It's about time to update this weblog as I just got a complaint from DigitalFilipino.com Club member Mike Abundo who used our RSS-Feed feature. Thanks for the heads-up Mike, this update is for you.

1. The DigitalFilipino.com Club had an interesting eyeball yesterday. We learned a lot about Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), a service offered by Atty. Claro Parlade. Note that this also made Atty. Parlade the father of ODR in the country.

2. I just got a weird email today about hotlinking. It partly is giving advise on not doing such activity in a blog site as I am performing bandwidth theft. I replied and asked this person where have I performed such an act. If I link to another person's website, is that hotlinking already?

After a few minutes, I started thinking that the email might be intended to advise all blog site members about hotlinking. I suggest having it said this way instead.

"Hello blog site member. Just like to give you a reminder about hotlinking as we noticed that some members are performing it. Note that hotlinking is................ We don't encourage this practice in our blog site and will be deleting this type of entries. Continuous violation may also result to having blog posts under moderated mode. We'll very much appreciate if you can keep this in mind in all of your posts in the future and advise fellow bloggers as well. Cheers! Just keep on blogging!"

As email is traditional pure text, it can easily be misinterpreted. For that reason, I always remind students to be careful with what they write and when sending it to a person whom they don't know on a personal level.

3. Last Sunday, I made the decision on not to proceed with my Bangkok trip to speak and moderate a panel at the APEC E-Business Training for Women SMEs. Things haven't been going my way as planned. There's much work that needs to be done too where I have to focus 80% of my time to the 20% tasks that gives 80% of my income. In professional relationships, the same applies as well.

4. The Holy Week provided a great spiritual and evaluating myself opportunity. I read four workshop books of John Maxwell (hope I remember the title accurately): 21 Laws of Leadership, 17 Laws of TeamWork, Developing the Leader Within You, and the Success Journey. It prepared me as well to go back and read the book I bought in 1994, the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. As I was too young back then, the said book was too much to digest. After 11 years, I must say that it made more sense now.

Hope your Holy Week went well too. All the best!