HERE’S an excerpt from an article written by Norman Bordadora that will come out in tomorrow’s edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer:

Even for members of the media covering campaign trips, Internet service, preferably of the wireless kind, is now almost indispensable.

One of the questions first asked is whether their billeting arrangements include wi-fi and, if it has none, where the closest Internet shop with broadband capabilities is located.

The Genuine Opposition has made sure its new campaign headquarters on Ayala Avenue would have wi-fi-ready offices for reporters covering its candidates.

TO FURTHER enhance our online coverage of the upcoming Philippine elections in May, we’ve beefed up our Eleksyon 2007 site by adding a Google Earth map and a survey section.

The Eleksyon 2007 Google Earth map allows you to click on any marker on the Philippine map to see the number of voters per province, broken down by municipality and city. The figures are as of the 2004 elections.

Meanwhile, the Survey Says section offers comparative charts based on the Social Weather Stations and Pulse Asia surveys to allow readers to keep track of the survey rankings of candidates over the course of the campaign.

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WE’VE added three more blogs to our growing INQUIRER.net Blogs network: Current, the Eleksyon 2007 Blog and Babe Republic.

Current is a joint blog from Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Manuel Quezon III and Inquirer editor John Nery, which will tackle current events and the issues of the day as reported in the Inquirer print newspaper.

Tired of letting the candidates do all the talking?

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HERE’S a video clip of independent (my bad — he’s not an independent candidate since Ang Kapatiran is a political party) senatorial candidate Zosimo Paredes of Ang Kapatiran answering questions from INQUIRER.net reporter Alex Villafania. This is behind-the-scenes footage from this morning’s Eleksyon 2007 Podcast recording session.

For more clips, visit the INQUIRER.net Videos channel on YouTube.

THANKS to Mike Abundo and Abe Olandres for blogging about the invasion the INQUIRER.net office is experiencing from other media outlets, namely broadcast networks GMA 7 and ABC 5.

Here’s an excerpt from Mike’s blog post “TV Reporters Scavenging YouTube Scraps“:

I hope the Inquirer can keep these vermin out of their building. The last thing this country needs is old media scavengers pulling down new media pioneers.

Thanks, Mike; actually it was more of Eleksyon 2007 podcast scraps, though we also take behind-the-scenes footage of the audio podcast recording sessions for our INQUIRER.net Videos YouTube channel. But yup, you used the perfect word, “scavenger.”

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