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BREAKING NEWS

‘Where are the citizen journalists of Mindanao?’
08/29/08
Posted under Citizen Journalism, Elections
Journalist Dana Batnag put out this question in a blog entry dated August 11.
She writes:

Where are the bloggers of Mindanao, the citizen journalists who we have hoped would keep us updated on the ARMM elections? The ARMM elections are the first automated elections in the country. If all goes well, the government hopes to also automate the 2010 national elections. I was expecting blogs on the elections — how the machines worked and how the people reacted to them, even pictures on the voting precincts and the voters. I was told there had been no posts as of lunchtime, but maybe that was because the voting wasn’t over yet at that time.
This question is indeed very relevant if we compare this to what is happening in the United States. In a recent CNET article, bloggers were among those actively participating in the delivery of news and information to constituents. The article says:
It is true that the Democratic National Convention Committee handed credentials to a record number of bloggers for the Denver convention this week, but more nevertheless appear to have gathered at the Big Tent. Adding to the lure of the unofficial venue is that the workspace’s location on Wynkoop Street is around the corner from a multitude of restaurants and private parties, including a massive Tuesday reception organized by Emily’s List, a late-night jazz festival, and an AT&T-sponsored brewery bash.
With blogs allowing anyone who can write to publish their thoughts on the Internet, Batnag was expecting bloggers to be blogging about the first automated elections in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. She says:
The ARMM elections would have been a good time for citizen journalists to show what they can do and how much better a job of it they can do.
A quick search on Google produced this blog called, “Philippine Elections Journal,” which announced as early as April 4 that it was looking for ARMM Election bloggers. It didn’t get any reaction despite the promise of “$100 payment for every 20 approved articles.” This blog was set up by Filipino blogger Janette Toral.

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Blog can be a way where people can express their suggestions and opinions. This can be a way where they can practise their freewill. It can help them to develop those things. Moreoevr, through Blog also, many people especially journalist or bloggers can have brain storming talking about the current issues of his/her country. Several people alos are expecting that BLOGS are usually updated and every current isuue is being published and asking for information , suggestions and so forth, but how is it there were no bloggers nor journalists who prefered to post some insights about the Automated Issue held last ARMM election. Maybe and probably all journalist and bloggers tend to post some information about the current issue also about ancestral domain, the BJE issue and which is more interesting. They also need to choose some issues that they know that will really lead to the curiosity of other readers of their blog and some other journalists and bloggers. So that conversation will be more interesting.

**BREAKING IT NEWS**

Companies not spending enough on digital advertising
By Lawrence Casiraya:NQUIRER.net:First Posted 16:37:00 08/14/2008

MANILA, Philippines -- Consumers are increasingly going "digital" but companies are not putting enough money on advertising and may be missing out on a profitable market, according to marketing firm OgilvyOne.

The company's definition of digital is not limited to mobile or the Internet; it also covers a broad range of stand such as billboards or kiosks through which digital content is delivered.
According to statistics presented by the company, traditional media (primarily print and TV) account for $455 billion in ad spending, dwarfing that devoted to digital platforms like Web and mobile estimated at around $55 billion.

Although industry figures show a trend favoring digital advertising, Cummings(digital marketing lead for OgilvyOne Singapore) admits most chief marketing officers are not yet comfortable with digital as an advertising medium.

"It's not so much about telling them what's going on, technology-wise, but making them know how they can use it to increase brand awareness," Cummings said in an interview.

Asked about the local market, Cummings believes the Philippines carries a lot of potential for digital advertising, given rising percentage of the country's population using the Internet.

"With digital, you need to be in a perpetual state of beta," she said. "It's about getting out a great idea rather than perfecting one first before starting a campaign."

REACTION:

As what the company is talking about that there are not just focusing on mobile or in the internet, we cannot say that they are not merely bothering not to have several advertisements, because they also do, billboards of kiosks. Moreover, they also explained, how their adverstisements expen cost, they illustrated that more expenses that is being poured out in having advertisements in television than advertisements on Internet. Imagine that, they also said that they can get more consumers in using Internet and much profitable in using Internet, because through Internet also, consumers might be so amazed, meaning it will be more attrctive when you do advertisements on Internet, amny consumerscan see it.

Online social networking sites are hacker playgrounds
Agence France-PresseFirst

Posted 10:40:00 08/08/2008

LAS VEGAS -- Computer security researchers on Thursday warned that online social networking websites are playgrounds for hackers who can easily take advantage of people's trust.

Opportunities for mischief abound as users place intimate details of their lives on profile pages and install mini-applications made by strangers that don't always have their privacy at heart.

In a trend pioneered with tremendous success by Facebook, social networking websites have opened their operating platforms to let outside developers craft fun, hip, or functional software "widgets" that can be added to profile pages.

Malicious code can be hidden in such applications, computer security specialists Nathan Hamiel and Shawn Moyer said at a premier Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

"Don't put anything on a Facebook account that you don't consider public."

A pair of MySpace engineers who attended the demonstration said that hacks are known risks in today's social platforms and that they had Hamiel's application deleted by the end of the talk.

Fake postings on comment boards advising people to update software are ways to trick social network users into downloading malicious software that can commandeer control of machines, Hamiel said.

"Social networks really don't care if you get ‘pawned’ or not," Hamiel said, using the slang term “pwned” referring to a computer user or gamer being dominated and humiliated by hackers or a fellow gamer.

"It is not a problem with a particular site," Hamiel said. "It is a problem with social networking in general."

Even if tainted applications are deleted, the odds are that the data from profile pages was already copied onto an outside computer, according to Hamiel and Moyer.

"MySpace and Facebook have no control over my servers," Hamiel said. "Once the content is moved from their site they have no control over that."

Those thinking that they will stay safe by not having social networking pages may still vulnerable to trouble, according to the security specialists.

Another ruse is to create social networking profiles for people using information mined from the Internet and then for the imposters to send out "friends requests."

Those that take the bait give open doors to the private data in their profiles.

REACTION

This issue is a very tricky issue. Why is that there's no agency who is prohibiting those hackers to manipulate and manipulate the private informations of the users or of the members of that site, just like for example the MySpace, most especially the Friendster, how come they are just allowing that to happen?

Many members or users of a social networking websites have no knowledge or don't know what is the importance of putting their informations in public, what would be it's advantages and disadvantages to them.

They fully trusted that website, that is if they put all their information there even if it is so confedential, they trusted that site that it would not be publicly be seen by other people unless consulting them.

Much better to do is that inform the users or those people using the social networking website that they should be careful of the information that they are putting because it will be publicly be posted and publicly be seen by everybody.

And tell them that if the information they are putting is private much better not to post them at the site.