Action Speaks Louder than BLOGS

This has been going around the past days.. it might be helpful... or not.. just passing it along... From: boysie castillo Dear Fellow Filipino, Good day to all of you! Before I begin my letter... just a disclaimer, for people who know me they know that I love the Philippines very much and I am not really one who rants and complaints to high heavens about what is happening to our country and does nothing about it, in fact, I feel that at my relatively young age of 27, I have done much service to the Philippines by setting up Pathways to Higher Education which has sent more than 500 poor but deserving students to college and AHON Foundation which has already built two public elementary school libraries that have benefitted more than 3,500 students. Yet, after seeing how events in our nation have transpired the past few weeks and talking with some friends, I feel the urge to share with you my own thoughts and feelings. Over the weekend, we saw the completion of two major polit...

Habang nasa kainitan ang preparasyon ni Mexi-can Jorge Solis, nasa maigting na kampanya naman si Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao sa General Santos City. Matapos magdaos ng isang consultation meet-ing sa hanay ng mga barangay chairmen... More>>>

YouTube the popular video sharing site, which is recently acquired by Google has been banned in Turkey. The Turkish court has given the order to completely blocked access to YouTube. This is done because of a video that allegedly insults Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey’s founder. Turk Telecom which is the largest ISP of turkey has blocked the access to youtube, Turkish users who are trying to visit YouTube receiving a message that: “Access to www.youtube.com site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2007/384 dated 06.03.2007 of Istanbul First Criminal Peace Court.” This type of problem is not uncommon, we in India has already seen about eight months ago blogspot and some other sites were blocked in India, however that banned was lifted after 3-4 days. Recently YouTube was also in news in india for an insulting video on Mahatma Gandhi and many people had demanded for the ban of youtube. Source: Hello Ashok I can relate to this story, youtube is also blocked ...

Co-written with Ryan Moulton and Kendra Carattini We wanted to give a quick update about "Googlebombs." By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. Now we will typically return commentary, discussions, and articles about the Googlebombs instead. The actual scale of this change is pretty small (there are under a hundred well-known Googlebombs), but if you'd like to get more details about this topic, read on. First off, let's back up and give some background. Unless you read all about search engines all day, you might wonder "What is a Googlebomb?" Technically, a "Googlebomb" (sometimes called a "linkbomb" since they're not specific to Google) refers to a prank where people attempt to cause someone else's site to rank for an obscure or meaningless query. Googlebombs very rarely happen for common queries, because the lack of any relevant results for that ...

Ito para kay Posporo este Prospero Pichay...

Calling each other "ignorant and stupid," senatorial candidates Panfilo Lacson and Propero Pichay, Jr. criticized each other over a bill allowing the scrutiny of government officials' bank accounts. The word war erupted after Pichay dismissed Lacson's challenge that dared administration bets to open their bank accounts to promote transparency in government. Pichay said Lacson's bill was "ignorant and stupid" as well as unnecessary since the Commission on Audit is already mandated to look into candidates' bank accounts. Lacson's dare came as an offshoot of a bill he filed that seeks to exclude government officials from the Bank Secrecy Law. The re-electionist senator threw the insult back at Pichay. He said the Surigao del Sur congressman should review the law. "I'm at a loss for words to describe him, aside from being very stupid. He doesn't know what he is talking about," Lacson said. Read More>>> Are you wil...

Don’t let your emotions run high, if you did the right thing. Genuine Opposition (GO) spokesman Adel Tamano gave this message Saturday to candidates of Team Unity incensed by the release of the so-called “ASO" jingle. “This is politics, this is the campaign season, and so we ask the people who believe they are being alluded to in this jingle to take a more realistic perspective instead of letting their emotions overcome them," he said. TU senatorial bets Edgardo Angara, Vicente Sotto III and Tessie Aquino Oreta cried foul after the ASO jingle was officially released and played by GO during its proclamation rally last February 24 in Palaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila. The jingle, adapted the tune of the 1950s hit song “How Much is that Doggie in the Window". At the forefront of calls to keep the campaign issues-oriented, Tamano nevertheless conceded that it would be difficult to keep others from expressing their views for or against candidates based on their perso...