We beg to differ.
Tech entrepeneur Dalton Caldwell is betting that after free social networking services like Friendster, MySpace, then Facebook and Twitter had succeeded in turning social media into something as essential to the 21st Century human being as air, people will now be willing to pay for it. Nothing shocking about the concept. Think bottled water. So…
In another one of its infomercial articles that it would like to pass off to the average sucker as a news “report”, ABS-CBN trumpeted another one of those dubious “achievements” Filipinos owe mainly to their enormous population — our undisputed place in the global scheme of things as the “social media capital of the world”….
Read More “Social Media and Big Telco emerge as Filipino heroes” »
Do Filipinos love their country? If one were to try and answer that question simply by looking around his surroundings, one can be forgiven for thinking that no, most Filipinos do not love their country. For all the arrogance and chest thumping we see amidst shouting with pride of statements like, “Filipinos are the best!”…
Read More “Typhoons reveal Filipinos are living in a dump” »
We have witnessed in the past months how ex-Chief Justice Renato Corona received the lion’s share of jeers and insults from the Filipino populace in the duration of his impeachment trial. He was accused of a whole bunch of crimes, the most memorable of which is betrayal of public trust, judging by inaccuracies in his…
Read More “From Corona to GMA: The Philippine Hate-Bandwagon” »
Interesting, this Fortune.com feature on tweetbots. Apparently, social media has become just another lynching field with both human and machine competing (and often colluding) with one another to achieve one end or another. Closer to home, I got into a short discussion on Twitter on how some key social media metrics like “trending topics” have…
Read More “Social media ‘practitioners’: Are they becoming more like tweetbots?” »
Seems like when the Dolphy also known as the Philippines’ King of Comedy died, the country’s sense of humour died with him. A tweet by social media sensation couple Jamvhille Sebastian and Paolinne Michelle Liggayu, “better known as the real life couple JAMICH” (according to the blurb on their twitter profile @ilovejamich) highlighting how their…
Read More “Celebrity couple ‘Jamich’ burned over Dolphy tweet” »
Look whose Twitter account is set at “Protected”. Ms Maria Ressa who is CEO of “social news network” Rappler.com has set her Twitter profile so that “Only confirmed followers have access to [her] Tweets and complete profile,” and so one needs to “Click the ‘Follow’ button to send a follow request.” Ressa is a self-described…
Read More “Why is Rappler CEO Maria Ressa’s Twitter account ‘protected’?” »
Suddenly it all makes sense to me. Sorry I’m kinda slow when it comes to sports trivia. So Erik Spoelstra, coach of the NBA team Miami Heat is a Filipino-American. Kaya pala. According to a Philippine Star report, Filipinos have been so enthralled by the NBA finals in which Heat is up against Oklahoma City…
Read More “Filipinos tops in NBA armchair sportscasting over Twitter” »