I spent the whole day today (with teh Corsair) at the official launch of Adobe’s Creative Suite 3, which was held at the Rizal Ballroom of Shangri-la Hotel Makati. I didn’t take notes but here’s the gist of it: oohhs, ahhs, and applause.
Seeing the new features in each standalone program was delightful already (especially the impressive little details that gets the job done faster), but CS3 took things to the next level with tight integration from one product to the other. And I mean tight. All their presentations revolved around an imaginary product, Aquo, for which they created different advertising campaigns from print to web to video. Each presentation moved back and forth to at least two products (e.g. Premiere, After Effects, Sound Booth). Most memorable points:
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Rattling off online and offline happenings interwined with one another.
UP Blogger’s Circle Meetup
BA, Marielle, Noel, J (and his family), Phillip, Garro, and I met at The Chocolate Kiss Cafe (downstairs then moved upstairs) for the first offline meeting of the UP Blogger’s Circle last Friday.
‘Twas difficult coming up with a rigid plan with all our questions, but we all agreed we wanted an offline presence—otherwise we won’t be able to differentiate ourselves from the big kahuna that is Peyups. I don’t know if the rest of the members actually fathom the potential of blogging and its role in a university setting, but I certainly do, and I’m sure those who were present at the meeting did, too.
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I never thought I’d blog about this, but I just received my first “problogging” check today! My dad handed over a letter envelope, saying it came from New York. I was shocked to see the Text Link Ads logo peeking through.
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Breaking news! BA, brother of J, has previously proposed to form a blogging org for UP. Now it’s here, in the form of an egroup. Just goes to show how easy it is to implement an idea via the Web.
I jumped right in even though I’m no longer officially with UP. (I still live here, though, so maybe that could count.)
I hope UP ACM revitalizes its SIGBLOG, which is basically our blog!
I also hope I hadn’t missed the third Philippine blogging summit since I’ve been to the past two ones and met the likes of JAngelo there—and see how that turned out!
Nevertheless, it looks like this will be an interesting summer.
There seems to be a rift between personal blogging and professional blogging (aka problogging). In Shari’s recent post, where she compares blogging in the past and present, commenters seem to imply that running advertisements on their blogs as well as people who start blogs for the sole purpose of blogging is a miserable example of how desperate people are to earn money. Worse, at least one commenter believes blogging is not hard work, and that if you don’t exert (physical?) effort (hindi pinagpaguran) into a job, then the money isn’t well-earned.
I don’t think problogging is evil, nor the antithesis of personal blogging. Placing ads on blogs to write off the maintenance costs of (yearly) domain registration and hosting fees is one good use of problogging-earned money; any type of blog can benefit from that.
Let me just stress that making your money work for you with little to no marginal effort is not a bad thing either. The most successful people on Earth work smarter, not just harder. If people can invest in stocks and franchises, why not in blogs?
Also, “effort” is relative. Good, successful blogs require dedication (to satisfy the thirst of your readers), skill (to communicate clearly to your readers), and a fair amount of goodness (more about this later). Without these, professional blogs turn sour. Here are the most common reasons:
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So, it’s the tenth day into April already. Just a day after Araw ng Kagitingan, two days after Easter Sunday, and the aftermath of the Christian calendar’s holiest week. It’s also been a while since two other notable days in the online world. Here they are, going backwards:
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The best part of the Philippine Blog Awards 2007 was not the event itself, but what happened afterwards. And I’m not talking about the after-party.
The Adobe User Group Philippines (AUGPhil) had a local launch of the much-awaited Creative Suite 3 after the awards. It was also this month’s meetup for its members. The highlight of the meeting, though, was the raffling off of a CS3 bundle itself, worth $1,199.
Now I wasn’t planning on attending the meeting because even though I had been lurking in the mailing list for a while now, I knew I hadn’t signed up as a member of AUGPhil. Imagine my surprise when Regnard, the president, asked me to join the meeting and told me that I was actually a member. I forgot that I was a member—no, really, to this moment I can’t find anything in my brain nor in my inbox that could prove I was. But he told me he knew I was on the members list and that I should join them anyway.
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Just learned that Auraeus Solito, director of Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros and Tuli, has created a movie about Philippine Science High School aptly called Pisay. (That’s the official nickname of PSHS, and nothing else.)
Even better is that the film is a finalist in the 2007 Cinemalaya Film Festival. According to a Pisay blogger, the full-length movie finalist won the best script and hence received funding from Cinemalaya. A measly sum of five hundred thousand pesos, to be exact. Not enough? You bet.
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