Yuga meets the Kid Blogger

Coaching? Yeah, I think Dad types what he thinks the son is thinking, that’s what’s going on.

But “no exploitation” is a “possibility” if you’re talking about Philippine culture. Just don’t pretend you can get away with a “sweet explanation” about it to a foreigner.

But, Filipinos are also great believers of laissez faire, especially concerning business and business ethics. Heck, even with adultery we’re so laiisez faire.

Hey, you’re supposed to be in school.

– Concerned Citizen

I used to be as mild mannered and civil as this kid, but my parents became so worried they had to send me to have regular electric shock treatments.

I’m glad to see something sensible written ere on tis situation. I’ve seen a lot of drivel in the past few weeks … jmuch of it from people who should get a life and stop trying to run other’s lives for them.

One of the reasons I live in the Philippines is because there are not 10,000 “go-gooder” busybodies telling me what to do (and what not to do) every minute of the day. Now, do to the “magic” of the Internet … and a lot of people with too much time on their hands … it appears the suffocating US-style “child-smothering” approach to life has followed me here. I wonder why these crusaders aren’t worried about the 14 yo girl with forged papers who is working as a GRO or the 14yo boy with 2 years of schooling who spends 14 hours a day in his uncle’s jeepney collecting fares or the 14 yo girl who cleaned our house yesterday because her mom )who usual works for us one day a week) was sick and if the girl didn’t come by and work … and get paid … they wouldn’t have eaten last night?

Let’s put things in perspective here. A bright and interesting 14yo boy and his dad are collaborating on a blogging effort. How much does Carl do and how much does his dad do? Yuga took the time to give us a pretty decent perspective, but the bottom line is .. what difference does it make? If you think using a 14yo’s persona to make a blog better read and more interesting is ‘exploitive” of the child then I would submit you have a _lot_ to learn about exploitive behavior. Carl is not being “exploited” at all. How I wish I could have worked together on something like that with my dad when I was 14 … no matter which of us was the better “wordsmith”.

And if your outrage is about the lack of verisimilitude regarding the actual identity of the person responsible for each keystroke? Wow are you naive’ You probably think Kumiko Suzuki ia actually a 20-something Japanese-American wwoman who moved to Tokyo to blog … as just one current “put on” example. I have some ocean-front property in Arizona, USA for sale cheap … just PayPal me the money. ‘k?

Forget about Carl Ocab, how about that $900 XPS M1710?

BrianB,

Are you in any way related to benign0? You two sound alike..

You see? All of this could’ve ended quick and in a more positive note if the critics had just invited them over to dinner or something else, talked to each other and got to know each other more.

Keep it up Carl!

I’d like to congratulate you, Abe, for doing something like this, interviewing Carl and his dad. It’s the rational way of going about things. Yeah, there has been a lot of commotion in the blogosphere regarding this. Although we cannot really completely remove the possibility that people will speculate about the real identity of the blog’s writer (who doesn’t gossip, anyway?), there are just some that could go overboard. At least now, there’s a balance of perspectives available. Actually, I’m kind of “expecting” that Carl would be posting his defense, though I shouldn’t really expect him to. But, at least now, he’s been given the chance to speak for himself, in a manner of speaking.

Maybe this should make the issue simmer down a bit. Personally, I’ve already voiced out my doubts about the authorship of the blog. But that’s it. I don’t want to delve into the issues of the ethics related to it, though I cannot really prevent others from speculating some more nor do I have the right to prevent them from doing so.

I guess we could just leave the kid alone and stop reading the blog if it’s offending. Or we could continue on reading the blog if the information we derive from it is useful for us, and not focus anymore about what is deemed a doubtful authorship.

so i will do the same with my future son. we will start blogging when he’ll be 2 year old and we’ll call our blog, Learn Lessons with a 2 year old boy blogger. Wow!

Now i also got an idea when my son gets the hang of making his drawings worth publishing on the web and we might just make a blog for it :)

Ethical or not, it’s driving traffic alright. I’ve never heard of Carl and his father before. Now I have and clicked to see their site. I learned that internet traffic is a science on it’s own.

I don’t have the right to make a ‘judgement’ on the situation since I don’t know these people. But who am I to judge anyway?

All this noise in the Philippine problogging world will surely get the BIR’s attention.

With all the trolls in the guise of concerned netizens proliferating in the blogosphere, glad to see that reason and inteligence still prevails:

http://houseonahill.net/2007/08/13/disclosure-policies-carlocab-and-blogging-ethics/

Here’s my take.

It’s no secret that a lot of people have doubts regarding the truth behind the blog. Even before Noemi sounded off, many people have already cited their puzzlement regarding the idea of having a 13 year old boy blog about the materialistic niche of making money online.

Noemi didn’t exactly propose a new idea when it came to challenging the credibility of the people involved. It has always been in people’s collective unconscious.

Here’s where it gets dicey.

No one was exactly talking about the idea of child abuse and slavery (in the kidnapped kids made to beg context that some people would like to paint it). That is why the argument was hard to swallow.

Though the supposed conclusion of “saving the child” from the clutches of his manipulative father sounded like a great idea. The fact that there wasn’t much substance to the argument other than a few short conversations shared between the boy and certain adults, made the allegation quite puzzling.

“Dapat peace ang pinoy blogosphere lagi kahit may misunderstandings at times.” – very well said Carl! Mas pinahanga mo kaming lahat!

@Yuga: “I wasn’t there to size him up. He doesn’t deserve it. I was there to size up the father.” – Kudos to your efforts, kabayan!

Fair enough. Tnx abe for posting this. As long as the kid is enjoying what he ( and his dad) does… right?

By the way, you blog looks good on my Nokia N800! got this blog bookmarked for easy access.

Child exploitation? How about child actors?

Not everybody believes him, I see. It is difficult to believe that a 13-14 years old writes such articles, indeed.

Kid blogger, hehehe…that’s a nice ring to it!

Hello … ok ka lang?

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