Entries from January 2006

Photo gallery fixed

January 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tags: Personal · cebu news