iBlog: The 15th Philippine Blogging Summit #iblog15

Just like to give you readers a heads-up. We will be organizing a Blogging Gloriagate Forum this August 4 at the University of the Philippines College of Law from 9 am to 12 noon. Expect us to post the full agenda on or before July 27.

I hope you can join us!

Welcome back to the iblog website! We just transferred to our new server and expect more updates/announcement soon.

The GloriaGate scandal contributed to the escalating number of blogs focused on this topic. This give readers the opportunity to read a wide variety of opinions from different bloggers on this issue.

Some of these interesting blogs include:

• The Gloriagate Conversations
• Sun.Star Online
• PCIJ
• Newsstand
• Jove Francisco
• Manuel L. Quezon III
• Sassy Lawyer
• JJ Disini

Are you aware of blogs consistently covering developments in Philippine politics? Share it with us here!

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]