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Facebook users’ emotions controlled by manipulating newsfeed content

June 29, 2014 benign0 6 Comments

Facebook and other social media networks seem to have come of age. That is, like mainstream media corporations, they are now in a position to deliberately manipulate their audience’s emotions. The results of an experiment conducted on almost 700,000 Facebook users published on the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

Filipino ideal of female beauty stands out in global Photoshop doll-up project!

June 27, 2014June 27, 2014 benign0 26 Comments

The Huffington Post article is pretty self-explanatory, What Happened When One Woman Had Her Picture Photoshopped In 25 Different Countries. The outcome was quite revealing following its author’s simple instructions as part of a rather clever project… “Make me look beautiful.” That’s what Esther Honig asked 40 photo editors to do — in over 25…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

6 facts of life according to Game of Thrones

June 27, 2014June 28, 2014 Ilda 23 Comments

If you haven’t seen any episode of the international hit television series Game of Thrones which is based on the best-selling novels, well I suggest you better start watching them now because what you are about to read contains spoilers. Yes, I don’t mind if you read this article after you’ve seen the series or…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics, Society

Sen Bong Revilla could’ve had VIP treatment in jail had he and his entourage just kept their mouths shut

June 26, 2014May 12, 2019 benign0 16 Comments

Filipinos today are gleefully scrutinising, “debating”, and exchanging trivial factoids on the minutiae of the manner with which two popular Philippine Senators, Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla, are being detained by the state on “plunder” charges — the physical conditions of their jail cells, what they’re having for breakfast and lunch, how they look in…

Crime, Lifestyle, Media

Does being photographed in a private jet make Jolo Estrada a bad person?

June 25, 2014June 25, 2014 Kate Natividad 25 Comments

Wow, so another child-of-notorious-person has emerged as the Achilles Heel of said notorious person. I’m talking about Jolo Estrada, son of Senator Jinggoy Estrada who is now in prison for his (alleged) involvement in the pork barrel scam. First it was Jeane Lim Napoles whose blog gained instant fame (or infamy) when people had that…

Civics, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Would you throw a 90-year-old man like Senator Juan Ponce Enrile in prison?

June 25, 2014 benign0 28 Comments

Now that two of the three Philippine Senators charged with offenses related to the ‘malversation’ of their pork barrel funds through bogus non-government organisations associated with alleged ‘scam’ mastermind Janet Lim Napoles are in prison, it is Senator Juan Ponce Enrile’s turn to get his wrists cuffed. But this is no ordinary suspect. Enrile is…

Crime, Government

Deeply mysterious: Philippine President BS Aquino’s veto of Nora Aunor’s National Artist bid

June 25, 2014October 23, 2018 benign0 13 Comments

Strange that a government that gives the time of day to the adolescent rants of has-been starlets like Lani Mercado, wife of embattled Senator Bong Revilla (who languishes in prison awaiting trial for alleged pork barrel thievery), would suddenly invoke that all-too-familiar Filipino-style debate-ender when it came to explaining why it had reportedly “snubbed” popular…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Society

All eyes on the chi-chi lifestyle of Joseph Luis ‘Jolo’ Estrada!

June 25, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

Joseph Luis ‘Jolo’ Estrada, son of beleaguered Senator Jinggoy Estrada may have set his Instagram account joloestrada17 to private (or deleted all his photos), but not, it seems, before someone captured screenshots of his erstwhile public photos and posted them on the site BV-Patrol.com. Indeed, as the would-be ‘patroller’ quipped, “Jeane Napoles is so yesterday!”…

Crime, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle