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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Bayan DSL's Lola Techie campaign--brilliant use of social media

Blogs You know your Web site's hit the mainstream Filipino audience when your lola's (grandma) complaining that you don't poke her back in Facebook. That said, Bayan DSL's latest campaign dubbed Lola ... Read story »

How do you feel about the death of print?

Blogs While I've long been an Internet advocate, I don't take any pleasure in the fact that print newspapers and magazines are closing down one by one. When I was still a ... Read story »

Babelmachine is back, and the Filipino blogosphere keeps growing

Blogs It's been over a year, but I'm finally back blogging for CNET Asia. A lot has happened since I left, not least of all a major career move when I decided to "go ... Read story »

VivaNews, Indonesia's new online media

Blogs Indonesia's online media has a new news portal called VivaNews that already launched its beta version yesterday. Owned by Bakrie Group (which was reported as another factor behind the Jakarta market's ... Read story »

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