AS promised, here’s the HappySlip video interview

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YUP, the YouTube sensation will now be promoting Philippine tourist destinations as an endorser for the Department of Tourism Team North America. Filipino-American Christine Gambito, better known to thousands of fans of her video blogs as HappySlip, will be in town for a two-week tour of our country’s travel destinations.

HappySlip will be video blogging her Philippine trip, and the vlogs will be posted on both the HappySlip and Experience Philippines sites.

Here’s HappySlip’s video announcement about her Philippine trip.

We’ll get to meet her in a press briefing which will be held this Thursday, where HappySlip and Tourism Secretary Joseph “Ace” Durano will be on hand to answer questions. So stay tuned for more updates on HappySlip’s Philippine odyssey.

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.

PLANTATION BAY, Mactan, Cebu, Philippines–Sure, sometimes we all want to get away from it all, especially if you’re in a beautiful resort like Plantation Bay, but it’s always reassuring to know that technology is here to keep us connected to the outside world.

Not that I’m here on vacation. I arrived this afternoon together with other gaming journalists for the RAN Online global conference which kicks off tomorrow.

I’ll be blogging the event for our hackenslash gaming site, which we relaunched as a blog yesterday.

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