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Its a  pity.

When I first started blogging, PPS or Petaling Street, Malaysia’s blog aggregator where you can ping your new posts, was credible. You found well written articles and credible bloggers.

But now, every other post I see is about F**k or Sh*t or sex or just any manner of vulgarism. The worst thing is that the blog contents are sometimes really bad too. I’m not saying I write great articles but heck at least I can spell and I have a decent grasp on my grammer!

I’ve stopped pinging PPS. I realised it did not make a difference either way. My traffic is still there. So, why descend to the masses?!

I was contacted by a local company some time last month. They were asking me about whether I could do up some articles for them to promote an event they were running last month. I’ve waiting till now to write because I didn’t want to be accused of anything then So, here goes my rant!

Ok, so anyway, I wrote back to them and said thank you kindly for your interest and here are my advertising rates. I mean, here I was paying for my own bandwidth, generating income for you, the very least you could do was to pay me for my efforts and trouble!

But no, they came back to me and said, sorry, we aren’t looking for paid advertising.

I mean WTF?! Even if you were to have an article in the newspapers, you’d have to pay for it! What’s so hard about paying me a fraction of what you’d pay the newspapers for an ad?

So, I wrote back and said, ok, I’ll do you the article, send me your info and can I request an invite to your event. The answer? Our event is only for XXX people, are you in this line of work?

WTF?!

Evidently they’d never heard of the power of blogging. The Malaysian Government was changed overnight due to the power of blogs and these clueless advertisers are still scorning us bloggers.

WTF! I mean seriously. WTF?!

If you are experiencing a sense of deja vu, thinking you’ve read my posts before, don’t worry. You aren’t hallucinating.

I ported over my site from Blogsome because I was told that blogsome is like Blogger. You don’t ever really own the content and your blog can be deleted at any time. So, I hopped over to Godaddy and secured my own domain and got my own hosting. At least this way, I know that my site is safe from unruly free blog hosts.

Also in time to come, I’m sure I can qualify for some of the paid programmes which will help to pay for my hosting! Clever wot?