Archive for April 10th, 2010

iBlog 6: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit

iBlog 6: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit

Promote this event badgeMark your calendars.  iBlog 6: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit, is on April 16 and April 17, 2010, at the Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman, Quezon City.

It’s going to be a two-day affair: the first day is for business people and entrepreneurs who want to maximize blogging for promotions, and the second day is for blogging 101.

Oh, and I’m also going to be one of two speakers on political blogging, online commentary, and social media.  That’s on Day Two.  So if you see a dorky guy in black with long hair and glasses, that’s probably me.

Hope to see you there, ladies and gentlemen!

April 10, 2010 2 comments Read More
Jejemon Series 1: Jejemon Fashion

Jejemon Series 1: Jejemon Fashion

Eclecticism and syncretism have long been used to explain fashion.  Alfred Kroeber, for example, writes that changes in fashion are not the product of a single mind, but that the end result of a fashionable trend is the result of the contributions of human beings through a multitude of perspectives.  If fashion were a catalog or a magazine of different cultural affects, we are contributors as much as we are subscribers to it.

Fashion is almost always the accretion of different cultural facts, coming together to clothe a particular taste.  Yet taste never exists solely on the level of the personal: tastes, like many other things in society, are social facts.  They are defined by us, as much as they are also defined for us.  Fashion constrains us as much as it enables us.

April 10, 2010 14 comments Read More