Eddie Van Halen entering rehab

(Photo taken from Wikipedia) 
Finally, he’s doing it. It’s long overdue. I miss listening to him play Monster guitar! Here’s the same announcement from his official website.

Pinoy enters Spielberg reality show for filmmakers

Here’s some good news:
MANILA, Philippines — Filipino cinematographer Paolo Dy is now closer to making it in Hollywood.
Dy is now among the aspiring filmmakers featured on “On The Lot,” a competition produced by Mark Burnett and Steven Spielberg that offers a $1-million development deal with DreamWorks.
Dy’s suspense short film QWERTY is now featured on the [...]

(RELOADED) I’m a Philippine Blog Awards nominee?

Okay, this really surprised me. I just finished blogging about this in INQUIRER.net’s Blog Addicts when I found out that this blog has been nominated under the News and Media category.
So officially I’m now part of the 2007 Philippine Blog Awards.
Here’s the official list of nominees based on categories as of March 11, 2007: (You [...]

USAToday goes web 2.0

Allow readers to comment on every story. Set up a profile page where readers can connect to other readers. Allow readers to tag reports. Give people the power to digg and recommend stories to others. And viola, you’re on web 2.0. USAToday is apparently on the verge of a major shift to a more interactive [...]

Crackberry and tech addiction

I have succumbed to tech addiction. I can’t leave home without my iPOD, mobile phones, and my Blackberry (I use this mainly for work). Last Friday, I realized I could not stop looking at my incoming messages on my Blackberry. It was a compulsion of sort. So when I saw this video clip by Nalts [...]

Reuters does a mySpace

A social networking service for fund managers, traders, and analysts. This is what Reuters is aiming to create. (You have to register to read the rest of the story from Guardian Unlimited).
Excerpt:
“You will see us, later in the year, launch a version of MySpace for the financial services community,” said the chief executive, Tom Glocer. [...]

Dear God…

I found this from a high school mailing list, of which I’m a member. This is a prayer from a child to God.

‘Hope’ spreads on YouTube

The video clip of Hope Centeno confessing to her alleged affair with basketball player James Yap, husband of actress and TV show host Kris Aquino, is making rounds on YouTube. It has in fact earned several “honors” in the online video hosting service. The video clip rips two video clips from showbiz-oriented talk show S [...]

Politics and entertainment

Based on the top 10 Most-Read stories on INQUIRER.net from February 18 to 24, it is clear that our readers are still interested in Philippine politics. But their love for entertainment stories is also evident. Take a look at the list:

Richard Gomez’s appointment as House adviser questioned (Global Nation, February 21, 2007)
1,193 pass 2007 medical [...]

A stickler for words

Stickler
Pronunciation: ’sti-k(&-)l&r
Function: noun
1 : one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something stickler for the rules>
2 : something that baffles or puzzles POSER, STICKER
(Source: Merriam-Webster online)
As journalists, we’re expected to insist on exactness or completeness of stories. We call this accuracy. The same applies to language and writing. Years of writing news has [...]