I’ve been using the FAlbum WordPress plugin to display my Flickr photos in this site since last year. But for a couple of months, some of my Flickr pictures won’t load in this site. I tried fresh installs and waded through both the plugin’s forum and the WordPress support site but I still could not [...]
Entries from January 2006
Photo gallery fixed
January 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: Blogs
Having a smashing time
January 29th, 2006 · No Comments
I haven’t been able to post in this blog lately nor visit my usual online haunts and my “later” to-do list has doubled these past several days. The reason: an office table tennis tournament.
Ever since the office put up a new table in preparation for last year’s Cebu tri-media tournament, more and more Sun.Star people [...]
Tags: Personal
Listing of top Philippine news sites
January 21st, 2006 · 9 Comments
The government-owned Philippine News Agency listed yesterday the top mainstream Philippine news websites based on Netcraft ranking. The data is taken from browsing habits of users of the Netcraft toolbar. I don’t know how big and representative that user base is.
I also don’t know how PNA compiled the list, I tried looking for a listing [...]
Tags: Internet · Journalism
MediaShift goes live
January 19th, 2006 · No Comments
Update your blogrolls and RSS feed readers, PBS’ MediaShift is now live. The blog is run by journalist Mark Glaser, who previously wrote a column for Online Journalism Review of the USC Annenberg School of Communication. He also writes the OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association.
MediaShift “is a weblog that will [...]
Tags: Blogs · Internet · Journalism
Bumps on the information superhighway
January 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment
The Cebu Yearbook 2006 is out. Here’s part of the unedited article I submitted for publication:
One municipal government’s website in Visayas is being maintained by its meat inspector.
Frederick Amores, Visayas group head of the National Computer Center (NCC) Field Operations Office, could barely contain his laughter as he said this in an interview. The NCC [...]
Tags: Government · Internet · Work
Cebu City’s biggest party is over
January 17th, 2006 · No Comments
Sinulog is Cebu City’s biggest street party and gathering. People take over Cebu City streets in the annual street parade, held every third Sunday of January. Although there were fewer contingents last Sunday, the crowd that watched the parade appeared to be bigger.
Here are some photos Marlen and I took of the celebration honoring [...]

