tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10332013704710548762024-03-05T07:27:46.781-08:00brood over my spillpepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-30975309715056949392011-09-14T07:43:00.000-07:002011-09-14T07:43:33.374-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Is it TechCrunch-<span style="color: red;">ed?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The TechCrunch founder and currently employed-or-not Editor-in-Chief, Michael Arrington, reminds me of Stephen Glass. Swisher observed ‘his obvious need to be the center of attention’. This evokes Glass’ failed struggle for fame. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333;">“almost comically over the line” </span></span>arrangement of investing in the same tech companies his site covers is now in red highlight when the $20 dollar VC fund—CrunchFund—was launched. This formalized his deal that has been going on since the start of his tech blog, thus, awakening Swisher’s, Carr’s, and all others’ joint wrath. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I read David Carr’s probing article</b>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It buzzed his being blathered unethical which is the first subject on my hit list for integrity’s sake. If Carr’s documentation of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333;">several instances of TechCrunch writing favorable pieces on companies in which Arrington had invested’ is accurate, then, where is ethics written down? </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No reader would want to get an access to sanitized information. No reader would want to be a part of a greedy news trade serving their businesses’ remote advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where is ethics in journalism if there's the<i> fear for editorial retribution </i>[competitors] invoked by this kind of arrangement<i>?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I read the Guardian’s ill-commented story</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[sets another concern for the use of profanity]</span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arrington said, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I am TechCrunch and TechCrunch is me. </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, Huffington would say in defense</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, It is very, very clear that they are distinct entities and Michael will have no influence on coverage. </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ironic, isn’t it? This leads me to my second ethical issue of trickery. Or is it just ineffective PR of </span><st1:stockticker style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" w:st="on">AOL</st1:stockticker><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> owning TechCrunch? Arrington stressed that he is not a journalist [yet, the editor-in-chief] so as to justify the arrangement and so he would have the liberty to be engaged in whatever investment there is to feed his gain. Despite Huffington’s hopeful resistance, here’s Arrington found guilty by his defensive statements. Not pointing out his ultimatum, yet—in addition to Huffington’s statement that she would be recruiting a new editor in replace of Arrington. Finally, she’s under submission now, afraid to be undercut by the old media.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did I mention that <i>AOL invested about $10 million in his fund</i>? Who scratches whose back, now?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I read MG Siegler’s emotionally charged article. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Siegler got Arrington’s back strengthened by his words, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Mike tried to get me to write some unreasonable post about a company he had invested in, I would laugh at him. But he would never do that.</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This shouts out my last perceived ethical issue of the writers’ autonomy over what they would cover. If Arrington has real selfish intentions, as verified by writers like David Carr regardless if they’re driven by the so-called old media jealousy, then the writers’ trust for him goes nowhere. Writers like Siegler would be a slave of this unethical trade. This is an issue of journalists being held back of their principles. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Carr, a TechCrunch writer, forfeited <i>TechCrunch’s editorial credibility, and said he was worried that “investors will gain influence over how CrunchFund-backed companies are covered on TechCrunch.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Then, </b>I read Swisher’s verbose rage. And I read the neutral version of Nieman Journalism Lab in Coddington’s words to sum it all up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have the words of all the writers like Carr and Swisher who are up against the giant wall of Arrington. Nevertheless, heaven knows the truth about his real intentions. With all the truths or untruths in all appearances placed in front of us, we can only investigate on our own. At this point, we can only wait for the decision their principles will lead them to. </span><o:p></o:p></div>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-23002569902453313762011-09-13T07:58:00.000-07:002011-09-18T20:15:50.395-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0WgfZ6AvbsU/Tm9tKG8IY-I/AAAAAAAAAIY/3Mc6qy4ktWQ/s1600/itotalaga.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0WgfZ6AvbsU/Tm9tKG8IY-I/AAAAAAAAAIY/3Mc6qy4ktWQ/s640/itotalaga.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Jeans/Leggings, dainty top (usually loose), sandals, cardigan (I just bring it)</span></i></span></li>
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<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><i>Do you wear any specific outfit during rainy/sunny days?</i></span></li>
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</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earrings (permanent), solid-colored bracelets depending on my outfit, belt (which I think I can hype up with any outfit), vintage necklace or rings, colorful head pieces/hair accessories (ribbons)</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Wingdings;"> </span> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are you brand-specific?</span></i></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clei’s recipe for her fashion dish includes simple garments that make up a <i>sophisticute </i>get-up as she calls it. Her style certainly comes into fashion and her way of hyping things up won’t definitely cramp her trend.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="450" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F103280803152394509611%2Falbumid%2F5653885788424966625%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-15376103630380850742011-09-09T06:39:00.000-07:002011-09-09T06:39:35.919-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 22.0pt;">MAL</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 22.0pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 22.0pt;">journalism</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"> <b><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">M</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">isuse, <span style="color: red;">A</span>buse, <span style="color: red;">L</span>ack of Maintenance<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I recall the warranty </span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;">agreement for vehicles.<span> </span>If your car died on you due to MISUSE, ABUSE, and LACK of MAINTENANCE, you’re going to offset your warranty. The Service Manager at the dealership won’t grant you any goodwill for your own mistake. You can only regret. So, you better take care of it –religiously and immaculately. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;">This echoes the wretched story of the journalist Stephen Glass. The artless rule of thumb of car dealers and manufacturers: <i>Misuse, Abuse, Lack of Maintenance, </i>mirrors the three ethical issues in his attempt-for-easy-fame story. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;">He <b>misused</b> his expertise in writing by fabricating stories in his articles for the New Republic magazine. All the more, he aimlessly tried to cover all his lies by another lie when he was caught off hand by Chuck Lane. Storytelling a lie, indeed. Pity was brooding over me upon watching the movie. <i>Thank you</i> to Christensen’s good portrayal, and for a few minutes I forgot about the heinous crime Stephen Glass committed. <span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;">Nevertheless, this ethical issue of fabrication of information is something that we have to be careful and critical about. We have to be Chuck Lane of our own rights. I remember an activist telling me how we should investigate upon truth. He reminded me that not everything that we see or hear as fed on to us by the media is accurate.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;">In addition, he <b>abused</b> his colleagues and superiors by running out his great deceiving stories and ultimate goodie-two-shoes image so he could win their trust. What a creative storywriter he could be! Because he’s trusted by everyone, his works outdone the fact-checking department.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;">The weakness of the said department leads to the third issue of <b>lack of maintenance</b>. They weren’t able to preserve their authority over fact validation by letting his fabricated facts be published. It was such an ethical flop for the magazine company by allowing his partially/completely fabricated [27 out of 41] articles out in the ignorant eyes of the readers. Credibility—this is all but life for the company. And he washed it all out. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She just won’t give them up! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I told my mom many times to donate the book piles which are now of no use to me and my sister. Surrendering them for a good cause doesn’t make sense to her at all. Heaven knows why.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All the text books that my sister and I have had since we started schooling are still resting in our two bookshelves and <i>bodega. </i>Yes, I know you can imagine the cobwebs all over them. We wipe them off, but they come back after a while. Nasty ghosts, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For goodness’ sake, tell me what to do about our nursery books. How about the penmanship books, Spoken English books and all others that we are making room for? Even more, my sister and I attended the same school way back the age-old kindergarten days. And so we have the same collection of text books! Sure, we are keeping them all in our little shelter. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Years have gone by and the pile continues to build up until now. My sister has already graduated after five years in college, and I’m now on my third year. No, I don’t want to picture out the loads of books that we have collected so far.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you would see my late <i>lola’s</i> bedroom which turned into a <i>bodega </i>a few months after she passed away, you would be startled with how the double-decker bed became a bookshelf. Can you take a guess what’s beside the bed? Ta-da! Boxes and paper bags of more books! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What’s more to that is the whole set of Britannica Encyclopedia occupying almost the whole space in the shelf. And what with all the books she bought from Reader’s Digest? Well, I’m not including the magazines and other general reference books.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Books are all over the place! I grew up with them. And I love them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh yeah, I love them so much that sometimes I don’t eat in school so I can spend my school allowance for books. I started from cheap wonderful reads. Book sales sweep me off my feet. When I have more than enough of resources, I buy the hardbound prints. I haven’t read them all yet but they’re endlessly stacking up. And I’m constantly dreaming of becoming a filthy rich person so I can add more wonderful books in my messy collection and gather them all in a brilliantly constructed extra-large bookshelf. I can only imagine. Happiness!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Books will be books. I don’t care about the 2011 Britannica Concise Encyclopedia available in your iTouch, iPad, Android, or what have you. Nor I care about the virtual bookshelf and the e-books in whatever multimedia gadgets you have. I will stick to my dream. <b>Oooh La la la-ibrary! </b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I like checking out fashion and news blogs, too. However, this was the first blog that I have ever ‘bookmarked’, a book blog. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With lots of books that she’s reading, I’m sure as hell that content-wise she will really make it on top. Indeed, you can’t write if you don’t read. And the author has what it takes to gear book readers and blog followers into a new level of passion for reading.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[25 August] Below is the viewing statistics of the site:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Prh31WUKDDg/TlVJw-0nSXI/AAAAAAAAAFg/JWZGedNtGxo/s1600/2011-08-25_020232.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Prh31WUKDDg/TlVJw-0nSXI/AAAAAAAAAFg/JWZGedNtGxo/s1600/2011-08-25_020232.png" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What made this on my list of favorite blogs is the satisfaction I get from its content. I love reading books but it’s seemingly incomparable with the passion for books that Blooey has. It is too much heightened that her blog readers [just like me] would feel inspired whenever they browse through her blog. She is sharing all the adventures her book mania is taking her through. It’s not all about book reviews that one would normally see in a book blog. She included even the interview opportunities she had with some book authors. She’s sharing the good reads and where you can buy them best. The biggest book sales, you would know them if you’re updated with her blog posts. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wanna know about the events where you can have your books signed? Or you wanna be updated about the books that turned movies or even books that turned plays? How about advices for Pottermore entry? Visit her site and you will feel at home with all the exciting information you will be fed on, locally and internationally. She simply shares anything-book-related that she knows about.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The blog content is relevant that every reader will be cultivated with much of information and encouragement to read constantly. This is a good site for the Filipino youth. Instead of spending my money buying unproductive stuff, her passion for books as suggested in the blog stirs me to save money for a better cause, reading and learning. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The design and layout are both simplified. There’s a good space for the main blog posts and the advertisements. The ads don’t look cramped on the side. Integrating multimedia is an added value. It spices it up that the pictures featured in the site were originally taken. In terms of discoverability, community and social media, the blog ranking would not be interpreted as such if not with the site’s credibility and audience traffic. Being the 3<sup>rd</sup> top book blog says a lot about the site. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">She is also active on</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><a href="http://www.shelfari.com/groups/12439/about">Flips Flipping Pages</a>,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><a href="http://filipinobookbloggers.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Filipino Book Bloggers</a>, </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><a href="http://www.bookmooch.com/">BookMooch</a>, and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><a href="http://www.shelfari.com/groups/23735/about">BookMoochers Pilipinas</a>. Her membership in these communities supplements the site’s discoverability. Like in her blog, at the sidebar you’ll find the Regular Reads, Filipino Book blogs, and Book blogs across the seas sections. This shows that she supports other book bloggers like her as much as she would also receive support from them. By her blog being featured and mentioned in other blogs, she’s gaining traffic and market at the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">So far, I’m not done reading Carl Hiaasen’s Double Whammy, and yet I can’t help myself but to eye on more books on sale. I’m shrinking with all my to-read books and here I am adding more weight to the pile.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Milflores Publishing set up their booth at the CAL basement. Arranged in the long table are the ‘rejects [due to seemingly unnoticed nicks] from the bookstores, i.e. National Book Store and Powerbooks. There are lots of good reads in heaps. With more or less Php200 left in my wallet, I burnt half of it over 3 book delights written by wonderful Filipino authors.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <b>2.)</b><span style="font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span><b>Brusko Pink <i>Kingkong Barbies & Other Queer Files – </i></b>Louie Cano</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"> Originally <span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Php 320</span>, but I bought it at <span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Php 40 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">ONLY!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</o:p></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"></div><b><span><span> 3.)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b>Wala Lang <i>Files [Funny&Serious] on Youthful Being and </i></b></div><div><b><i> Nothingness – </i></b>Bud Tomas<!--[if !supportLists]--> <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><div style="text-align: center;">Originally <span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Php 370</span>, but I bought it at <span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Php 45 </span>ONLY!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">Good thing I was able to keep ahold of myself, and I stopped at the 3<sup>rd</sup> book. It’s lunch time and I got less than a hundred to keep myself from starving. Uh-oh! How can I go home?!<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">(As much as I hate burning my savings for accidental expenses like this, oh yes, I call it ‘accidental’, tsk, I can’t help it!] Oh well, I got another receipt of explaining to tell mom about.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Tomorrow, I’m coming back <span> </span>for their last day! [25 August, Thursday]. There are more wonderful reads that I should not miss at such low prices! <span> </span>See you there! <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span>J</span></span><o:p></o:p></div></div>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-76990267927137281292011-08-24T08:47:00.000-07:002011-08-24T08:47:44.860-07:00<br />
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</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tuesday, August 16.</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> [1<sup>st</sup> class] During our exam…</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was trying real hard to read and understand each question. My answers were not well-thought. Good thing there are ‘True or False’ and ‘Multiple Choice’ sections. I was not able to count the number of my erasures. But, I know my paper looks confused. And yes I was confused. My head was in a hazy clutter. It did hurt and I could not think straight at all. And I could not even write in a straight line no matter how hard I tried to control my right hand. My handwriting was in abstract scribble. It’s a terrible font invented, I admit. Epic fail.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For a 10-point essay question, two sentences were all I could write down. What a mess.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[2<sup>nd</sup> class] During our report…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All the more, it was twice during our group report that I almost passed out. That’s why I needed to go out of the room once in a while every time I felt like I was about to lose my consciousness. What a shame if I passed out during the report. No way!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The night before this day, my mom told me not to attend my classes anymore. I could only wish.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">How can I be absent when I’m ought to take an exam and deliver a report?</div><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span> </span><b>[3<sup>rd </sup><span> </span>class –last class] I missed it.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I asked my professor in my second class if I could stay for her next class because I don’t think I can walk without passing out. And so, she let me sit-in. After the class, I struggled my way to exit the building and rode a cab back home.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>The next day, I was confined.</b> My blood platelet count dropped.The day when I took my exam and when I delivered my report was actually my 5<sup>th</sup> day of being sicked with Dengue Fever Syndrome. The doctor was startled that I was able to endure 5 days of Dengue without seeking medical help. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was just one of the hundreds of Filipinos who were and are being distressed by Dengue strains. The casualties are doubling up compared to last year’s number of dengue cases. There’s no cure for it, the doctor told me. It only goes out of your system on its own. The best remedy would be water therapy. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No one is excused from Dengue possibilities. Not even me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We should all be warned. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Be careful, my friend.</span><o:p></o:p></div>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-69914679776466117952011-08-24T05:21:00.000-07:002011-08-24T10:19:39.971-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It’s no surprise at all to see a 5 year-old child surfing the net. That emerging-techno-savvy child does even have faster fingers than my mom. At such a young age, they’re already discovering their promising potentials in the virtual world. I don’t know if I should be green with envy that in no time they could be the computer experts and the celebrated bloggers of their generation.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Considering our time now, Filipino youth of ages 15-24 govern the blogosphere. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This emergent tweak in the behavior of the Filipino youth reminds me of the principle of Emergent Adulthood introduced to me by my professor in Educational Psychology class. Adolescence is extending beyond the teenage years already. At the age of 24, you’re still considered to be an ‘adolescent’. Isn’t it music to your ears if you’re at your mid-twenties? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Nonetheless, it’s definitely not late for me. I’m 19 and I started blogging this year 2011. Back when ‘blogging’ was still just a floating suggestion to me, I was embracing journal-writing. Yes, I love keeping journals. But, I just can’t get my way with it. It would be updated for the first 2 weeks; yet, come next days and my activities have totally overtaken my time for my journal that it’s becoming archaic. Poor journal. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Later did I realize that I want to share my thoughts to other people. Mr. Web just answered my thoughts about it. I was introduced to the online community and the interactive space that the blogosphere offers. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This, of course, is not all about me. I should write something that my target audience can relate with. And as I’m becoming a part of this community, I’m already learning what’s trending or not. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Below is a portion of an interesting <a href="http://blog.cathcath.com/trend-of-blogging-profiles-of-the-top-pinoy-bloggers-1637.html">study</a> [2005] about the blogging trends<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;"> featuring <span class="apple-style-span">one hundred top bloggers selected from the Pinoy top blogs. According to the methodology presented, ‘the study was limited only to those who registered in the Pinoytopblogs and who were ranked in the top one hundred by the unique hits they received ‘:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2tYfzx7zYZU/TlTp8FR8jPI/AAAAAAAAAEc/USQdpqGPvnM/s1600/2011-08-24_174151.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2tYfzx7zYZU/TlTp8FR8jPI/AAAAAAAAAEc/USQdpqGPvnM/s1600/2011-08-24_174151.png" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> The data above was in partial response to the interview question: <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;">What blogging trends do you see in the future?</span> [2005]<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;">Now, at year 2011, let’s try to relate this study to see if the blogging trends today justified the means gathered back in 2005. Let’s check if the blogging trends today match the answer provided in the question mentioned above.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;">There are varying studies that feature the top ranking blogs in the Philippines. There’s one compiled by the Technorati Authority Ranking. But, let me feature the ones registered in TOPBlogs.com.ph:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iT8GmqPxOIU/TlTqF3iuoRI/AAAAAAAAAEg/8nmu4TYXngM/s1600/2011-08-24_180059.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iT8GmqPxOIU/TlTqF3iuoRI/AAAAAAAAAEg/8nmu4TYXngM/s1600/2011-08-24_180059.png" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;">The above list may not reflect the actual standings since it changes on a daily basis. It would give you an idea of what kind of content does youth want to see on a PH blog.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;">[Technology]</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;"> First on the list is Yugatech with 57, 029 visitors at the time of viewing. It features technology news and gadget reviews.</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nfGEBRip3f0/TlTqNiPxquI/AAAAAAAAAEk/yuCUAuA98pM/s1600/2011-08-24_185838.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="470" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nfGEBRip3f0/TlTqNiPxquI/AAAAAAAAAEk/yuCUAuA98pM/s640/2011-08-24_185838.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;">[Entertainment – Anime]</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;"> Naruto Manga/Naruto Shippuden/Naruto Spoilers ranked 2<sup>nd</sup> on the list at the time of viewing.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5J1R2JJr-Ko/TlTqp18EozI/AAAAAAAAAE8/oZaUsSaKUf8/s1600/ito.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="477" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5J1R2JJr-Ko/TlTqp18EozI/AAAAAAAAAE8/oZaUsSaKUf8/s640/ito.png" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;">Moreover, it was interesting to check what categories do the top 10 blogs fall under.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Ranking according to Categories [refer to the list above]:<br />
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</b>1. Technology & Computers 6. Education<br />
2. Entertainment – Anime 7. Home & Living - Wedding<br />
3. News & Journalism 8. Business and Finance<br />
4. Entertainment – Celebrity Updates 9. Personal<br />
5. Entertainment – TV Shows 10. Health & Medicine<br />
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The above list may change in a daily basis. Although interestingly, three entertainment blogs were included in the top 10 listing of TOPBlogs. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">There’s quite an indication of similarity from the study done in 2005 as to the figures and listings that TOPBlogs came up with. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The study in 2005 featured 100 blogs. 51 of those were personal blogs. 14 were entertainment blogs. 12 were news/politics blogs. 10 were technology blogs.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">These blogging trends [categories] were brought out in the top 10 blogs of TOPBlogs today.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Knowing these blogging trends and its development, I will try to tap different drifts in my personal blog. It’s important to me as a blogger that I will write about what I know about and what I’m interested about. Since I don’t have a strong inclination to a specific trend, e.g. technology, I will set up a personal blog which will feature anything that intensely interests me. As an online reader, I usually visit fashion, book and news blogs. But, my interests are boundless that even rock music and theatre tickle my interest. With these interests, I will categorize them and render them into different pages like the one below:<o:p></o:p></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OvHPVaZQ0S0/TlTqjEqVPvI/AAAAAAAAAEw/j1xeARUhOCU/s1600/2011-08-24_192249.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OvHPVaZQ0S0/TlTqjEqVPvI/AAAAAAAAAEw/j1xeARUhOCU/s1600/2011-08-24_192249.png" /></a><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">It would have the same structure but different labels. The labels could be ‘Books, Music, Fashion, WHAT’s NEW? etc.’.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Below is a book blog with a simple design that I want to adapt:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xo3WqiT3slo/TlTqktEoP8I/AAAAAAAAAE0/-ILZBiMEtR4/s1600/2011-08-24_193125.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xo3WqiT3slo/TlTqktEoP8I/AAAAAAAAAE0/-ILZBiMEtR4/s1600/2011-08-24_193125.png" /></a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As much as I can, I will integrate different forms of media not limited to pictures and videos. I will try to make everything original, even the audio-visual materials that will be introduced. It means to say that I will only present pictures that I have taken.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Here’s another book blog that I always visit:<o:p></o:p></div><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wH3GKUAKas8/TlTqnaxEWtI/AAAAAAAAAE4/8YEIwgUtIxY/s1600/2011-08-24_194403.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wH3GKUAKas8/TlTqnaxEWtI/AAAAAAAAAE4/8YEIwgUtIxY/s1600/2011-08-24_194403.png" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">Let me borrow the much used adage: Simplicity is beauty. With a lot of things that interest me, I want to feature them in a very defined simple design and layout.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-51960852975906074122011-08-05T07:53:00.000-07:002011-08-05T22:04:32.304-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: red; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed', serif; font-size: 28pt;">i</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed', serif; font-size: 28pt;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed', serif; font-size: 28pt;">“</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: red; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed', serif; font-size: 28pt;">quoted</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #4f81bd; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed', serif; font-size: 28pt;">news</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed', serif; font-size: 28pt;">.com”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Once, they</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <b>were</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> all the same.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’m not a web design expert to scrutinize the page layout with the header and the sidebar nor whatever that holds my eyes on screen. What the color scheme would be or where to put which, is what I don’t know. My eyes are seeking for content.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">That was my understanding way back when I visit a website or a blog. I don’t care about how it was presented to me. I know yet what I am looking for. So what with the design.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> If I want to find out the details on a current earthquake headline for an instance, I use the magic keywords and browse through the first links google or yahoo shows me. It’s what I chow in to kill time, not something that I feed on myself every day.<br />
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<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> It was all about the content. And I was seeing no difference. It’s just the same news taken in different words. At least, back some eras ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Apparently, they <b>are </b>all different.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you noticed the changes?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> </span> Here's the detailed wanna-be changes in outline form:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111;">The two small pictures beside the slideshow of featured articles were removed. I replaced them with</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020;"> Daily Weather Forecast small widget. </span></span></li>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I added an announcement caption (marquee) under the slideshow's caption. This would feature important announcements (e.g. DepED/CHED's declaration of class suspension).If there’s no urgent announcement like this, the schedule of the featured events in "My Calendar" can be displayed.<br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">I added "My Calendar" widget below the google search engine. This calendar features the schedule of any events (e.g. Social Watch Assembly). The events that will be posted will be filtered. This will be a good portion for potential advertisers and sponsors. Moreover, t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">his could be one way of promoting the site.<br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have had the header changed.<i> 'Quoted' and 'news' </i>are maroon in font color. I moved the "sign up and report your news" on top beside the 'subscribe" button.<br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I changed the format of the ads in the Sponsors section in the sidebar. Instead of a collage of ads, I changed it to a slideshow format. So, it would not look cramped in one corner.</span></li>
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</i></div></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Replacing the 'Popular Posts' with a more integrated save-spacing widget, 'Read-Rated-Discussed' as that of Telegram’s will make it look better. It would have the same format [picture beside each content tabs] but the integrated format will be adapted.</span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">"We, at <b>QuotedNews </b>aspire to be the avenue of much news </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">you desires</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> to hook with: "</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i> -</i>Little mistakes like this should still be changed. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">Not medically speaking, I did not mean to destruct the blog’s credibility in any sense; this is solely me and my not-so-deep scrutiny.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">WHAT I PERCEIVE?</span> </b></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">[Criteria: Content Design Relevance]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 13.8pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #1e1e1e; font-size: 10pt;">As usual, everything lies clear on a white background. It has a blue-black general color scheme. Blue colors the headlines, article titles, and the navigation elements. Black colors the rest of the content.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 13.8pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #1e1e1e; font-size: 10pt;">It has a two-level navigation menu, that which is, separated. On the topmost is the first level menu dedicated to the main blog navigation. Just below it is the brand header, where the second level navigation menu is under. The second level is for news content navigation categorized in tabs.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would say that there’s no widget overload on the sidebar area. There’s only one dedicated area for sponsors. It’s a dynamic sidebar since contents’ arrangement changes as you navigate through the other pages in the places. Atleast, in my observation they’re all the same small-sized ads in motion. The colors of the ads are visually accenting the color scheme of the blog. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">The rest of the space in the sidebar is mostly comprised of the tabbed contents. The areas are dedicated to content-related widgets such as recent posts, popular posts, and the archives in a monthly chronological order. They are neatly tucked in the side.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I noted a specific dedicated area for advertisement. But, as of the moment, there’s no ad posted yet. It’s just: “Advertise here.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the upper right corner, the multimedia platform below the second-level navigation is the space’s main spectacle . It displays in a slideshow the news pictures of different featured articles with captions below it. Beside it are two small pictures. These integrated pictures are, of course, linked to the articles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like it that there’s much space dedicated for the news content. Simplicity is beauty. It’s not a busy site at all. For each navigation category, including the homepage itself, are 10 headlines only. It’s shown in a very organized way whereas in one featured headline, beside it is the small picture of the writer, the news picture, and an unfinished excerpt of the article that serves as an overview with the “Read More..” button below it. Along with this are the comment buttons. Voting buttons are placed in the side occupying a little vertical space.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And of course, I won’t fail to mention the pages behind the 1<sup>st</sup> level navigation links. It’s a good thing that the details in the About page don’t mix with the ones in the Contact Us page. The sitemap is just what I have expected it to be.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later, I find out an interesting idea behind the overall ‘un-busyness ‘as I would put it. There’s not much ad as it may seem to be, but as you check out each article, there it features one advertisement just below the title.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a one ad per article. Very nice. That figures the neat organization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">All the more, the site doesn’t fail to recognize their contributors. As you would see, there’s a little area dedicated to the writer at the bottom of each article.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">As I would thank <b>Kevin Muldoon</b> for his helpful <a href="http://www.bloggingtips.com/2008/11/07/the-reader-blog-criqitue-checklist/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #67753a;">critique checklist</span></a>, I would quote him with his one important note: ‘Most common mistake ever – "©Copyright" which equals <i>saying copyright twice</i>. One must die.’</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Funny that at the bottom of the page, it states ‘</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #888888; font-size: 10pt;">Copyright © 2011 <a href="http://www.quotednews.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #888888;">Latest News</span></a>. All rights <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #888888; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reserved’.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 13.8pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">With social media integration, the blog draws more traffic into it. Unlike websites, blogs make use of voting buttons evidently. In this blog, it’s always beside each post. There’s a google +1 button and the facebook ‘like’ button.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 13.8pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It also has a comment area, in which it will direct you to two ways of leaving your comments. It could be through a facebook comment post. Or a comment directed to the blog itself.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 13.8pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Another is that you can click on the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: whitesmoke; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #515151; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Subscribe button to receive instant updates from QuotedNews feed via <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/quotednews" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2361a1;">RSS</span></a> or <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=quotednews&loc=en_US" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2361a1;">EMAIL</span></a>.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 13.8pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There are three dedicated widgets in the sidebar area supporting the criteria mentioned above.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 13.8pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">First is the Receive Free Updates portion. Facebook and Twitter are notably featured. Second is the Connect on Facebook section indicating how many ‘likes’ does the site currently have. Lastly, the ‘Stats’ is shown. It features the current community that visits it every day and its ranking showing its level of discoverability so far.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">No site is perfect. But to me, the makes of this news blog is noteworthy. I like it as it is –clean and simplified. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-41267565846862202592011-07-15T20:35:00.000-07:002011-07-15T20:35:31.810-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">COOLING DOWN WITH A STRANGER</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A fluent little boy with his cheeks reddened after running some rounds in the oval caught my attention. I can see the sweat in his forehead while observing the people around him. I have mistaken him as the son of the couple sitting beside him in the stone bench. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, he is just a cute little neighbor of Ena, the girlfriend of Joni. They were the couple who tagged McNeil along with them for a jog. </div><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“I don’t like to go in MOA, there’s like an army of people who jog there,’ he complained. This seemingly 7 year-old lad never failed to amuse me throughout the conversation. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It’s funny how the children of today talk to the adults around them. All the more, how children deal with the people around them openly, and more interestingly, to a stranger. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“I don’t have problems with my body, I just like to do this,” McNeil answered directly with no but’s-or-if’s tone in his voice. With a blank face, he answered it in fluent English. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Whenever I asked questions, he’s always the first to answer me. Ena was making faces while the kid was blabbering about his reasons of jogging around the Oval. There were only few instances that the couple was able to butt in their side of the conversation.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“I do this every other day,” Joni said. Academic Oval, however, is not where he always jogs around. It’s in a nearby place called Juan Luna. He shared with me his few notable complaints about the Oval pathway.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Ako naman, I do this every weekend, if I have time,” Ena said. She prefers to jog around UP to pay a visit at the same time in the College of Mass Communication.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">They well-accommodated my random questions about them jogging around the University. After sparing a couple of minutes with me for a short friendly conversation, we bid goodbyes, and they’re off the place. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I just hope that I did not scare them away.</div>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-29098254045555116772011-07-15T07:43:00.000-07:002011-07-15T07:53:27.435-07:00<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">EXCLUSIVELY CABRERA</span></b> </u></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 5pt; line-height: 8px;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">“Ito na yung parang last chance namin kasi gra-graduate na yung mga key players namin.</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Dapat mapanalo na namin ‘to. </i></span><b style="font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 115%;">Tatalunin namin yung Ateneo,</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>” </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">said Roider with hopeful boldness in his voice during an exclusive phone interview.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Roider Ross Cabrera joined the Soaring Falcons Men’s Basketball team during the 72<sup>nd</sup> season of UAAP. Standing 6’4”, this “Power Forward” has proven his might in the heat of a game. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #290203; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">[Facebook, Roider Cabrera]</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #290203; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #290203; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">A celebrated streak-shooter</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #290203; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">In the 2010 FilOil Tournament, he dragged the Falcons to victory by scoring all of his points in the fourth period. It was that time when his name has been interchangeable to “three-pointer’. He had it going until his fifth in the game.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #290203; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">In a web article, Coach Leo Austria has spoken about <a href="http://www.inboundpass.com/2010/06/09/cabrera-falcons-claw-past-blue-eagles/">Cabrera’s play</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #290203; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> “We switched to a motion offense, which was specifically for him, so every time he was open—he took the shot, and Cabrera is someone who would always have that confidence to take those kinds of shot,” said coach Leo Austria after the game [2010 FilOil Tournament].</span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #290203; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Taking it outside UAAP, Adamson has established their stance over Ateneo.</span><br />
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Versus Ateneo [UAAP Season 74 Opener]</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></i></span></div><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Five hours before their match with the Blue eagles:</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">How long did your team prepare for this?<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">“After nung last game namin, nag-start na kami.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 5pt; line-height: 8px;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Among the players in your team, who do you think would bring victory to Adamson? Just give me 5.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">“Si Alvarez, Nuyles, Camson, Manyara, Colina,” he answered. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> I have browsed some articles and I even asked a friend, a UAAP buff, about the performance of the players of Adamson. You were noted as someone who is a ‘streak shooter’. Won’t you consider yourself among the 5 key players?</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">“Pang-sixth na lang ako,” he playfully said, then he burst out a laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">What was Coach Austria’s piece of advice for the team?<br />
“Hmmm.. advice? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Basta mananalo kami mamaya,” </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">then, he laughed in a cheerful tone.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">During their first game with Ateneo</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;">, Cabrera backed up the team with a total of 6 points out of the 51-point basket played by Adamson. Both were 3-point baskets. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br />
And this is what people are eyeing for, his being of a 3-point ball slinger. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Furthermore, this 6-point support was just a taste of what we will be anticipating from him for the following games of this tough and exciting season. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">“Tatalunin namin yung Ateneo”</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Roider’s hopeful prophecy did not materialize on their first game with Ateneo. However, with the Eagles’ hard-earned victory at 55-51, isn’t it too soon to give an end to Roider’s prophecy? Having a double round robin scheme, Falcons will meet the Eagles again soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Uninterruptedly, it could be the 30<sup>th</sup> win of Ateneo over Adamson. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;">Or the sweet fulfillment of Roider’s prophecy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-48080102087485364522011-07-15T04:09:00.000-07:002011-09-27T06:03:55.652-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24px;">FALCONS, S</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">LAUGHTER</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24px;">-ED BY 4 POINTS</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c_3q3RAmvAA/TiAfNWK4vcI/AAAAAAAAADY/1x2pC1D6-Cc/s1600/lolo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c_3q3RAmvAA/TiAfNWK4vcI/AAAAAAAAADY/1x2pC1D6-Cc/s400/lolo.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">[FLICKR- INBOUNDPASS’ PHOTOSTREAM *DIANA MORALEDA]<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">SUNDAY</span>, July 10 – <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">By scoring almost half of the total points won by Ateneo, the 7-footer Gregory Slaughter conquered the 2<sup>nd </sup>game of the UAAP Season 74 Men’s Basketball Tournament at the Big Dome. This new star of the Blue Eagles who was once a player of the University of Visayas and Smart Gilas, displayed his fresh intensity into play.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Slaughter startled everyone with his debut. This feted recruit continued to drag the team to their 29<sup>th</sup> faint victory over the Soaring Falcons by 55-51.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The last time that the Falcons soared higher than Ateneo was back in September of 1997 at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium with 54-52 count. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Falcons slowly rallied the points in an attempt to bump the Eagles’ lead in the first 2 quarters. With 6:54 left for 3<sup>rd</sup> quarter, Alvarez smashed the lead with a 3-point basket making it 34-33 –<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the first time that the Falcons outpaced the Eagles. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">They [Falcons] sweat the palms of the Eagles on the third quarter ending it at 44-43. Yet, following Cabrera’s second 3-point blast, Manyara with 6:58 made the last basket for Adamson at 51-44 lead.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Slaughter flashed five out of seven points to swiftly tie it to 51-51 at 2:15 mark.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>This was before Brondial was called for goal-tending of Kirk Long’s ball, flying two more points to Eagle’s board. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">With two charities, Ateneo’s guard Emman Monfort wrapped the win at 55. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The newly recruit Slaughter of the Blue Eagles ended as the top scorer of the game. He was followed by the other double-digit scorer, Kirk Long [Team Captain] with 10 points. Whereas the other notable recruit, Kiefer Ravena, finished it scoreless. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nuyles with 11 points led the Soaring Falcons. Alvarez followed with 8 markers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">ENDING SCORES:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Eagles at 55 </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">- Slaughter 23, Long 10, Salva 8, Monfort 6, Erram 3, Gonzaga 3, Austria 2, Chua 0, Golla 0, Ravena 0, Sumalinog 0, Tiongson 0</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Falcons at 51 </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">- Nuyles 11, Alvarez 8, Cabrera 6, Cañada 6, Camson 6, Manyara 5, Lozada 3, Colina 2, Etrone <br />
<b>Quarter Scores: </b>16-12, 33-27, 43-44, 55-51 </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-10534167895591796092011-07-08T07:28:00.000-07:002011-07-08T08:13:37.803-07:00[Day XXXVIII]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[Part I]</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">My precious, last night—</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I remember saying ‘I love you’ when my soul drifted faraway—<br />
Oh, your words resonate when I’m in deep slumber<br />
You chanted the love I’m chasing in my dreams<br />
Into the nightly steam of the clouds, apart we spirited<br />
Ay me! This delusion,<br />
I need to discern,<br />
the truth that it’s you—<br />
It’s you, I extremely desire<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Awaken, I waited for this constant hour;<br />
in neon lights at eight o’clock,<br />
the morning shines brighter—<br />
--<i>my [Cinderella] hour</i><br />
the hour when my eyes seek your presence<br />
Though I know I’m not your prince, nor your other man;<br />
Nor I’m dressed in white finery<br />
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If only you would care to glance upon my sight,<br />
but, if you do not; Beloved, <br />
you need not to worry<br />
for my eyes are made to behold you<br />
<br />
If only my sight can capture you,<br />
I am no longer alone.</span></span>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-68001620464414467402011-07-08T07:25:00.000-07:002011-07-08T09:11:41.945-07:00Day XXXVIII [ From Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto a.k.a. Pablo Neruda]<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;">[Part II]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In what way I can make you look at me?<br />
Each day, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m missing your sight<br />
Each day,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> ‘I love you’ becomes not enough<br />
It’s overpowering that I know I’m losing the fight<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s the thirty seventh hour,<br />
and I’m two meters away now<br />
Yet, miles better <br />
than yesterday,<br />
and the other day<br />
<br />
You’ve always been meters away from me<br />
And I’ve always been wanting to get any nearer,<br />
inch by inch,<br />
each passing day, beside you </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">where I can feel your presence around me<br />
where I can smell the fragrance you wear<br />
that I can taste the sweetness of your divine stillness<br />
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It has always been like this,<br />
same hour, everyday<br />
But, I never get tired of this<br />
And I swear I won’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This is my thirty seventh letter,<br />
As I write in breeze your heavenly actions,<br />
these words become my dream<br />
as day becomes night<br />
At night,<br />
when the universe sleeps with me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Not too far,<br />
your eyes I can see<br />
You’re reading in silent utter and<br />
I imagine you’re speaking with me<br />
<br />
And so I whispered your name<br />
Then, you look at me;<br />
TIME IS UP!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">And away you go…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Bentham; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">click the link below for Part I [Day XXXVIII From Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto a.k.a Pablo Neruda]:<br />
http://ipainteditgray.blogspot.com/2011/07/day-xxxviii_08.html</span></div>pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447989439579787613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033201370471054876.post-31797091513602874252011-07-01T11:59:00.000-07:002011-07-01T11:59:25.360-07:00OVERWHELMING INCONSISTENCIES<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Delineating ‘Online Journalism’ and its quick trend development from a South East Asian perspective in contrast to how Americans would put it is quite out-of-focus. It is because they are all gearing towards the same approach-–catching up with the technology-going-across-the-board. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sure, no one wants to be left behind. No matter how sluggish it’s working for other countries, they are launched to do the same movement. There’s no bright red difference. But, the inconsistency lies somewhere, and one definite aspect of it is in their ‘development rate’. America and Singapore developed way earlier than the others. A lot of factors would support it: the financial stability of one country, the way of governance in one administration and the rules being regulated in the whole state. I am now thinking that I don’t want to think about the future. How further and farther can they get with their radical mindset? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nonetheless, I like the notion of ‘paywall’. In some ways, I am thinking that they constructed it so it could put <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">equal </b>emphasis on print media. They want people to think that they will get the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">same</b> thing, as they pay for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">same</b> thing. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyhow, that’s one alteration I observed from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the two noticeably advanced—</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">America and Singapore. “</i>Paywall” is one form of a holdup for me that the old-school Journalists in America fashioned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moreover, as mentioned initially, fast-paced development exists. We are noticing it quite moderately since certain regions here in the Philippines are not covered by the online media umbrella yet. And I just want to grasp it that way-–in that state; on how much we have developed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">now</b>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Just that</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am anxious about fast forwarding the future, effortlessly leaving the present behind just like that. In the future, we would ask ourselves where we were one generation back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the featured countries in the video clip and their own paces of digital progress, apparently, they are working on getting through the veins of online media and how they would be able to weave several media forms to make it more effective in relaying news to wider audience, but some countries identical to Cambodia are still finding their way through. Mind your own race-–that is. I wonder, upon knowing that ’90% of its population is still focused on the fields and that only 1% of their population are internet users’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how many years would it take them to have online media touch their lands and be actually objectified in their country? In line with this—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cambodia—</i>upon reaching the same level of modernization same with where their neighbors are right now, do you realize how advanced these neighbors have gone by that time already?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Facebook</span></u></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">It's my first stopover when I go online.</span></i></span></div><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">It has been a part of my daily routine, not that I'm always so bouncy excited about the updates. Now and then, I would need to visit it as it has become the means of communication within my organization and two of my other classes. And consistently, it’s just a good stop before jumping into the more serious tasks. </span></span></div><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Wingdings;">ü</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">Friend Requests.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">ü<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Wingdings;">ü</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">Messages.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">ü</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Wingdings;">ü</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">Group updates.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">ü</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Wingdings;">ü</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">News feeds.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I would open up a new tab [not logging out of Facebook] to check my e-mail. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Facebook [or twitter], as other internet users like me log on to as their first online activity, can bring market to entrepreneurs, organizations, and certainly, the news providers. It is a good ‘traffic referral source’ if utilized well by the news benefactors. It is an excellent platform to develop communities because it reaches different people –<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the gray area on news websites and blogs.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Detached news websites and blogs struggle in building communities. This is where Facebook is good at. It can be the news websites’ source of news consumers. Thus, they complement each other. All of these media forms are marks of digital evolution and it doesn’t necessarily mean that they cannot co-exist and that one is less relevant than the other. If we would only know how to maximize its functionality to meet our ends, then we can make it a very effective means of relating to people.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">“Hindi natin ma-i-ko-compare kay 'Ondoy' ito. Unang una, ‘yung 'Ondoy' nag-landfall no’n," Jesusa said. PAGASA, on the other hand, had announced "Falcon" is unlikely to make landfall as it has</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></span><a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/224222/nation/weather-falcon-slows-down-new-lpa-spotted-off-catanduanes" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">started slowing down</span></i></a><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">. –</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 5.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>PATERNO ESMAQUEL II, GMA News</b></span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 5.5pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Different stories and different faces are being covered by the media today, but the whole Philippines is sharing the same sentiment and apprehension: Will it be the same nightmare Typhoon Ondoy has brought us? </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">June 23, 2011 [Thursday] </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">—</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">After attending my EDCO 101 class [Introduction to Counseling and Guidance] in the College of Education, I paced the pavement to my next and last class at Palma Hall with my colleague. Wearing beach shorts and white chucks for my bottom get-up, it was quite a struggle treading my way through with the full rainstorm and puddles on the trail. [Not mentioning much about my loaded backpack which was partly drenched]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> “Ang lakas ng ulan, pero di naman ‘to parang Ondoy”, </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">When I found out that my SPEECH 183 [Audio-Visual Communication] class was cancelled for the day, I hastily made my way to the committee meeting of the organization I am a member of. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;">After which, I went home already.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I safely got home with my hair, bag, and shoes quite soaked. The power of the umbrella relieved me fairly. This reminded me of typhoon Ondoy. I took a moment to thank the Heavens for I was far more comforted than what Ondoy made me experience in the floods <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">—</span><i>stranded and alone. </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Unfortunately, my version of yesterday was not the same version others had:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Widespread flooding in Metro Manila on Thursday night stranded tens of thousands of students and workers struggling to go home as they faced knee-high or even higher waters in many neighborhoods.</span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> -</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 5pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>RSJ/HS, GMA News<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Facebook posts </span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">[Anonymous]:</span></i></span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 3pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">“Kwento mo sa basang medyas ko”,</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">For some, it may be worse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Those who greatly suffered what Ondoy has brought in their lives are still petrified with what Falcon is bringing them today. Some victims of Ondoy have not fully recovered yet. Most of them are still dreading on what </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">happened and regretting on what could have been done. It has left them the scars of trauma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Nonetheless, we can only move forward </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"><i>cautious and stronger.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><strike>Kathryn Narciso</strike></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;">______________________________________</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">We have learned our lesson</span>.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;">Let's pray for everyone’s safety and recovery.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><br />
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