Tag: Writing
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Bloggers aren’t journalists – they’re bloggers!
Many months ago I entered the new media industry with a lot of assumptions about blogging and journalism. Having been in both sides of the fence, the blogging industry and the media are two sides of the same coin, yet have really not been tossed into the fire — this was back in 2007. One…
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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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Why Twitter is More Interesting Than Your Blog: The Steve Rubel PR Nightmare
When a new service like Twitter is launched, it doesn’t take a long time before we start seeing a lot of controversies with real world relationships. The traditional blogging medium (I can’t believe I just called blogging “traditional”) allows you to organize yourself into one coherent thought bubble and post what you have to say,…
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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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2BU: Philippine Blog Awards Call for Testimonials
It’s been several days since the Philippine Blog Awards. I’d really love to see what the winners did with their trophies 🙂 I was happily shocked too with the media coverage that came to the event. RPN 9, Inquirer.net and D-Tour as well as some guests from the commercial publishing industry came by to witness…
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Are You A Pontius Pilate Blogger?
No no, it has nothing to do with washing your hands before blogging. But that’s a good practice too. “Health brings wealth” I always say. What exactly is a Pontius Pilate blogger? Well, just in time for the Holy Week here in the Philippines, the Pontius Pilate blogger is someone who does not edit his…
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Bad Grammar Comment Points Back to (Hidden) Filipino?
Today I was browsing through Alister Cameron’s blog (love his content) and was curious about his post on the Filipino link builder who can’t write. I went over to that blog to check it out (something I will usually do if you leave me a comment), and something was immediately obvious to me: this is…
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Two Book Recommendations
I’m currently reading the following books and would like to recommend them to you. There’s a sale at PowerBooks for those of you who have been putting off book buying. The sale is 20% off on all foreign titles. Jasper Fforde | The Fourth Bear Fforde is a literary genius, combining the absurd with well…
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How soon should you publish your article in an online medium?
As a regular contributor for Mobile Philippines, I sometimes republish stuff that I wrote in this blog. The main disadvantage of the print medium is that though page planning and editorial content are done one or two issues in advance (so if it is late January now, we are working on February and March) it…
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5 Things You Don’t Know About Me
I was tagged by Abraham but took my sweet time to answer this. Here are the five things you probably don’t know about me but now you do. 1. I have a great fear of contact lenses. Or anything that has to do with the eye. I’ve worn glasses but those don’t really count. I…
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