Category: Media

Recall: President BS Aquino was crowned ‘Filipino of the Year’ by the Inquirer in 2010

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For old times’ sake, let us revisit how the Inquirer back in 2010 crowned President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III “our Filipino of the Year” after just six months in power. This honour was bestowed on the incumbent Philippine president supposedly for being “the living Filipino who made the most positive impact in 2010”. And,…

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Crime, Government, Media, Politics

Change from within: how science and celebrity can effect it

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It has often been highlighted that to get on a sustainable course towards prosperity, Filipinos need not a change of men but a change in men. It is a social transformation that needs to come from within. An article in Scientific American provides insight on how lessons learned from the success of some past initiatives…

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Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Media, Science, Society

Achieving developmental focus: The Philippines’ Vital Few initiatives

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The Philippines is a most massive outcome of lots of actions underpinned by very little thinking. So many initiatives, advocacies, “movements”, agendas, and vested interests driven by even more characters in a country of 100 million clueless people — it sounds like a chapter out of John Barrow’s book Impossibility. The Philippines is a case…

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Charter Change, Development, Economy, Media, Society

Dutch airline KLM in hot water over ‘racist’ tweet vs Mexico World Cup team

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What was supposed to be a witty swipe at the Mexican World Cup team on Twitter by Dutch flag carrier Royal Ducth Airlines (KLM) became the subject of an online indignation campaign that forced the airline to delete the tweet. Mexico had lost to the Dutch earlier and is out of the match. Noted social…

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Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Society

Facebook users’ emotions controlled by manipulating newsfeed content

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Facebook and other social media networks seem to have come of age. That is, like mainstream media corporations, they are now in a position to deliberately manipulate their audience’s emotions. The results of an experiment conducted on almost 700,000 Facebook users published on the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United…

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Media, Society, Tech Talk

Filipino ideal of female beauty stands out in global Photoshop doll-up project!

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The Huffington Post article is pretty self-explanatory, What Happened When One Woman Had Her Picture Photoshopped In 25 Different Countries. The outcome was quite revealing following its author’s simple instructions as part of a rather clever project… “Make me look beautiful.” That’s what Esther Honig asked 40 photo editors to do — in over 25…

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Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

6 facts of life according to Game of Thrones

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If you haven’t seen any episode of the international hit television series Game of Thrones which is based on the best-selling novels, well I suggest you better start watching them now because what you are about to read contains spoilers. Yes, I don’t mind if you read this article after you’ve seen the series or…

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Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics, Society