Since a picture paints a thousand words, I’ll let it do the talking:
Just one short note: I once wrote that I had to choose between Design and Web Standard, for which I chose Design Standard, but Adobe sent me Design Premium, my ideal choice! I quickly asked Regnard about it and he said, “surprise!” It seems Noel Perlas got surprised himself! Thank you Regnard! Thank you Adobe!
So many people have talked about how blogging has become so big in the Philippines that we’re getting recognized globally for it. Let’s see how much we’ve progressed:
The Blog and Soul Movement looks like an addition to all of the above. Brainchild of Jayvee Fernandez, the movement aims to transform blogging into a reputable arm of Philippine media. From the looks of it, Blog and Soul is finding ways to accommodate bloggers so they can cover events traditional media would have effortless access to.
By access I mean press IDs and and an actual audience during the act of reportage. Not all bloggers can get into certain events and not all bloggers can be considered reliable sources of information simply because they aren’t considered “the media”.
One event demonstrating this, a cosplay photoshoot, turned out better than expected. (Edit: This shoot is not part of the movement but it still is closely related to the concept.) This is definitely a good sign and a great inspiration for future events.
Few people have actually stepped out of their comfortable shell and asked, “how can I make other Pinoy bloggers penetrate mainstream media”? Jayvee has, and thank goodness he did.
I voted for the first time. It wasn’t a nightmare—nothing like UP enrollments or other UP activities that required lining up. It was quick and painless. Now if only the canvassing process were like that. FYI, my ballot had a lot of blanks.
I’m officially getting paid by someone else to blog at Gadzooki and Blog Tutorials. I’m not yet comfortable with sticking to a given topic under 300 words (my latest post was 700+ words!). I also find that this type of blogging is difficult. (E.g., I’ve never dished out unsolicited advice about HTML and CSS before.)
I’m tinkering with shopping carts and will soon have to figure out how to integrate payment gateways into them. My main gripe is their really horrible administration interfaces and even worse HTML construction (tables!).
I learned there will be no succeeding seasons for Gilmore Girls and Tsubasa Chronicle. The first one is due to the actors’ schedule conflicts and the second was just plain axed.
Taking a cue from our favorite show, the Daisy Campaign will physically deliver bouquets of daisies to important parties involved in the season 8 decision making process in hopes of changing the season 8 tides.
Very bittersweet. I need to find a Season 1-7 DVD set and wait for the Tsubasa manga to finish.
That’s it for now. Got work to do! Tata!
Happy 22nd birthday, dearest Corsair! (I rarely ever call him something other than “Kimpo” the whole time I’ve known him, though.)
It’s my turn to greet the one who’s greeted me through his blog over the years, for which I couldn’t return the favor as I had no blog of my own back then. (Not that I’d be able to come up with equally poetic words, anyway.)
I’m glad he ain’t as melancholic as he once was now that he’s doing what he has set out to do—with a passion that has sustained him all throughout.
Okay, enough mush. I hope this and this lighten the mood a little bit—and the photo above! Do me a favor and go greet him, okay? (Edit: Here’s the birthday post.)
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:
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.
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.
Okay, minor comment: Blogger’s Circle? Bloggers’ Circle? Bloggers Circle? Which one is best? I know several orgs that have a similar name format to that and sometimes correctly spelling the name becomes a problem. Just a heads up. Update (11:09 PM): It’s now Bloggers’ Circle (apostrophe at the end). Still tricky though—we shall see!
