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March 15, 2009

Sun intros 1-Peso International SMS

This was first explained to me by a friend who got a new Sun Cellular SIM. Then, last week I got to talk to a marketing manager from Sun who lent me a phone with their new Sun Cellular International SIM in it and adds that their international SMS is only Php1.

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July 24, 2005

What Constitutes a Blog?

While reviewing entries on the Pinoy Top Blogs, I noticed that some of them might seem like a plain web site rather than a blog. The question still remains, what constitutes a blog?

In my presentation during the iBlog Summit last May, I referred to a blog as:

A weblog, web log or simply a blog, is a web application which contains periodic time-stamped posts on a common webpage.

These posts are often but not necessarily in reverse chronological order. Such a website would typically be accessible to any Internet user. The format of weblogs varies, from simple bullet lists of hyperlinks, to article summaries with user-provided comments and ratings.

Individual weblog entries are almost always date and time-stamped, with the newest post at the top of the page, and reader comments often appearing below it.

Because links are so important to weblogs, most blogs have a way of archiving older entries and generating a static address for individual entries; this static link is referred to as a permalink.

A weblog is edited, organized and published often through a content management system or CMS.

A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.

Source: Wikipedia / Blogger.com

Sean emailed me this:

That would raise an interesting question, actually. What constitutes a blog, and what doesn’t constitute a blog?

Take Citizen Watch, for example. Is this a blog? At first glance, this seems to be a journalistic blog that’s much like the Inside PCIJ site – only that it contains news and updates regarding the Arroyo political debacle. A closer look, however, notes that the articles on the site are apparently submitted by independent users to an editorial board before being published online. “Citizen Watch”, with its “Sun.Star” affiliation, feels more like an online newspaper than a blog to begin with.

Or, for that matter, how is an online newspaper NOT a blog? It clearly reflects the opinions of multiple people on a single site.

Check his blog later for a more indepth discussion.

The C at replied back with this:

Good, you brought that up.

ENCANTADIA is not a pinoyblog. it is a blog for channel 7 shows. Citizenwatch is a Sunstar newspaper. The pinoy blog is being used for their adverstisement.

Now there’s another thought. Does motive count when considering if a site is a blog or not?

Although I believe I have the last say on Pinoy Top Blogs, I’d really appreciate it if the Pinoy Blogging Community do a self-check.

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