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It was a long day that ended on a high-note. Just to give you an idea, we’re about to make another first on INQUIRER.net but I would hold off discussing it until it’s up. But as you’ve already seen for the past weeks, we have beefed up our multimedia content on the website. We have [...]
The Department of Education announced it was getting additional money –around P260 million– to fund the purchase of PCs, Internet for public schools, INQUIRER.net reported. Excerpt:
So far, the DEPED has provided computer laboratories to 73 percent or 3,512 public high schools in 2006 while 30 percent of these have Internet connection.
[DepEd Secretary Jesli] Lapus said [...]
Answer: Filipinos.
This was an interesting story to do now that this service has already been closed. Google Answers is a web-based service that allows people to post random questions. Answers are provided for a fee.
There are at least 3 Pinoys who have qualified as Google Answers Researchers.
Read their story at INQUIRER.net.
I came across Steve Outing’s column on Editor and Publisher, titled “Some Words of Advice for Small Newspapers.” I’ve been doing a lot of readings on convergent journalism lately. Thanks to the Internet, I found such interesting insights, which I could cite in a school paper due two weeks from now
One of the interesting [...]
I was poring over the stories featured in Nieman Narrative Digest and saw this interesting Philadelphia Inquirer (yes the same that announced lay off last week) special report on how Indian and American authorities built a case against educated and influential Indian nationals apparently selling drugs “illegally” via the Internet. What made this story different [...]
(UPDATE) Writing Degree Zero has added interesting information about the layoffs in the Philadelphia Inquirer. As former colleague and self-admitted media junkie Arvin Reyes writes, and I quote, “The paper’s declining circulation is largely due its declining quality of journalism.”
He added:
Several years ago, the Inquirer, under the editorship of Gene Roberts, was one of the [...]
The latest count is 15,000, says co-founder and entrepreneur Terence Pua. Eskwela.com is like Facebook, which hopes to serve as a social networking service to local students and alumni.
A Philippine-listed firm is pushing an open source-based curriculum to public schools in the Philippines, an idea which is really not new but if they’re successful, they could help save government billions of pesos spent on books.
