PPS sponsored by the Adult Entertainment Industry?
25
October
My first impression on Project Petaling Street: It’s a well planned, well executed idea of a portal for Malaysian blogging community. It’s growth has been phenomenal since its inception back in June 2003. It is THE premier blog portal in Malaysia.
On the mission statement of PPS, as stated on PPS Wiki:
Why was PPS created?
The PPS seeks to fulfill the following objectives:
1. Create and sustain an interest and awareness in blogging among Malaysians of all ages and races. If you’re old enough, you’re young enough. Seriously: blogging isn’t difficult, if you are so inclined.
2. Create and sustain a community of Malaysian bloggers – while the PPS community is currently very small (i.e. limited to the founding core group members), this won’t be the case for very long. Plans are underway to allow the PPS to accept public submissions. Other community tools such as a “Malaysian blogosphere” search engine is also being developed.
3. Aggregate and congregate content from across the Malaysian blogosphere
The core missions certainly are inspiring. Very considerate of them indeed giving out a helping hand to the Malaysian blogging community.
However, all of the good impressions I had on PPS are now shattered when I found out this – PPS is sponsored by the XXX adult entertainment industry? Now when I say sponsored, it means they’ve generating revenues from the advertisements of that particular industry. They also captioned the adverts under “Sponsors”.
Partial print screen of Project Petaling Street on October 25th, 2005.
Today, PPS has shown zero integrity by allowing XXX-rated ads on the portal. Nonetheless, this portal is watched, read, viewed, seen, clicked, by not only Malaysians, you know. This is the Internet for Christ-sake and talk about Malaysia’s PREMIER blog-tal showing adult ads, now that’s something to ponder about. Has PPS lost its way there? The recent attack on its service by malicious hackers cannot be taken as an excuse for that.
PPS, if you realize, these materials are for 18-and-over only. Considering kids as young as 12 could start writing a blog, what are the chances of them stumbling upon and clicking those ads? Those links are there for a purpose, I understand.
Coz at the end of the day, PPS gets the cheques, young minds get corrupted. I think the admins should do something about it, and quick. By the way, I’ve never seen a smoking pussy before. Thanks for the info., PPS Sponsors.
Che-Cheh
1. Alex | October 26th, 2005 at 10:11 pm
mayb u can email aizuddin bout tat. but it’s onli sponsors, so i guess not much harm done? they can’t reli rely on their adsense only. well.. unless those hardcore bloggers with high income in adsense are willing to donate a portion to pps
2. admin | October 26th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
Alex: yeah, sponsors they are. But that’s a portal with credentials, or so I thought, they should at least filter the ads, what’s appropriate for the portal and what’s not. I agree with you, donations from those high income bloggers, especially those relying on traffics from PPS, should donate regularly.
3. Alex | October 26th, 2005 at 11:26 pm
well, yeah true also. got kids like *erhem* me, frequenting tat place heh. like tat kahsoon guy rite, flood pinging pps, and then issue an apology tat smth wrong with the script. haha.
btw , are u the alexallied from dalnet #sibu last time? used to see a nick like tat. thanx for dropping by my site
4. admin | October 27th, 2005 at 12:32 am
Alex: Yeah, I did use that nick in DALnet #Sibu before. Do we know each other? I mean, how big is the Internet anyway? Stumbling upon fellow bloggers who’d met before in the IRC. Btw, what’s your nick then?
I saw lots of Kahsoon’s hottest blogger posts there. He’s flood pinging alright? Lolz. What a smart way to shake off his guilt. We should do that as well yeah?
5. wongpk | October 27th, 2005 at 3:41 am
Hm… Kahsoon’s hottest blogger… Will it the cause of the XXX-Rated advertisement? Since the XXX-Rated thingy more likely to be sensitive with “HOT” “HOTTEST”???
6. Alex | October 27th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
haha errm.. i suppose ur name’s alex too. oh yeah, i was in #sibu for a while. my nick was shadowhunter, one of the aops there last time.
tat’s cheap of kahsoon to do tat. nah, we’re more pro. we dun need tat.
btw, added u to my links. thanks.
p/s a lot of sibu ppl in melbourne eh? maybe shud meet one day
7. Alex Allied » PPS removed XXX-rated Advertisements | October 29th, 2005 at 7:04 pm
[...] Project Petaling Street had actually removed XXX-rated advertisements from their Sponsors list. I guess the message had been effectively delivered through my public outcry a few days ago. [...]