A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

Writers write about writing. Doctors get together for err doctoring. So I guess it's inevitable that bloggers get together to talk about blogging. It's not too late yet to participate in iBlog - The 1st Philippine Blogging Summit tomorrow (May 8 ) at UP NISMED. If you're going, say hello to Emer of Bangus Supremacy. He was in charge of putting together the event blog. He'll be ...

What Blogs Are vs What They Are Not (via) So the debate continues: are bloggers automatically considered amateur journalists or are they merely diarists? If journalists mean being professional about gathering and reporting facts, probably not. If it means someone who keep notes of an event via the web for the purpose of coming up with a thorough piece later, maybe. Do blogs inform? Yes, definitely. Are they a ...

Wow. You can turn any RSS feed into an SMS message. (via mefi). I wonder what kind of impact this will have on content developers with existing contracts in the RP? Then again apart from blogs, I see very few Pinoy websites using RSS. Haven't seen a major daily offer its content via RSS. Let the commodification of information continue.

The festivities for the New Year became somber as images from the tsunami disaster kept flooding the media. The most poignant was the one on TV earlier today when a helicopter was swarmed by people scrambling for a few boxes of food. I've seen this way too many times in the Philippines but it still gets to you seeing the helplessness in the faces of the victims. Even as ...

Hi. Have you tried Kinja? It's a weblogging portal where you can track your favorite blogs on just one page. It's like a web-based newsreader. If like me, you don't want to use a newsreader or just too lazy to set-up one, Kinja's a great way to keep track of blogs. Check out my list at: http://www.kinja.com/user/mgatela. I'll be adding more soon. PS. About that cryptic post yesterday. Well, ...