Internet Poser Poster Fail
This poster outside an Internet cafe promotes Ka-Blog, a TV show from Philippine network GMA talking about teens online. It’s supposed to look like a browser window, but the illusion breaks down laughably once you look closely at the browser chrome.
Notice two glaring errors:
- The title: Not only does the page title show the wrong URL, it shows an impossible URL. You can’t put an exclamation point in a domain name.
- The toolbar: JPEG is a filename extension, not a domain name extension. Anyone with a cameraphone knows that.
Most Filipino marketers still dismiss the Internet as a childish fad. They would gloss over these glaring errors as nothing more than geeky minutiae. To anyone who’s ever actually gone online, however, these errors make GMA look like a bunch of posers trying to act hip to this Internet thing — and failing miserably.
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I totally agree with this post, AND ANY OTHER BADLY EDITED MEDIA! I mean, if anybody (that goes for everybody) has to use a technical acronym, jargon, specification or protocol, it should be done properly. You can’t expect the Filipino youth (even toddlers and pre-schoolers) to be better educated if the media they’re exposed to have too much lexical, trivial, or technical errors. Writers and editors from big broadcasting companies shouldn’t get away with this just because they have their “name” to support them. If Bush can get the shoe, maybe GMA needs one to be thrown at them too, just so they can keep their heads up.
They think they can get away with this because they think the Internet is some silly kid thing.
Ayt, writers find it silly, and editors surely don’t care just as long as it makes money. To each his every piece of the pie. 🙂
Editors should care. Better products make more money.
And yet, boy bastos was accused of a criminal case because his website is not for kids.
Are they forcing filipino minds that internet is a kid thing, just like anime (or any animation/cartoon)?
They trivialize what they fear. People are abandoning TV for the Web.
Do you have a 1337 translator or something? Sadly I’m not an elite, I can’t read “s3KshUn 8″‘s posts T_T
:p
Try this. 🙂
I won’t waste time reading comments written in 1337 code. 😀 Well that’s just me. Masipag lang si Mike.
I wanna laugh at the two stations right now for trying to beat themselves up as to who’s on the No. 1 spot, one for trying to be cool with that poster (yeah, looks real lame, like it’s out of a Disney channel teenybopper program), and the other redflagging Youtube vids (of their TV shows) and then leeching other Youtube vids to show on-air. Minus -100 IQ points.
TV5 had them running.
ABS-CBN even redflags vids they don’t own. It’s criminal.
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I’ve seen one of their anime dubs. Not bad, actually. 🙂
leet k pa dyan pnapahirapan mo pa sarili mo
http://matrixshino.multiply.com/video/item/184
It simply gave the impression that people who like anime or ‘otaku’ are weird.
That was painful to watch. Otaku are among the most active bloggers in the Philippines. In fact, they are among the pioneers of the Philippine blogosphere. They were talking about anime and gaming online long before doing anything online was “cool”.
Ka-Blog insults the pioneers of their very raison d’etre. That just goes to show how much they really know about blogging.
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That otaku segment was just plain WRONG. Alodia Gosiengfiao will surely pwn them…
Alodia’s Inquirer interview was amazing. You can present otaku to the mainstream without belittling them.
Ka-Blog, on the other hand, is too lazy to go beyond shallow racial caricature.