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The Cebu Bloggers Society members were invited by Jun Tariman to guest his tech radio segment program. This was aired thru DYAB Cebu at 3:00 to 3:30 pm, November 2, 2008, Sunday. The 30-minute interview were attended by Clarence of DahongLaya.Com, Kevin of MarRoxas2010.Blogspot.com, Zeniamai of Zeniamai.Wordpress.Com, Empress of EmpressOfDrac.Com, X of ObnoxiousQueer.Com, and Sinjin of Sinjin.Ph.

The special radio segment’s main topic is about blogging. Before the formal interview, the members introduced themselves to the listeners and provided quick background to their respective blogsites. After that, Kevin formally introduced the Cebu Bloggers Society group to the listeners.

Mr. Tariman began the interview by asking the group when does blogging started. It was then followed by series of discussions about how to earn money thru blogging, how to increase blogsite traffic, the role of Search Engine Optimization in promoting your blog, popular money transfer services you should use to claim your blogsite’s income, the importance of blogging in history, best blog platforms to use, and of course the basic steps on how to create a blog.

The 30-minute interview was also broadcast internationally thru live webcast.

Mr. Jun Tariman of DYAB Cebu

CBS members with Mr. Jun Tariman

Click here for more photos. Photo Credits: X

Defcon Philippines

The soft launching of Defcon Philippines (DefconPH) on December 20, 2008 will bring together IT Security Professionals and Hackers to discuss their solutions, exploits and experiences in this complicated and critical field of IT Security arena. Attending this launching puts you one step ahead in preserving your company’s reputation, keeping your company solvent, and showing your value to your employer. DefconPH is a registered Defcon Group International as DC6332.

This half-day power packed event will cover the latest topics in IT security, hacking and protection. Learn how to avoid embarrassing and expensive data breaches, protect valuable information, and many more. Launching of this organization will commence in Handuraw, 460 Gorordo Avenue, Cebu City from 1PM to 6PM. Respective sponsors are www.opononline.com and www.empressofdrac.com . For more details visit the official website at www.defconph.org or email maxtor@defconph.org now.

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The Digital Filipino Club successfully held this event at Teatro Casino in Waterfront, Cebu last 22nd of October. This Fellowship was organized by Miss Janette Toral and sponsored by PAGCOR. The event was crowded by online-affiliated people and was even made livelier by the present of the Cebu Bloggers Society members who became the event’s center of attraction because of their well-thought t-shirt design. All the participants enjoyed the event not only because of the freebies, but also it became a temporary venue of meeting individuals with the same line of interest.

After consuming their sumptuous dinner, the bloggers introduced themselves and talked something about their respective blogs. It was followed by a speech from a PAGCOR representative announcing their newest online marketing plan. Miss Janette Toral also made a brief introduction about the Digital Filipino Club’s members, history and as well as the latest club activities. Kevin Ray Chua and Winston, members of CBS also made special speeches on how they started their blogs and gave tips on how to increase blog popularity. There were also little talks about SEO and then followed by PAGCOR’s video presentation, a gaming event among bloggers, picture takings, and the awarding of raffle prizes.

Anyways, I met Beor and Galadriel of Istorya.Net during the event. I know them because I always hang out on their forum before. This is way back when my immaturish reflexes were still in control of my half-cooked brain. Beor is actually a very respectable and handsome man and her wife is really pretty in person. I actually have so much respect to them, and I look up to them like role models.

I guess I need to end this post here. It seems like I run out of ideas already. My lazy brain is already bitching me to finish the 4th book of the Twilight saga. So long penguins!

Digital Filipino Club and Bloggers Fellowship Night

Miss Janette Toral of DigitalFilipino.com

With X, my fave CBS buddy(:

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This is the first time in four weeks that I managed to go home early.  Yes, as early as 7pm.  This is because I never thought that our supervisor would force me not to report to work since I was three hours late.  Three hours late because I attended a five-hour seminar this morning and this afternoon.

My friend was actually the organizer of the said event.  She invited me along with my other three colleagues, but only one managed to go with me.  The seminar is actually about Microsoft’s newest released operating system, the Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office System, Exchange Server 2007, Windows Server 2008, and about their new Financing Program for their clients.

To start with, I’m not really that impressed with Windows Vista.  I would rather use XP or any other Linux distros.  Vista has definitely an unquestionable GUI superiority, but it doesn’t outweigh its functionality and efficiency.  Aside that it has still lots of bugs, it would also consume a lot of your PC’s memory space.  But then, there’s is no denying with the reality.  XP will be totally eradicated in the market by 2014.  So, end users has no other choice but to upgrade to mighty Vista.  Well, that is, if we won’t opt to open source platforms.  Platforms and applications with no 24-hour customer support, as what one of the speakers pointed out jestingly.

Nevertheless, the seminar focused on the advantages brought by their new upgraded innovation(which by the way, copied Linux multiple desktops feature).  I just can’t help it.  The multiple desktop panel feature is just too obvious.  Anyways, the speakers stressed out that Vista is only compatible with today’s computers.  That means that if you’re using a 4-year old motherboard and processor(like me), then you must also upgrade it to the latest ones like core 2 duo, quad, extreme or to quad core so that you can run it smoothly and buglessly.  Oh well, right, but for personal computers, I don’t think those processors are practical to use.  But then most end users just don’t care.  As long as it is the latest, they would grab it up.  Not thinking that they’re putting their hard-earned money to waste.

Okay, back to topic.  Windows Vista according to Microsoft people is created to change the whole image of Windows.  This operating system is more powerful and efficient when it comes to security and privacy, performance and reliability, deployment and servicing, management, instant search, smart organization, visualization, user experience, networking, mobility, collaboration and synchronization.  Well, this is in comparison to their previous platforms.

In Vista Enterprise Edition, the user can now encrypt their PCs local drives and all the files and data in them.  This is actually a built-in feature in Vista, which means that the user won’t need any third party software anymore if he needs to encrypt any of his files.  Vista’s security feature can also automatically disabled access to your network from infected PCs.

The 2007 Microsoft Office System has subtle improvements.  It adopted an XML-based file format for MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  There are live layout preview and image customization features for Word, and improved graphical and visual presentation for Excel and PowerPoint.  You can even save your word document as an HTML file(this one is really cool).

Anyways, I won’t discuss here their other application softwares for those are not of my concern anymore.  For those Microsoft fanatics out there(those mortals who buy genuine Microsoft stuffs), the company has launched a financing program which allows their clients to pay for  their products in installment basis.  Unfortunately, this program is for small and medium business only.

I guess this is a very long post already.  I’m too eager to end this bloody ramblings since I just bought a DVD copy of ISWAK 2.  I bought it at Colon this late afternoon and I’m super duper excited to watch it.   Hmmmn… I need to make a separate post about Colon Street in my next entry.   Hehehehe!  So long penguins!

Microsoft Seminar

N.B. I wrote this post also to give thanks to my friend and her fellow NgKhai organizers for the very delectable luncheon they served this noon.  Thanks, thanks, thanks!

The onset of technological advancement has paved way to lots of possibilities and opportunities. The lifestyle of modernization is greatly embraced by people across cultures. Most people worldwide became dependent to this technological advancement, such as, you don’t have to go to Paris anymore to buy your favorite costumed made Italian lingerie. By a few clicks of your mouse you can have the finest designer clothes from your favorite Italian clothesline. You can pay your bills without going to the bank, but by just paying online. You can even sell merchandise online with international prospects. And these are made possible by no other than the internet.

The internet or the World Wide Web is the most celebrated technological breakthrough in the dawn of the 20th century. It narrowed down the cultural gap among people world wide, and long distance communication is made even easier, more affordable, and very portable. Phone to phone conversation may be is still in, but cyber communication is the current trend in the market. Cyber communication is another name for communication using the internet or the web.

The internet or cyberspace has introduced a more dynamic and convenient way of communication platform which jives in with the current fast-paced lifestyle of people across nations. This has made way to Instant Messaging(IM), such as Yahoo Messenger (YM), Google Talk (GTalk), MSN Messenger, IRC, and a lot more instant messaging services. And lately, these IM companies have added voice messaging service (for voice conference, phone to phone talk) as add-ons to their software applications.

Another form of communication platform in the net is the web-based instant messaging, wherein, you can send messages to anyone without using any software-based IMs, but your browser(such as Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, Avant ). On the other hand, interpersonal and dating websites(such as Cherryblossoms.com, FriendFinder.com, AdultFriendFinder.com) and social networking realms(such as Myspace.com, Friendster.com, Facebook.com, MyYearBook.com) have also dominated the online world. People around the globe meet online, communicate with each other, make friends, transact business, and even to the extent of building romantic relationships through these mediums. These can also be seen in email correspondence, forums, blogs, and the likes. Due to all these online innovations, cyber relationships exist.

And thus, we can say that cyber relationships are intimate and non-intimate bonds that are formed through frequent online communication. These can be platonic, romantic, or businesslike. As more and more people became acquainted with the World Wide Web, this has become the trend, and has posed lots of criticisms among people from all walks of life.

Some find it very convenient and classy because it is high tech, but others are dubious and cynical, especially when most people’s conception about cyber relationships only focuses to romantic relationship, that is the referrence to those people who use the internet as a medium to find love, sexmates, husbands, and even an aging foreigner to uplift their economic status .

There are actually lots of factors that affect these attitudes toward cyber relationships. The next lines are questions that can actually help us to better understand this new change in our society.

First, is to what extent people perceive it as serious or not. Second, is to how open-minded are they, as to their level of involvement. Third, are the advantages brought by this new trend sufficient enough to outweigh the disadvantages, and how these factors affect those people who are involved. And lastly, is to what extent socio-demographic status can affect ones attitude towards cyber relationships, that is, how does a person’s gender, social economic status, educational attainment could affect his views on the said issue?

Cyber relationship is may be the in thing nowadays, but just like anything that is new, it will take time before all people can fully adjust and understand its implications to the society.

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