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Dr. Leo Pandac and this writer clashed again during this month’s meeting of the Philippine-American Networking and Advocacy (PANA) held at the Search to Involve Pilipino (sic) Americans (SIPA) in Temple St., Los Angeles, California.
The issue again was the celebration in October of the fictitious "Filipino Heritage Month (FHM)" --AKA "Filipino History Month"-- that the "Filipino-American National Historical Society (FANHS)" declared several years back. I said that as written in our web site, the www.MabuhayRadio.com, the FANHS has no right to declare October as the FHM because it is just a mere tax-exempt California registered private corporation. Can a private corporation declare for the people a celebration of a historic event, which many historians have judged to have no basis in fact and in truth?
Dr. Pandac remarked that I could write anything I liked but "nobody is reading the MabuhayRadio." It was good that I had the notebook that contained the day-to-day listing that I record of the number of visitors to our web site. I asked Ms. Guila Maramba of the Ayala Foundation-USA to read the latest entry (from 6:58 a.m. of Oct. 16 to 6:55 a.m. of Oct. 17, 2007) and the total daily number of visitors was 1,003.
The total of visitors the day before was 658 (Oct. 16). And 400 for Oct. 15 and 1,088 for Oct. 14. Ms. Maramba saw the day-to-day record and that ended the argument.
The next issue that Dr. Pandac raised was Hector Santos. He said that Mr. Santos, whom I quoted as a source for my exposé about the FANHS hoaxes, was not a historian. I said that while Mr. Santos did not take up history as his major field of concentration in college, he has a distinguished track record as a very-serious student of history. I said that the proofs are in the web site, the www.bibingka.com, which Mr. Santos owns, maintains and edits.
Dr. Pandac, who is a member of the FANHS-LA Chapter, said that the FANHS in fact has its own web sites. As the dispute about the FANHS happened at the end of the meeting, I had no time to tell Dr. Pandac and the other seven PANA participants that Mr. Santos’ web site has far more-numerous number of visitors (readers or browsers) than the FANHS's sites.
As of today (Oct. 25, 2007), the www.bibingka.com is ranked by the www.Alexa.com as No. 564,952 (564-thousand, nine-hundred fifty-two). The FANHS web sites (the www.fanhs-national.org and www.fanhsla.com) are both unranked. When a web site is not ranked by the www.Alexa.com, it means that the traffic of that web site is so insignificant that no ranking could be made. The Alexa.com ranking is the daily average of any given three-month period. The rankings are significant because Mr. Santos and Victor Nebrida (a UCLA history graduate) cofounded the Philippine History Group of Los Angeles (PHGLA) and launched the www.bibingka.com only in 1995. While the FANHS was organized in 1982. The FANHS, therefore, had a lead time of more-than 13 years than the PHGLA and a similar advantage in the number of years their web sites have been operating.
Now, what is the ranking of the www.mabuhayradio.com? As I said in earlier reports, our web site started in April 2007 below that of the www.mabuhayradio.net of Toronto, Canada, which was operational at least two years ahead of our online publication. In fact, our site was ranked higher than 8,000,000 after 30 days of operation. The www.mabuhayradio.NET of Toronto is currently ranked by Alexa.com as No. 7,744,864 (above seven-million and seven-hundred forty thousandth in rank).
After just six months and one week, our web site, the www.mabuhayradio.com, cracked the one-millionth threshold. As of this morning, our ranking was 881,794 (below nine-hundred thousand). In fact, our webmaster, Allan Albert, has decided to put in an Alexa.com counter on our site's Front Page. We are way in advance of our projections. We targeted April 9, 2009, which will be our second-year anniversary, as the date to be ranked as the 99,999-ranked site (or even lower). We think that, thanks to readers like you, we will reach that goal sometime in 2008.
In order to crack the one-millionth ranking, a web site has to generate perhaps close to five-hundred or more hits per day. This is what Mr. Santos's web site, the www.bibingka.com, and our www.mabuhayradio.com are getting almost every day.
It is easy to comprehend why the FANHS web sites are not ranked. People do not visit web sites that contain historical hoaxes, lies and/or half truths. This writer's campaign of exposing the FANHS web sites as the domains of Hoaxbalahaps since 1995 has apparently succeeded.
And finally, the web sites of two other organizations that I have attacked for failure to observe religiously the ATIC slogan are not faring well. As of today, the www.naffaa.org is ranked by Alexa.com as No. 2,820,356 (higher than two-million, eight-hundred thousand in rank). My other pet peeve, the Books for the Burgis, oops, Barrios, is faring doubly worse than the "NaFFAA-ka-Sakit, Kuya Eddie" soap-opera of a federation. The www.booksforthebarrios.com is ranked 5,291,347 (more than 5.2-millionth in rank).
So, Dr. Pandac, et al, who are indeed reading or visiting your web sites? Our www.mabuhayradio.com and Mr. Santos's www.bibingka.com have both the data and the contents to show to the world that we practice the ATIC as we preach it. ATIC, as in accountability, transparency, integrity and credibility. # # #
Now lets change those search terms to be more in FANHS favor. Search google for "FANHS Philippine History".
Out of the much smaller yield of 381 results, bibingka.com holds the fourth position (FIRST PAGE RESULTS). The third position is held by a site called FANHS17.com. Possibly an official FANHS site and the only one ahead of bibingka.com, but I couldn't verify that site since it was dead when I tried clinking on the link (I got a host timeout).
You would think that since we are specifically telling the search engines to look for FANHS, that more "official" fanhs sites would be positioned higher. However, the two FANHS sites mentioned in the article above was nowhere in the first 30 positions.
The only other "Official" sounding domain name was FANHS-HR.ORG of Seattle holding the 25'th position. Even MabuhayRadio.com held the 30'th position and mabuhayradio is neither a history site nor a FANHS site (though it does have a history section).
So perhaps the Dr. should be a little more careful about saying that "Nobody is reading the Mabuhayradio, anyway", since that seems to apply to FANHS as well ESPECIALLY when compared against bibingka.com. But then again, if FANHS was a bit more careful about what they said, then we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against FANHS as a group, nor do I fault their cause. But to dismiss what seems to be valid point with such elitist remarks as "nobody reads mabuhayradio anyway" is kinda childish, don't you agree? And it certainly won't increase FANHS credibility one bit, since even THAT statement doesn't hold any water.
It would be much better for FANHS to just address the point, and not attack the messenger. Philippine History is NOT the exclusive domain of FANHS. There is no need to take things personally. There is, however, the need to PROVE BEYOND REFUTE (or at least - beyond reasonable doubt), any historical claims made.
Lets work together towards that goal, shall we?
Allan Albert - MabuhayRadio webmaster
PS:
Don't take my word for it, try the test yourself. Keep in mind however, that search engine results change constantly and your mileage may vary, (but it shouldn't vary too much). The test was conducted at 5:30 P.M. (Pacific Daylight Time) on Oct 25, 2007.
Can you please inform your boss, the Hon. Mayor Gavin Newsom, and the City of San Francisco Historical Commission that what they are celebrating the Filipino-American equivalent of an April Fools' Month? The mayor, the other city officials and the entire population of San Francisco are being made suckers by the FANHS and now, even by the ABS-CBN. No politician, much more the Hizzoner of a major American city, would want to appear as a sucker. And from the political viewpoint, agreeing to sponsoring a fictitious ethnic celebration (like the OctoberFake) often results into an image of pandering to voters. Please save your mayor from an embarrassing position.
We will advise the major newspapers in San Francisco of the coming OctoberFake celebration in the San Francisco City Hall.
For the record,
Bobby M. Reyes
Editor
www.mabuhayradio.com
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From: Jose Caedo
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Sent: Fri, Oct 26 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [akda] Re: Totally Unmasking the FANHS's Hoaxes and Insignificant Traffic to the FANHS Web Sites
Hi Bobby:
The Filipino-American Heritage Month is being celebrated with a grand event at SF City Hall on Wednesday Oct. 31, 5:30 PM, co sponsored by Mayor Gavin Newsom and ABS CBN TV.
Jay Caedo
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Subject: [akda] Re: Totally Unmasking the FANHS's Hoaxes and Insignificant Traffic to the FANHS Web Sites
RE: Unmasking the FANHS's Hoaxes and Insignificant Traffic to the FANHS Web Sites
Dear Friends, especially our Fellow Media Practitioners:
Please visit the www.mabuhayradio.com and read "So, Who Is Reading Fil-Am Web Sites? The Truth About the FANHS Web Sites." The article totally unmasks the Filipino-American National Historical Society (FANHS) hoaxes and the fact that its web sites do not attract sufficient traffic to merit any rating in the www.Alexa.com. Some of the FANHS hoaxes like its declaration of October as the "Filipino Heritage Month" (AKA Filipino History Month) are finding print in several Filipino-American publications. It should be the duty of the Filipino Fourth Estate to weed out hoaxes and false claims, especially in matters involving Filipino history. As I have written in the www.mabuhayradio.com, the "Filipino Heritage Month" is an OctoberFake; it is fiction invented by the FANHS.
The direct link to the article is http://www.mabuhayradio.com/content/view/648/51/
Mabuhay,
Bobby M. Reyes
Editor
www.mabuhayradio.com
Pls. speak for yourself ..I have known the positive works of FANHS down here in San Diego since 1999..
But it will be waste of my time to convince you.. Besides we have more pressing things to do these days ..
So please do me a favor ..Take me off from your e-mail list.. I can save seconds instead of using 'em deleting your e-mails.
maraming pong Salamat,
Manny Ramirez
ronrsand@.com
Community Advocate - San Diego County
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