Category: Tech Talk

Miscellany of questions and information tidbits on day-to-day interaction with technology

Digitization of Ph’s nightmarish bureaucracy should be made a major election issue

June 1, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

As the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte comes to an end, one of its unfulfilled campaign promises coming to light is the improvement in the delivery of government services to the citizenry. At the onset, the support base of Duterte rallied behind him because of this promise translated into action during the first months of…

Business, Economy, Tech Talk

Will Ateneo- or UP-standard education make Filipinos a more progressive people? Think again.

March 11, 2021 benign0 24 Comments

The idea that substandard education is the reason why Filipinos are not progressing as a people is starting to wear thin. Granted, of course, there is a massive investment gap that keeps the Philippines’ public education system (within which the vast majority of Filipinos are educated) decrepit and practically ineffective at churning out smarter people….

Education, Tech Talk

Facebook news outage won’t affect people looking for REAL info

February 20, 2021 benign0 1 Comment

By now, most would be aware of the storm kicked up by Facebook’s botched attempt to face off with the Australian Government. As Google began efforts to find middle ground in light of Australia following through on legislation that will require social media platforms to pay for exhibiting news content on its users’ feeds, Facebook…

Business, Media, Tech Talk

Parler demise sparks search for scarce ALTERNATIVES on the Internet

January 13, 2021January 16, 2021 benign0 12 Comments

People have gained a sudden appreciation of just how little in the way of alternatives there are on the Net following a disturbing collusion amongst the biggest Silicon Valley digital empires to silence US President Donald Trump and his followers. Nowhere has this problematic power been on display more than in the shutting down of…

Business, Tech Talk

Trump ouster highlights just how ARBITRARY the enormous power of Twitter is

January 12, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

An unintended consequence of the “permanent suspension” of US President Donald Trump’s account on Twitter is how the awesome power of Big Corporate Social Media — that can so arbitrarily be wielded — has been laid bare for all to behold. It has now come to light that Twitter and the rest of the Silicon…

Government, Society, Tech Talk

Twitter is now officially more powerful than the US Government

January 9, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

Hats off to Big Corporate Social Media. They first started out as little websites where people could “share” stuff and engage in “social networking”. Then they started to call themselves “platforms” and rightly so as such was to become their reach, ubiquity, and deep embedding into the fabric of society that people could be forgiven…

Government, Politics, Tech Talk

Twitter shut down @realDonaldTrump, so it should also shut down the CPP-NPA’s @prwc_info account

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

Only fair, right? The basis of Twitter recently shutting down the account of United States president Donald Trump is “due to the risk of further incitement of violence” that it presumably exposes the American public to. Twitter references its policy on the nature of such behaviour and the actions it holds prerogative to take on…

Crime, Media, Politics, Tech Talk

Reflections after three weeks of working from home full time

April 10, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

I was never really much into working from home (WFH), preferring instead to work long hours when required at the office than lug my laptop home to continue working there after dinner like some of my colleagues did. Even as a university student, I preferred to drive to the campus library to study whenever I…

Business, Lifestyle, Tech Talk