Egypt under protest
In an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet....
Draft Memo Version 2 submitted to NTC on Minimum Speed of Broadband Connections
This proposed draft was prepared by Jester in Exile and collaborated by Cocoy Dayao and other bloggers. This was also sent to the NTC on...
White Paper on Branding the Philippines: Championing the Filipino
This is the working draft of a white paper resulting from a recently held Forum on Branding the Philippines led by EON The Stakeholders Relations...
EDSA Bus Explosion photos & Twitter reactions
President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, accompanied by Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Raul Bacalzo, personally inspects the Newman Gold Liner passenger bus damaged...
Youth and Politics: Rocking new media
Causes and movements found a new friend in Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms. During the elections, new media tools were used to discuss...
Broadband in the Philippines
The broadband internet hearing last January 11, 2011 brought a minor victory where NTC decided to remove the broadband cap in the draft memo. ANC...
Winning the future: Obama’s State of the Union Address
Via ABS-CBN Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Tonight I want to begin by congratulating the men and...
EDSA bus explosion and the wave of crimes
Photo by Gmanews.tv You scooper Jorrel Santos Not another crime. There seems to be a wave of crimes lately with this latest bus explosion, “the...
Birth Anniversary of Former President Corazon C. Aquino
I loved Cory. I am aware the former president Cory Aquino was not a perfect president. At the time she was president, I was consumed...
Women to President Aquino: Listen to us, pass the RH Bill now
“We are the ones affected with the absence of contraceptives and other reproductive health services in our health centers, not the men in white robes...
The big bad blogger and the evil PR firm
I woke up to an alert in twitter to read the article on the “Please don’t give blogging a bad name” by Margaux Salcedo. My...
Why Noy needs Mar
Speculations are that Mar Roxas maybe more of a “troublemaker than a troubleshooter once he gets a government post in the Aquino administration.” Deputy presidential...
Abortion in the Philippines: a documentary
Here are two documentaries that everyone should watch on the realities of abortion. Some Catholic priests say that the Reproductive Health Bill encourages abortion. Reality...
How true, our broadband is capped already!
It is good to read on Rom Feria’s take on the broadband cap is “It is capped already” and sort of a rebuttal of Art...
The unfairness of the internet
When the broadband cap brouhaha came about during the last week of December, a group of bloggers wrote a petition to “No to broadband cap,...