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  • Make your blog posts ‘taggable’

    Many people now use online bookmarks to file sites they want to review later. Among the most popular services are del.icio.us, Furl, Spurl and Yahoo My Web 2.0. Many of these services require you to install a tool bar or a shortcut tab in your browser in order to save bookmarks and tag these with…

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  • They’re staging a google bomb

    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…

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  • Cafe chain pushes censorship body for Philippine Internet

    Please excuse me while I puke. Netopia, according to this Inq7.net article, is “urging” the government to create a censorship body to monitor the local Internet infrastructure. An official of the Internet cafe chain says the body “will operate similarly to the Movies Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) and provide guidelines for the compliance…

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  • Now this is the perfect job

    I was scanning the classified ads section of Sun.Star Cebu last night when I found this advertisement (see photo below) offering to pay people to play World of Warcraft. The company is looking for ‘professional gamers.’ This would be a great job, just a step or two below being a professional blogger. I wonder if…

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  • Journalists who don’t yet ‘get’ blogs

    Journalism consultant Paul Conley describes three groups of journalists based on their awareness on blogging. The first group, which he describes as the “bright and ambitious,” has a good understanding of web logs and ‘at least a passing understanding of the fundamental shifts in media.’ The second group, Conley writes, ‘consists of people who don’t…

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