Category: Mostly Everything
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Bloggers, MISrepresent!
It is such a sad experience to have a blogger misrepresent the Philippine blogosphere for his or her own merit. Recently, a huge conference was held and some industry folk mentioned a particular blogger who gave such a compelling presentation about the Philippine blogosphere. It was so compelling because it was the first BIG time…
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Jayvee’s Quentin Tarantino Experience
So I shuffled over Gateway Mall to meet Quentin Tarantino at the Cinemalaya FIlm Festival. The press had a “meet and greet” session after he gave a four hour seminar on film. Luckily a friend from one of the ABS-CBN magazines needed a photographer so she dragged me along, to my delight. I’d do anything…
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On giving up certain “rights” as a writer
I was flipping through a popular technology magazine with local content recently and I couldn’t believe my eyes as I almost skipped through one of the gadget review pages. I had to double check the product review written by “writer x” because from what I know about this person’s professional background, he (or she) is…
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Cookies on the 21st, Taste Asia on the 23rd
There are two big blogger events coming up on the third week of August. The first is the “formal” launch of Blog and Soul which is sponsored by Mrs. Fields. There are going to be several things in store for bloggers. Mentalist Marcelle volunteered to do some magic tricks and Nikki Dy Liacco will also…
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Apple Product Unveiling Next Week
Nope this isn’t a Steve Jobs keynote. This is a local product launch and its venue is still yet to be known. The first suspicion would be the launch of the iPhone in the Philippines but that is just too good to be true. I have a feeling that the launch, which will be from…
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Use a Wiimote to control your computer
syncing the Wiimote requires you to press buttons 1 and 2 together for discovery mode Say you lost your Apple remote control. Or you were in the market for a cheap wireless presenter tool for your computer. My suggestion would be to buy a Wiimote instead (SRP P1,800 in Greenhills) and download an appropriate Bluetooth…
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iWork ’08: Now with Numbers
Apple has just released a free 30 day trial of iWork ’08. This version includes Pages, Keynote, and a new application called Numbers which is a replacement for Microsoft Excel. Hannibal from PhilMUG writes: ladies and gentlemen, after fiddling with Numbers for about 30 minutes, i am so proud to announce that, i am leaving…
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Going Rogue
There’s a new men’s magazine in town. From the guys who created Manifesto (Jose Mari Ugarte, Miguel Mari, and pals) under the C! group, Rogue is their new brainchild under a different publishing group. Here’s the Press Release and photo from Jim Ayson’s Philmusic: ROGUE’s long-term mission is to accurately tell the story of our…
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Butch Dalisay’s Anti-Rant Rant
“Poetry, after all, is the opposite of suicide.†– Anne Sexton Butch Dalisay, better known as penmanila to the writing community in the Philippines has written a magnificent piece on the ranting culture on the Internet. A professed geek as most of us are at PhilMUG, he raises salient points on the rant culture we…
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Shedding Some Light on Disclosures
Before we start to get “disclosure happy,” here is a very good piece written by Read Write Web on when bloggers should disclose information. This was pointed out by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. The article actually illustrates journalism ethics as well as the ethics behind the business models of traditional publishers (it is sometimes tricky…
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