Tag: social media

Social media fiasco: It’s more fun in the Philippines

January 9, 2012January 9, 2012 benign0 26 Comments

Five days ago, Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Ramon “Mon” Jimenez announced in a private sit-down conversation with â€œsocial news networkâ€ site Rappler.com his decision to “crowd-source” a new Philippine tourism campaign using “social media” as its primary propagation medium. In the interview, Jimenez who boasts “35 years of experience in advertising” which supposedly “taught…

Media, Tech Talk

Why we don’t need to emphasize that it’s more fun in the Philippines

January 7, 2012January 7, 2012 Ilda 225 Comments

The newly unveiled tourism slogan â€œItâ€™s more fun in the Philippinesâ€ by the Department of Tourism (DOT) received mixed reactions from Filipinos. First, the lack of originality was again highlighted after social networking pundits discovered that Switzerland used the exact same slogan in 1951. What shocked and annoyed some Filipinos is that similar accusations of…

Development, Economy, Lifestyle, Media

It’s more fun in the Philippines

January 6, 2012 benign0 80 Comments

Sorry. This is going to be another article that breaches the let’s-not-go-there-please barrier. Fasten your seatbelts. I find it a bit distasteful that we’d be celebrating what a supposedly “fun” place the Philippines is. So I heard today; It’s more fun in the Philippines. That’s the new tourism slogan recently unveiled by the Philippines’ Department…

Development, Economy, Environment, Lifestyle, Media

The business of journalism: a challenge of making money without selling your soul

January 4, 2012July 5, 2017 benign0 33 Comments

This is a similar problem I was trying to highlight when I responded to Irene (@mindanaoan) in a Twitter.com tweet with this: “That’s the trouble when society relies on altruism. [You] get into uncomfortable relationships. State services get less personal.” This is after she tweeted about how she “found out that Philip Morris – yep,…

Civics, Education, Media, Politics

The self-inflicted disasters of Philippine New Year celebrations

January 3, 2012 benign0 12 Comments

It is the all-too-familiar case of of the same results brought about by doing the same thing again and again. The Year 2011 ended with the usual bang — Filipino style. The Department of Health (DOH) put the casualty figure of the traditional end-of-year orgy of fire and explosives at 739 injured plus one dead…

Culture, Environment, Government, Media, Society

The official definition of ‘social news network’ @rapplerdotcom

January 2, 2012October 12, 2016 benign0 39 Comments

I came across some chatter on Twitter today regarding some kind of issue around something “veteran journalist” Marites Vitug wrote about the Philippines’ University of Santo Tomas reportedly granting a doctorate in law, summa cum laude, to Chief Justice Renato Corona without requiring a dissertation. I’m thinking, whatever. Granting degrees and distinctions on any person,…

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Maria Ozawa, Siri and the next terrestrial intelligence

December 29, 2011 benign0 5 Comments

Admittedly, I’ve been just a wee little bit unfair on the Filipino men who fell for the recent Maria Ozawa hoax. Sign-up scams have been around for as long as the history of mass communication itself. I remember as a child reading about how a clever ad was placed on an American newspaper in the…

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US Stop Online Piracy Act pits Silicon Valley vs mainstream media

December 23, 2011October 3, 2012 benign0 2 Comments

A bill is currently being debated in the United States House of Representatives that seeks to implement measures that will enable the US Government to control Americans’ access to “foreign” Web sites. The bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been criticised by big-name Internet business including the likes of Google, Twitter, and…

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