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Archive for April, 2007
20.04.07

Music, musings with latest blogs from INQUIRER.net

- Blogosphere, INQUIRER.net -

WE’VE just added two more blogs to the INQUIRER.net Blogs network, Soundtrip and Vox Populi. And, as you’ve noticed, we now have a homepage for our blogs.

The initial members of the Soundtrip music team blog are INQUIRER.net reporters Lawrence Casiraya and Erwin Oliva.

You can check out Lawrence’s first entry here and Erwin’s initial post here.

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19.04.07

Killers in the age of YouTube

- Media, TV, YouTube -

BY now, many of you have probably seen the video from beyond the grave of the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre, Cho Seung-hui, who turned out to have mailed a suicide video and digital photo album to NBC. And if you haven’t seen it on TV, you might have viewed it on YouTube or other sites.

This appalling suicide video is already an Internet hit, and all you have to do is Google it.

Which brings us to the question: Should the media have given this killer this kind of airtime? What message is media sending to would-be killers, terrorists and other megalomaniacs who dream of this kind of mileage when they commit atrocities?

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18.04.07

INQUIRER.net launches showbiz, science blogs

- Blogosphere, INQUIRER.net, Science, Showbiz -

WE’VE launched two more blogs, for a total of nine sites in the INQUIRER.net Blogs network — and counting.

First up, we have Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Ruben Nepales’ showbiz blog, The Nepales Report.

Here’s an excerpt from the Breaking News story:

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17.04.07

Microsoft wants to be cool as rivalry with Adobe heats up

- Adobe, Flash, Internet, Microsoft, Web 2.0, YouTube -

LET’S see: Adobe has launched its own video player that will allow you to play Flash-based video offline on your PC or portable devices, while Microsoft wants to give Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s QuickTime a run for their money with Silverlight, a.k.a. TSTFKAWPF/E or The Software Thankfully Formerly Known As Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere.

Boy, things sure are heating up, huh?

So is it another case of Microsoft wanting to be cool by copying, er, I mean, embracing and extending a rival’s product?

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16.04.07

Dogs vs ‘dibidi, dibidi’

- Piracy -

I GUESS they’ve let slip the dogs of war.

If you’re looking for your “dibidi, dibidi” fix, you might get found out by canine detectives.

After a one-month stint in Malaysia, two black Labradors named Lucky and Flo are now sniffing out pirated discs in the Philippines.

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