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Discourse, Society, Language, New Media, and I
Archive for May, 2009
The quest for a new laptop
In: Computers| Technology
31 May 2009
On to more personal concerns here. I’m really, really suffering from a bad case of GAS. Or maybe not. Perhaps “investing” on work-related technology would be a worthwhile move. Then again, I already have the functional tools to do [...]
Language killers
In: Language| News| Politics and Society
31 May 2009Not many “intellectuals” appreciate Internet memes. No one can deny though, the power of the viral to spread both information and culture among a great many. Many of us played bash the politician in the Pangandaman – De la Paz issue. While the case seems to have contracted rot in the courts, we can all [...]
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- Tags: Law, Philippines, Politics, Right of Reply
On the outside looking in
28 May 2009It’s so easy to make judgments when your in the outside looking in. Going by Bentham’s Panopticon, positioning oneself in a location where you can view people inside a confined space without them seeing you gives you a sense of omniscience. There is sense in stepping back and trying to look not only at the [...]
Kings in the back row
23 May 2009How difficult it is to write about the Hayden Kho sex videos without sounding like an MCP. Even as I’m writing this, I am unsure at how I’ll be organizing the thoughts and phrasing them for me not to take a step back in humankind’s evolution.
Over the course of yesterday, I’ve had several chats with [...]
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- Tags: Hayden Kho, Katrina Halili, Scandals, Video
Leeching off literacy
In: Education
19 May 2009I think I’ve done my part (and a great deal of self-service) on the Globelines P2P issue, now let me zoom out and take a look at one thing that actually concerns me as an academic and an educator -The Great Book Blockade of 2009.
MLQ3 has already written about (and aggregated) what I think are [...]
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Hi! I'm Alex, a 20-something blogger writing about the discourses of social media. Once in a while I still let slip posts about the mundane, the asinine, and the trivial. Feel free to contact me.
- Basic IT as GE course
- Master baiter
- Globelines Broadband cheaper rates
- Idle Hands
- The land of heathen drivers
- That Conan thing
- Breaking the carabao’s back
- Globelines using new IP ranges?
- Outpaced
- Binarurot na tambakol
- Alex: Hi Edzee. Sorry for the very late reply. It seems like you have to bring that up with Globe. If your [...]
- EdZee: I have a 384Kbps Globe Broadband subscription for P995 in the past 36 months and I only learned abou [...]
- Ethel: Mr. Dave Barnedo....Is this the same Mr. Barnedo who's Dad was hospitalized at UST Hospital during t [...]
- NO to Large Class Policy on UPLB! « The Blue Ninja: [...] Breaking the Carabao’s Back ni Alex Maximo [...] [...]
- Mark: Try nyo ahh [...]
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