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Tag Game

Surprise, surprise!

I’ve been tagged! 🙂 This is my first time to do this. In fact, I seldom forward emails as I’m lazy to continue chain letters, games but I think this is an exception–I think this is fun!

Courtesy of my online pal, Chuck (the famous Chuckie Dreyfus for my Filipino readers–astig ba?! 🙂 ), one is obliged to blog about 10 weird things/habits or little known facts about himself/herself. Then the blogger would return the favor and tag six other bloggers, who are asked to do the same. No tagbacks are allowed however, so here it goes: 

  1. Less than a year old, I was under the knife to remove a cyst at my gluteus maximus area (rightmost part though)–without any anaesthetic!   
  2. I first had worked as a garbage scavenger without my parents’ knowledge during my elementary days. When I failed to report at home for a day, they filed a police blotter and reported me missing! I was a rookie scavenger then that I only earned a measly PhP15.00 (compared to the regular PhP75-100) for a whole day’s work–and to think the hardship I experienced–I got stuck in a hole in the middle of this big garbage bridge on a river. 🙂
  3. I stumbled on a sharp stone during a pilgrimage to Mt. Banahaw. My knee was hurt so bad that it looked like slash wound (I was elementary then). A New People’s Army rendered first aid–I believe the man was Ka Roger if my memory serves me right.  
  4. I was dragged by a calf during a carambola (well, the objective was to lasso the calf), the rope burn was so bad that it looked like a sniper’s guide albeit very, very wide guide.
  5. I stopped schooling after my first year in college to serve full time in our church’s music ministry. 
  6. I was one of the first church attendees in our city to be under disciplinary action (well, close to being excommunicado)–bad boy! 
  7. I played Aladin in the theater play of Florante at Laura back in college. For those who knew me then, they would have laughed throughout the play as I’m as thin as Palito but younger of course. The play did well though. 🙂 
  8. My ex-girlfriend, now my wife, used to tease me as bumbay as I always bring a long umbrella whenever I go to class–the rain, man, the rain!! (oh yes, also the sun)
  9. Back in college, I used to drink coca cola during breakfast, lunch and dinner. 500ml each
  10. Now this is not much known since I was college or since I started blogging–my first name is Domingo. I’m the third Domingo but at home they call me Jimbo. 🙂 Elementary classmates call me by my first name. High school classmates call me by my last name (well, during the last two years). Close friends call me Dom’s but at home I’m known as Jimbo (given by my father) or Bo (as in bow and arrow) so, to settle that Inggo is my lolo (RIP), Jun is my father, I just introduced myself as Jim when I stepped college. So, I usually go for Jim Caro when I introduce myself.

Il est fini !

 Hope you enjoyed it?! Now, I tag (drumroll)… Massa P., Lynette, JoeyCzille, Nick and Ivy–take it away pals!

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PHILIPPINES FRAUD-CASE COUPLE FIND B.C. HAVEN (The Province, 05 Mar 2007, Page A1)

This is big news in Canada, but obviously not big news in the Philippines and to think that they defrauded the Philippine Government that much money??? Is the Philippine government that stupid or there were just too many (or few powerful ones) who benefitted from this racket.

PHILIPPINES FRAUD-CASE COUPLE FIND B.C. HAVEN

The Province
05 Mar 2007

read more…Tech Tags:

Read the full story here.

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I’m on Blog Addicts!


My first blog confirmed a new-found passion (well, addiction with a purpose, i.e.–keep me sane in my mind-cracking activities). After a few months of blogging, with the last four months almost regularly, I’m starting to get the feel of it and starting to get friends online–and yes started to get some exposure–vane :)! I’ll get on the purpose of this post as you read on, by the way, title was inspired by Cyberbaguioboy’s entry.

To business, as of this writing, my hottest post (most read post) is my post on Inquirer.net’s Radio Online. Most people got to find my blog when they searched Filipino radioInquirer.net Radio, Radio online among others. It got me thinking, hmm, Inquirer.net has got a few good hits from this site. Well, I think that was compensated recently. Well, my plug of recent developments in the Philippine Media especially Inquirer.net got reciprocated–I’m on Blog Addicts! The post also got some attention from cybersoc.com as having some good links in here worth exploring.

Yes, this is the second blogsite of Inquirerbloggers.net–after Joey Alarilla’s @play (I think they’ll be building this site just like Inq7.net, i.e., take-off sites for blogsites of Inquirer.net).

Inquirer.net reporter Erwin Oliva explains that Blog Addicts is a team blog on Inquirer.net. He further explained that…

Blog Addicts is a section under YOU (a youth portal on INQUIRER.net) that features bloggers.

The Inquirer.net‘s blog addicts are Joey AlarillaJayvee Fernandez and Erwin.

Thanks to Joey for adding me in his blogroll at @play–indeed an honor!

More power to Inquirer.net and to the millions of Netizens, enjoy reading (didn’t I tell you that readers will benefit in the end from this new media development)!

Cheers! 

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Of news media and blogs


There has been a growth in news media using blogs as another medium of delivering news or newspaper blogging–allowing its pool of reporters or editors to post their views on any news in real time albeit filtered (in compliance with the company’s policies among others). Last year, a journalism class from the New York University Department of Journalism noted that there’s been a slow adoption of newspaper sites of blogs.

So, what’s with newspaper blogging? Well newspaper blogging, according to the NYU, can make a difference especially for a small newspaper. For big news media outfit it serves its hordes of followers as it gives readers added value services, which they would hardly get on the regular program or the traditional form of that medium.

Among the few media outfits that’s now into blogging are Newsweek, BBC, Time, CNN among others. Actually, Newsweek‘s presentation is more of a blog right now, readers or surfers could comment on every article and actually blog about it from the Newsweek site! (well, if they have a MySpace account). BBC combines a podcast and blog so it’s really a multimedia approach to blogging. Time seems to have hosted their own blogging software (forgive my lapses on tech stuff), you have the option to add your choice blog post to Sphere it!newsvine, facebook, Digg, del.icio.us or redditCNNs blog presents majority of its program presentors and it also tries to engage its readers and viewers to join in the submitting fresh stories, photos, videos and more (contributors have a chance to be seen worldwide–no royalty or fees whatsoever).

Now blogging about news is also becoming tech savvy these days. Pressdisplay, for one, allows guests (limited access, usually first page articles only) or account holders to blog about a certain article on any newspaper around the world–yes with the replica of the paper’s front page. I posted this blog from their site.

Here in Thailand, The Nation has a list of blog written by its pool of writers and editors. The Bangkok Post still has to catch up though. I’m not sure how many Thai journalists are maintaining a blogsites.

In the Philippines, the Philippine Daily Inquirer Inquirer.net  recently had a soft launch of its blogsite with Joey Alarilla trying the waters. So here’s one media outfit trying to test the untried waters of newspaper blogging in the Philippine scene. One Philippine Media institution which first tried blogging was the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, which has its own institutional blog. Its pool of writers also blog personally along with other journalists all over the country.

What I like in the move of the Inquirer.net is they are going the BBC way with their approach to media convergence. Readers will notice that they are trying to integrate video, podcast among others. As Erwin Oliva, another PDI Inquirer.net reporter, blogged, readers want to interact with the news–reason I think that there’s a declining popularity of radio in the Philippines.

So, I think newspaper blogging is paving the way to the wide acceptance of new media in the Philippines.

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Bloggers under siege

Just found out that Malaysia’s case against bloggers isn’t a first. Egypt made serious attempts to clamp down on bloggers since May 2006 and to date it is the first one to jail a blogger because of his blog posts and comments (yes, even a comment could land you in jail!). Filipino blogger Yuga is also tackling a case against him for maintaining a forum that contained libelous items against a certain company.

These cases highlighted the threat to freedom of expression on the Internet and various organizations expressed concern including Reporters Without Borders, an international organization advocating press freedom.

Blogs are increasingly becoming popular means of expression of any ordinary person. It has become a tool of power on the blogosphere and certainly most bloggers are aware of this responsibility. This development highlighted the dangers of tackling very popular but sensitive issues like politics and religion online and also showed that blogs are not taken for granted and have some influence on a nation’s politics and religion.

But sometimes even a personal blog could cost one’s job. There are many cases and the first case in Britain came from a company considered as a bastion of freedom in the UK. There’s also this one guy who worked for Microsoft then took a photo at his office during a sensitive delivery and posted on his blog site the next working day his boss asked him to resign. Yes freedom of speech has its consequences.

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Blog Post Number 51 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5….)

A thousand and six hundred seventy-eight views with 60 views as best day ever, 50 posts (plus 10 more in the drafts), 28 tags, 40 comments (I’m still contemplating to delete one, which seems to be a spam) and just 18 spams, I’m still on it.

Deciding to indulge on this stress-relieving therapy was challenging but satisfying experience. I’ve been blogbastic early last year and zoomed to writing over a third of posts in this blog just late last year. From Friendster Blog to WordPress. NOw that this has become a habit, I’m trying to juggle things up and hopefully I could keep the balance.

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Ralph Fiennes’ urge

This is old news actually but the new scoop is that they did it for second time(????) when they landed, oh yes, with a condom. But Ralph Fiennes claims that he was a willing(?) victim.


What, no condoms aboard airplanes?
DOUG CAMILLI
The Gazette
18 Feb 2007

Here’s a little more about Lisa Robertson, the Qantas stewardess who visited an airplane washroom with Ralph Fiennes on a nine-hour flight from Oz to India last month. You’ll recall that in her statement to her employer – she might end up fired over… read more…

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RP TV goes after Youtube

Just learned from Yuga that Philippine Media Giant, ABS-CBN, asked Youtube to remove their clips for copyright infringement. Here’s an excerpt of his blog.

Ok, it’s basically just ABS CBN actually. It’s been widely covered by other fellow bloggers since December last year. Rickey just sent me an update on that as well.

I guess the saying that you can’t teach an old dog new tricksalso applies to media giants like ABS CBN. No wonder they’re not doing good in the ratings war and fiscally as well. YouTube is great for marketing and if you don’t believe in the long tail effect, you’re missing a lot of opportunities. I know the network needs to earn some more dough (to be able to pay its huge debts?) so locking off everyone and requiring them to subscribe to be able to view the episodes seems to be a logical maneuver to do.

The Network invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998in forcing Youtube to block users uploading ABS-CBN Materials. Most bloggers who learned about this news are just shaking their heads on this aggressive move of ABS-CBN–seen as a way to monopolize profit on every front of every industry available one of the leading media industry in the Philippines, they are very creative in converging various industries under one roof, short of putting up a political party (their on print, managing talents, movies, records, news and yes even a youtube wannabe this list could go a long way I tell you).

This would be the second time that I would be hearing youtube being asked by a third party to help in blocking copyright materials. The first one was in Brazil

If you see objectively on this case, copyright was indeed infringed. While there’s a worldwide campaign to address piracy–in all fronts, whether online or print among others, most of the producers are coming out with ways to creatively tackle copyright infringement.

The US National Hockey League, for example, made a deal with youtube to allow its clips to appear on youtube. The CBS apparently got a boost in its ratingsafter partnering with youtube.

I agree with Yuga that ABS-CBN should have approached this in a different way. I hope it would not be detrimental to them in the long run, well they still have hordes of other racket to maintain so I think they are not worried about the possible repercussions.

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Made it on the Top 10

I’m a young blogger as a matter of fact my first official blog was over Friendster on March 23, 2006. Everything was a challenge then, what’s blogging–I didn’t do my assignment and say I just learned along the way. So, when Lynette introduced me to wordpress, I finally appreciated blogging (especially problogging), CSS, tag clouds and the stats better!

The wonders of stat has sinked in to me only a few months after I got the grip of blogging (and moving to wordpress)–thanks to blogmates Lynette, Jonas, Yuga, Joey, Massa P., Prof. Arao among others (well, just see my widget at the right :)).

I usually write in English so I set my language to English. However, I found it pretty hard competing with native speakers and professional bloggers on wordpress. So, I was wondering how to increase the exposure (read: traffic) of my blog. Remember Massa P. suggested link exchanges while Yuga suggested that a contest might do the trick. I even joined Pinoy Top Blogs to test the waters.

A few months, posts and comments on popular blogs on wordpress and other blog hosts I’m finally getting there. The other day, I hardly noticed the news on my dashboard-well I hardly check–when my eyes caught a familiar icon. I made it on the wordpress’ day’s top hot blogs! My post re Inquirer.net radio made it to the day’s hot posts, too including my post re my home coming. Here’s how the list looked like:

Top Blogs

The most popular WordPress.com blogs are ranked here according to a special formula.

Tagalog

  1. They Call Me Maruja: A Colorful Life at Random

    : Maruja ang Itawag mo sa Akin: Isang Makulay na Buhay sa…Ano ba ang “Random” sa Tagalog?

  2. i-am-not-your-average-geek.

    : comfort found being under an oversized jacket.

  3. kuro-kuro-ko-to

    : ang mga kapepotan ng aking isipan

  4. JONCABRON

    : born with an insight and a raised fist

  5. Kalabuan at its clearest.

    : Ang nansu-small talk, bagong lipat!

  6. zomgwtfhpjhasablogzergrushj0000!

    : yeY! Pj has a weblog!

  7. Blogbastic!: Jim’s hues and point of views

  8. We are Family

    : Daddy, Mommy and Baby

  9. Portfolio sa Filipino

    : Just another WordPress.com weblog

  10. A Sham Life of Mhee

    : buhay ng isang dukha at feeling middle class

Top Posts

These are the most popular posts published recently on WordPress.com.

Tagalog

  1. Random Hot Men: Manhunt International Sizzlers

    : Si Mr. USA na lang at kumpleto na ang line-up ng this year’s Manhunt International na gaganapin sa South Korea on […]

    They Call Me Maruja: A Colorful Life at Random

  2. manood kayo. mamaya na iyan.

    :”DR. NURSE” I-Witness ni Sandra Aguinaldo Ngayong Lunes: Pebrero 12, 2007 Sa taong 2020, mangangailangan ang […]

    kuro-kuro-ko-to

  3. Heroes Episode 14: Distractions

    : currently listening to: Rolling Star- Yui  In this episode, Claire gets to meet Meredith, her biological mother, […]

    i-am-not-your-average-geek.

  4. G0 o9!

    : One night, i received a text from Mr. Luigi Manzo. The exact words aren’t correct, but if i’m right, they were along […]

    zomgwtfhpjhasablogzergrushj0000!

  5. Sa computer 49

    : Mga kapwa ko Atenista, mag-ingat sa pag-iwan ng mga gamit niyo kahit sa loob ng guwardiyadong kuwarto. Noong Sabado, […]

    Kalabuan at its clearest.

  6. Bato-bato sa langit, ang matamaan ‘wag magalit….isang koleksyon ng ilan-ilan mga call center bloopers

    : Galing ito sa isang friend ko na taga-MySpace.  Dati siya nakatrabaho sa call center rito pero napagasawa siya ng […]

    Pasensya ng lang muna habang humahanap pa ako ng pamagat para ‘tong blog….

  7. tungkol sa UP fair 2007

    : magandang balita!  maganda nga ba? depende, kung me NSTP kayo kinabukasan gaya ko. hehe. tama ba na ang up fair […]

    POV

  8. Maquiling: Mt. Maquiling view from the side of Batangas Province. Originally uploaded b

    Blogbastic!

  9. Breastfeeding Experience : Day 1 to 3 months

    : We’ve been breastfeeding for 10 and half months now. Just a little bit more and we’ll hit our 1 year target and from […]

    We are Family

  10. sino si efren?!

    : natutuwa ba kayo pag habang nasa kalagitnaan kayo ng tulog galing sa 10pm to 6am shift yung tipong bumabawi yung […]

    JONCABRON

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2007 Philippine Blog Awards

2007 Philippine Blog Awards

Yes, the Philippine Blog Awards is on. So, if you especially love some blogs out there, nominate them by Valentine’s Day! For more information click on the above link or here. Should you wish to sponsor the event click here.