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March 16, 2011

I’m joining a national Filipino bloggers association

Because I believe that the freedom of expression is an inviolable right and its exercise is a fundamental component of a dynamic and democratic society, and that blogging is one of the the emerging platforms where citizens, or at least those with access to the technology, can exercise this right. Because I believe that bloggers are not immune from challenges that confront this fundamental right, among with other rights as citizens. Because I believe that the best form of confronting challenges is through solidarity by collective action. Because I believe in fostering a real sense of community among Filipino bloggers (not just a community of those who attend bloggers parties or PR events), and that forming an inclusive and democratic organization is one of the best ways of achieving this. And notwithstanding all the cynics, some of whom only have misplaced hubris, baseless presumptions, misconceptions and malice to show, I publicly declare my intention to join a national bloggers association of Filipinos across the country and overseas.

Having said all these, I am personally inviting all interested bloggers, from personal bloggers to travel bloggers, entertainment bloggers to political bloggers, bloggers of all persuasions–let us come together and build a national association of Filipino bloggers! Click here to sign up! :)

Please read:
* Setting the record straight on the national bloggers association

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February 25, 2011

Moved to a new webhost

My blog had been down for the past two weeks. It was initially hacked by people who appear to be hacking hobbyists. They erased by blog, including the database of all my blog entries and put in my blog’s place a page calling for freedom in Tunisia. I asked my previous webhost for a re-install of the latest back-up, which unfortunately was already the hacked version. The other latest back-up was from October, hence I’m still in the process of re-uploading entries that have been saved by Google’s cache.

Unfortunately, despite all the remedies, my website had been still inaccessible for the past days for reasons I still don’t know because of the slow response of my old web host’s technical support. I’ve been dissatisfied with my old web hosts services for the past years (frequent downtimes, slow tech support response, etc) and I’ve been meaning to move to another but I always had reservations about the technicalities of moving an entire website to another host. Apparently, it was an unfounded reservation and I finally found myself availing the services of SolidHosting.ph. My blog is now back up and running. I will be back to normal blogging soon.

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June 3, 2009

Bikoy on QTV’s QTube

A few months ago, around February I think, someone from QTV 11 called to ask if I was willing to be featured in one of their upcoming shows. I agreed then, and simply asked them to inform me a few days before the day they wanted to have the shoot.

It wasn’t until the show, QTube, was finally launched and a few months after their first call, or a few weeks ago, when they called back and said it’s my turn to be featured in one of the show’s segments, Bloggers’ Digest. Bloggers’ Digest is where they feature interviews with different Filipino bloggers and their personal profiles.

Three weekends ago, I had a sit-down interview with their crew at UP Diliman, in front of Palma Hall. I was uneasy at first, but I eventually shrugged the awkwardness off. We shot some situationers around campus, some where I was pretending to take photographs with my DSLR in the middle of the Lagoon, some with me using my laptop at obscure places like in front of the Oblation at Quezon Hall. A few days after the first shoot, another set of technical people went to our house to shoot more situationers at home.

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October 20, 2008

Eight years of blogging

I almost always forget October 20. Eight years ago today I published my first blog entry. From that day on, I’ve been blogging and recording my thoughts and my life in general. Most of my entries back then are, obviously, not up right now. They’re tucked somewhere in the internet, and I’d rather not re-read through them because they’re utterly embarrassing. One day–actually, yesterday–I randomly clicked one entry for 2001 and to my surprise I was talking about my conservative Catholic ideals and my dislike for the what I called the hedonistic lifestyle of my high school classmates. Ha ha ha ha! It’s disgusting. I even mentioned names. Diary kung diary.

Blogging started off a lot of significant things for me. It would take me some time to make an exhaustive list, which I unfortunately don’t have much of at the moment. Needless to say, it was through my blog that I got to know a lot of people, moreso the other way around. Blogging definitely played a big part in my life. It played not just a passive role on being a medium where my I recorded my transformation from a being conservative and naive high school freshman in Ateneo to the opinionated law student that I am now in UP, and all else in between, but an active role in getting me into where I am right now.

Here’s to more years of blogging for me! In four years I would have been blogging for half of my life, would you imagine.

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October 13, 2008

Blog Action Day 2008: Philippines

This is less than two days from now, but I hope I could encourage some of you to participate in this endeavor.

On October 15, Wednesday, we in Bloggers Kapihan invite Filipino bloggers to participate in Blog Action Day 2008 by taking a stand on poverty.

Poverty is a reality that we cannot deny. We see it everyday. Many live with and in it 24/7. The imperative now is to change this situation. The Blog Action Day 2008 is an opportunity to get poverty out from under the rug where the government has consigned it. We hope that through this renewed focus on poverty, it will be a new start to better understand and not hide it, to offer real solutions not fake ones, to salve the poor people’s wounds and not give them dole-outs. If you want to join Blog Action Day 2008, there are a number of things you can do. Read on.

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September 18, 2008

Vote for Bikoy.net!

Friends,

To those who read my blog, visit it regularly, or whatever, and think I deserve the a Bloggers’ Choice Award, do vote for Bikoy.net at the Philippine Blog Awards.

1. On your blog (at Multiply, BlogSpot, WordPress, wherever it is), tell us why you voted for the nominee (that’s me, Bikoy.net!)

2. Submit your post URL and some basic info to the Philippine Blog Awards committee using this form. Make sure that you provide the COMPLETE URL of the post you created for your vote to be valid.

3. Once you have submitted your vote post URL, wait for the confirmation from one of our committee members. Please be patient, we will manually go through each and every vote post to make sure it’s valid.

It’s that simple. You also get a chance to win a Nokia N82!

Thanks! Ha ha. This is such a popularity contest. It really isn’t a big deal, as I’ve largely ignored it the past days, but since apparently some people did vote for me, I might as well put some effort into it and campaign to solicit some votes so that the first ones don’t go to waste. I’d appreciate it. :)

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December 31, 2007

Blog vulnerabilities

Last December 29, my website just suddenly became inaccessible, and for the past two days, anybody who tried to access it, ended up in an error page. At first I was dumbfounded. True, my web host sent an advisory about a scheduled downtime due to some server migration, but that was supposed to be today, December 30. Perhaps it was one day early, I thought. However, their advisory said it would take at most 24 hours. By tonight, it had been almost two days. I was honestly getting really impatient and pissed. Not that it should really matter, it’s not as if there’s much to lose financially for me. This blog doesn’t even generate a dollar a day from paid advertising.

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April 17, 2007

Not as tell-all as before

When I revealed to my friends, and more importantly when it was revealed to other people in school, that I joined a fraternity and the Upsilon Sigma Phi at that, I was met with surprise. I’d be surprised at myself too, if I didn’t know myself better. Foremost, the fratman stereotype is quite out of my character, me being a timid and shy boy from Mass Comm at that, and second, my political affiliations and those of the fraternity’s and a majority of its resident brods are ‘officially’ incongruent. Upsilon is, after all, a founding member of my university political party’s two present rival parties. This proved quite odd for me, especially during the student council elections (where I lost).

Despite all these minor contradictions, and all the difficulties (understatement) of being a neophyte and a junior fellow, I don’t regret joining, and I am proud to be an Upsilonian. Anyway, my reasons for joining and other such apologetics won’t be the topic of this entry.

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March 20, 2007

Finalists of the Philippine Blog Awards

The list of finalists for the 2007 Philippine Blog Awards are out. I have been aware that I was included in “shortlist” (which is actually a long one) of official entries in the Personal Blog category, but I never gave it much thought until Benj Espina informed me in one of his comments that Bikoy.net was chosen as a finalist in the Personal Blogs category!

Other finalists in the Personal Blogs category are LastLeaf.org, Fight Pompe, Jessica Rules The Universe, and Misteryosa.

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December 26, 2006

Pimping a new blog

Over this Christmas break, I’ve also been watching numerous films off my computer. And because I have quite a handful of time to spare, I decided to put up a new blog for my movie commentaries, instead of piling them all up in an entry category within this blog. I’ve only done a handful the past days, however.

I also placed a pseudo-disclaimer at the blog. I don’t claim to be a professional film critic nor a film academic, so, I don’t claim to write fair objective reviews. I also have many biases. Though I employ a linear rating scale, I do not judge films from different countries with the same mindset. I always take to consideration how, when, with what budget the movie was produced, among other contextual considerations. My comments on certain movies can also be dependent on the types of movies I’ve seen beforehand, or the perceptions I have of certain elements within the film. It can also be dependent on how much I like or dislike an actor or a genre. In other words, my movie commentaries blog can be very subjective. And I don’t want fangirls or fanboys flaming me for ‘bad’ reviews. Or professional critics picking on my commentaries. Hehe.

Anyway, I’ll try to catch a few Metro Manila Film Festival movies tomorrow and get to comment on them.

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