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President Arroyo admits she called Comelec official, says sorry
President Arroyo is currently speaking over national TV. She admits she called an election officer. She admits it was a lapse in judgement. She apologizes to the people and promises to work harder to earn the public’s trust. The Sun.Star Network Exchange (Sunnex) team has put up an Arroyo Watch blog. To access the blog,…
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Newsroom tech: Sharing and a call for help
I regularly experiment with open source scripts and programs for possible features in Sun.Star Cebu‘s Cybercafe page. At times, I’d find programs that can be used to improve a newsroom’s system or the way a journalist works with the PC. During a recent chat in an online course I’m taking, we discussed the open source…
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Domain blog raffles off free .info domain
The Domain Blog is raffling off free .info domains as a way to generate traffic to their site. Steve Brown, owner of the site, says in a press release that: “as long as people keep signing up for the contest every week, I’ll keep it running.” “You know how it is in business,” Brown said,…
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Rep. Clavel Asas-Martinez declared persona non grata in Cebu
Fourth district Rep. Clavel Asas-Martinez has been declared persona non grata by Cebu’s leaders over her claim that there was cheating in last year’s elections in Cebu. The manifesto was signed by Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Robert Go, Provincial Board members, mayors, vice mayors…
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Blogger now allows image uploads
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…