REMEMBER, Oct. 15 is Blog Action Day. Join thousands of bloggers around the world in uniting for the environment.
Here’s a video clip courtesy of ReVampTV.com.
And read Erwin Oliva’s previous blog post.
MSNBC.COM has made its first acquisition in its 11 years of existence, shelling out an undisclosed amount to purchase citizen journalism/participatory news site Newsvine.
Here’s an excerpt from the Computerworld article:
Mike Davidson, CEO and co-founder of Newsvine, noted that the deal will allow more people to contribute to the site and helps “further the cause” of citizen journalism.
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HERE’S an interesting Los Angeles Times article on documentary filmmaker AJ Schnack, whose blog has taken on a life of its own.
Shnack’s latest documentary is “Kurt Cobain: About A Son,” which we blogged about in Soundtrip. Here’s an excerpt from the LA Times story:
Though the blog began in the summer of 2005 as a direct outgrowth of working on “About a Son,” it has since taken on a life of its own. Schnack has become something of an authority figure for the world of documentaries, covering various issues faced by nonfiction filmmakers. In particular, he has written about the recent changes to the Oscar qualifying rules for documentary features, giving close attention to the newly mandated 14-city theatrical rollout for all potential nominees. Unlike many in the documentary community, Schnack has largely been in favor of the rollout, because it promotes theatrical exhibition of documentary films.
Bruce Davis, executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said that the rollout rules will likely be “streamlined” for next year, in no small part because of the response the academy has gotten from the documentary community, both online and in a series of meetings between AMPAS governors and filmmakers.
One sign of the growing influence of Schnack’s blog is that while “About a Son” has played at more than 50 film festivals, the filmmaker has begun to be accredited as a journalist at some festivals where his work has not been shown.
FILIPINO bloggers are reacting to a remark made by one of the characters in a recent episode of television series “Desperate Housewives.”
While many condemned the remark as a racist slur and called for a boycott of the show, others suggested that people write to the producers of the show to complain.
The Filipino bloggers were reacting to a remark by the character Susan Mayer Delfino, played by Teri Hatcher, who was objecting to being checked by a doctor until she was sure of the doctor’s credentials.
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By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
PAYPAL is finally opening up to users based in the Philippines.
Paypal is an online service that allows payments and money transfers through the Internet. Emerging as an alternative means to checks and money order, it is currently used to process payments for online vendors and auction sites like eBay. This e-commerce service in turn charges a fee.
Paypal’s worldwide services indicate that Philippine residents can now use the service to “send and receive money worldwide,” the service’s website said.
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By Myrna Rodriguez-Co
Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines–In this digital age, people don’t just exchange mobile phone numbers and e-mail addresses. They’ve also begun swapping web and blog addresses.
Having a blog is a badge of honor among serious Internet users. It’s like saying: “I have an online home, you have yours. You visit me and I’ll visit you.”
As they read and comment on each other’s posts, bloggers form friendships and build an online society like no other. This is known as the blogosphere, where members converse, share ideas, join forces for some common cause, arrange to meet face-to-face, and, yes, differ and bicker.
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The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has started blogging.
In its first post, the Canadian official writes:
With this tool, we hope to make the activities of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner more accessible to Canadians and to increase contact between the Office and Canadians interested about privacy issues and legislation.
As an Officer of Parliament, the Privacy Commissioner has a mandate to protect the privacy rights of individuals and promote the privacy protections available to Canadians.
GOT this via TechCrunch.
Here’s a nifty tool you can add to your blog courtesy of Sketchcast.com.
So what the heck is sketchcasting? I’ll let them explain it themselves — which they do by using the Sketchcast tool itself.
HERE’S another way to pass the time: Blogger has launched Blogger Play, a slideshow featuring recently uploaded photos from Blogger users.
Let me tell you, it can get very addictive watching these random pics. It’s also another way to blog hop, because you can click on a photo to go to the blog where it was uploaded.
Here are screenshots of some random pics.
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By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
FILIPINO tech blogger Abe Olandres wanted to jump out of his seat and explain to senators the technical aspects of the controversial national broadband network (NBN) project, as he watched the live broadcast of Thursday’s Senate hearing.
In his recent entry, Olandres wrote:
[I’ve] been watching the live broadcast of the Senate hearing over the National Broadband Network Project for the last 7 hours and I must say that despite the politics behind the issue, I was more frustrated with the Senators asking repetitive questions and making non-sense tech-related conclusions (that goes to Manuel “Mar” Roxas and Richard “Dick” Gordon).
Olandres was among the local bloggers who are weighing in on the issues surrounding the NBN project.
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