Woo! Hoo! I won! I won!

You might think I am insane. Well, I am not… I am just lucky to won an e-money at Auction.ph worth 2,900.00 it’s not that large amount but it makes a person like me happy. You see, I only registered and then it credits me with one e-coupon that will be my entry for a daily raffle.

I was a bit surprised to take a call from auction.ph notifying me that I won, so, I check right away my account at auction.ph and there was my e-money worth 2,900.00. So what I did is I look for items on sale on the site and I chose the FlatPod (1GB) MP3/MP4 Player of the seller named densho01, guys I will recommend densho01 at auction.ph if you want to purchase there. He gave me discount and he is nice in dealing with his buyers.

If you haven’t registered at Auction.ph yet go click this link Auction.ph and register. This site is an E-bay counterpart but only localized. Other than buying and selling items, you can bid for the sales and even you can join to their promos like “One Peso Auction Fever”, “Daily Lucky Combo”, even win like me to their P30 Milyong Pabuenas ng Auction.



Here’s the Features of the Item I purchased from my winning E-money.


FLATPOD (1GB) MP3/MP4 PLAYER (IPod Nano)
Features:

Plays mp3, mp4, wma, wav, video
Photo browser
FM Tuner
Digital Voice Recorder
65,000 color 1.5” LCD screen
Lyrics display
Digital equalizer
Flashdisk, Rechargeable battery

Included In The Package

MP4 player
Stereo Earphones
Charger
USB cable
CD driver
Manual
Box

I presumed you’ve seen the Freedom of Speech tag above of this blogsite. I own this blog and registered for it at Blogger.com in my name, so, I have the rights to claim it. If in case I violated the terms of service through this blog you are free to let me know what is it that made it a violations and I will modify it to make it acceptable to your spirit, if possible, but don’t demand, harass or threat me to do it. The things I posted here are in my willpower and commanding me what to do on this blog is not of your business but there are some exemptions that I will only keep to myself.

I can’t even expressed all the things I write here because of some circumstances, unlike Cofibean's You Want a Piece of Me? postings. I look-up to him as a blogger because he writes what he feels without hesitations and I think he is contented with that because he let out what he feels he wanted to convey, though he is kinda rude and expressive and that character is not what in myself. He only practice Freedom of Speech.

Speaking of Freedom of Speech, What is Freedom of Speech?

According to Wikipedia, Freedom of speech is enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is granted formal recognition by the laws of most nations. Nonetheless the degree to which the right is upheld in practice varies greatly from one nation to another. In some nations with relatively authoritarian forms of government, overt government censorship is enforced, while among liberal democracies, censorship has been claimed to occur in a different form (see propaganda model) and there are different approaches to issues such as hate speech, obscenity and defamation laws.

The first formal request for freedom of speech in recorded history was made by Sir Thomas More in front of the English Parliament and King Henry VIII on April 18, 1523.

International law

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, provides, in Article 19, that:

Everyone has the right to opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Technically the Declaration is a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly rather than a treaty and so it is not legally binding, in its entirety, on members of the UN, and, while some of its provisions are considered to form part of customary international law, there is dispute as to precisely which provisions do so. Freedom of speech is granted unambiguous protection in international law by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which is binding on around 150 nations. Article 19 provides that:

1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.
2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.
3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:

(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;
(b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.

The right is further qualified by Article 20 which prohibits war propaganda, incitement to violence and certain forms of hate speech. In adopting the Covenant the Republic of Ireland, Italy and Luxembourg insisted on reservations to Article 19 in so far as it might be held to affect their systems of regulating and licensing broadcasting [1]. A number of state parties also have official reservations to Article 20.


Freedom Of Speech In Asia

Several Asian countries provide formal legal guarantees of freedom of speech to their citizens. These are not, however, implemented in practice in most places. Countries such as Vietnam, Myanmar, Singapore, North Korea and Central Asian Republics like Turkmenistan brutally repress freedom of speech. Freedom of speech has been greatly improved in the People's Republic of China in recent years [citation needed], but the level of free expression is still far from that of western nations.

International Freedom of Expression Exchange

The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX), founded in 1992, is a global network of 72 non-governmental organisations that promotes and defends the right to freedom of expression.

Managed by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, IFEX harnesses the power of the Internet to rapidly exchange information and mobilise action on issues such as press freedom, Internet censorship, freedom of information legislation, criminal defamation and insult laws, media concentration and attacks on journalists, writers, human rights defenders and Internet users. A Clearing House in Toronto, Canada coordinates the programmes and activities of IFEX.

The membership of IFEX encompasses a broad array of organisations that work to defend journalists and media personnel, academics, photographers and camera operators, writers, cyber-dissidents, publishers, cartoonists, community radio stations and libraries.


Media Transparency

Media Transparency is the concept of determining how and why information is conveyed through various means.

This is a specific case of the topic, Transparency (humanities). As used in the humanities, it implies openness and accountability. It is a metaphorical extension of the meaning used in the physical sciences: a “transparent” object is one that can be seen through.

In communication studies, Media is transparent when:

* there are many, often competing, sources of information
* much is known about the method of information delivery
* the funding of media production is publicly available

Aspects of transparent media include open source documentation, open meetings, financial disclosure statements, the freedom of information legislation, budgetary review, audit, peer review, etc.

Some organisations and networks insist that not only the ordinary information of interest to the community is made freely available, but that all (or nearly all) meta-levels of organising and decision-making are themselves also published. This is known as radical transparency. These organizations include: Wikipedia, the GNU/Linux community, and Indymedia.

Media Transparency may also refer to the nonprofit organization of the same name devoted to providing information on right-wing funding, especially as it relates to United States media.


Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_transparency

News spread everywhere about Angelica Panganiban’s fake body at the Genebra San Miguel’s 2007 calendar. Some are confused of which story is factual than the other. On the news, Angelica denied about it. So, I decided to post this for you to get more confuse.






The Controversial Stolen Shot Photos

Eh, What are your opinion on this? Some said na Hindi naman ganun ka laki ang enedit sa katawan ni Angelica dahil sobra daw yun, kunti lang daw dahil sexy na daw si Angelica now, but meron pa rin daw siyang kunting taba sa katawan dahil nga raw sa pagiging mataba niya noong bata pa siya. So, I leave it all to you to decide which story is real.

People in Philippines and in the world once again triumph for Manny Pacquiao's victory over Erik Morales of Mexico. Manny proved the public that he truly is the people's champion by concluding the game in just no least than 3 rounds.

He put a big smile on every Filipino's face, making sure that he will be the one to end this trilogy bout. Using his super punches, Manny Pacquiao didn't give a chance for Erik Morales to have the opportunity to take control of the game.

Indeed, this is every Filipino's pride moment. Mabuhay ka Manny Pacquiao, the People's champion.

I’ve been hearing a lot about BIR scandal from people along the street, aboard on jeepneys, in the market, malls and almost everywhere are talking about it (BIR scandal) and even AM radio stations seizing about it.

So, as a Search Engine Optimizer myself, I thought it would be a source of boosting traffics to my blog. I prepared to target the keyword “BIR scandal” on my post. I just let the Search Engine bots crawl my blog, first two days I can’t seem to see my page on the Google’s search result in the keyterm “BIR scandal”, so I just let it bypass and give time for the Google bot to crawl my page. Patient is a virtue indeed, on the third day this afternoon, I typed in “BIR scandal” without the quotes at Google search and walla! I am on the first page and on the number one rank of the results. I just hope that I can maintain the status until the BIR issue will fade throughout time.

Here’s the link to my search at google: BIR scandal

Okay, as I can recall, today is the anniversary on my first day working with SEO Company and it’s my 2nd year now and I am hooked up to this industry. With these 2 years of service on SEO industry, I can tell that I’ve been through a lot of experiences and through these I gained a lot of knowledge and familiarity what is SEO all about.

I make use the power of blogging in order to release the tensions, the bad feelings and the resentments. Before, I just created my blog just for curiosity on how it works, what’s fun of having it and what is it for. A colleague of mine has a blog and he keeps on talking about it, so I made my own using blogger.com or the blogspot. Later, I found some celebrities' blogs online. So I think this is cool having one. Soon, I found out that this colleague of mine does blogging not only to write his thoughts and feelings but his main reason is to generate income through google adsense in which he receives it every month.

Okay, here’s the thorough explanation on what the google adsense is:

AdSense is an ad serving program run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image and, more recently, video advertisements on their sites. These ads are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-impressions basis. Google is also currently beta-testing a cost-per-action based service.
Many sites use AdSense to monetize their content and some webmasters work hard to maximize their own AdSense income. They do this in three ways:
1. They use a wide range of traffic generating techniques including but not limited to online advertising.
2. They build valuable content on their sites; content which attracts AdSense ads and which pay out the most when they get clicked.
3. They use copy on their websites that encourage clicks on ads. Note that Google prohibits people from using phrases like "Click on my AdSense ads" to increase click rates. Phrases accepted are "Sponsored Links" and "Advertisements".
The source of all AdSense income is the AdWords program which in turn has a complex pricing model based on a Vickrey second price auction, in that it commands an advertiser to submit a sealed bid (not observable by competitors). Additionally, for any given click received, advertisers only pay one bid increment above the second-highest bid.

So much for that adsense thing, Blogging for me is a way of expressing my own thoughts and feelings, I sometimes write about current events and my reflections about it and it is satisfying because you know that somebody is reading it. Addictive? Yeah… blogging is addictive, if I can only have more time online I would probably posting what my thoughts are every now and then. Somehow, I influenced some of my colleagues and friends to go on blogging and they got hooked and addicted too with it.



KeywordSpy vs. KeyCompete

Oops!!! It’s been a while since my last update to this Blog. I think I should say “Oops! I did it again..” Duh.. I am just kinda busy the following weeks, from waking up 4 in the morning to prepare for an early work and my online time seems getting shorter and shorter, Arg!!!

Anyway, I am here and I want to talk about the Philippine Idol again.

Last Sunday night, I watched the performance night and they have this dance genre thing. Woah!!! Its Sunday so the remote control is mine all mine. Because on weeknights, I am not the boss of the television at home, since majority at home wanted to watch the primetime teleseries drama of both ABS-CBN and GMA and that makes me sad even more, because Philippine Idol Elimination nights was move to Monday. Do you think it’s time for me to buy a new TV? So that I can liberally watch my favorite shows in the comfort of my own room without disturbances from other to change channels.

Okay, back to the Philippine Idol thing. Last Sunday Jan Nieto gone loca as he performed “Livin’ la Vida Loca” of Ricky Martin. Wow!!! Jan is a hit that night and it was a lively great opening, Mamita even danced with him on stage. I think Jan turned on Mamita’s “Kiliti” and so with Mr. C’s line “Nakakaloka” don’t tell me Mr.C turns on Jan. LOL.

My favorite Pow didn’t get a good impressions from the judges and I think she didn’t impressed me too. It’s not a good choice of song for me. But I don’t think Mamita should insist on Pow to wear a skirt. It’s just won’t work on Pow (The skirt thing). So with Miguel, “Make It With You” is not a song that will make the listener go gaga and tap their feet, so it is not a good choice of song for dance genre. With Ken, I don’t like what he was wearing last Saturday, he looks like a Goo goo dancer in the club with those feathery outfit and strife pants, it’s just not a usual outfit for me on a competition like Philippine Idol, but he gave justice to the Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Deliver”.

The Chorva Mau became “Shy Guy” after Mamita’s comment that her song choice is ideal for a taller, slimmer and sexier lady. Mamita also added that a Philippine Idol is not only having a good quality of voice but with a slim and sexy body too. Oh! No… I don’t think Mamita is right with that comment. She shouldn’t have said that. Many of the viewers raised their eyebrows after hearing those offensive lines from Mamita and I am one of them. Philippine Idol is not a beauty contest or a slimmers’s world contest. Philippine Idol for me is a singing competition, no matter who or what you are. What really count is that you have the talent and the charisma that the people look up to you as their IDOL. Though, having good looks and sexy body is added points but not a requirements. Just like American Idol Ruben Studdard, does Pilita have the rights to say that Ruben shouldn’t become American Idol because he is fat and not so good-looking? I don’t think so. Ruben is a very talented person with a fantastic voice that made him the American Idol and so with Mau on her journey to become the first Philippine Idol.

Okay, so much for that let’s go to Gian. He performed my favorite “Rock DJ” of Robbie Williams and yes! he did the moves right and superb performance. Gian must be confident not to be on the bottom 3 on the elimination night but not with Apple because she was eliminated last Monday. Her “Lady Marmalade” Christina Aguillera version is not a hit to the fans that is why she got the lowest votes and was eliminated.

Now that only six of them left namely: Gian, Mau, Pow, Ken, Miguel and Jan, Who’s next? and who do you think should be the first Philippine Idol?