Category Archives: Site Updates

Your HooPh Basketball Site Is A PBA Finalist

First, the nomination. = Happy. Now, HooPh made the finals of the Philippine Blog Awards (PBA) Sports Blog Category. = Happier. If ever we win? = Happierer. The complete finalist list are the following: Big Lakers Fan Bleachers’ Brew HooPh – Philippine Hoops Blog Lakers Today Sports and Tech sa Pilipinas The Bull Runner Victoriousaaa

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Hoops Philippines, Nominated at PBA

Hey, just like to make a shout-out that your blog Hoops Philippines (or as we try to call this, HooPh) is nominated over at PBA. Not this PBA. But this PBA. The category is under the SPORTS division. [A blog that reports and discusses events and issues about Sports. It could be about boxing (bothaaa

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Philippine Hoops Blog is now MAD!

It’s official, Philippine Hoops Blog is now MAD! Philippines freshest blog/ad/indie publishers network, the Mad Crowd Media, plans to throw an alley oop to Hoops.Blink.Ph. Mad Crowd’s Game Plan… Mad Crowd Media’s mission is to support its growing network of independent publishers by bringing them closer to marketers who want to take part in theiraaa

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Yes! ESPN.com Partners With Hoops.Blink.ph

Yes, that’s right. ESPN.com recently allowed Hoops.Blink.ph to use ESPN videos right here at our site. Contract is yet to be signed though. Via Truehoop, I noticed that ESPN Videos are now embedable. (Also, at ESPN Video, you could do the viewing there if you don’t do much blogging and embedding. This new ESPN Videoaaa

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July 2007 – Best month ever for Hoops Blog

Prepared early July. Remained un-posted ’til now. This entry is to auto-post today, Sunday. Assuming that there is no new entry… Idle in this site? It’s time for chest thumping, body slamming, roof-raising, ego-boosting – post. What happened last July…

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Pinoy Sports Blogging – 12 Questions

Mc Bias posted interesting sports blogging predicaments (ethics is too strong a word) here. Check it out. Me here, will tweak the questions to suit our own sports blogging ways. My answers are bold. 1. To post or not to post private pictures of players, good and bad. – NOT POST. 2. An athlete postedaaa

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Hoops Poll: This poll ends at 40!

Life begins at 40 but for this poll, it ends now. The “Technical Foul!” vote is gaining ground. This has to stop. We’ll cut this question while the site is looking good for three fourths of the voters. How would you score HOOPS.blink.ph basketball site? * Three points, mid court! (50%) – 20 votes *aaa

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Hoops Midnight Site Updates

Another midnight update for our site. We’ve just installed a nice little Poll Pluggin. It’s now installed over at the far right side. Cast your vote! And if you feel answering ‘em all, Poll Archive is located here. One neat feature is the page won’t reload, AJAX type poll pluggin is installed. Enjoy! (One pollaaa

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A Fast 6-Point Site Update

1. We have replaced the “recent posts” over at the right side from its previous venue. Now with heading “HOOPS CONTENT ARCHIVE,” a la ESPN. The recent entries module is now expanded from 5 posts to 10 posts. With this, recent entries aren’t buried immediately even when viewing single posts. Plus, recent entries are nowaaa

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ESPN Wants Your Opinions

In a sudden twist, ESPN now features a blog-like comments section at end of each article. ESPN calls the feature ESPN Conversation. It’s currently in Beta but it’s working fine. This ESPN comments section will surely make my eyes red and teary even more. Too much online reading. This is not the first time thataaa

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