SigawNgBayan – “your blogs are for elitists’

Ms. Susan Ople just texted me to check out Belinda Olivares-Cunanan’s latest column on Inquirer about the issue with Sigaw ng Bayan and their web stats. A section of it was addressed by Lambino to bloggers who dissected his original claim:

“Our access logs analyzer is a wonder in itself as it detects not only the IP addresses but also almost the exact locations of site visitors and writers, and many other details we cannot divulge for obvious reasons. We protect these private details about our visitors—including those whose only intention is to look for lapses and wreak havoc in the site—as much as we protect our own confidential particulars.

“As for the search engines yielding ‘negative’ replies to queries on the Sigaw term, this is either inaccurate or an outright lie. A simple search on www.webcrawler.com will show that different search engines do show up results on the particular query. The layman must also be informed that search engines nowadays display different results for searches at different times. Meaning, a site may be on the No. 1 spot now, but at the bottom of Page 1 results an hour later or totally gone from the top-ranked pages a day after. It’s also elementary that search engines may take 10-12 weeks to index web pages.

“Obviously some professed bloggers can’t accept the fact that the lowly people and those who suffer silently due to the state of affairs in this country would like to visit a site like www.sigawngbayan.com than their web or blog sites that are actually meant only for the elite. They must remember that there are more grassroots people than elitists in the Philippines. And most Filipinos are fed up with the fact that these elitists have lorded it over so much for so long a time in this nation — electronically or otherwise.” {read more}

Our blogs are meant for the elite? Wazzup! Wazzup!

Mr. Lambino must also be reminded that 99% of his so-called grassroots visitors don’t even have computers, much less internet in their own homes. They’d rather use their hard-earned Php25USD 0.43INR 36EUR 0.41CNY 3 for a kilo of rice than an hour’s rent in a net cafe.

Could they have visited his website via e-telepathy? Makes perfect sense!