This was our secret and now I will share it with you.
When we were covering Imelda Marcos, Mel Mathay and the Metro Manila Commission, the Quezon City Hall and the Quezon City Courts (Chit for Tempo, Cris and Vina alternately for the Daily Express and I for Ang Pahayagang Malaya), Chit, Vina and Cris would also look for corruption stories and opposition stories and pass them to me. Aside from the MMC, QC Hall and courts, I was also assigned to human rights stories, the opposition (with Joel Paredes), and street rallies (with Joel, Ellen Tordesillas and Malaya police reporters).
They knew Malaya was undermanned. They knew I couldn’t handle so many beats at one time. They understood I had to prioritize covering the human rights beat.
And so they helped me in the beats we covered together. They would give me leads for stories and even shared their notes. This was how selfless these journalists were at that time: Chit, Vina and Cris. Nananalaytay sa dugo nila ang pagiging peryodista kaya sa bansag nilang “maliit na paraan namin,” tinulungan nila akong i-cover at i-uncover ang mga katiwalian sa QC hall at MMC.
There was no rivalry among us. There was only friendship and a shared passion to unearth the truth and to ensure the Filipino people will get hold of it. Chit, Vina and Cris were not after recognition. For this, I salute them. And I thank them again.
via Adventures with Chit, lessons to keep | Newsbreak | Independent Journalism.
Pic :: Negative NPV
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Econ::The Stabilization of the Mark | Angry Bear – Financial and Economic Commentary
Those people were mostly speculators who had borrowed marks. Since the stabilization wasn’t absolutely believed, the nominal interest rate was 20% per day. Making people wait a few days for their promised dollars is a way to bankrupt them. Bankrupting all the people betting against the stabilization is a way to make it work.
via The Stabilization of the Mark | Angry Bear – Financial and Economic Commentary.
rePost:: Edward Tufte:: The Information Sage
Tufte is a philosopher king who reigns over his field largely because he invented it. For years, graphic designers were regarded as decorators, whose primary job was to dress up facts with pretty pictures. Tufte introduced a reverence for math and science to the discipline and, in turn, codified the rules that would create a new one, which has come to be called, alternatively, information design or analytical design. His is often the authoritative word on what makes a good chart or graph, and over the years his influence has changed the way places like the Wall Street Journal and NASA display data.
In policy circles, he has exerted a quiet but profound influence on those seeking to harness the terabytes of data flowing out of government offices. In recent years, several large American cities, including New York, Oakland, and Washington, D.C., have opened up entire universes of municipal statistics, giving birth to a cottage industry of programs and applications that chart everything from the best commuting routes to block-by-block crime patterns. And under the Obama administration’s Open Government Directive of 2009, the federal government has been releasing scores of downloadable data sets. In the public realm, data has never been more ubiquitous—or more valuable to those who know how to use it. “If you display information the right way, anybody can be an analyst,” Tufte once told me. “Anybody can be an investigator.”
via The Washington Monthly – The Magazine – The Information Sage.
Elink Video::Kinect Projects – The first 5 months
I have nothing against commercial use, I am more enamored with the homebrew, hacks/make community than against commercial use. I’ve always felt a sense of kinship with people/communities who do stuff just to do stuff.
Google IO 2011 Extended Manila
I’m watching Google IO in Engg ERDT Room
UP Department of Computer Science, (Engg Library yata)
University of the Philippines, Diliman
Patay ako bukas nito.
2010 Box Office King
Why am I getting too much satisfaction that the 2011 box office king for 2010 isn’t named John Lloyd, Wierd.
rePost :: Talk N Text survives Ginebra in game 6 epic to win 2011 PBA Commissioner’s Cup – Fire Quinito – A Philippine Sports Blog that Burns
Babawi tayo ka baranggay!!!
Ginebra put out an effort worthy of their fans’ support. Each game in this series was played with tons of pride from both sides, and the series made the PBA richer just by virtue of how well both teams competed
via Talk N Text survives Ginebra in game 6 epic to win 2011 PBA Commissioner’s Cup – Fire Quinito – A Philippine Sports Blog that Burns.
rePost:: Market Manila – Income Levels / Poverty in the Philippines – General
Top 1% of population or roughly 174,000 families of five people made an average of P122,000 per month or higher. The TOP 1%! If you look at the roughly estimated top 8,500 families, I figure they make roughly P500,000-600,000 per month in income on average. In other words, if your annual income for a family of 5 is roughly PHP6-7 million, then you can say you are in the Top 99.95% of income earners in the Philippines.
The Top 10% or roughly 1.74 million families of five made an average monthly income roughly PHP55,000 per month. However, this data is skewed due to the real big income earners in the group, and if you did indeed make P50,000 or so a month for a family of 5, that would actually place you roughly in the top 6-7% of the entire nation. In other words, a whopping 93% of families or so LIVE BELOW the PHP50,000 “lower-middle class” budget I outlined above. This also, by the way, translates into the top 7% being the A/B/C. And everything below that is D and E. If you were a single income earner, and you did NOT support anyone else, and you lived in the city and made say PHP20,000 per month say at a call center or as a bank teller or executive secretary, you would be solidly a B+/A- on the socioeconomic scale. I just find that amazing because I think if you asked these folks if they felt they were in the top 3-4% income earners in the country, they would vehemently disagree. But I am a numbers guy, so they better believe it…
via Market Manila – Income Levels / Poverty in the Philippines – General.
Community is the Best Comedy Show Now
Damn fuck Community Rocks!!!!!!
ASTIG!!!
Community is the Best Comedy Show Now and has been since the last two episodes of season 1!!!!