Who wants to get a pair of Ray-Ban shades for free? Two Facebook pages claiming to give away 4,738 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses have attracted attention from Internet users around the world, though the promo appears to be a hoax. They can be accessed here and here. Together, the two pages have over 23,000 “likes.” … Continue reading »
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The Filipino Scribe’s 2nd anniversary – 1.2 million hits!
I started The Filipino Scribe on this day exactly two years ago. To date, it has already accumulated over 1.2 million page views. According to figures from WordPress.com, this site has received at least 1,000 hits from readers in 22 countries outside the Philippines. Obviously, a huge chunk of these readers must be overseas Filipino … Continue reading »
“Download USJR sex video scandal?”
Many people have been typing the terms “USJR scandal” and “USJR sex video” via search engines the past few days. Two college students from Cebu are now in hot water after a video of them while having sex was uploaded on the Internet. The woman in the video is a student of University of San … Continue reading »
Hacker defaces NBDB website
EXCLUSIVE A hacker who goes by the screen name “Fiofa Fado” attacked the official website of the National Book Development Board (NBDB) around Monday midnight. An attached agency of the Department of Education, the NBDB works closely with the Philippine book publishing industry. It sponsors the annual National Book Awards. The homepage of the NBDB website has … Continue reading »
I BADLY NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
On this day exactly a year ago, I received the Best Text Blog Award from the organizers of the 7th Annual Population and Development (PopDev) Media Awards. Although I won four other competitions after that, going up that stage that night to receive my trophy remains one of the highest points of my life. As … Continue reading »
Embracing social media in my life
Canadian academician Marshall McLuhan noted in his 1964 book Understanding Media that “the globe has contracted, spatially, into a single large village” because of existing communication technologies at that time. Just imagine how dramatically the world had contracted the past ten years because of social networking sites. Filipinos have embraced the social media in a … Continue reading »
Multiply to shut down by December 1 2012
Multiply export tools for Blogger As announced last August, Multiply.com will be shutting down its social network service (which includes blogs, notes, photos, links, among others) by December 1, 2012 to focus on becoming “Southeast Asia’s premier online marketplace.” I will forever remember Multiply because it is where I started blogging back in 2007 … Continue reading »
Edu Manzano retracts tweet about Noynoy Aquino and Grace Lee
Actor and former Optical Media Board Chair Edu Manzano by this time must have learned to “think before you tweet.” At 2:37 PM Thursday afternoon, Manzano wrote on Twitter: “PNoy and Grace Lee spotted at Promenade Greenhills today. In the middle of the day. To be fair, it IS a nice day for a leisurely … Continue reading »
Timeline for all Facebook pages starting March 30, 2012
Facebook announced this February 29 that “all pages” on this site will get the new design (the Timeline) beginning on March 30, 2012. In line with this, page administrators are encouraged to preview immediately how their respective accounts would look like on the new layout and for them to try out the other features. This … Continue reading »
Hayden Kho hits Vicki Belo via Twitter, then regrets it
Hayden Kho created a buzz around the Twitterverse last Monday night with his series of tweets directed at celebrity cosmetic surgeon Dr. Vicki Belo, his erstwhile lover. Kho wrote: @haydenjr: OK that’s it! I tried to just turn around and walk away just to silence my accusers. But this is too much already. @haydenjr: You … Continue reading »
