Cyberbaguioboy

The recent typhoon that toppled billboards, trees, and killed scores of people caused major power outages in Northern Luzon. Scores of people were also killed. Residents in Metro Manila and nearby provinces are now without power, but still some Philippine-based bloggers have managed to post their stories/experiences. Efforts to restore power is now ongoing. Read [...]

Yes, the Department of Social Welfare and Development is going open source. Read full report at INQ7.net Infotech.

Or did somebody or something erased several days of entries in this blog? This is depressing. Now I have to recall what I’ve written and blog about it again. But this really makes my day! Quite depressing. Is this related to the recent migration of this blog to new servers? Hmmmm. Could it be [...]

Visayas and Mindanao residents now have a virtual tambayan courtesy of a free online community created by Shealthiel Jech Oczon. Dubbed Vizmin.com, Oczon hopes this will also encourage residents to speak up on other issues. Excerpt of the short report I wrote for INQ7.net.
Shealthiel Jech Oczon, a proponent of the project, said the online community [...]

If you can spare 225 pesos, go and buy this book. Written by INQ7.net editor and blogger Joey Alarilla, it is perhaps the first book that will make the not-so techsavvy readers understand e-Business. He also uses real stories to explain important points.
Launched this week, the book, titled “E-Business made Easy: The Phlippine Internet Commerce [...]

I found this interesting blog by a UP ComSci student. LJ Regalado is apparently part of an ongoing project to create a social networking site similar to Facebook. According to a Wikipedia entry, Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard University sometime in February 2004 with financial help from Eduardo Saverin. Now, LJ and [...]

The Commission on Information and Communications Technology,the highest policymaking body on ICT in the Philippines, has two new commissioners but one has left, while another is contemplating on leaving soon. INQ7.net breaks the story.
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has appointed new officials at the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), while one commissioner has decided to [...]

The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (Seapa) says the new Thai government is now putting more pressure on webmasters out to “disturb the peace.” Seapa is a non-profit organization fighting for freedom of expression in the region. It is based in Bangkok. Here’s an excerpt taken from an INQ7.net story:
“The Internet is the latest medium under [...]

Level Up! Philippines is losing some of its key executives but a senior official said this was not directly related to the ongoing merger with another company owned by the Phiilppine Long Distance Telephone Co. Sheila Paul, chief operating officer, said that while this development is “glaring” it is not a mass resignation. Read full [...]

It was the most disappointing news for YouTube fans when “citizen journalists” who did some online sleuthing found that popular LonelyGirl15 was not really who she claimed she was.
Silicon Valley watch did some good high-tech investigative work and found that this YouTube “next-door girl” incarnate is an actress.
Let us digress a bit. YouTube is now [...]