Work-cred, Japanese style
I love working for a Japanese-managed/owned company.
I’ve always been someone who likes the feeling of equality and loyalty in a workplace and I see this in my current company.
When you work for the Japanese, you are expected to be loyal (maybe that’s why a lot of Japanese companies have...
Source: The Adventures of Kamikazee Girl
Unethical handling of blogger registration information?
I recently went to an event with a female blogger friend. We signed registration forms wherein we had to put our names, emails, and contact nos. She was a little apprehensive since she was still pretty new at this. She asked me what number I was going to put. I jokingly told her that for this particular...
Source: Animetric's World
Good without God
Looking at Mr. Daniel Razon’s reasoning we can clearly see the problem: People like him have defined goodness as equal to God. There are two versions of this “argument” – One, Goodness and God are almost the same entity (based of some quotes from the Judeo-Christian holy scripture)...
Source: Filipino Freethinkers
Sinful Perfection
I’ve been visiting a lot of Christian chat rooms in Yahoo. Well…just for entertainment, you see you just can’t learn anything in a Christian chat room. Majority of people there are too terrified just reading the word “atheism” while others are too threatened to discuss their belief system....
Source: Filipino Freethinkers
Ampatuan massacre and journalists as newsmakers
N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (December 21, 11:00 a.m.) where I write a weekly column (“Philippine Fantasy”).
Some journalists reportedly went overboard when they mobbed the primary suspect in what is now known as the Ampatuan massacre which resulted in 57 deaths,...
Source: Rising Sun
My views on journalism and journalism education
N.B. – A US-based journalism professor is doing a study on journalism education in the Philippines. Allow me to share with you my answers to some of his questions.
What do you think should be the ideal practice of journalism?
The practice of journalism should adhere to the highest professional...
Source: Rising Sun
Politics and Morality are antipathetic elements
“And it should be realised that taking the initiative in introducing a new form of government is very difficult and dangerous, and unlikely to succeed. The reason is that all those who profit from the old order will be opposed to the innovator, whereas all those who might benefit from the new order...
Source: pinoyobserver.com
The DOs and DON’Ts of Blogging
Last thursday night, I found out that 98% of my blog post was copied word for word including the original images in a Filipino-owned forum (only the image with me in it was removed). This resulted to my site losing a lot of traffic considering I was the only blogger who had a screenshot of the subject...
Source: HeaRty's Haven
