Happy Problogaversary, Abe Olandres!
The Philippines’ most successful problogger, Abe “Yuga” Olandres, celebrates his first year of full time problogging today. He’s celebrating on the job, too: conducting a blogging workshop overseas.
I’m meeting with newly appointed CICT Commissioner Mon Ibrahim on Monday; I’ll definitely put forward the idea of Filipino problogging as a sunrise industry. Philippine IT policy development did not anticipate the rise of solo netrepreneurs, which is a pity considering the Filipino solo entrepreneurial spirit clearly demonstrated in offline industries. If you have any ideas on what this new industry needs from the government, post them in the comments. In a nation of natural social media adopters, may Abe’s tribe increase!
[...] Happy Problogaversary, Abe Olandres! [...]
[...] When it comes to showing Filipinos how to monetize their natural affinity for social media, Abe leads the way. I’m meeting with the Philippines’ Department of Trade and Industry tomorrow; I’ll definitely cite this local sunrise industry milestone. They hear a lot about Americans taking over Philippine businesses; bet they rarely hear about a Filipino taking over a US business. Tags: Abe Olandres, blogging, J. Angelo Racoma, Philippines Related posts: Yahoo Takes This Blog’s Searchbot VirginityFilipino Bible-Thumpers Dub Fag Antichrist for Reposting British PhotosFilipino is a Terrible Language for Tech EvangelismFilipino World Pool ChampionPhilippine Weather Bureau: Useless [...]
[...] You know niche media has gone mainstream when Time Magazine makes you Person of the Year. Yes, you, you, and you — including you in the middle passing notes, and especially you in front raising your hand (maybe not so much you in the back throwing spitballs). Yes, even you lookin’ pretty. If the ’80’s was the “Me” decade of status seekers kissing up through channels, the ’00’s is the “You” decade of content creators making their own channels. …look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes. [...]