First Cabinet Meeting of 2011
President Benigno Simeon Aquino III presides the first full cabinet meeting for this year at the Aguinaldo State Dining Room, Malacañang Tuesday January 18, 2011....
Blog Watch First Year Anniversary
Blog Watch anniversary party was held on December 16 at the UCC Vienna Cafe thanks to Geiser Maclang, Red Ribbon, Nokia, Sony and Vibal Foundation...
Sec. Rogelio Singson speaks up on the Maynilad-PAGCOR issue
Recently, news broke out about an alleged expose on a “midnight deal” that supposedly happened between Maynilad (then headed by now DPWH Sec. Rogelio Singson)...
BlogWatch gets media accreditation for inauguration
In a historic and unprecedented move, BlogWatch requested for and has been accredited by the Inauguration Accreditation Committee overseeing all the logistics for the inauguration...
A participative citizenry needs freedom of information
Thomas Jefferson is supposed to have said that “information is the currency of democracy” but a rather convoluted sentence from an address by M.G. Brumbaugh to the National...
Playing a role in the online coverage of 2010 elections
The past nine months seemed to pass by so quickly. It was the month of August 2009 when I first got introduced to the May...
How surveys are volatile a month before election
By Benj Espina The senatorial election is one of the most fluid and unpredictable in the Philippine electoral system. There are just too many candidates...
On propaganda: the war of assassins
If you look outside your window, the sky isn’t exactly burning, but we are at War. Sides have been chosen. Lines on the sand have...
Villarroyo, black propaganda and negative campaigning
The problem with black propaganda is that the electorate want to hear the things they want to hear and actually believe it . Take for...
Justin.tv channel
Watch live video from blogwatch on Justin.tv channel can be found at justin.tv/blogwatch...
Qik Channel
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Ustream Channel
Live video chat by Ustream channel can be found at ustream.tv/channel/blogwatch...
We may as well remain undecided until the eleventh hour
By Benign0 Blogs and websites that fall within the little corner of the Net that I inhabit are abuzz with all sorts of political “analysis”...
BlogWatch — Behind the Scenes
All you have seen of BlogWatch so far have been articles written by its blogger-writers on a vast range of topics on the different candidates,...
How to select a candidate to vote for as president
Here is a guide to presidential candidates and the platform matrix. “Who are you voting for?” Friends and relatives ask me that question whenever they find...