in retrospect…

last week was very interesting, indeed!! what with all the drama going around the blogosphere, the wrangling, the accusations, and what-not… anyway, alls well that ends well, as they say… here are the updates:

• from my last IF#7, there was a comment from Jayvee that he has touched bases with both Gibbz and Janette, and apparently, they are now well and good… so, everything is now right 0on that front…
• at the other front, Noemi apologized to Allan, father of Carl Ocab of of Make Money Online with a 13-year Old… at the end, they just laughed it off, and found out that they are both Cebuanos “with quirks that they only understand”… nice…
• in other things, we went to MOA last night for the 2nd round of Taste Asia… will post a story on that later or tomorrow…
• and later tonight, we will go to a private dinner with the Ogilvy people, PR firm of Motorola, for the official < ?> preview of the MOTORAZR2 in a roundtable dinner… do i smell a free Motorazr?? hahaha!! i wish!!

that’s it for this week, folks!! see you all again next week!!

Ciao, sweetie…

here’s this week’s interesting read from all over the blogosphere [yeah, i know, i totally forgot about last week's... so sue me... ]

the last week rocked the philippine blogoshpere with a lot of controversies coming from 2 fronts:

• Noemi started all the fracas [no offense meant] when she blogged about Ethical Blogging where she asked: “Now what happens when you face a suspicion that the person who created a blog is misinterpreting the facts?”… this is all bout Carl Ocab of Make Money Online with a 13-year Old… apparently he was not the one who was writing but his father, Allan…
• Yuga later on talked with the Father and Son to iron things out in Yuga meets the Kid Blogger…
• a week after, Jayvee of A Bugged Life wrote in his posts Bloggers, MISrepresent! where he is apparently referring to his 2nd post, My Comments and Suggestions for Janette Toral’s IMMAP Presentation Slides… Janette later on answered with her Dealing with hurting people (that hurt people)…
• elsewhere, Gibbs Cadiz sided [or did he??] with Janette in his ‘Misrepresents,’ my foot post…

wasn’t this a fun week?? LOL

Ciao, sweetie…

it is Friday once again and i am due for another episode of Interestings Friday… i know, i know, i missed last week’s episode and this is only due to the fact that i was sooo busy last week, and not because there isn’t anything intersting in the blogosphere… so, for this week’s IF#6, here are some [some, since i know there are more out there] of the interesting reads i found:

• GM T’s The Politics of MMORPGs talks about politics, not in real life, but when people play online games… he talks about power-grabbing, and wanting to be the strongest, the richest or the most famous… which is ever-present in our daily life… read and learn…
• in Yuga’s latest post, The Top 50k blogs generate $500 Million?, showed a study by the University of Texas that a total of 50,000 blogs generated half a billion dollars in revenue… prolly either though advert-tising or direct sales… hmmmm… i wonder when i’ll get even 1% of that money from my blog??
• Shari, talks about her most favorite subjects in life, On Dildos, Vibrators, and My New Lighter… be abused amused, and be ready to bawl over with laughter with this post… really funny…

there you go, guys… this week’s edition of IF#6…

Ciao, sweetie…

it is Friday once again, the work week is ending [for some of us, at least], and it is time once more for a new edition of IF #5… in no particular order, they are:

• have you already seen the latest release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? you loved it? liked it? or simply hated it? well, i am one of those who felt i was cheated right after watching that movie with my wife… it was like the whole thing was forced upon the viewers, the plot was going crazy with speed [must be on drugs], the characters suddenly became too mature and too serious… if this was what can be expected with the next release, i’ll just stay with the books and forget about the movies… darn… if you really really loved the book and don’t mind a few [a few??] ho-hum scenes of the movie, then go ahead watch, but if you are after that fun feeling after a movie, you’d be dissapointed with this one… Skye of Superficial.nu termed it aptly — a complete suck-athon!!
• there are 3 contests which are aimed at bloggers… they are: SEO Philippines’ [and not DigitalFilipino.com's as previously reported... my bad...] Paradise Philippines - The P600,000 Bayanihan SEO Contest, the SM Hypermarket Blog Writing Contest, and PinoBlogospher.com’s Wika2007… if you are into these kinds of contests, then head on over to the sites i mentioned and you just might win… balato ko, ha?? hehehe…

that’s it for now… see you all again next week!!

Ciao, sweetie…

Tags: [ Harry Potter | Contests ]

here are some of the highlights of the blogging world for this week’s edition of IF #4:

• Luis of drivebyshooter.net is one of my favorite reads when it comes to photography… and his Playing with water post made me want to take up my camera again and do some playing myself… but, alas!! i don’t have the gear nor the time to tinker around… haaayyyy… maybe i’d just stay an amateur myself…
• Connie, owner of Sassylawyer.com, in her latest post pointed out our penchant for stereotyping people as either “this” or “that”… her Truths and myths about men delves on the funnies, but also clearly points out that assumptions that lead to stereotyping are baseless… go read…

i really haven’t got much time these days to browse through blogs and only got these 2 entries… both Luis and Connie are in RSS feed, and that was why i get to read them more often than others… maybe i’d have more for the next edition of IF… next week!!

Ciao, sweetie…

Tags: [ camera | Interestings Friday | stereotyping ]

i have been so out of the loop ni the blogging world for over a month that i am having a hard time filling this post up… but if there’s a will, there definitely is a way… so, for this Friday’s most interesting reads, here they are in no particular order:

• long have i been on the lookout for techie-materials that i have even sought out friends going abroad to have them buy for me… alas! i don’t have to do that anymore… tekingpinoy.com promises “to come up with unique apparel that showcases Filipino ingenuity in Information Technology specifically with free and open source software.” being an opensource advocate myself, this recent development really is welcome… but they don’t have anything on sale yet… so, guys, when?
• well, almost everyone is blogging about the Taste of Asia event over at the Mall of Asia which happened last Tuesday… sad to say, the wife and i [heavy eaters both] weren’t able to come because the wife had the cough and sniffles since Sunday up until yesterday… so, instead of going to the event, we decided to stay home and spend quality time together… *wink* *wink*
• i don’t know if i should cry or be happy about this bit of news from Abe… in his post, the BSA [Business Software Alliance] said that the Philippine software piracy rate is currently at 71% or $119M, which is lower that the previous rating of 90%… if only our OpenSource initiatives will push through, i am sure this number will significantly go down…

well, that’s it for now folks… see you again next week!! i promise i’d have more by then…

Ciao, sweetie…

Tags: [ BSA | techie-pinoy | opensource | food ]

it’s Friday again, and as promised, all interesting posts of the past week are aggregated here for your easy reading…

• THE Filipino Technopreneur’s post, Experiencing Seasonal Online Income?, talks about the current trends in Google Adsense’ income, and why they are going down during the hot summer months [aside: very hot, indeed!! imagine, heat at 6 in the morning??]… and his conclusion?? that most of his readers are students… go figure…
• Connie’s Dilemma of the cheated talks about why losing candidates in elections refuse to accept the truth behind losing, and instead turn to allegations of cheating and fraud, either in the elections proper or the counting of votes… haaayyy naku!! talo kung talo, wag na umangal!!
• Shari talks about her boobs and the Henna tattoo she has in What is it with the Boobs?, and it is itching, and she’s asking someone to scratch the itch for her… any takers?? she’d be the next President of the Philippines, y’know…
• Aileen Apolo came up with her own version of the Top 10 Most Influential Emerging Blogs with her Blogs I Read… i have to go through each one in her list to find out if i can include them in mine…
• GM Tristan’s Gamer Food 101 talks about the food gamers like him [and myself, used to] can eat during those long nights [and prolly days, too] which are not only quick and easy, but healthy as well…
• and from one of the fastest growing gaming blog dedicated to Ragnarok Online, Carlo’s post on Ragnarok Free In-game Items with Top-up gives gamers a chance to get back some more value for their money with free in-game items when they top up their game accounts…

see you next week!!

Ciao, sweetie…

Tags: [ Interestings Friday ]

nope, not a typo…

starting today, 11^th May 2007, a Friday, and every Friday thereafter, i will be creating Interestings Friday [IF] which chronicles all interesting posts from the week past… this means that i will be reading up on a lot of blogs, and i’ll be deep-linking one post per blog per week [that would mean a lot of reading!!]…

anyway, here goes for this weeks IF #1:

• Connie’s Six days to D-day talked about political positioning in preparation for the elections…
• Shari’s Isang Tanong: The Senatorial Forum talked about her impressions on the candidates featured in GMA-7s show…
• Apples’ Why will I vote for Cesar Montano? talked about the candidates’ blog [if that is really his] stating reasons why one should vote for him…
• Jeff’s Hi, would you like coffee in a cup with religious text? (v.0707052355) talked about Starbucks’ move to put bible verses on their cups and why this must not be done…
• Benj’s My 2004 Ballot and My 2007 Ballot compared his voting list of 2004 with that for Monday… Cesar?? are you sure??

will be doing this every Friday from now on…

Ciao, sweetie…