Entries Tagged as 'Politics'

Read this and weep

March 16th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Here’s a quiz for you. Look at the photo below (don’t read the caption yet). Which is more expensive? Is it 1.) the street lamp on this road in Mandaue City in Cebu or 2.) the motorcycle and the bag that contains a laptop, digital camera, and various other gadgets of my trade?
Here’s a hint: [...]

Tags: Government · Journalism · Politics · cebu news

Mandaue ballots appear to have been filled up by only 1 person

December 16th, 2005 · No Comments

That’s the claim of former senator Loren Legarda. “There were many objections. Many ballots have been put aside because it appears only one person did the voting,” Legarda told radio station dyLA yesterday.
Former senator Loren Legarda yesterday said initial revision of contested ballots shows she was robbed of her votes in Mandaue City during the [...]

Tags: Politics

GMA parody site is WordPress.com’s fastest growing blog

November 21st, 2005 · No Comments

The Philippine President Joins Blogosphere parody site hosted in WordPress.com is among the free blog service’s most visited sites (see screenshots below). The blog was seventh in the WordPress.com hot blogs listing. It’s also listed as the hosted service’s fastest growing blog.

Tags: Blogs · Politics

Google bombing of President Arroyo, Cabinet secretaries succeeds

November 21st, 2005 · No Comments

Start sending your e-mails now: the campaign by activists to google bomb President Arroyo’s website with the search term “pekeng pangulo” or fake president has succeeded. Check it out. Go to www.google.com enter pekeng pangulo in the search field and click on I’m Feeling Lucky or Sinuswerte Ako.
The Young Radicals blog, which initiated the campaign, [...]

Tags: Government · Internet · Politics

Pinoy politics in RSS feeds

November 12th, 2005 · 1 Comment

With the number of blogs discussing Philippine politics, how does one monitor postings without getting tied up in blog-hopping for hours? With an RSS reader, of course. I recommend Google Reader even if it suffers short (less than a minute) downtimes once every few days. Bloglines, the reader I used before I transferred to Google [...]

Tags: Blogs · Government · Highlights · Politics · RSS

They’re staging a google bomb

October 31st, 2005 · 3 Comments

I said in an earlier post that activists should consider taking the protest against President Arroyo to online social networks and using Google bombing. The Young Radicals blog has started the campaign, calling anti-Arroyo online forces to link “pekeng pangulo” to her home page at Kgma.org.
The blog is also calling for the Google bombing of [...]

Tags: Internet · Politics