First, let me digress. It must be hard to be a beautiful and accomplished actress Ann Curtis these days. You show up in a fabulous party, dressed up like a goddess, and smile like everyone is there to see you. But they weren't. They were ignoring you. Everyone was looking at BB Gandanghari, dressed in red and black gown. Yep, even those cute Angelos, trying to entertain the crowd, were all eyes at BB. I was in the table next to her, so I knew how people simply swirled around her, ignoring jall those other actors, editors and fashion model.
The party was the Velvet Oscar Night last Friday at the Ayala Museum. They practically invited everyone in the media and entertainment industry. Wines overflowed, much to my delight. And that was the only thing good that night. The rest was boring – pretension at its best. Everyone left hurriedly to the next party, which in our case was the Radio Partners Party where DJ Mojo Jojo was one of the hosts.
That was such a sharp contrast to the Ipanema Giselle Bundchen Collection Bloggers Launch we attended at the Le Souffle the night before. The Victorina Council was invited and we came in full force. Yes, there was food and wine and fashion show and music. But the energy was more real, and the people more attractive.
My friend Noel, a TV Director, declined the invitation to Ipanema saying it was a harried PR night. Well, dude, it was nothing like that. It felt like a gathering of friends.
It was Rodes Fishburne of San Francisco Chronicles who captured the power of blogging very clearly. He said, "The truth is blogs are nothing more than one of our oldest known communication forms: the letter. Think of blogs as personal letters, and letters as conversations, and you've grasped blogs' immediacy and power. Blogs have become so popular so quickly because they are personality driven. We all have access to the same machine now, the Internet, thus advantage is won by using personality, not broadcasting apparatus."
So when someone like, say KC Concepcion, says on national TV that she loves this shampoo. Her message will be taken as what it really is – a commercial endorsement. It is not an expression of her personality. And people nowadays have become so information-driven and tech-savvy that they can smell a fake statement a mile away.
But when a simple blogger, like mugen, writes that he is not a fashion expert but he liked Ipanema because of its environmental advocacy, it has something that brings people to believe – honesty.
The traditional PRINT media is now struggling to survive. They know that sooner or later, they will lose their relevance. Slowly, they will lose their value as society's primary source of information that affects public opinion, and stories that touch people's lives. They have become just one mode of communicating, one among the many.
But the blogs have taken over; and most bloggers know this. They know that companies are now after them, not so much to endorse, but to experience their products.
The US Elections has shown that an online community can create a president and cause in monumental shift in world history.
That is the vast potential that blogging, social networking and twittering can provide. We know what to do.
And the time to do it is now.
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L.P.Leviste sez.........
Blogging is the SOCIAL PHENOMENA of this brand new century. But with it's newness are questions....
Are blogs like FACEBOOK really letters or are they glorified SLUMBOOKS ?
Blogging doesn't engage debate so IT is one sided. Si ?
Like the impersonal text message, blogging doesn't have INTERFACE like a conversation. It is like a telephone call, you won't see LYING furtive eyes....... nor see a SUCKERS hidden agenda. Agree ?
Blogging is like masturbation, you don't have to look your best. No ?
Blogging FOR ME is self promotion. It is the final frontier of the SOCIAL CLIBMER, were he/she can shamelessly network, join POPULAR causes or have virtual SEX. Oui ?
Blogging is a VOYEURS pleasure dome where PORNO, sex sites and orgies may be arranged by pressing the SEND button. We ?
Blogging is a politician's NEW secret weapon. President Obama surely thanks FACEBOOK for garnering MANY votes. Did he ?
BLOGS are the last recourse of the LONELY, depressed and socially inept. Like you ?
Blogging will slowly make us ALL stay online ALL DAY, soon we will lose our legs for we are LAPTOP handcuffed and HOME alone with the unblinking eye of BIG BROTHER"S flickering fractured bytes. OUCH ?
BLOGGING IS for shy or UGLY people who cannot face the world. That's why it's called FACEBook, silly.
Blogging will increase eye disease we haven't found names for yet. Sore eyes from staring at LIGHT RAYS haven't been fully investigated yet. Say ?
Blogging can make you MUTE. Or DEAF or most possibly DUMB. What did you say ?
Blogs do not have protocol, can incite INSTANT anger, misplaced hallucinations even yes, VIOLENCE. They all clamor for the death and METH of TINY dicked TIM. Why ?
But I will blog until I die, and you ASK why ?
Why NOT ?
Thank you.
People nowadays know the power of the blog, etc. They cannot ignore it. In a year's time, I'm sure that the elections will be heavily influenced by us bloggers. But we should get involved this early: to encourage an athmosphere of change; to condemn those who continue to perpetuate the status quo, which is choking the Philippine nation; and to provide a blinding ray of hope and an outlet of our expression to those still trapped in an archaic mindset. Now is our time to "flex our muscles" and change this generation, and other generations to come, thanks to blogs, social networking, etc.
Goodbye TINY!
In the decade hence, blogs have come to dominate the net, from 100 million personal diaries to the breaking news sections of the august The New York Times.
"It's the easiest, cheapest, fastest publishing tool ever invented," said Jeff Jarvis, news blogger, media pundit and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. "The people have a voice they didn't have before."
There are more than 100 million active blogs, according to Technorati -- a monumental leap forward from the relative handful of geeks posting online just a few years back. The expanding chorus of voices is shaping what we read and how we read it.
Blogs are re-shaping not just news and entertainment, but also publishing, politics and public relations.
Writers like Tim Yap and Celine Lopez abused their position. Now the old has gone and the new has come.
Mabuhay ang BLOGGERS!
I AGREE WITH IAN LOPEZ!
"But we should get involved this early: to encourage an athmosphere of change; to condemn those who continue to perpetuate the status quo, which is choking the Philippine nation; and to provide a blinding ray of hope and an outlet of our expression to those still trapped in an archaic mindset."
I HOPE YOUR NT RELATED TO CELINE!
We are witnessing some kind of ascendancy of the common people to disseminate ideas throughout society!
Dear Larry,
I agree with you but only on this point: They all clamor for the death and METH of TINY dicked TIM.
POW!
lito
Dear Larry,
AFTER having columnists who LIE even about their CURRICULUM VITAE why not just read BLOGS? At least we can talk back!
tina
Unlike Washington Sycip, who insists that Western-style democracy is our basic problem, I had long thought corruption is really the root problem of this country, all finding root in our weaknesses as a culture. Until I read Tim Yap:
"There is this mind-set, which I think is so passe, that says: `The country is in shambles and the country is having a hard time and you are out there partying.' But this generation is guiltless when it comes to that."
Seriously, why is this guy a freaking editor ...Maybe the best answer comes from this album by Radioactive Sago: "P*****ina Mo, Ang Daming Nagugutom sa Mundo, Fashionista Ka Pa Rin!"
who is afraid of bloggers? ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE!
WIKI SAYS:
Many bloggers, particularly those engaged in participatory journalism, differentiate themselves from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media working through a different channel. Some institutions see blogging as a means of "getting around the filter" and pushing messages directly to the public. Some critics worry that bloggers respect neither copyright nor the role of the mass media in presenting society with credible news.
Bloggers and other contributors to user-generated content are behind Time magazine naming their 2006 person of the year as "you".
Many mainstream journalists, meanwhile, write their own blogs — well over 300, according to CyberJournalist.net's J-blog list. The first known use of a blog on a news site was in August 1998, when Jonathan Dube of The Charlotte Observer published one chronicling Hurricane Bonnie.[15]
Some bloggers have moved over to other media. The following bloggers (and others) have appeared on radio and television: Duncan Black (known widely by his pseudonym, Atrios), Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit), Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (Daily Kos), Alex Steffen (Worldchanging) and Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette).
In counterpoint, Hugh Hewitt exemplifies a mass-media personality who has moved in the other direction, adding to his reach in "old media" by being an influential blogger.
But the blogs have taken over; and most bloggers know this. They know that companies are now after them, not so much to endorse, but to experience their products.
The US Elections has shown that an online community can create a president and cause in monumental shift in world history.
GO VICTORINA!
Bongga si Rain B! Rubbing elbows with high society...
Bongga si Rain B! Rubbing elbows with high society...
Rain is the next Tim Yap?
Eeeeeeeeeh!
"The truth is blogs are nothing more than one of our oldest known communication forms: the letter...
Yup! Back to Basics!
I dont think blogs are masturbatory. The comment portion provides nearly instant feedback. On the other hand it is the newspaper column that is more often than not, self-indulgent. You have views inflicted on you, and the mechanism to talk back or fight back, just isnt there anymore.
Rain Yap....Hahahaha!
We can smell a fake statement a mile away...
KILL TINY!
petronas I think Larry masturbates while reading this blog!
TINY is stuck in an archaic mindset.
@ Anonymous at February 24, 2009 11:18 PM: I'm related to Celine, through my grandfather's grandfather (my grandfather's grandfather's brother/cousin is probably her ascendant). The good news, is that my branch of the Lopez tree doesn't have that much rotten apples, compared to the Lopezes of Iloilo. My grandfather's father settled in Laguna probably a decade after the Philippine-American War (1898-1902), and married a resident of San Pablo City sometime in the 1920's.
Bongga si Rain B! Rubbing elbows with high society...
Rain is the next Tim Yap?
Eeeeeeeeeh!
++++++++++++++
hahhaha.
it is so sad no?
I should get the social climber of the year award from victorina. I looked like a retard over there.
And it is all Amiel's fault.
(Amiel, by the way, partied with Anna Wintour's entourage in LA, what can i say?
oi... I just play DOTA in Metrowalk.
That was Andre Leon Tallie who invited me- hehehe!
Oh Larry....
Rain is the SOCIALITE!