The Marocharim Experiment

   When I tell friends that I have a blog, the question is automatic: “Do you make money out of it?”    Well, no.  Look around: as of this writing, I don’t have ads.  I don’t have sponsored posts.  For one, I don’t know how.  For two, I used to be just like every aspiring [...]

   In an Inquirer report, Lakas-CMD spokesperson Raul Lambino named four people among a short list of 30 names to represent the party in the 2010 national elections.  One’s Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jr.: the star of “Resiklo” who tries to pass himself off as the action-hero version of Nobel laureate Al Gore.  Then there’s Sen. Lito Lapid, [...]

   Hitachi just released the world’s first one terabyte hard drive.  To put 1,000 gigabytes into perspective, imagine six 160 GB hard drives and one 40 GB hard drive all linked together (or two 500 GB hard drives, whichever comes first).  Then put all that hard drive space in one standard hard drive.  This is [...]

   I was reading danah’s blog awhile ago, and her latest entry posed a very intriguing question: can social networking sites (SNS) be used as educational tools, in and out of the classroom?  This is the premise in the latest debate of The Economist.  And I agree with danah’s disagreements on the responses of Ewan [...]