AMERICAN journalists have recently launched a project called “beatblogging.” It involves at least 13 media organizations covering different beats, like science, technology, gaming and music, among others. This experiment involves reporters building their own “social networks” around their beats. It will use blogs as means to create this network.

David Cohn of Wired’s Listening Post and a participant in this project, writes:

This experiment is taking place in 13 news rooms across the country. Each will be tackling the project from a different angle and as a result, the will come across unique obstacles.

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A CERTAIN Teo Marasigan in a blog entry titled Kapirasong Kritika, has sparked a discussion on why Filipino activists should not blog. Pointing out that activists have failed to use the Internet to expose and denounce the dominant “reactionary” ideas in the Internet, Marasigan has suggested that activists-bloggers should stop blogging.

His post eventually elicited reactions from some progressive blogs, including Mongster’s Nest by Mong Palatino and Reds Care.

Writing in Filipino, Marasigan argued that the Filipino Internet activists have somehow failed to also state the reactionary character of the Internet.

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