In case you haven’t heard, a significant part of the Philippine blogosphere was positively abuzz over the last week. The authorship of carlocab.com, an online monetization blog maintained by a rakishly confident 13-year-old Filipino, came under scrutiny. And so did Jayvee, when he asserted that Janette Toral’s IMMAP presentation on blogging could’ve been more comprehensive.
That’s as diplomatic as you can get, given the passionate discussion concerning these two firestorms (or perhaps “firestorms”?). But among the chorus of agreement and merely personal attacks, some gems of nuance and discernment stood out. Abe (who’s a partner of this network and thus a business associate) got the facts straight, Connie emphasized the subjectivity of everything, while Gibbs took the eloquent offensive.
In any case, whichever side you take, if any in the first place, two things are for sure: One, Filipino bloggers are becoming more assertive of their opinions. Two, anyone maintaining that the Philippine blogosphere is inarticulate has been proven to be out of their mind. At the very least, all the drama has led to an increase of activity and passion—which can only lead to better things for Filipino blogs and their bloggers.
(The picture above was used during the unveiling of the Filipinotown WWII Veteran’s Memorial)
8 Responses to “This Week in the Philippine Blogosphere, #9”
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“Anyone maintaining that the Philippine blogosphere is inarticulate has been proven to be out of their mind.” - who has mentioned this “inarticulate” comment. I’d been living in the UK now for nearly ten years and although not all Filipinos are articulate enough (in english) to be a writer who cares. For as long as it’s catered for the Filipinos then there’s no issues about it. The fact of the matter is, being able to write in different languages either englis, yagalog or whatever filipino dialects is just amazing, don’t you think? Now who can ever do that?
This is a free country and everyone has the right to express themselves in whatever way they want to in a responsible way.
With referrence to that Kidblogger:
“Persuading/Encouraging” a child to do something is fine but “forcing” a child to do something is another matter.
It’s entirely upto that blogger to remain anonymous by using codenames or whatever if that’s what he/she wants. What’s completely and utterly wrong, is to impersonate a real person, in the case of Carl, “if” the father is the real blogger but using his son’s name (with referrence to selaplana’s blog).
“being able to write in different languages either englis, yagalog or whatever filipino dialects is just amazing, don’t you think? Now who can ever do that?”
Good point. Versatile nga tayo.
just reading my previous post. my apologies for some typo. englis when i meant english. yagalog when i meant tagalog
No worries Pinoy, I know what you meant anyway.
Malu had 17lbs of luggage containing make-up? She sure needs that to recovery her tattered image.
My friend told me about the article,it’s really unacceptable.All OFW are professional as per my opinion.I’ll support petition or what ever.I’m holding a regional position in GCC She’s really a pain in the society.
WTF?! No wonder why she wasn’t comfortable on her seat. She’s so F’n FAT. yea! pour more Jo Malone on your FAT ASS and I’ll light it up!!!
Gosh.. I’d luv to HURT you. I wish YOU disease and NO, YOU are not going to HEAVEN.
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