iBlog: The 15th Philippine Blogging Summit #iblog15

What a crazy weekend indeed, and the fact that mainstream media has flip-flopped from knee-jerk screaming and hair-tearing to an eerie “nothing to see here, move along now” compliance doesn’t help. I manage to zone out the noise and the faff by going through my blogroll:

The PCIJ blog has audio files of the taped conversations ready for download. They’re mirrored over at Yuga’s blog.

MLQ3 has commentary on the latest developments.

Ultraelectromagneticblog offers some comic relief if all this Sith-style politics becomes too much for you.

Then, you can’t have a proper political scandal without the lawyers (heh). The Sassy Lawyer blogs about some legal aspects of the controversy (and urges sobriety and common sense as well). Over at Punzi’s Corner, there are blog-lectures that will help you wade through the legalese. My boss, JJ Disini weighs in on the legality of disseminating the audio of the taped conversations.

But then, GMA (or any politician) wouldn’t have this charlie foxtrot had she used encryption and VOIP.

[Update: Jobarclix sees it as a Digital Signal Processing problem]

Vonjobi gave us a heads-up as the Filipina keyword search engine dilemma has evolved to a “Yan ang Pinay!” movement. It even has its own campaign image courtesy of Jonas Diego.

The Philippine blogging community is building a show of force in defining what truly is a Filipina. It is a great public display of the Filipino’s true gender sensitivity and value for the Filipino woman – the Filipina.

If you are also contributing to the cause of building relevant content and blog post about the Fiipina, let us know!

I received a Yahoo 360 notification from a friend to check out this blog thread about Bayo, accused of plagiarizing someone else’s artwork and used in their Kids of Bayo clothesline.

Bayo, on the other hand, has not given any official response about this matter despite the e-mails they have been getting about it. Is the accusation substantiated? In time, we’ll see…

Do you have a blog post about this topic? Let us know!