I’ve missed days of posting in this blog.
So just to keep this blog going, I’m going to talk about the Beijing Olympics and how it has kept me pasted on the boob tube during the weekends. I’ve seen the various boxing matches. But I was really up all night waiting for the men’s basketball to [...]
Watch INQUIRER.net community evangelist Alex Villafania’s video interview with Senator Manuel Roxas III who has been known as “Mr. Palengke,” talk about technology and the Internet.
Watch the video interview with Ma. Odea “Deng” Ching.
Aileen Apolo starts her blog with a rant about the scarcity of news about the information technology industry in the Philippines for, hmm, the past months since elections started, or even way before that period.
The shortest reply to her question is this: elections. Most of the media’s attention is focused on this regular exercise of [...]
A sad news.
CICT chief resigns
June 01, 2007
Updated 12:40:16 (Mla time)
Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Ramon Sales, chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), has filed an indefinite leave of absence en route to his resignation, an official confirmed with INQUIRER.net Friday.
“He has filed an indefinite leave of absence yesterday but since [...]
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 [...]
First off, thanks Dr. Stephen Quinn for citing our experience here in the Philippines.
My prof in convergent journalism, Dr Quinn, wrote a story for the Sydney Morning Herald, titled the On the Beat with Citizen Reporters, where he details how technology has changed the way news is delivered, at least for some organizations.In today’s world [...]
Millions of people have trooped to polling precincts in the Philippines today. As a democratic nation, we had been gifted this right to choose our leaders. And by voting, we hope that our voices will be heard and eventually reflected in the outcome of the elections. For most people, this is the time to let [...]
There’s a word war going on in blogosphere. And the battle has just begun…
David Bullard, a columnist for Sunday Times, has written a controversial piece that compared some bloggers to the “air guitars of journalism.”
Air guitar is about pretending that you can play those fast riffs without the instrument. Air guitar became [...]
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.