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CHED and Twitter users: why ‘Tweeps’ should stop playing God

August 2, 2011 benign0 8 Comments

I’ve seen two “reports” about the whole false brouhaha being raised about the reluctance of the Philippines’ Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to start using “social media” to broadcast information that supposedly is relevant to its “constituency”. Self-described “social media practitioner” Tonyo Cruz went as far as calling the CHED a “village idiot” for not…

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The catch-phrase administration of President Noynoy Aquino

August 1, 2011 benign0 29 Comments

Score so far in this game of clever marketing that Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is playing on the Filipino people — three. As in three catchy slogans that have so far proven to be effective in its stickiness to the Filipino psyche: – Use of the Yellow pedigree platform and its symbols —…

Development, Media, Politics

The US debt ceiling crisis: How the world’s mightiest nation may run out of money this week

July 30, 2011 benign0 20 Comments

Anytime between the the 3rd and the 10th of August this year, 2011, the government of the United States of America may run out of money. The estimates vary depending on who is doing the reckoning — the White House, Wall Street hacks — but either way, as with most things associated with going broke…

Economy, Government, Politics

Is the iPhone and iPad the new Macintosh?

July 29, 2011 benign0 No Comments

Recall back in the early eighties when the Macintosh came out. It was the coolest computing device, with its then revolutionary point-and-click graphical user interface (GUI) and compact stylish exterior that could pass off as a trendy furniture piece in any artiste’s living room. Alongside it in what was then the Wild Wild West personal…

Tech Talk

The truth about the second SONA of Noynoy Aquino delivered on July 25, 2011

July 28, 2011July 29, 2011 Ilda 57 Comments

People in general and Filipinos in particular love hearing the good news, and President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy) loves giving it. On his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered to Congress on the 25th of July this year, he continued the tradition he started since being sworn into office a year ago of assuring…

Development, Politics, Society

BRP Gregorio del Pilar and the China crisis is achieving where Noynoy Aquino has so far failed

July 28, 2011 benign0 15 Comments

Filipinos are surprisingly in general agreement on something — a will to defend the Spratly Islands against threats from China whatever the cost. Perhaps this is an opportunity of a lifetime. This shared sentiment is evident in how a swell of pride is becoming more and more palpable with the arrival of what is so…

Government, Politics, Society

The Mystery of the SONA

July 28, 2011 BenK 15 Comments

For a speech that lasted nearly an hour and was so heavily-laden with facts and figures, the much-anticipated second State of the Nation Address by President Noynoy Aquino has seemed to have left much of the country scratching their heads. Two days have passed since the SONA, and public interest has scarcely waned; that should…

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Development, Economy, Politics

Miss Earth links global warming to Philippine earthquake

July 28, 2011 benign0 6 Comments

According to 2010 Miss Earth Nicole Faria who is from India, there apparently is some kind of link between “global warming” and the Earth’s continental plate tectonics. This it seems was a conclusion she arrived at after she felt a tremor while in her hotel room shortly after arriving in Manila… â€œI got scared at…

Environment, Glitz and Glamour