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MANILA, Philippines – “Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno” topped the Philippine box-office with P42.61 million in five days, from its first day of screening last August 20 to 24.
The movie captured the “All-Time Biggest Opening Weekend” for a Japanese film and its opening figure has surpassed the lifetime gross of the first “Rurouni Kenshin” movie, which earned P40.4 illion in its overall run in 2012.
“This is a phenomenal bow for `Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno,’ one that surely exceeded even our aggressive estimates,” says Francis Soliven, general manager of Warner Bros. (F.E.), Inc. which locally distributed the film.
“We’d like to thank the loyal fans of the franchise for their unwavering support and offer our congratulations to director Keishi Otomo and the cast led by Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei and Munetaka Aoki. The aforementioned talents graciously helped promote the film when they visited here for the Asian Premiere three weeks ago. We have no doubt that their visit enabled us to launch the film in the best way possible,” he added.
Posting the biggest receipts was SM Megamall with P2.39 million over five days, while Trinoma was second with P2.16 million, and SM Cebu at third with P1.62 million.
via breaking news | Philstar Mobile.

WE must not stop this campaign for truth.
Justice for Makati. Justice for the Philippines!

I have fond memories of playing Sid Meier’s Pirates.
Unfortunately this is region locked in steam for the US.
Can someone kindly gift this to me? It’s not more expensive than 10 USD.
Maybe we could swap games.
Anyone?

I’ve recently added the Jetpack plugin to onthe8spot.
I’ve connected most of my social network identities but one particular connection is troubling me.
Why does one part of me would like to turn off FB sharing?
Why among all social networks I belong to FB seems to be the one I edit myself most often on?
I have a hunch but I’d like to think about it more.

http://dangillmor.com/2014/04/25/indie-web-important/
Why the Indie Web movement is important?
Suppose you could write in your personal blog and have a summary of your post show up on popular social-media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Facebook – and then have responses on those sites show up as comments in your blog? You can, and if some talented programmers have their way you’ll soon be able to do so easily. In fact, it’s what I’m doing right now with this post, which is also running at Slate Magazine.
Why would you or I want to do this? Simple: We’re in danger of losing what’s made the Internet the most important medium in history – a decentralized platform where the people at the edges of the networks – that would be you and me – don’t need permission to communicate, create and innovate.
This isn’t a knock on social networks’ legitimacy, or their considerable utility. But when we use centralized services like social media sites, however helpful and convenient they may be, we are handing over ultimate control to third parties that profit from our work, material that exists on their sites only as long as they allow.
Even if most people don’t recognize what’s at stake – yet – I’m happy to say that a small but growing group of technologists does. And they’ve created what they call the “Indie Web” movement to do something about it, in an extended online conversation and at periodic in-person meetings. The latter are IndieWebCamps, where they gather to hack together tools aimed at liberating us, to the extent possible, from centralized control – what the Web’s key inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, has called “re-decentralization” of the Net. In their early work they’re taking advantage of the good things the social network “silos,” as they call them, can offer, while ensuring that the data we create, and as much of the conversation it engenders, lives in our own home-base sites.

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For the past few years, networks have been touting the point-of-view that Live +Same Day ratings are now less than important than Live +Seven and that Nielsen ratings do not adequately measure the rapidly changing ways that viewers are consuming television. At the network’s TCA panels, NBC’s President of Research & Media Development Alan Wurtzel made a compelling case that far more people watch NBC programming than the current ratings reflect.
Five years ago, eighty three percent of television programs were watched live. Today, only sixty one percent are. That’s not a surprise, given the proliferation of DVRs. Wurtzel pointed out that lots of viewers watch previously recording programs during primetime. In fact, DVR playbacks  average a 1.4 adults 18-49 rating during primetime, meaning that DVR playback is essentially an invisible additional broadcast network.
via NBC’s Head of Research Reveals Data About Online Viewing & Argues that More People Are Watching ‘Parks & Recreation’ Than the Ratings Indicate – Ratings | TVbytheNumbers.Zap2it.com.