Archive for the ‘News’ Category

What Case Can Ramgen (if he is still alive) and Janelle File Against the Conscienceless Uploader?

January 21st, 2012Posted by Semidoppel

I am wondering if there’s a law that can be filed against the one who uploaded the videos which spread in the internet and on mobile phones this past few weeks. I decided to make a research about it, and this is what I found, the “Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act of 2009” aka RA [...]

OMG! I’m in the Newspaper

January 2nd, 2012Posted by Semidoppel

Thanks to Mr. Richard H. Mamuyac (Communications Specialist of the People Management Association of the Philippines, PMAP) for choosing my New Year’s resolution and for including it on his article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It was included in his article titled “New Year’s resolutions to be better employees”. I would also like to thank [...]

Do you find it FAIR? The Facebook “LIKE” Syndrome and Text Votes Fever Influence on Contests

November 6th, 2011Posted by Semidoppel

Am I the only one tired of this? Facebook “LIKES” for contest entry, text votes for a certain contestant, wherein the winner will be determined because of the number of votes they will garner. Is this the new way of judging? Obviously, this is the era when social media is fully utilized to entice readers [...]

Korea Electronics Show: Experience Innovation at Its Best

August 19th, 2011Posted by Semidoppel

Innovation, that’s what the Korea Electronics Show is all about, showcasing the technology that contributes to the rapid development of different products. Korea’s biggest electronics show is an event held every October and that’s the time they meet with buyers from North America, Europe and the Middle East. With their success in the 2010 Korea [...]

Are Bloggers Guilty of Impatient Journalism?

August 16th, 2011Posted by Semidoppel

Recently, there’s a news opinion I read which focuses on ethics of journalism. One of the points the author discussed was about the way how bloggers feed on news. It seems that some bloggers forgot the importance of when to limit themselves. The author set the “Christopher Lao flood incident” as an example wherein this poor [...]

POC wants Philippine Dragon Boat Team to Retire: My Opinion

August 12th, 2011Posted by Semidoppel

I read this news about Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) finalizing or should I say “already finalized” the line-up of the athletes who will represent our country in the upcoming SEA Games in Jakarta this November. To my surprise, it is not the Philippine Dragon Boat Team that they chose, instead they will send the team [...]

Twitter’s Rival Unveiled: Heello

August 11th, 2011Posted by Semidoppel

Noah Everett, founder of Twitpic unveiled “Heello”…the so-called “Twitter clone”. Heello has the same features of Twitter (kaya nga clone di ba?), but there are some differences in some aspects. We call it “tweet” in Twitter, they call it “pings” once we sent a status message. We call it “retweet” in Twitter, they call it [...]