Comments on: We’re reshuffling and Tony’s taking charge https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Tue, 15 May 2007 02:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 By: Tony Hung https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-162684 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:53:11 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-162684 Thanks everyone for your kind congratulations.

In particular though … Matt and Duncan — your opinions me a lot as prior editors. I stand on some tall shoulders as I look to 2007. And John, as one of the (perhaps *the* longest) existing commenters here, your opinion is also tremendously meaningful.

Thanks.

]]> By: Jim https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-162273 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:56:32 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-162273 All the while I thought your litigation was long over. Hope everything will be better now that you’ll have more time to address your problems. God bless!

]]> By: jun https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161664 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:31:18 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161664 We are one with you abe. i’m sure everything will turn out right. And maybe, the pioneering persona that you are in the Philippines, this will come out better for you in the end.

Congrats Tony! We know you will do great.

God bless to both of you.

]]> By: Abe Olandres https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161317 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:47:32 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161317 Wow, I’m speechless. Thank you Mark & guys! Really.

]]> By: Matt Craven https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161296 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:19:35 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161296 Tony,

Congratulations on the new gig! This is a great move that I think will continue to help enhance The Blog Herald!

Matt

]]> By: Nick https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161273 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:32:08 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161273 Abe, I hope this will be sorted out. It’s clearly unfounded and should be thrown out of court… I would ask larger hosting companies for their expertise. I think 1and1.com has an office there in The Philippines. try contacting them. Because I know, they get a lot of these complaints and have fended off lawsuits in the past…

Tony, I’m a big fan, I wish you well in the new endeavor!

]]> By: Mark https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161238 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:17:26 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161238 Thanks, David!! I forgot also to kick it off with $100 myself.

]]> By: David Krug https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161207 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:35:32 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161207 Count me in for pitching in $100 towards Abe’s legal fund. I hate to see stuff like this happen to anyone.

]]> By: Mark https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161166 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:28:29 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161166 Let’s try this: for the first 10 x $100 contributions made via the paypal that Angelo mentioned – theblogherald (at) gmail (dot) com – you’ll get a link in “friends” for the rest of 2007. Just specify the link & text you want with the payment.

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161161 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:18:32 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161161 Here’s a Xoom link. Contributions can be sent in via PayPal, credit card or e-check:

https://www.xoom.com/pay/26999757.

Xoom has a minimum of $25, though. Amounts smaller can be sent via PayPal at theblogherald (at) gmail (dot) com.

]]> By: Mark https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161157 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:14:53 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161157 John- that’s very decent of you and a wonderful idea. I suspect Abe might be too proud to accept, so we better be quick and set this up as a fait complis. Angelo- please can you sort this?

]]> By: John Evans (Syntagma) https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161140 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:47:36 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161140 Sounds a crazy, self-serving case to me. Surely a half-decent court would throw it out at first sitting.

Mark’s right. It could happen to any of us. When I read through the comments on one of our forum-like sites, I often get the urge to delete and delete. We’re all balanced on the edge.

I’m sure if Abe is in real financial trouble over this, it would only take each BH reader to send $10 via PayPal to make a big difference. Mine’s poised to go.

And well done Tony. A brilliant choice, well deserved.

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161094 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:29:04 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161094 Considering what Mark said, I think it would be a good idea to consider Abe’s legal battles a landmark case here in our country. It’s IT-related after all, especially one pertaining to online publications and discussion boards. An aging legal system probably has problems handling such cases.

]]> By: Tony Hung https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161035 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:33:37 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161035 Thanks everyone,

I’ve got some large boots to fill myself, but I’m looking forward to the challenge.

More on my thoughts in the very near future, but I wanted to stop by with a half-thought before I caught a few hours sleep.

Cheers
Tony.

]]> By: Dave C. https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161006 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:55:27 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161006 Tony will definitely take good care of the ship. Glad to have him at the helm and kick this vessel full steam ahead. Not really sure what’s up with the nautical cliche’s. Found a theme and went with it.

Best of luck to you Abe. Dont’ forget to stick your head out the porthole once in awhile

]]> By: Mark https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161003 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:51:55 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-161003 I’d also just like to record that under Abe’s stewardship, a PR hit aside, BH’s stats are up in every sense. Alexa is up a couple of thousand and we’ve moved up Technorati by a couple of hundred places. So well done, mate, you did us proud.

]]> By: Mark https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160978 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:24:34 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160978 Crikey. How does a case like that, without merit, stay in due process? I know that you have spent days and days of your time consumed by it at various legal locations- what is their gameplan? That you crack, give in and just pay them off to go away? Do you have no legal recourse?

It’s an outrage.

For those of you reading this and learning about it for the first time, I can tell you that Abe has already had to spend an equivalent amount of money to that which was saved to buy a home, in order to defend himself against these ludicrous charges.

We’re all in the same boat on this in a way, i.e: it could happen to any of us who publish, host, comment, etc, etc……such is the crazy world we live in.

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160971 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:16:54 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160971 Congrats, Tony! Abe, if you need any support, you can count on me (except financial, that is! heheh).

]]> By: Abe Olandres https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160967 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:10:35 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160967 @ Chris & Lorelle

Thank you for the support.

@ Mark

I guess we can discuss about that ridiculous law suit here as I can’t understand how it got blown out of proportion.

I run a fairly small start-up web hosting here in the Philippines. One of our former clients runs a forum that we used to host. Several members of that forum were throwing vindictives against a their former employer. That employer sent us a demand letter thru their law firm demanding that we terminate the site or be charged with libel as well. The client moved out from us the following day. However, the employer/complainant has now filed several libel law suits against us claiming that we are the owner of the domain and the operator of the site. The site is still up and running though hosted somewhere else, the domain was also transferred away from us. Still, the complainant is alleging we should have enforced some sort of regulations or control over the content when it was still with us.

Apparently, all they wanted is money and this case is just of one of their many business gigs.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160948 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:38:05 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160948 Abe, so sorry to hear of your troubles. I’ve recently gone through (am going through) the same thing.

But great cheers and applause for Tony. You’ve got a great team here and everyone will step up to the plate, I’m sure!

]]> By: Chris Baskind https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160946 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:36:31 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160946 Abe, thank you for everything — and our thoughts are with you as you struggle with difficult times. Changing the world starts at home, so take care of first things first.

Tony: good luck and congratulations! You’ll do great.

]]> By: Mark https://www.blogherald.com/editorial/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160942 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:31:38 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/09/were-reshuffling-and-tonys-taking-charge/#comment-160942 Abe- thanks for everything you have done, and I’m so happy that you will still be an ever-present figure here at BH. Our prayers to your family, during this time of loss, and now worry. I assume that you cannot discuss the legal case?

And we are very lucky to have Tony here to pick up the reins…

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