INQUIRER.NET has launched the Makati Standoff special site to cover the situation in the Peninsula Manila Hotel, where Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has holed up with supporters.
Trillanes is calling on the Filipino people to withdraw their support from the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The authorities have asked him to surrender peacefully.
Visit our special site for updates.
SOME people just pay lip service to the youth, but I’m a big believer in evolution and revolution. That’s what we’re seeing now in media, and while I’m hardly young anymore, I’ve done my best to keep learning, reinventing myself and embracing and instigating change. The alternative is to become a living fossil, which unfortunately is what some of the (usually older) people in media are.
Two events reminded me of the need to continue reaching out to the youth, and to always be ahead of the pack. Last week, I was asked by my friend Grace Cuenca of PR firm Strategic Edge to give a talk to her class. Grace teaches an introduction to PR class at Mapua, and my audience consisted of young business administration students. Nope, I wasn’t there to talk about PR — in fact, I hate people who think of blogging and online media as a PR tool, and who confuse journalism with writing nothing but positive stuff about company. Instead, Grace wanted me to talk about new media and share my experiences as the multimedia editor of the number one Philippine online news site.
Well, I don’t know if her students were just being polite when they were laughing at my jokes, but I hope somehow I was able to impart some knowledge. You see, I believe in very casual presentations and talking the language of the audience I’m addressing. In this case, it helped that my message was basically that the blogs, podcasts and online video that these young people are very much familiar with and which they are already taking for granted, are being embraced by mainstream media. Yup, the old fogeys are finally getting it!
UPDATE: Added video showing off Intel’s 45-nanometer wafer.
EL NIDO, Palawan–We’re here for the annual Synergy information and communications technology symposium jointly organized by Intel Philippines and HP Philippines. Synergy is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Hard to believe how much the world has changed since the first Synergy forum in 1998.
I was supposed to liveblog the press briefing, but wifi wasn’t available in the conference room so now I’m sneaking in work — like editing and uploading a news video sent by one of our reporters in Manila while writing this — before we’re off to another island.
David Fosberg, Southeast Asia regional solutions sales manager of Intel Corp.’s Asia Pacific Sales & Marketing Group, discussed how the breakthrough 45-nanometer processing technology of Intel has enabled it to not only jam more transistors into a single wafer, but, more important, give consumers better performance while also reducing energy consumption.
Our reporter Alex Villafania took a video of Fosberg showing off the 45 nanomenter wafer, and I’ll post it here as soon as it becomes available on iVDO on Yahoo!
THE CONGRESS BLAST Special Site is online.
Keep visiting the site for updates on the powerful explosion that rocked the House of Representatives at around 8 p.m. Tuesday.
CHECK out INQUIRER.net multimedia reporter Erika Tapalla’s vidcast.
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