Twitter first broke the news. At 10:25 @keithurban , the former chief of staff for Bush’s Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news. “So I’m told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn.” It wasn’t “officially” confirmed until 20 minutes later. I learned about the confirmation by 10:46 AM (Manila [...]
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Voter registration and validation starts May 3
James Jimenez on Twitter sent out a reminder: “Don’t forget! Voter registration and validation starts tomorrow, May 3, at the COMELEC Office in the city or municipality where you reside.” This is the continuing Registration for the 2013 National and Local Elections as per Resolution No. 9168 RESOLUTION NO. 9168 IN THE MATTER OF THE [...]
Access to information under PNoy : Some open spaces, many closed corners
By The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism First of Two Parts (second part is here) DRIFT and confusion. Some pockets of transparency but most everywhere, a predilection for opaqueness and more barriers to access in place. This is the access to information regime that lingers in the Philippines nearly a year after Benigno Simeon C. [...]
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Live tweets of @ReallyVirtual on Osama Bin Laden Raid
I found out that one twitter user , Sohaib Athar, virtually live-blogged about the attack on Osama Bin Laden without knowing it. Reading through the timeline, it seemed that he heard rumors but was not sure. I curated his timeline to see how the story unfolded and to see it happen as he hears it [...]