i’ve been searching around on how blogging started and found Clive Thompson’s The Early Years, thought i share this to my fellow IT PINOYs… January 1994: Swarthmore student Justin Hall creates first blog ever, Links.net. December 1997: Online diarist Jorn Barger coins the term “Weblog” for “logging the Web.” April 1999: Programmer Peter Merholz shortens […]
in the past couple of weeks, you might have read or seen on the news about PINOY students being suspended for writing against their school principal via their blogs. since this incident, various discussions arose such as freedom of speech, responsibility in blogging, blogging as journalism, invasion of privacy, even child-abuse law was mentioned to […]
Morei promise this is but a fresh air after getting all those recent news of layoffs. —- JOB OPENING —- just trying to help out a friend who works as a recruiter @ RCG-IT Philippines. they are in need of Rates & Forms Specialists, with data encoding/processing/verification experience, it is also good if the candidate […]
Morelooks like there’s no stopping the vatican from plunging into mainstream high technology as they recently had a deal with google for the pope’s own channel. this came after Pope Benedict XVI has setup his own you-tube space as well a facebook account. the pope welcomes these new technologies as a “gift” for these mediums […]
Morenews of layoffs are staggering and worrisome and the most recent was done by Intel as they just closed shop, Microsoft Philippines however has just announced that the country will not be affected by the announced job cuts worldwide. this is great news in a string of not so great news lately… at least the […]
Morei never really thought that Bush’s tech legacy be this bad… imagine the whitehouse like this – with disconnected/busy phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts. U.S. President Obama who has been known to utilize technology, on his first day seeing whitehouse this way is definitely not a good start.. […]
Morecan’t get enough of AJAX? found this great site for AJAX development, check out Google Code’s AJAX API playground. enjoy playing!
More— VIRUS ALERT!!! —- there’s a fast-spreading virus that is now lurking through the usa, europe and asia, this in fact has affected around 9mil users already. F-Secure’s chief research officer, Nikko Hypponen, also noted that it is migrating “more rapidly through corporate networks than anything seen in years.” The worm called MS08-067, also known […]
Moretoday Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America will take his oath of office and IT PINOYs have a chance to watch it in several ways online! a couple of tech companies will host the inaugural activities, Stephanie Condon of CNET News has listed ways of watching the event via the […]
Morein a few hours today, Barack Obama will sit as the new US President but before that I read about what contributions the Bush administration has with regards to technology. “The 43rd president leaves behind a technology legacy characterized less by intent than by casual neglect,” this is how Declan McCullagh and Stephanie Condon of […]
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