Philippines
Filipino Takes Over Blog Herald
Top Filipino problogger Abe Olandres takes over The Blog Herald, a blog providing blogging news for bloggers. Assisting him is fellow full-time Filipino problogger J. Angelo Racoma — y’know, the PayPal for the Philippines crusader.
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.
Philippine government people talk a lot about IT “leveling the playing field”. In the heavily disintermediated social media industry, that tired old catchphrase could actually mean something around here.
Philippine Weather Bureau: Useless
Not only does the Philippine weather bureau rely on recycled, free, public, compiled, visualized information available in any Web browser, information actually meant for Guam. They use the Yahoo toolbar, and don’t even bother to hide it for public photos.
If any Filipino can visually check the path of any storm in any Web browser, using information not obtained by their weather bureau, what are we paying these n00bs for? It certainly isn’t for smart presentation.
The irony here is that the Philippine weather bureau is called “Pagasa”, which is Filipino for “hope”. Looks pretty hopeless to me.
(Via Jepoy.)
