January 2012
5 posts
Would I Die for the Filipino?
thegoodmike:
At the check-in counter queue alone, I’d never felt so humiliated for my being Filipino (or Asian, if that’s the case). Seeing that the Business Class counter had been idle for a while, this check-in usher eagerly asked a Caucasian couple before me if they were Business/First Class passengers. “No, we’re flying Economy…” Despite that, the usher very warmly, with a wide smile, led...
6 Ways the Media Is Using Digital Tools to Cover... →
Politicians have been deploying digital tools in new and innovative ways this election season, and the media outlets and journalists covering them have been doing the same. Throughout the 2012 battle for the White House, media outlets have been designing web apps dedicated to political coverage, …
Funny video: Gerald Anderson Fanatic goes wild at...
My daughter shared this funny video of a Gerald Anderson fanatic who went wild when he saw Gerald Anderson on the float. I couldn’t stop laughing seeing his reaction. I was there too but I was busy taking photos though I recall the number of shrieking fans.
Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOVgGdCT33k and enjoy.
I am also sharing the photos I took of Gerald Anderson...
Rock Ed will be picking up donations (clothes,...
gangbadoy:
Rock Ed will be picking up donations (clothes, bedsheets, water, toys, shoes, medicine, etc.) tom from 10am-5pm (3 Jan 2012) Makati-Pasig-QC EDSA route first. Other areas like Paranaque etc. will be scheduled another day. Please send us a message if you have donations to be picked up. Email radio@rockedphilippines.org for your location tonight so we can plot the route. Yay,...
November 2011
1 post
Pro RH Advocates Win First Battle in Occupy for... →
filipinofreethinkers:
Anti-RH advocates were forced to leave SB Park after pro-RH advocates discovered that they didn’t have a permit.
The anti-RH advocates tried to bully their way into the camp by setting up tents at the gate for a thanksgiving mass they were planning. When the SB Park officer asked who owned…
October 2011
2 posts
Poetic Islam: As the statement was made in Britain... →
poeticislam:
As the statement was made in Britain about Gaddafi’s death, murmurs of Allahuakbar were called behind the Libyan Ambassador. SubhanAllah. Alhamdulillah. Allahuakbar. Allah is truly the greatest, and to him shall we all return. Everyone make Du’aa for the new Libya, and that the people of Libya,…
September 2011
3 posts
1 tag
““This is a coup d’etat!” I exclaimed.
We were gathered in the office of...”
– Arturo M. Tolentino, recounting September 24, 1972, in his memoirs, Voice of Dissent. (via mlq3)
August 2011
3 posts
“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous...”
– Sigmund Freud (via mlq3)
4 tags
“It’s definitely a golden age for curators. Over the next five years, the amount...”
– Rochelle Grayson, CEO of BookRiff, in an interview with O’Reilly Radar’s Jenn Webb.
BookRiff is a startup that let’s curators create, compile and sell books in digital and print formats.
Thought another away: imagine turning your Tumblr into a book.
(via futurejournalismproject)
Globe Telecom's Official Statement on the Tonino... →
tattooph:
Globe Telecom obtained authorization to use the name and logo Tonino Lamborghini through an agreement with Primo Mobile, the master franchisor of mobile phone related products for the Italian brand Tonino Lamborghini. Primo Mobile is a Singapore-based company that has a master license agreement…
July 2011
3 posts
“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
– Anais Nin (via myquotelibrary)
June 2011
7 posts
“The sisters of Rizal went to the gates of the palace of Malacañang, where they...”
– Wenceslao Emilio Retana, Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal, 1907, citing a telegram by correspondent Santiago Mataix to the Heraldo de Madrid which was published in the evening edition of December 29, 1896 (via mlq3)
How the Philippines is saving their coral reefs –... →
Two of the country’s best-managed MPAs include Apo and Danjugan Isles in Negros, both of which received best-managed MPA awards in 1996 and 2001, respectively. “Community support is paramount in achieving success,” notes Pagaduan. “By protecting their area’s reefs, coastal communities also safeguard future sources of food and livelihood.”
“In contrast to [Fr.] Burgos who wept because he died guiltless, Rizal went to...”
– —Apolinario Mabini, La Revolucion Filipina (via mlq3)
@Vibal Foundation Kristine Mandigma, Gus Vibal and...
jnvrmnlph:
Vibal Foundation, Dean Jorge Bocobo @SagadaSun, Noemi Dado @momblogger in @MyRizal150 media launch.
DEAD HEROES SOCIETY: CBCP blogger Carlos Antonio... →
deadheroessociety:
June 9, 2011
By benign0
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines is reportedly now “tapping” Filipino bloggers in the “fight” versus the Reproductive Health Bill currently being “debated” in Philippine Congress. The CBCP’s official press release, indicated that its…
“Dr. Jose Rizal limits himself to criticizing the present insurrectionary...”
– —comment of the Spanish Judge Advocate-General on the manifesto of Jose Rizal condemning the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution. (via mlq3)
I know the pain of losing a son but what is...
photograpia:
(Thoughts on the beginning of June rainfall, life decisions, and remembering what it was like to play with dinosaurs)
This same time thirteen years ago, my world turned upside down.
I’m not usually one to write about this side of me, the one that is fully aware of my experiences and how I’m dealing with them, but today I feel like I must. Maybe it’s the...
May 2011
7 posts
1 tag
Maltese say yes to divorce. Philippines is now the... →
deadheroessociety:
VALLETTA — Voters in the overwhelmingly Catholic Mediterranean state of Malta have voted in favour of legalising divorce, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi announced on Sunday after a weekend referendum.
Gonzi, who campaigned against the introduction of divorce in the last European country where it is illegal, said it was now up the Mediterranean archipelago’s parliament to...
A video tribute to my son's 11th angel date →
The pain of grief is the price we pay for love. My Luijoe, loved , missed and remembered.
What I Learned at Curation School →
futurejournalismproject:
Julie Moos filled in for Jim Romenesko at Poynter.org and writes what she’s learned about content curation.
Her takeaway includes ideas any Tumblr should know:
The balance between the obligatory and the original is critical.
What you exclude is as important as what you include.
Speed kills, but slowness is a painful death of its own.
Click through to read her...
And once again the RH Bill.
stickeysnippettes:
During the homily, I was listening to the parish priest go on about it, and I just felt pretty blah. *sigh* I love God. I hate his fan club.
1 tag
What 'RH' Means: Raging Hormones, or Regaining... →
rawrsomeinfo:
I am, by no-means, for the progress of our country and for the better life.
For starters the Reproductive Health Bill (Bill no. 4244), the latest out of eight revisions, is currently making noise in the Philippines. It was a huge text of propositions that magnetized two…
@iamtimyap: Spread the love, click the LIKE. →
iamtimyap:
A lot of you don’t know this, but I know how it feels how not to have a home. One afternoon as I came home from school, there it was, our home, getting burned right in front of my very eyes. My mom was crying, hugging me so I won’t see what was going on. But I remember everything clearly….
April 2011
15 posts
Willie Revillame taps into the Pinoy psyche in a...
parasamgabata:
Willie Revillame and the Pinoy psyche
EMOTIONAL WEATHER REPORT By Jessica Zafra
(The Philippine Star) Updated April 17, 2011 12:00 AM
At the Philippine STAR-National Bookstore event F. Sionil Jose wondered why Willie Revillame is famous. It can’t just be the cash handouts — there are other TV personalities who give money away. The controversy that he generates — from...
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What in the name of Google is going on? Here is a...
The aims of Panda are noble: to remove poor quality sites from the top of Google’s results pages. Or as Matt Cutts, Google’s head of spam, puts it in a blog post announcing Panda:
“This update is designed to reduce rankings for low quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will...
The stories we construct.
copyeditor:
thebroadcaster:
The stories we construct and how they affect our everyday behavior.
Should journalists deal in rumour?- reminds me of...
This reminds me of the Big Bad Blogger written by Margaux Salcedo
mediahelpingmedia:
Is social media putting added pressure on journalists to publish rumour - just to keep up?
1 tag
Symptoms of Attention Deficit in a Digital Native:... →
jamesjimenez:
This is my understanding of the opposition to the interment of Ferdinand Marcos in the LNMB.
Caveat lector.
The ouster of FM was attended by a whole lot of noise about restoring all that was lost: democracy, public wealth, and the psychological well-being of a people. Packaged that way, as the…
"What can you do to save 11 mothers from dying due... →
It's Passover week, 33 AD. Jerusalem. And... →
pasyonistas:
Revolutionary. Troublemaker. Rabble rouser. With a name like that, should probably have been a pirate instead. Arrrrrr.
Para Sa Mga Bata News: TO THE WILLIES OF... →
parasamgabata:
by Marne L. Kilates on Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:53am
Some friends and I were exchanging notes about the whole Willie thing on our e-group. Some said the thing might have become overblown. Some were suggesting Willie himself had become the victim. I resisted the temptation of…
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Let me write down my candid thoughts on this... →
I wanted to write about blogger integrity but I think Marck said it all especially “No matter how you define it, or how I define it, there are lines that you do not cross. ”
marocharim:
Let me write down my candid thoughts on this overblown fit on “blogging with integrity” (which is, by the way, not important enough for the people of Maguindanao to empathize with, considering the...
co[LAB]: Accidental Jelly →
colabmanila:
Now THIS is coworking in full swing! Check it out: lots of people gathered at co[LAB] today for a Philippine Star photo shoot. Thanks for helping out, guys!
in the living room: the artisan, tasha teh, vicky herrera, louie barretto
watching the photographer do his magic: …
Watchthegreatest:
L.O.L.
ETHICS =/= LEGALITIES
March 2011
3 posts
Her parents were Opus Dei but did not sign... →
wondernot:
Last night, I had a nightmare where in I attended mass and it showed a Powerpoint on the RH Bill that I greatly disagreed with.
Today, that nightmare came true. Only it did not just cover the RH Bill. The masswas used to convince parishioners to sign a petition that would support theBarangay Ordinance on “The Safety and Protection of the Unborn Child”. An hour had already passed...
January 2011
13 posts
How to Express Sympathy to a Friend Grieving the...
How can you comfort someone grieving the death of a loved one? What can you say that might adequately offer solace? “I’m sorry” doesn’t seem to cut it.
So what is the right way to comfort someone who is grieving? Here are some suggestions, culled from grief experts and people who have lost a loved one:
Say something simple. “I am sorry to hear the news”...