Jayvee Fernandez is a tech enthusiast, Digital Manager, and Technology Editor for The Philippine STAR.
He is also an EAN certified SCUBA Diver and underwater photographer based in Metro Manila, Philippines. His photos and videos have appeared in various international and local publications including Random House Germany, Discovery Channel Canada, and CNN.
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The Two Sides of Photography
Sometimes I argue that photography has enshrined the superficiality of experience. It has contributed to the over-valuation of appearances to a point where image has (subconsciously) replaced the reality as reality. – Gang Badoy I get excited whenever someone calls me over the landline. It is partly attributed to the surprise that the caller assumes…
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Mobile Blogging Is Like Wearing a Scuba Suit in the Mall
Because a few a-listers have carried over the topic of mobile blogging to their blogs I decided to join the bandwagon because first off, this was the question addressed to me and Marc Macalua after our talk at iBlog 3. Moblogging or mobile blogging is very similar to wearing a scuba outfit while walking in…
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Which Really Pays More: Magazines or Blogs?
Back at iBlog 3 I talked about how different the pay scale is between blogging professionally and being a contributing writer for a print publication. I want to elaborate more on this. Although it may be true that blogging pays more steadily and regularly, let us assume that both types of writing gigs required you…
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BuggedCast Episode 3 – “Anyone Can Start Their Own Religion”
Today I was at the NU 107 office in Ortigas to sit in the RockEd Radio show with Gang Badoy of RockEd Philippines and guests Lourd De Veyra, Noel Cabangon, Pepe Diokno and Chris Belardo. Afterwards I was able to sit with Gang to record my third podcast episode. We talked about how to protect…
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How Tragic!
I’m at the iBlog 3 Conference now waiting for my turn to talk. How sad, the free WiFi can’t access Friendster! How am I going to add all my new friends?!
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The Smaller Laptop is More Fun Than The MacBook
As far as I love being productive on my Mac, it doesn’t allow me to play games the way I want to. So after more than six months of mulling over buying a gaming device, I decided to purchase a Nintendo DS Lite to keep me busy during idle time. It was really a choice…
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Preparing for iBlog 3
I’m preparing some slides for my presentation this Saturday. I’m supposed to talk about blogging as a profession in front of a couple of hundred people at the iBlog3 Summit in UP Diliman. Last year, the same topic was given to Abraham Olandres who talked about (1) the different types of bloggers and (2) the…
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Passing On The Torch
My first encounter with WordPress with with a humble blog at the time with about 400 unique visitors a day. Back then, we – I say we because there was Howard, Adel, Poch, Jason, Jim, Art and myself with a few guests here and there started what is known today as the Mobile Philippines blog,…
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Unpacking a Quad Core ASUS Desktop
Strategic Edge sent over a Core 2 Extreme Quad Core desktop box for this blog. These machines were built for high end multimedia and gaming, and quite frankly we haven’t really seen this out in the wild yet. Pricing info is still not available yet. Here are some pictures of the unpacking process and some…
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Podcasting, the Voice Talent and the Paper Bag
In my previous post, I was talking about how podcasters should be performance artists. I guess watching stand up comedy acts like Pablo Francisco can definitely be inspiring in creating livelier content. I notice too that TWiT, one of the most popular podcasts on the iTunes Store (loosely referred to as the Billboards for Podcasts)…