. . . I do not have problems sa Pinoys who are now Canadian or USA citizens. To ask them to mind-your-own-business forget Pilipinas (is) over the limit, sa wari ko. Eh these Pinoys katulad ni Abe Margallo . . . Normal na sila ay kibo pa rin ng kibo tungkol sa Pilipnas hindi lang [...]
Who will carry forward the project of ’86?
February 13, 2010 By 37 Comments
The Spirit of ’86 remains an unfinished project. Take note for example the parallel in how easily the Nazis were de-Nazified and returned to business as usual in Germany and in how discretely the Marcos loyalists were de-Marcosified and allowed to restore themselves to their pre-EDSA statuses (think of Danding who fled with the dictator [...]
The poignancy of Filipino aspirations
July 14, 2009 By 123 Comments
Next time we lament how personality politics are so mind-numbingly relevant in the national “debate”, look no further than the esteemed “experts” who give such topics the time of day. We keep blaming politicians’ focus on their personal agendas for our society’s chronic troubles, yet take a look around the media over which the “national [...]
Blogging vs. free speech
June 1, 2009 By 213 Comments
A blogger was jailed for contempt last week in a defamation suit lodged by the mother of Anna Nicole Smith. This news should be a cause for alarm. It should serve as an eye opener for bloggers, who legal experts claim, now become the new targets of unprecedented litigation. On one side of the equation, [...]
Don’t hate me just ‘coz I’m beautiful
May 28, 2009 By 100 Comments
It’s been almost two weeks since the venerable Dean Jorge Bocobo — traditional political “expert” extraordinaire — stomped away from FilipinoVoices.com (FV) in a bout of adolescent “indignation” of the kind Filipinos have become renowned for. Since then, a palpable change in the composition and nature of content within FV has taken hold. Many surprisingly [...]
Blogging As Beauty Contest
May 7, 2009 By 34 Comments
As bloggers we ought to be literary critics, not contestants and judges in a beauty contest. As a rapidly evolving genre of Literature, blogging has many roots and branches and forms of expression, that deserve criticism and evaluation, including strange fruits of human obsession and vanity. While the Door of Observation is slighty ajar [...]
Filipino Voices’ First Podcast
May 1, 2009 By 20 Comments
There’s a few issues that we should discuss here.. I wanted to wait until the dust settled so that I could weigh in on the controversies. My apologies, since this is actually my first podcast, so obviously, a bit more practice will be needed. I would love your thoughts on the following 1. Credibility 2. [...]
I Said Blog!
April 25, 2009 By 5 Comments
LOL! All that hoopla about New Media, about blogger’s rights that NTC bit, and many other things, you know what? Online is the future. saw this via @alanataylor’s blog.
Where none exists
April 15, 2009 By 81 Comments
The human brain is a wondrous instrument. It starts out as a blank data processing device that is wired to five data collection channels — our senses. From the minute we are born, our senses kick into operation, collecting information about our environment and feeding it to the brain. One can’t really imagine what it [...]
Sold on IntenseDebate
The Admins of Filipino Voices recently installed IntenseDebate, a new comment management system that replaces the standard comments feature provided by WordPress. Most standard “vanilla” comment management systems are linear; i.e., all comments are peers of one another and arranged chronologically. This is not a problem if all comments within a blog post directly address [...]