Entries from June 2005

Blogger now allows image uploads

June 24th, 2005 · 1 Comment

At last, Blogger now allows its users to upload images for their posts. The image upload button is now active. Before this feature was activated, Blogger users had to open accounts with image hosting services such as Photobucket. The downside of this is you eat up the webspace alloted to your account and if Blogger [...]

Tags: Blogs

Flickr improves mobile blogging

June 24th, 2005 · No Comments

I used to send mobile blog entries through Flickr. Last month, the posts that I sent to my Flickr account stopped automatically appearing in my blog (I was still with Blogspot then). When the automatic postings stopped, I could still post blog entries using the secret e-mail address you configure in your Blogger account.
When Blogger [...]

Tags: Blogs · Internet · Mobile

Sun.Star Cebu named Newspaper of the Year

June 24th, 2005 · No Comments

The newspaper I work for has been voted Newspaper of the Year in the Rotary Club of Manila National Journalism Awards. This is Sun.Star Cebu’s third award from the Rotary Club of Manila. Sun.Star Cebu was named Regional Newspaper of the Year in 1990 and 2003.

Pachico A. Seares, Sun.Star Cebu editor-in-chief, said this is [...]

Tags: Journalism · Work

Sunnex blogs Cebu ICT

June 22nd, 2005 · No Comments

Sun.Star Network Exchange (Sunnex) has opened a blog to cover Cebu ICT 2005, which opens later today. I’m one of the bloggers, I might post by Thursday. I’m not feeling well right now, I might skip the opening.

Tags: Blogs · Internet · Journalism

Saved from a headline disaster

June 21st, 2005 · 3 Comments

Last week I handled a page containing the story of how policemen were able to arrest a rape suspect after identifying him through documents found in a wallet he dropped at the crime scene.
I laid out the page and wrote this headline for the story:
Dropped wallet leads
cops to rape suspect
It was a good thing [...]

Tags: Highlights · Journalism · Personal · Work

Changing the chat box

June 21st, 2005 · 2 Comments

After trying out four tag board and chat scripts last night, I finally decided on using txtShout, a PHP tagboard and shoutbox system.
TxtShout is fairly easy to install and it doesn’t need a database. The script shares the code used by my previous chatbox, Cbox.
Cbox, unlike txtShout, is remotely hosted. This means that [...]

Tags: Blogs · Internet · Personal