Glorietta: Luxury Car Bomb?

An amateur videographer at ground zero claims the bomb that damaged Glorietta was carried by a Honda CR-V.

C-4 in a CR-V to take out some restos? Swanky. I didn’t know terrorists were into wasting expensive luxury SUVs and hard-to-obtain military explosives on structurally noncritical targets without claiming credit. Even 9/11 was more cost-effective than this: they used frickin’ butter knives.

Oh, and Gloria’s first response? “Don’t try to pin this on me.” And people call me insensitive.

ABS-CBN Pulls Down Interviewee’s YouTube Clip. And Her Little Dog, Too.

YouTube just launched a video identification system that gives copyright holders a choice: either automatically block their videos, or automatically profit from them. It’s an IQ test.

Unfortunately, Philippine TV network ABS-CBN is too dumb to even take that IQ test.

Filipino blogger Jepoy Bengero had his aunt and her dog interviewed on an ABS-CBN show last year. He uploaded a blurry phonecam clip of interview to YouTube at his aunt’s request. One year later, ABS-CBN has it pulled down.

The lesson here: don’t ever work with ABS-CBN. TV dinosaurs act like they own you. They let some dumb intern issue frivolous takedown notices based on nothing but badly-constructed keyword searches — without any regard for interviewees, fair use, context, or even accuracy.