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Everyone’s waiting to see what will happen with the paywall – it’s the big question. But I think it will underperform. On a purely financial calculation, I don’t think the numbers add up.” But then, interestingly, he goes on, “Here’s what worries me about the paywall. When we talk about newspapers, we talk about them [...]
I was buying a lotto ticket in Cavite last Friday when I overheard a couple talking about the outcome of the election. The man behind me was telling his companion, “Mabuti nanalo si Noynoy ngayon makukulong na rin si Gloria (It’s good Noynoy won, Gloria will finally be sent to prison).”
I smiled and [...]
“Blogs range from the best to the worst. Professional blogs – either independent or hosted by traditional medias – can be the most advanced form of written journalism. Quite often, blogs produced by good journalists are as insightful as standard stories, but way more fun to read. (In France, I do know editors who wish [...]
This is a War of Assassins and to the victor of the fight is he who fights the most for it. The truth is, on Election Day is not the last day of War. It is the first day of a greater conflict because that’s when the true work begins. What we will find is [...]
Facebook is not the web, and iPhones are not computers.
from a comment on hacker news
Hacker News | Same goes for Apple and the uprising against their banning of non-native develop…
(via fred-wilson)
Local powerbrokers like Nograles float the myth of the “political machine” that delivers command votes for national candidates. In exchange, they expect financial support from the national candidates to finance their campaign…
At any rate, there is a certain protocol to be followed when national candidates go on sorties in localities controlled by political bosses. [...]
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich.
If you stay in the center
and embrace death with your whole heart, [...]
I’m tempted to publish what I know are “photoshopped” pictures of Manny Villar with “Money Villarroyo” tattooed on his behind so I can challenge him to prove the photos are fake by dropping his trousers on prime-time news. I’m sure he’ll say, “Why would you ask me to do that when you know the pictures [...]
“If technology and if devices that take advantage of Internet become prevalent in the next six years; if infrastructure develops, we could find that the election of 2016 will be a much different landscape.
Imagine campaign materials that are downloaded via phones. Campaign posters, supporter materials, a candidate’s platform all sent to every mobile phone [...]
The ERC needs to implement, forthwith, an explicit and clear obligation for the distribution utilities to have under firm contract (or ownership) adequate capacity to cover their expected load, at least on a year-ahead basis, along with substantive consequences for not doing so. In many other markets this is referred to as “Resource Adequacy” obligation.
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