Blogging

• 5 Ways to Skyrocket Your Blog Traffic
• 60 Ways to Increase Your Influence Online
• How a Subscriber Incentive Affected My Blog
• 5 Ways To Set Your Unique Blogging Voice Apart

WordPress

• WordPress.com Replaces Cutline with Coraline
• Carrington Build – Will It Revolutionize WordPress Development?
• 9 Plugins for WordPress Design & Development
• WordPress tip: Close trackbacks on all posts at once

Technology

• Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live
• Facebook bug could give spammers names, photos
• The Case Against Net Neutrality
• Getting Around Web Censors With Flickr

Gadgets

• Multitouch DJ table lets you swipe to rock
• Smart Washer-Dryer Sings its Problems to the Repairman
• One shot kill someone with the Goldeneye Classic Golden Controller
• Notion Ink Adam: Pricing and more

Pinoy Blogs

• Smart All Text Combo Plus – Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Text, Call, MMS
• The Bubble Effect In Digital Marketing
• Facebook and My Kids
• Search for Files and Folders Using Search Everything

JaypeeOnline Weekly Recap

• WP Theme Review: Brave Zeenat
• iPod Touch + Apple Peel 520 = iPhone
• Twitter Launches Tweet Button
• Infographic: The World of Facebook

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions or want your article or find an interesting story that you want to be featured in the next Weekend Roundup, feel free to leave a comment or send me a message via the contact page.

Pinoy Blogosphere

• Attention all bloggers in Cebu, there will be a Bloggers Meetup this coming February 7, 6:00 pm at the iBrowse Internet Cafe near Cebu Doctor’s University. For more information, check out Max Limpag’s post. I’m sure McBilly is already excited about it.
• My friend Jhay Rocas shares how he backs up his blog’s database automatically using the WordPress Database Backup Plugin.
• Studies show that Internet users are starting to get more and more ad-blind. If you’re making money online via clickthroughs and are worried about this issue, Manuel Viloria explains how you can come up with an alternative source of income using only your blog.
• Andrew Dela Serna talks about the recent rumors of Google setting up a data center in Malaysia and points out some reasons why the Philippines should be or shouldn’t be considered.

Around the Web

• Are trackbacks still useful? Weblog Tools Collection asks it’s readers this question. If you ask me, I believe that it is still useful inspite of the growing number of spam trackbacks in recent years. I love getting trackbacks! Also, with trackbacks I can know who are linking to my posts and find out if people actually like my posts.
• Too many blog categories occupying too much space on your blog? Solution: drop down menu. Anthology of Ideas has this cool tutorial on how to display blog categories in a drop down menu.
• Learn how to combine featured posts with the standard loop with this excellent tutorial by Darren Hoyt author of the Mimbo 2.0 WordPress theme.
• I’ve always wanted a quick and easy way to take screenshots in Windows like I used to do in Ubuntu. Thanks to Daily Blog Tips, I found out about two Firefox extensions that lets you take screenshots with the latest version of Firefox.

Before I forget, join Pinoy United‘s online raffle for a chance to win $250. To join the raffle or find out more about the mechanics, visit this page.

On another note, I’d like to thank Blogging Mix for the 1,500 Entrecard credits and blog review that I won in his recently concluded Entrecard contest. I’m still deciding whether I should use it to advertise on popular blogs or should I give it away as a prize. What do you think?

I’m having problems with trackbacks. I just realized that I could send trackbacks but not receive them. Trackbacks won’t even run within my blog. Some of my recent posts include trackbacks to previous posts but none of them show up. This is the first time that I’ve had this type of problem. Never had problems with trackbacks before.

I’ve searched Google and have been trying to look for a fix for this problem to no avail. If anyone has a solution or knows how to fix this, I would greatly appreciate the help.

UPDATE:

Thanks to Jorge, I got it all figured out now. He pointed out that my spam captcha could be the culprit. I was using the Matriphe Keycode plugin to block spam comments and it also blocked my own trackbacks. I don’t know why I didn’t notice it right away. So with the spam captcha and Akismet both filtering and blocking all comments & trackbacks, trackbacks including my own was considered as spam and didn’t show up in the awaiting moderation queue or even in the Akismet spam section.

Anyways, after I deactivated the spam captcha, I tried to create a test trackback within my posts and I found it marked as spam by Akismet. As of now, I’m gonna drop the Matriphe Keycode plugin and just use Akismet by itself. Now it’s back to business.