BusinessWeek: Blogs Will Change Your Business

This grabbed my attention when I saw it on Steve Rubel's blog. Click here for the full story -- interestingly enough, written like a blog.

The Body Reinterpreted, Part 2

The Filipino body is as beautiful as the Filipino mind is creative.

A while back, I blogged the Philippines' maiden entry into the World Bodypainting Festival. Here are more pics from the event, from ManilaTonight.com and Human Canvas.


Shyra


Jen


Gail


Marge


Jane


Cheryl Ann

Adobe... Flash?

I've always used Macromedia software for web design, and Adobe software for graphic design. Perhaps my life will become easier with the prospect of seamless integration between their powerful tool suites as Adobe acquires Macromedia.

The Gamer's Heritage

When everyone was playing PacMan twenty-five years ago, few could predict that he'd end up reinterpreted in a museum.

The recently opened i am 8-bit exhibit in Los Angeles reinterprets classic video games, from old-school hits like Super Mario Bros. to more recent genre-definers like Street Fighter II.

With the stunning realism of today's games, my kids may well see a wax figure of Final Fantasy X-2's Yuna at Madame Tussaud's.

The Institute for Backup Trauma

A while back, I attended a conference where information storage company EMC delivered a presentation on data backup.

While extremely informative, EMC's presentation is not half as entertaining as the hilarious John Cleese in The Institute for Backup Trauma. I could say this is a fine example of a company cost-effectively leveraging the viral nature of online video -- but I'll just say it's damn funny. Click here for some backup trauma.

Micro Persuasive

Congratulations to Steve Rubel on the first anniversary of his blog Micro Persuasion, one of the finest resources available for PR blogging.

Here's to expanding human knowledge and opening peoples' minds -- one post at a time.

Revenge of the Return

Information narcosis can produce... interesting results. The unbridled creativity of the savvy Netizen never ceases to amaze me.

For more tongue-in-cheek suggestions on where the Star Wars franchise should go, click here. They're not quite as infectious as the wonderfully serendipitous "Star Wars Kid" meme, but they're still funny.

The Gamer's Edge

Gamers are often the first in their communities to "get" emerging technologies.

Congratulations to PhilGaming.com on announcing their RSS and Atom feeds -- divided by category, no less.

British Invasion

The Philippines generates more SMS traffic than all of Europe -- and Europe is taking notice.

MonsterMob, a United Kingdom-based company, has bought Upper Mobile Limited, which owns Philippine mobile content provider Information Gateway Inc. and Singaporean content development company Creative Minds Pte. Click here for details of the deal.

The Age of Participation

Nearly thirty years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates posted An Open Letter to Hobbyists in the monthly newsletter MITS Computer Notes, proposing that software should not be free.

Yesterday, Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz posted The Age of Participation: Obstacles and Accelerants in his blog, proposing that all traditional software will ultimately go to free.

Bill's letter speaks of kicking hobbyists out of club meetings. Jonathan's presentation speaks of a connected world. Indeed, times have changed.

Syndicate or Abdicate

"If you do a marketing site and you don't have an RSS feed today you should be fired." -- Robert Scoble

Looks like somebody at Robert's own company deserves the axe.
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Microsoft’s Raikes ‘blogs’ own dog food consumption, but sans RSS
by ZDNet's David Berlind

The bad news is that it's not a blog when it should have been. Microsoft's Information Worker Business group vice president Jeff Raikes had a golden opportunity to prove that he and Microsoft "get it" by joining the ranks of tech executives who blog. Instead, he chose the more anitquated (I can't believe I'm saying this) Web [...]