Cyberbaguioboy

Jun Lozada’s blog launched.
Excerpt:
MANILA, Philippines — Rodolfo Noel “Jun” Lozada Jr., the key witness in the Senate inquiry into the controversial National Broadband Network project, launched his blog Saturday to keep the conversation going in cyberspace.

Imagine that much spam comments on my blog. As I write this, Akismet has just blocked several hundreds more.

Apparently, we do. A technical working group composed of government and private sector representatives are studying several bills filed in Congress.
Excerpt:
MANILA, Philippines — A technical working group composed of government and private sector representatives agreed that the data privacy bills should adopt the European Union framework on data privacy, a spokesperson told INQUIRER.net on Wednesday.

I got invited to try out Octales. It’s a web 2.0-way of telling a story. I’m starting to love it.

Cebu-based Morph Labs has launched a platform for Facebook application developers.
Excerpt:
MANDALUYONG CITY, Philippines — A Philippine software company said it was allowing any company to use its web-based environment to deploy Facebook applications using an open source framework, an executive told reporters here.

I just got word from some of my friends that they got hi5 invites from me. I really don’t know what happened but as soon as I agreed to join this social networking service (it took a while), this same service started spamming people in my address book. So to all people in my address [...]

The National Telecommunications Commission has been directed to study the access charges between mobile phone networks in an effort to reduce cost of communications, an official said.
Excerpt:
MANILA, Philippines–Reacting to suggestions from lawmakers to make mobile phone text messaging free, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has said that it will study reducing the access charges imposed [...]

One of the country’s well-known DJs who played punk music in Philippine radio, and eventually helped Pinoy rock bands like Juan dela Cruz get radio play, has passed away.
Excerpt:
MANILA, Philippines — Howlin’ Dave, the radio DJ recognized as the voice of Filipino rock on station dzRJ, passed away Monday morning after suffering a [...]

The sheer volume of traffic has crashed the Twitter database servers. To date, Twitter is trying to recover from this outage. Some features, like the “older posts” are now unavailable. Is Twitter the victim of its own success?
And here’s an interesting Twitter application I spotted on the Twitter blog.