Comments on: Writing Project: Unfinished Business

By: blogger blues

blogger blues — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:13:43 +0000

[...] bloggers been fretting about instead all through the holidays til now? the golf folderol (as djb puts it), what else. now that the blogosphere’s kneejerk rush to judgement in reaction to [...]

By: macapili

macapili — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:13:04 +0000

I also have another article entitled What really happened in February 4, 1899 published in my site before Jan 9. Can this also be reconsidered?

By: benign0

benign0 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:23:19 +0000

Here's my contribution to the Writing Project, boss: "Awareness" of poverty is just a fashion statement Happy reading! :)

By: macapili

macapili — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:18:35 +0000

Can I submit an article presently published in my site? Although I wrote this before Jan 9, it was never published outside of my blog. Title is "Why Filipinos are not a patriotic people"

By: BrianB

BrianB — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:36:10 +0000

Triage? But FV will lose its spontaneity. This is a blog not a journal.

The contest, anyway, will prohibit FV writers. One can indeed attract attention with a contest. But how to get contestants and what to do after? Will FV have higher standards now?

By: UP n grad

UP n grad — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:29:55 +0000

I truly like the writing style and the message of Rom’s “unfinished business” entry. It reminds me of a key survival strategy — triage.

BUT Rom’s entry lacks a key criterion — blame. By not blaming a person or an institution, Rom’s entry will lose the FV contest.

By: karlpopper

karlpopper — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:49:53 +0000

I have no idea what FV is all about. Themes or topics discussed here do not always have to result in something Marxian dialectics like some necessary or mandatory consequence.

Argue for or against and that would have made the issues joined. Synthesis?

By: jcc

jcc — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:02:05 +0000

DJB,

I mean FV is not the representative voice of the people because only those with computers and internet service can join the blog. Majority of our people are denied of these conveniences.

SWS and Asia Pulse are not flawless. They only approximate certain modes of the populace but not the entire population. Put in also the bias of these two outfits then you have the entire picture in disarray.

Have you read an article in FV portraying rosy picture of GMA? Or for that matter did you ever see a Dureza or Dureza look a like post a comment in this blog? Don’t tell me that out of the 80 million or so Filipinos all of them are anti-GMA! :)

By: DJB

DJB — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:32:59 +0000

Nick, I must say it says something about FV that all throughout the terrible humanitarian calamities in Gaza and in Israel our most active threads were on the golf folderol.

By: DJB

DJB — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:29:05 +0000

Jcc,
I wonder if you mean that FV is elitist, or that it is not representative?

On the latter point I think you must concede that the anti-GMA sentiments here only mirror the overwhelming majority who disapprove of the President’s performance and she has been flying on fumes for a few years with that negative net satisfaction rating–at least as revealed by the scientific surveys of SWS and Pulse Asia.

I for one would want to recruit good bloggers who disagree with at least some of my points of view. More’s the fun, when you’re not the only one!