sunDrop, Taryn, TheGalOverHere, TheMeanieElla, thereforeiblog, tolive4Jesus4ever, vioona, xxgongzhuxx, zonda

Meanwhile, allow me to thank all of you who are former bloggers of SingTel MoBlog and who are still in touch with me. I cannot imagine how much I would have lost without you remaining as my friends.

Love you all! Hugz. (",)

Difference Between Singapore and Foreign Customer Service

By the time I knew about Moblog's closing down two days ago, it was too late for me to delete or edit anything at my blog. Sadly, I cannot even leave a farewell note to inform my contacts where I will be moving to after Moblog. Bloggers at moblog.com.sg are given up to July 22, 2009 to migrate five years of data via page by page cut and paste to some place else within a few days, and no email was received from Moblog to inform us of its soon closure, except for a notice written at Moblog's home page.

Unlike the way Moblog handles the closure notification, I received an email yesterday from Yahoo! informing me of the upcoming closure of my free web site at Geocities by October 26, 2009 with full instructions on how to migrate my files to some other sites.

That is the difference between Singapore style customer service and those of foreign professionals.

Death of Moblog

Date of Birth: August, 2004
Date of Death: July 22, 2009

In Memory of SingTel Moblog

I am sadden by your sudden demise, because I was with you since the day of your inauguration as the Nation's Blog during the press conference held at Sakae Sushi, Funan Center in August 2004. I was then a journalist for the Education magazine and I wrote about you and your glorious capabilities to the world. Now after many years moblogging at your place, I am moved to tears with deep emotions that I now have to part with you. May you rest in peace, and may all the friends I know at your MoBlog remember me. Without you, things will never be the same again.

Here's my last dedication to you to recall the days of your glory ... my article of you: I Blog, You Blog, They Blog.

Yours
SpideY
;p xoxo

SPAM @ MoBlog Comments

Imagine receiving more than thirteen spam comments within a few days for a blog entry with people selling clothes and watches to pharmaceutical products and viagra, and there is NO WAY to stop it because MoBlog does NOT have a function to disable Guest's comment!


I am getting very frustrated blogging at Moblog because of endless spam at comments!

From my observation, it appears the spammer may have used a computer program to search for blogs with keywords like 'christmas' or 'thanksgiving' to target their ads via a script, which automatically places their comments in blogs. The script is generated over and over again without the spammer having to lift a finger, and as victims, we can only painstakingly remove them one by one on a regular basis, unless someone place them on the block list. Sadly in this case, the spammer users the 'Guest' account to comment, so there is no way to block the sender specifically. This method of flooding ads on blogs' comments is known as auto-spam bots by the techies.

I have begged Moblog Support to do something about it, but they simply thanked me for the feedback and said they will look into having the solution in the next version. Last I remember when Moblog Support tells me they will include feature like 'Comic Sans MS' font in the next release, it was about a year ago and till this day, I am still waiting for it to happen.

When I begged them a second time for a current workaround, their reply was:

As much as we feel your frustration of being continually spammed by bots, we sadly cannot lend immediate assistance. If you find that only one of your blogs is being bombarded by spam, we advise you to delete that blog and create new entry. Because thus far, you are the only one who has complaints about excessive spam comments.

I am not sure whether I will be staying with Moblog anymore, considering the problems I am facing now. Hope they will do something soon.

Want to WAP your MoBlog?

Have you ever imagine how your Moblog would look like if it supports animated GIFs, multimedia, and WAP? Well, if you like to see a sample, visit my new moblog at Want to WAP (12wap). You'll see animated Spidey dancing at this multimedia moblog at:

http://spidey.12wap.net

Don't worry ... this does not mean I won't be blogging here anymore. There are just too many things I like to ever leave this place ... the friends I've made, the group blogs I'm managing, and the features of moblog.com.sg (e.g. topics categorisation) that I don't not get to seen at other blogs. Simply put, I like this place too much to stop blogging here! :D
Before you starting asking me what are the differences between moblogging here and there, just read my article, '12wap' and you will understand.

My Moblog Name Cards

Featured in SingTel's MoBlog Brochure

I am not aware that Spidey's Blog is featured in SingTel's MoBlog brochure until I visited the SingTel Roadshow at Funan yesterday ...

My MoBlogger Friends

This entry is dedicated to all My Moblogger Friends and supporters of my blogs! Special acknowledgements to:

Lixin:
who brings much cheer and makes my time spent on blogging all worthwhile. Blogging will not be so interesting without nice people like her! :D

Jinny:
who I am concerned for and hope will experience better days ahead and to find purpose in God to understand the troubles she is going through.

MisirLou:
who is young in the Lord ... to discover greater things in the word of God and to walk faithfully.

Garfield:
who actively participates in making moblog.com.sg a place for greater interests in movies and mobiles.

Yesac121:
for recommending interesting eateries for supper.

Farahrri; SyeLai; Lagoon; Yesac121; Lixin:
for participating in Vacation Travel community blog and for actively sharing experiences about travelling.

JaNiCe; HostSara:
for participating in my article on blogging.

Moblog Support:
for bearing with my many complains and feedback on issues encountered moblogging moblog.com.sg.

Everyone at moblog.com.sg:
who has made blogging here so communicable, friendly, and constructive.

GOD:
for giving me opportunities to know some of you fairly well through moblogging, to help some mobloggers face their problems, and some to obtain technical support, and many just in sharing experiences.

Have fun blogging, everyone who reads this entry! :D