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Miscellany of questions and information tidbits on day-to-day interaction with technology
The idea that substandard education is the reason why Filipinos are not progressing as a people is starting to wear thin. Granted, of course, there is a massive investment gap that keeps the Philippines’ public education system (within which the vast majority of Filipinos are educated) decrepit and practically ineffective at churning out smarter people….
By now, most would be aware of the storm kicked up by Facebook’s botched attempt to face off with the Australian Government. As Google began efforts to find middle ground in light of Australia following through on legislation that will require social media platforms to pay for exhibiting news content on its users’ feeds, Facebook…
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People have gained a sudden appreciation of just how little in the way of alternatives there are on the Net following a disturbing collusion amongst the biggest Silicon Valley digital empires to silence US President Donald Trump and his followers. Nowhere has this problematic power been on display more than in the shutting down of…
Read More “Parler demise sparks search for scarce ALTERNATIVES on the Internet” »
An unintended consequence of the “permanent suspension” of US President Donald Trump’s account on Twitter is how the awesome power of Big Corporate Social Media — that can so arbitrarily be wielded — has been laid bare for all to behold. It has now come to light that Twitter and the rest of the Silicon…
Read More “Trump ouster highlights just how ARBITRARY the enormous power of Twitter is” »
Hats off to Big Corporate Social Media. They first started out as little websites where people could “share” stuff and engage in “social networking”. Then they started to call themselves “platforms” and rightly so as such was to become their reach, ubiquity, and deep embedding into the fabric of society that people could be forgiven…
Read More “Twitter is now officially more powerful than the US Government” »
Only fair, right? The basis of Twitter recently shutting down the account of United States president Donald Trump is “due to the risk of further incitement of violence” that it presumably exposes the American public to. Twitter references its policy on the nature of such behaviour and the actions it holds prerogative to take on…
I was never really much into working from home (WFH), preferring instead to work long hours when required at the office than lug my laptop home to continue working there after dinner like some of my colleagues did. Even as a university student, I preferred to drive to the campus library to study whenever I…
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One of the good things about the COVID-19 pandemic is that it reveals what business organisations are actually capable of given a call to step up the quality and performance of their products and services. According to a Rappler “report”, it turns out top national telco Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) company has “more than…
Read More “Has PLDT been depriving its customers of available capacity all this time?” »
