Cyberbaguioboy

I just finished a course in PR this summer when I stumbled upon Guy Kawasaki’s blog. He posted an alternative way of doing PR, which is doing it on your own. This is based on an article penned by Glen Kellman. Excerpt:
Just the other day a newspaper’s technology editor told me, “It’s just so hard [...]

They are and I promise. But you have to be very descriptive and precise in language to avoid boring your readers.
Roy Peter Clark of Poynter Institute show us how. Excerpt:
As I lug my writing tools around the country, I find that one tool, over and over again, produces the most angst.
It turns out everyone is [...]

Here’s an inspiring valedictory speech made by 16-year-old UP student Mikaela Irene Fudolig, a BS Physics major on April 22, 2007. Hope for this country remains strong among today’s youth.

First day of school!
–Nemo
It’s been like eons since I took courses during summer. Now, here I am getting ready to face the music. And the music sounds more like my favorite Bluesy tunes; slow and thumping deliberate. But there are butterflies fluttering inside my belly. Yes, I’m a bit anxious, no, jittery.

Author and former journalist Dr. Stephen Quinn was in Manila to attend a forum. Last Sunday, he spent a few hours with his students from the Ateneo Center for Journalism (that includes me) talking about about the Philippines, journalism, online media, mobile phones, convergent journalism in Asia, and his love for red wine! (But I [...]

Danton Remoto, English professor and co-founder of Ang Ladlad, went to the Commission on Elections yesterday to get a copy of the poll body’s resolution that denies accreditation to the party list group.
The resolution reads: “Contrary to petitioner’s allegation in its petition that its membership is national in scope, reports from our field offices reveal [...]

INQUIRER.net reporter Lawrence Casiraya shot this interesting video (again using a camera phone) clip of Filipino venture capitalist/entrepreneur Winston Damarillo giving advice to IT startups.

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INQUIRER.net Video: Exist chairman gives advice to startups

Who is Winston Damarillo? Read Lawrence’s breaking story.

I got this question from Mildred (see comments on sidebar): We are having our undergraduate thesis, entitled “perceptions of Professionals on print newspaper being replaced by its online couterpart… I would like to ask if young professionals can be our respondents. Do you think that their opinion can be a clue towards knowing what future [...]

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
-Oscar Wilde
In an interview with senatorial aspirant Danton Remoto (which is scheduled to come out soon on Eleksyon 2007 podcast interview on INQUIRER.net), the English professor admitted missing reading since the start of the campaign. How [...]

Journalists should report the truth. Who would deny it? But such a statement does not get us far enough, for it fails to distinguish nonfiction from other forms of expression. Novelists can reveal great truths about the human condition, and so can poets, film makers and painters. Artists, after all, build things that imitate the [...]