Cyberbaguioboy

In today’s world, you can become a star. Yes, you! You don’t need to join American Idol or any of that talent show to strut your stuff. Take this girl: Carmina Topacio. A recent sensation on YouTube, she’s now being invited to guest in Philippine radio stations. (Good luck!)

Who says you can’t be a star.

Information overload, that’s what you get with today’s RSS and social networking mashups. But recently I’ve found this nifty and intuitive RSS feed called Streamy. It’s interface is simple and organized. And it includes all the basic social networks you want to connect to (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr). YouTube is not yet in the list [...]

While it doesn’t want to be called to a “Google Killer,” Wolfram/Alpha was unveiled recently to make Internet search more relevant. According to this report, Wolfram/Alpha is a more specific engine that searches facts or knowledge that we actually need, instead of just links to these facts–which Google does. In fact, it only limits its searches [...]

Picked this up from Vox Populi:
Apart from the congested traffic during the daily rush hours, a normal sight along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City would be the colorful tricycles that quickly traverse down the streets against monstrous trucks, missing nearby vehicles by mere inches.
But the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has banned tricycles from the [...]

It really took five minutes to upgrade to the newer version of Wordpress (v. 2.5.1). The dashboard looks beautiful and easy to use, and it responds quickly (works faster).  Nice. You can manually upgrade to the newer version or opt for an automatic upgrade. Of course, I chose the latter.
What prompted me to upgrade? Well, let’s just say the earlier version was compromised.
So after getting some [...]

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 [...]

Old media (the likes of Time Warner) has hit back on new media (read Google) for its continued violation of its copyright. The CNET article writes:
“The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation,” Time Warner Chief Executive Richard Parsons said, referring to the Civil War [...]

Tim O’Reilly has recently invited people to consider a proposed code of conduct for bloggers. This was prompted after his talk with Kathy Sierra who had received threatening and disturbing anonymous comments in her blog.
Eventually, this call for bloggers to adopt a code of conduct was picked up by the media and bloggers, including Blog [...]

I have finally surrendered to the powers of Twitter.
To those unfamiliar with this new innovation in, er, communication and social networking, Twitter will test how well you are in one-liners. It is essentially blogging but you’re only allowed to tell everything in 140 characters (I think that’s the same limit as your regular text message).
Twitter [...]

In my case that’s close to 3 years now since I started. It is actually the same age as my second daughter’s. She’s turning 3 on April 15
Bloggers worldwide celebrated 10 years of blogging, while Catholic Filipinos celebrated Holy Week. But do check New York Times magazine’s timeline of blogging. It reveals that [...]