A group of college students interviewed me last week on the subject of libel, and I think I rather disappointed them: in my entire career as a journalist starting in 1994,I have only had one libel case filed against me. I am not one of those who wear libel cases as a badge of honor, [...]
SECOND UPDATE: NUJP’s final list of media casualties at the end of the article. Someone on Facebook asked why people — we journalists, specifically — are saying, “Stop killing journalists” when it should, under the circumstances, be, “Stop killing” – period. That made me think, and I had to admit to myself that in the [...]
The continuation of my article on information and communication technology (ICT)’s carbon footprint was preempted by the Maguindanao massacre last Monday, so let me pick up on it today. I had said last Tuesday that the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (DCCCII), led by its ICT “figurehead” (or “ghost in the machine,” [...]
Let me express my deepest condolences to the families of media colleagues who were killed in last Monday’s massacre in Maguindanao. It was a crime that attacked not just the journalists but our very Constitution itself; as the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) put it, the Maguindanao carnage “strikes at the [...]
Did you know that each time you google something, you generate 7 grams of carbon dioxide? At least, that is the claim of Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross, whose report last January caused a stir in the IT community. According to The Times of London, Wissner-Gross said the search giant Google “operates huge data centers [...]
Nawan is the Subanen word for “looking forward” or “to the future,” and as the title of the intercultural Conference and Festival on Culture and Arts for Peace which starts today in Davao City, it is an apt description of just where art and culture are in terms of being instruments to achieving peace in [...]
Manny Pacquiao’s victory over Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto certainly deserves all the attention it is getting, but it must be pointed out that while the Pacman is celebrating his win, another Filipino boxer, Z Gorres, is in critical condition in hospital after winning his bout with Colombian Juan Melendez. He had been hit pretty hard [...]
For me, nothing beats watching a great player create beautiful music with an acoustic guitar. Artists like Phil Keaggy, Michael Hedges, and Eric Clapton (just to name a few of my favorites) make it look and sound so easy: for them it’s an effortless action, the music seemingly magically flowing out of a simple combination [...]
I was in Manila last week and made several trips on board the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) and the Light Rail Transit (LRT). For convenience and speed, nothing beats the trains: the LRT trip from Monumento in Caloocan City to the Baclaran station takes less than half an hour, and all in air-conditioned ease. I [...]
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