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Miscellany of questions and information tidbits on day-to-day interaction with technology
It is a massive case of groupthink — when entire governments and even societies delegate en masse their thinking faculties for the sake of unanimity. According to a Scientific American feature, “[s]cholars have ascribed bad decision making to groupthink, for example, in U.S. policy during the Vietnam War.” Indeed, groupthink seems to be behind some…
It’s time we recall with some bemusement the words of “columnist” Jose Ma. Montelibano in a 28th October 2011 article on the Inquirer.net… That is why Noynoy Aquino is now president. What he is simply by character, a son of two heroes who were not stained by corruption or swallowed by power, and himself eager…
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Ain’t timing a bitch. Just shortly after Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s “historic” appearance in the popular video sharing site YouTube, a video called AQUINO COJUANGCO: FACTS THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW HD painting an alternative — and unflattering — narrative of the history of the Aquino and Cojuangco clans surfaces and goes…
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Filipinos need to apply a healthy dose of skepticism when regarding what their Media present to them. They rail against politicians yet eat up the bullshit dished out on oligarch-owned Philippine television, radio, and print. As if traditional media weren’t enough, we now have an army of hollowheads fielding 140 character out-of-context and substance-starved one-liners…
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Perhaps it has something to do with the rise to business prominence of the ADD (attention deficit disorder) generation. This was, after all, the generation that was made to believe that they were necessarily entitled to a “rewarding career” where it was mainly their “creative potential” to contribute to “shareholder value creation” that would be…
A few weeks now into my foray into the new-fangled “social networking” facility of Google and I am starting to wonder where the party is. Much has been made of the 25 million-odd signups Google Plus enjoyed over the first couple of weeks as a by-invitation-only Beta site and now the question seems to be…
I just signed in on the new Twitter knock-off site Heello.com. Look again, though, Heello is not just any Twitter knock-off site. It was founded by TwitPic founder Noah Everett and pretty much rips off all of what makes Twitter, well, the Twitter. It looks and feels like Twitter. It limits posts (called “pings” instead…
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Last year, Apple surpassed Microsoft to become the most valuable technology company in the world. For a brief instant yesterday, Apple became the most valuable public company in any industry in terms of market capitalisation exceeding Exxon Mobil by more than USD5 billion. The market closed after Exxon regained the lead with a market cap…
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