(UPDATE) Nation held hostage

It was a tense day yesterday for more than 20 children and their tutors. For 10 hours, children and their teachers were held hostage inside a bus parked near the Manila City Hall. The children were freed later. While I was covering the happenings at the Commission on Elections (Comelec), everyone was distracted by this [...]

Author-journalist on convergent journalism

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 [...]

Comelec has video of military campaigning–party-list groups

“Damning” evidence or not, this video taken by ABC 5 shows ex-communists, accompanied by government troops, speaking out against certain party-list groups. The Commission on Elections is allegedly holding a copy of this video clip.
Here’s the video clip courtesy of ABC 5.

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News Video: Ex-communist rebels speak out

YouTube smear campaign starts vs Hillary

A campaign spot for Obama Barack (a fact that he denies) takes off with a parody on the famous 1984 ad of Apple’s Mac, which portrays Hillary Clinton as big brother.
Technology News World has the scoop. Excerpt and video follow:

After promising to maintain a civilized tone, Sen. Barack Obama has sent a shot across the [...]

Senatorial candidate unveils You-Tube-based reality show

Independent senatorial candidate Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan has launched his very own YouTube-based channel, hoping to show people his day-to-day campaign activities. Using MTV-style production, this online “reality show” is dubbed KTubed (as in KikoTubed) on multiply.com. Here are two video clips posted on YouTube.

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KTubed LAUNCH vid

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KTubed! Episode 2 - PAMPANGA

This same video clip [...]

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 [...]

What it means to be a nuisance

Here’s some comic relief from my daily grind at the Commission on Elections. Just watch and listen

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INQUIRER.net Video: ‘Nuisance’ senatorial bet defends bid

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 [...]

Winston Damarillo: advice to IT startups

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.

‘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 [...]