Filipino blogs, tweets honor Corazon Aquino (1933-2009)
Filipino bloggers quickly took on the task of honoring former President Corazon Aquino, the country’s first female leader, who died today from cardiorespiratory arrest. She was 76.
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My picks for the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2009
Bloggers read other blogs to be updated and just like ordinary blog readers, also to engage in discussions and to be entertained or enlightened. We have grown to love some of the new blogs and I really wish they are recognized. Good thing we have the writing project Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2009 […]
MoreBring it on, Mrs. Arroyo. Filipinos raring to kick your #conass.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is said to be preparing to use her state of the nation address tomorrow to raise anew the call for charter change. It is thus a good thing that bloggers and Facebook users took on this issue with Cyberprotests and a Blog Action Day. If Arroyo would indeed announce a renewed effort […]
MoreInternet and social change in the Philippines
The advent of the internet, especially blogs, microblogs and social networking, has pumped fresh blood to the mass movement of people seeking social change. The internet has obviously become a new platform for individuals and groups to voice out their views and to launch all sorts of initiatives. This is good anyway you look at […]
MorePeborit: My Colorado photos
I really loved my quick visit to Colorado. If Los Angeles and New York are world cities and dotted by skyscrapers, Colorado is vastly different.
MorePeborit: My San Diego photos
I’m continuing the series of photos I took from a recent trip to the United States. This time, I’ve posted some pictures from San Diego
MorePeborit: My Los Angeles photos
I’ve started posting photos I took from my 15-day trip to the United States. First installment: Los Angeles.
MoreUS conference applauds Pinoy texting power
Yes, folks, our sophisticated use of cellphones makes Filipinos a star here in the Los Angeles conference I’m attending. Speaking at the Beyond Broadcast 2009 plenary session yesterday (Thursday in Manila), I shared how we make use of mobile phones for pro-consumer and pro-people ends. Read more about it at the TXTPower website. I’ve met […]
MoreiBlog5 5th Philippine Blogging Summit at UP Diliman
Hundreds trooped to the University of the Philippines on Saturday for the iBlog5 5th Philippine Blogging Summit, including my old and new friends friends in the Philippine blogosphere.
MorePopDev Media Awards now open to bloggers!
Another group has come forward to recognize the role of bloggers in raising public awareness on important issues. Bloggers are now welcome to join the 5th PopDev Media Awards, a project of Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD). This is open to all Filipino bloggers who have blogged about any of the following […]
More10 worst countries to be a blogger
It is taken for granted or regarded lightly, but the relative freedom we enjoy in expressing ourselves through is heaven compared to the hell experienced by bloggers in other countries. In naming the “worst online oppressors”, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) notes that “booming online cultures in many Asian and Middle Eastern nations have […]
MoreWorld Press Freedom Day 2009
Today is World Press Freedom Day. It should be a happy day for the Philippines, considering that we always boast of having the freest press in Asia, but
MoreStudies and statistics on the internet in the Philippines
Internet use in the Philippines is growing with more and more Filipino using the internet for various purposes. This post, which I would update regularly, seeks to make available reference materials, studies, researches on the Philippine use of the internet.
MoreGuest post at the Daily PCIJ blog: ‘A trail of bodies, unsolved killings’
Please visit the Daily PCIJ blog of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism for my guest blog post there titled ‘A trail of bodies, unsolved killings’. Excerpt:
MorePCIJ, Newsbreak hold workshop on reporting human rights issues and extrajudicial killings
What do the Alabang, Paranaque and Quezon City incidents, the Kuratong Baleleng rubout, the suspicious slays of crusading journalists and the murders of nearly a thousand activists have in common? They are all arguably extrajudicial or extralegal killings — deliberate murders of individuals by elements or agents of the state, with approval or sanction by superiors, […]
MoreFrancis Magalona is dead; Long live the King of Pinoy rap!
Francis Magalona is dead. He succumbed to leukemia this morning at the Medical City hospital. Vic Sotto, host of noontime show Eat Bulaga where Magalona was a cast member, made the announcement during the program. This page requires a higher version browserFor the latest Philippine news stories and videos, visit GMANews.TV Magalona’s family is expected […]
More‘Selected Writings of Jose Ma. Sison’ to be launched Feb. 19
As the world searches for solutions to the global economic crisis, Prof. Jose Ma. Sison publishes his views on politics and the economy, on democracy and socialism and on the problem that is imperialist globalization. This is another step forward for Prof. Sison and the national democratic movement as they offer help to the country […]
MoreWebsite on Muslim Mindanao
Journalists and academicians recently launched a website, a virtual online resource center, on Muslim Mindanao. From Stuff This is good news for journalists and all those who wish to read about and understand this area and people of our country. Read about it in this news release I am republishing here:
MoreWanted: Volunteer-developers for a disaster response application
The Computer Professionals Union is calling on technology experts who wish to lend their skills and talent towards the deployment of a simple monitoring application for an NGO whose expertise is disaster response. According to the CPU, the monitoring app will serve as “a grassroots monitoring tool for natural and man-made disasters in the country. […]
MoreDFA website is now powered by WordPress
The Department of Foreign Affairs has chucked its old website look in favor of a magazine-style theme powered by WordPress. From Stuff
MoreDigital PADEPA: National democrats bring activist school online
[UPDATE: Digital PADEPA has moved to a new address] National democratic activists have brought their school to the worldwide web. PADEPA, short for Pambansa Demokratikong Paaralan (National Democratic School) has gone online with Digital PADEPA, making its courses available to activists and activist organizations who have long wanted to have obtain reference and teaching materials […]
MoreChange quickly comes to the White House website
At around noon time Tuesday in Washington DC, Barack Obama became President and immediately brought change to America: Obama’s web team swiftly revamped the White House website. The redesigned website reflects the simplicity of Obama’s campaign portal.
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