Tag: Thoughts and Musings
My Life
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A Change of Email Address and an iRant
This is just a friendly note that for those who have been trying to email me at my .Mac account email address, you will no longer get replies from there as I have decided not to renew it. See my about page if you want to contact me. If its one thing I do hate…
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Book Recommendations May 5 2007
I’ve been scouring the bookstores for this particular title. All of the Fully Booked and Powerbooks branches in the metro either have never heard of the book or have it on order basis. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers by Henry Jenkins takes a look at how media influences the geek culture with focus on the digital…
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We are Contemporary Historians
Are photos your deceit or your truth? In the last iBlog 3 summit, Anton Diaz of Our Awesome Planet talked about how his photoblog chronicles the Philippines in circa 2000, with a focus on the beautiful places to explore. Last night I guested with Lourd, Gang, Rem, Grace and Tammy to talk about photography on…
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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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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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Podcasting is a Performance Art
Several days ago I wrote an entry on why podcasting seems to be so much harder to do. The concession was that unlike blogging, the resources needed to podcast would entail much more equipment. Of course, you can achieve a semi-decent podcast using the built in microphone of your laptop or by purchasing a cheap…
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The Best Way to Explain SEO from a Magazine Publishing Perspective
About a year ago I wrote an entry on why or why we should not have sexy girls grace the cover of gadget magazines. It dawned on me after a year of enlightenment that the issue of sexy girls can be the best way to explain white hat SEO tactics. White hat SEO — as…
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PROJECT: You Define Your Blog Conviction
UPDATE: The links page is up and it is slowly growing. Leave a comment if you want to be a part of this project. Today I had two interesting one on one sessions with a fellow blogger and my closest friend. On both occasions the topic of professional direction and personal direction were brought up,…
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Flowers For Ye
This shot was taken using 2 Cokin filters on top of one another. The first layer was a center spot filter with a second pastel 86 layer to create the dreamy effect throughout.
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When blog posts get counterproductive
There have been two things that I’ve found to be recently disturbing. The first was the seeming misinterpretation of my post about PWIT and Pinoy Tech Blog – as if there really was some controversy going on. My intent was to help promote PWIT as the cast and crew involves people whom I have worked…
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