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Of journalism and abolishing "citizen journalists"

Blogs The editorial Let's Abolish 'Citizen Journalists' on The Digital Journalist caught my attention, thanks to a tweet from @gangbadoy retweeting the link from @glossmania. While I don't agree with the article ... Read story »

Obama calls Kanye West "jackass": "Off the record" in the age of Twitter

Blogs Most people would probably agree with what US President Barack Obama called singer Kanye West after the latter ruined Taylor Swift's moment at the MTV Video Music Awards. Obama's "jackass" comment, ... Read story »

EllaGanda.com blog post sparks online furor over DSWD handling of relief goods

Blogs For the better part of Friday, the Philippine online community was buzzing over a blog post on EllaGanda.com lamenting the Department of Social Welfare and Development's handling of relief goods donated to ... Read story »

Manny Pacquiao wife gets support from Filipino Twitter users

Blogs Ironically, rumors of an affair with a sexy young actress may have done more to hurt boxing's pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao than tough erstwhile welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. A ... Read story »

Microblogging keeps Filipino Netizens informed on ConAss in absence of mainstream media

Blogs As Filipinos saw last night, the true test of digital tools is when they are used by citizens to defend democracy and keep information flowing. Mainstream media was virtually prevented--or perhaps ... Read story »

Read Captain America Reborn: Prelude for free at Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited

Blogs The day fans of the original Captain America, Steve Rogers, have been waiting for is almost here. Two years on after his shocking death in Captain America #25 in March 2007 ... Read story »

When solar panels become affordable for all

Blogs Our sun is undoubtedly an incredibly powerful star. Apparently, it supplies enough energy to earth in 1 hour to provide all of our energy needs for an entire year! Yet, most ... Read story »

Iran election protests harness power of Twitter, New Media

Blogs UPDATE: Twitter has announced that its network maintenance has been rescheduled as its "network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in ... Read story »

If you can't beat them...

Blogs ...join em. And that's what the MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association) is going to do, it would seem. According to a news report on the Malaysianinsider.com, the MCA is going into the ... Read story »

Indonesia's Kompas daily goes blogging

Blogs Indonesia's leading daily newspaper Kompas has launched its Weblog, Kompasiana, following Tempo, the country's respected and influential media, which launched its blog in early 2007. Both blogs are written in Bahasa ... Read story »

Mainstream media: Don't demonize computer games (re: Recent suicides)

Blogs Recently, the mainstream media in Singapore has taken to demonizing computer games. You're causing problems for me when you do that. I've played computer games since I was six, from Pong ... Read story »

Mourning Neda Soltani: Martyrdom in the digital age

Blogs Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other online tools allowed the world to know what was happening inside Iran more quickly than mainstream media. Indeed, many Twitter users started using green avatars to ... Read story »

A CNET Blogger to get elected into Malaysia Parliament, and not because of dead voters, too!

Blogs In case you've not heard, a tsunami seems to be overtaking Malaysia, in the state of Penang, where our counterpart from Malaysia Jeff Ooi has apparently been elected into the Malaysia ... Read story »

40 percent of Twitter messages 'pointless babble': study

Blogs A whopping FORTY percent of messages found in Twitter are pointless bubble.   I am hardly perplexed at such findings by Pear Analytics of Texas, USA. I would be happy if ... Read story »

Nationwide protests vs. ConAss Charter Change in the Philippines: Live blog and live video stream

Blogs UPDATE: As of this writing, you can watch a video stream of the Makati City rally via Ustream courtesy of aka_war. Makati City, the financial capital of the Philippines, is the ... Read story »

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