CHECK out Episode 1 of Jayvee Fernandez’s BuggedCast podcast, where he and Willi Pascual talk about “Lagalag: The Traveling Journal of Filipinos Project.”

Here’s an excerpt from Jayvee’s blog post:

I was able to finally talk to Wil Pascual, the creator of the Lagalag Project, which is an experiment of sorts that features Filipinos around the world and two traveling moleskines. We enjoyed a good 20 minutes talking about photography, moleskines and blogs.

This podcast was recorded using Gizmo and edited using GarageBand on a Macintosh. I need to make an erratum. Gizmo does not save files in MP3 format. It saves them onto WAV first which allows you more options in terms of manipulating the audio file.

PALANCA prizewinning essayist Wilfredo Pascual e-mailed me to say that a video of “Lagalag: The Traveling Journal of Filipinos Project” is now on YouTube.

Here’s the clip:

As I said in my previous post, the project will bring together 20 Filipinos in different countries who have never met before, one of whom is based here and whom you might be familiar with, heh

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UPDATE: For more information on Lagalag, go to lagalag.moleskine.ph. Thanks to Benedict Bueno for the heads up.

WAS great to hear from Willi Pascual, whom I met once in 2004 when we won Palancas for the Essay (English) category — he won first prize for “Devotion” while I placed third for “Surviving the Zeroes.” Since then we’ve corresponded via e-mail every now and then.

Willi e-mailed me today to tell me about his new project, Lagalag, which will bring together 20 Filipinos in different countries who have never met but who will share a global journey by all taking pictures that they will share with each other via a traveling moleskine notebook on Flickr.

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(Originally published as a column piece on Jan. 30, 2007)

AS you might expect, in recent months every time I or another INQUIRER.net editor or reporter attends a press conference, people usually ask us what’s happened to INQ7.net and why INQUIRER.net has been reborn. The questions we encounter include: “Is INQ7.net dead?” “Nag-divorce na ba ang Inquirer at GMA 7?” “Will the website now be folded back and INQ7 employees absorbed by the Philippine Daily Inquirer?” and “Hey, do you guys still have a job?”

I think a number of rumors have been running around, and people have been speculating — some out of genuine curiosity and concern, others less innocently — about the fate of INQ7.net. So here’s the chance to set the record straight, officially, in our own site.

No, INQ7.net is not dead. While the INQ7 servers are currently unavailable, the site will be, as both parties have announced, the portal to INQUIRER.net , which is the official homepage of the Philippine Daily Inquirer group of publications, and GMANews.tv, the official site of GMA News and Public Affairs.

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