Archive for the 'Media Watch' Category

Social networking - my verdict

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Social software, social networking, social utility, social bookmarks; there’s plenty of them out there: Friendster, Facebook, LinkedIN, MySpace, Orkut, digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, reddit, et al. And there are the media sharing networks: Flickr, YouTube, Picasa, et al; and the blogging networks: Blogger/Blogspot, WordPress, Multiply Blogs, Facebook Blogs, Friendster Blogs, et al.
Unfortunately, the most popular of […]

Overproduction and Undernourishment

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Obviously on the Inquirer website, advertising is much more important than newscasting.

An unbelievable barrage of commercial garbage accompanies news on the Inquirer website.
On the GMA website, they’ve done it better: newscasting is advertising.

A very insensitive clumping together of a highly sensationalized boxing event and a tragic explosion (currently being linked to the government) in Glorietta […]

Internet bias and censorship

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Some time ago, I thought I’d write an article about why I don’t put advertising on my website. In the course of writing that article, I thought I’d search the web for other people who also didn’t like advertising on their own websites. So I went to Google, and entered the following keywords (in quotes […]

Transformations, continuity

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

We finally made it to the university’s Friday Film Bar. I wanted to go primarily because of Heber (who performed before the film showing) and secondly for the film “Maynila sa Kuko ng Liwanag” (1975, by Lino Brocka). I’ve seen the film ages ago but I wanted Trevor to see it. Perhaps the previous Friday’s […]

Grace and angst

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

A few days ago, I saw what is probably the most miserable film that I have ever seen in my entire life, Robert Bresson’s “Journal d’un curĂ© de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest” (1951). (George Bernanos, author, “Journal d’un curĂ© de campagne” (1936). And the amazing thing about it was that it actually cheered […]

My comments re: The Case for Computerized Elections

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

I have taken a closer and calmer look into the computerized elections issue and have written replies to the PCIJ Special Feature on Elections 2007 below. Sorry about the previous post, having been quite emotional over the issue when I first read the article by Ruben Canlas. The debates on the electoral process is extremely […]

The case for computerized elections

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Just saw this article and I can’t believe the amount of idiocy in it. Sorry I can’t help it but this is just unbelievable.
“PCIJ: The case for computerized elections
Ruben D. Canlas, PCIJ, 05/20/2007 | 11:06 AM
WHEN IT comes to new consumer trends and communication technology, we Filipinos are always at the cutting edge. Our fashion […]