Month: January 2007
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Two Book Recommendations
I’m currently reading the following books and would like to recommend them to you. There’s a sale at PowerBooks for those of you who have been putting off book buying. The sale is 20% off on all foreign titles. Jasper Fforde | The Fourth Bear Fforde is a literary genius, combining the absurd with well…
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What the Publishing Industry Has Taught Me” # 57
I learned to flaunt certain strengths and go with the flow when it comes to certain “talents” that I have. Take this particular talent for instance. Discuss.
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What have your gadgets given back to you?
When I bought my camera last year, there was a secondary reason to it than just photography. It was to involve myself with user groups associated with the gadgets that you owned. Owning digital SLRs, Macs, iPods — these are all interesting gadgets but you come to realize that the people who own these things…
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Bench launches coffee table book: Wear Your Consicience
Two nights ago I was invited to the Bench: Wear Your Conscience Book Launch at the Ayala Museum. The book launch is a fundraiser project of Bench featuring the who’s who in Philippine society sitting on a traveling Dimensione Chair. Proceeds from the new clothes line and sales of the new coffee table book will…
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The Photoworld Manila 2007 Schedule
This is the yearly event that people in the publishing and technology industries as well as hobbyist photographers look forward to every year. Huge discounts on camera equipment, photography seminars and a lot of partying await amateur and professional photographers alike. The event will go on from Febrary 2 to 6, 2007 all around the…
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3 Different Ways to Shoot Fireworks
I’m posting the three “best” photos I took during the World Pyro Olympics and as far as I can remember, illustrate how I took them. May I reiterate that I am not a professional photographer and that most of the tips I got from shooting fireworks was taken from online tutorials and from Anton. Click…
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Will blog advertising ever get saturated?
This was the question posed to me in an interview for Filipinas Magazine by Yvette Tan. My short answer was no it won’t – just look at the magazine industry. In fact, advertising in the print industry is a bit trickier with viewed ads because consumers have to buy or subscribe to the magazine first…
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade on January 16 2007
January 16 2007 will be the biggest date for 8 million PC gamers worldwide. Thus marks the end of gamer social life for the next few months. For the next several weeks, more 8 million players around the world will be engaged in getting from level 60 – 70, training skills, doing the Eye of…
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How soon should you publish your article in an online medium?
As a regular contributor for Mobile Philippines, I sometimes republish stuff that I wrote in this blog. The main disadvantage of the print medium is that though page planning and editorial content are done one or two issues in advance (so if it is late January now, we are working on February and March) it…
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5 Things You Don’t Know About Me
I was tagged by Abraham but took my sweet time to answer this. Here are the five things you probably don’t know about me but now you do. 1. I have a great fear of contact lenses. Or anything that has to do with the eye. I’ve worn glasses but those don’t really count. I…
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