tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11399390034961028632024-03-05T10:32:22.521-08:00Marc My Wordfrom nothing to something to anything for every onemarc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139939003496102863.post-84744270319115051212010-12-15T04:26:00.000-08:002010-12-15T04:32:37.533-08:00Manalo ng LIBRENG ikaw-mismo-ang-maghohost na WordPress Hosting at Domain Name, sumali sa SELF-HOST YOUR BLOG GIVEAWAYThe title of this <i>blogabag</i> is the Filipino language or Tagalog translation for "Self-Host Your Blog Giveaway: Win FREE Self-Hosted WordPress Hosting + Domain Name." <br />
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One hundred million Filipinos in the Philippine homeland understand Tagalog.<br />
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Ten million Filipinos more overseas (I mean, those who work, study, visit or stay in 100 countries worldwide) can speak, read, write and understand Tagalog. <br />
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You can add to this worldwide Filipino universe the x10 or x100 foreign national friends of each and every friendly Filipino with that world-famous smiles on their faces, abroad, and what do you get?<br />
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Two hundred million hearts, minds, bodies and spirits who would take the opportunity to join and win this WordPress selfhosting activity.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxKiSDq2vItCkDgyOKVNgbZSF1n4KEdsL5IcgkDssD6jkr7IgAE1KxXdexadnOH89nsQz2IhrXbBXVwrqJ0rJcwsxKPk_W4EToko2SFsNwZRtWPrB9xP0E_MaGCXzMFngkJHryUwqH1s/s1600/wpwh-giveaway-530x200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="151" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxKiSDq2vItCkDgyOKVNgbZSF1n4KEdsL5IcgkDssD6jkr7IgAE1KxXdexadnOH89nsQz2IhrXbBXVwrqJ0rJcwsxKPk_W4EToko2SFsNwZRtWPrB9xP0E_MaGCXzMFngkJHryUwqH1s/s400/wpwh-giveaway-530x200.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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I am comment 79917 at http://www.wpwebhost.com/self-host-your-blog-giveaway/comment-page-5/#comment-79917marc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139939003496102863.post-48234442074680428492010-12-15T03:57:00.000-08:002010-12-15T03:59:10.683-08:00AdWords is 10: Tell 'em your story, my AdWords successful business (hi)story is still being draftedI entered this; you, too, can upload your story, for posterity:<br />
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"I am journalist Marc Guerrero - an exponent of the next "in" thing in media: "Journalism with Compassion."<br />
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I do business in Manila and across Southeast Asia as Marc Guerrero Communications Inc.<br />
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My startup media boutique is engaged in media management, media marketing communications, advocacy public relations and transformative technologies development.<br />
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I am trying AdWords now, actually, for the past few months already. But I am not getting through, Oh so successfully, for some technical reasons as a newby in online advertising.<br />
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I believe, however, that eventually (meaning, in the coming weeks, months, years) AdWords will greatly help my media entrepreneurship beyond my business expectations.<br />
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Marc Guerrero Communications Inc, in fact, can be the next "Googly" in my part of the globe. <br />
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Truth is, I have just blogged about AdWords turning 10 in http://cuzmarc.blogspot.com...<br />
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It's titled:<br />
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"AdWords is 10: Tell 'em your story, my AdWords 'successful business (hi)story' is still being drafted."<br />
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AdWords' runup to its 11th anniversary in November 2011 will not be complete without me, my business and my CSRs on its roster."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCMdJdOxpNZdfLQ6NeBJkrZd5sXNxQWJV1qXAjFabqodgc_D6z1DCPIEEnvs2HVHRJILDV2LMgb0e7lspV6ovCCx9sQwIqvnsgK7tdvFZ4YE4RUaix2QoySb9mYX8m7ZPct52ANSl72hc/s1600/Copy+of+facebook-ad-3+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="309" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCMdJdOxpNZdfLQ6NeBJkrZd5sXNxQWJV1qXAjFabqodgc_D6z1DCPIEEnvs2HVHRJILDV2LMgb0e7lspV6ovCCx9sQwIqvnsgK7tdvFZ4YE4RUaix2QoySb9mYX8m7ZPct52ANSl72hc/s400/Copy+of+facebook-ad-3+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div>marc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139939003496102863.post-13410147405397100282010-12-15T02:51:00.000-08:002010-12-15T02:51:23.493-08:00Nearly 200 days back...President Noynoy Aquino just did as we somewhat proposed, I confided in a buzz-off long ago to Manolo Quezon, a grandson of the Philippine Commonwealth President (classmate of my grandfather's, at the 400-year old University of Santo Tomas) and one of the many speech consultants of P-Noy. <br />
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The 15th President of the Republic of The Philippines "took his oath of office," more meaningfully, to 20 volunteers from the ordinary people's sectors via a Commitment to Change pledge, thus:<br />
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"PANATA SA PAGBABAGO <br />
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"Pilipino ako.<br />
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"Namamanata ako na tutulong ako sa aking pamunuan,<br />
Sa pagtataguyod ng marangal na pamamahala,<br />
Sa pagpapalakas ng isang lipunang makatarungan,<br />
At sa pagpapatingkad ng ating demokrasya,<br />
Upang guminhawa ang pinakamamahal nating bayang Pilipinas.<br />
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"Gagampanan ko ang lahat ng katungkulan ng isang mabuting mamamayan<br />
Na kasing-tindi ng paghamon ko sa aking mga pinuno<br />
Na sumunod sa landas na matuwid.<br />
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"Makikipagkapit-bisig ako sa aking kapwa Pilipino<br />
Sama-sama nating babaguhin ang takbo ng kasaysayan<br />
Upang umiral ang kagandahang loob.<br />
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"Ipinangangako ko ito, sa ngalan ng aking mga ninuno at mga apo.<br />
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"Patnubayan nawa ng Poong Maykapal ang sambayanan."<br />
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EARLIER, second President Aquino took a "more traditional" oath of office before Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines Conchita Carpio-Morales at high noon of the 30th of June 2010 in the Quirino Grandstand of the Rizal Park in Manila.<br />
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This offbeat presidential oathtaking was reminiscent of the decision of his mother, Cory Aquino, who in 1986, was sworn into the presidency by Associate Justice Claudio Teehankee. <br />
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Son Noynoy Aquino refused to allow Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines Renato Corona to swear him into office, due to Aquino's opposition to the midnight appointment of Corona by outgoing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.<br />
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Months before the June 30th Inaugural, we proposed that Noynoy Aquino took his oath before 21 multisectoral representatives of the Filipino people at EDSA. Thank you for sharing your inaugural space with ordinary Filipinos. Pagpalain ang matuwid mong nilalandas!marc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139939003496102863.post-39813923684333665442010-05-13T11:10:00.000-07:002010-05-13T11:10:46.167-07:00President-elect Noynoy Aquino may take his oath of office before 21 representatives of various sectors in Philippine society by Marc GuerreroBENIGNO SIMEON COJUANGCO AQUINO III, 15th President-elect of the Republic of The Philippines after Emilio Famy Aguinaldo (and not including their predecessors Manuel Luis Quezon, Andres Bonifacio and Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda et al), may take his oath of office on the 30th of June 2010 not necessarily before the (until May the 17th) Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno nor his successor (if Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will have her way), the next High Court CJ Renato Corona.<br />
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Noynoy Aquino as President may swear allegiance to The Philippines, to our flag and to the 100 million Filipino people in the country and in 100 countries that he will do “his utmost best” by the blessings of God and his heroic parents (Ninoy and Cory Aquino) before 21 “ordinary Filipino” representatives symbolizing 21 sectors that comprise Philippine society in the 21st century.<br />
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This is in keeping with the spirit, essence, substance, style and form of the First EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986 that catapulted a housewife into power which equalized a 20-year martial reign by a strongman. <br />
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Members of the High Tribunal together with the Archbishop of Manila and all the spiritual leaders of all religions or Faiths that keep our nation alive plus the nine presidential candidates who did not make it to the polls, may serve as great “witnesses” to the Aquino inaugural.<br />
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Pangulong Noynoy Aquino may enjoin all other winning candidates in the generally peaceful first automated-counting national and local elections of the 10th of May 2010 from vice president, senators, congressmen, governors, mayors down to the line of councilors, partylisters and all to take their respective oaths of office with him before the 21 sectoral representatives on June 30.<br />
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Presidente Noynoy Aquino Inaugural organizers may do the oath-taking not in Luneta or Malakanyang but at the Our Lady of Peace church in the corner of EDSA and Ortigas Avenue, the seat where “Freedom President of The Philippines” Cory Aquino and Jaime Cardinal Sin used to inspire people.<br />
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In the spirit of genuine reconciliation, the Aquino Inaugural organizers may have to make sure that Cielo Macapagal Salgado is there, Imelda, Imee and Bongbong Marcos are there, President Fidel Valdez Ramos and family are there, Joseph Ejercito Estrada, Loi Ejercito, Guia Gomez, Jinggoy Estrada, JV Ejercito and family are there, and the whole clan of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will be there to show the whole wide world that “ours is a working democracy,” that has the great potential to become “better than America’s or Great Britain’s.”<br />
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Heads of states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, including, perhaps, US State Secretary Hillary Clinton or Al Gore representing Barack Obama and other leading lights of circa-21 democracies may grace the Aquino inaugural together with the members of the diplomatic corps in Manila.<br />
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With such a noble and novel inaugural idea that goes along the tradition of the spirit of the first EDSA, “all is well that ends well.”<br />
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And then we can move on, move up and move to the right direction… faster than the speed of thought. If we can pack up in six years or 12 the 900-year democratic reconscientization processes before the French people acquired their Liberte, the better for the millions of Manny Villar’s mga batang paslit sa putikan.#marc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139939003496102863.post-48613838652301784522009-10-15T02:40:00.000-07:002009-10-21T06:24:46.311-07:00Every Passing Second is a Chance for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to Redeem Herself by Turning The Philippines Around Now, Until the Next Ondoys or Ketsanas Hit the 'Pearl of the Orient' Unto Historical OblivionI am journalist Marc Guerrero, Filipino citizen of the world, holder of <i>diplomatic</i> 'Hopenhagen' passport No 2505576438. <a href="http://hopenhagen.org/">http://hopenhagen.org</a><br />
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I and my colleagues in the media (<i>in The Philippines and in more than 100 countries</i>) at <b>The Press for Help Project</b> initiatives via <a href="http://younoodle.com/startups/the_press_for_help_project">http://younoodle.com/startups/the_press_for_help_project</a> are One with the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen (Dec 7-18 2009), with Al Gore, and with likeminded, likehearted and likespirited individuals and groups, specially the eight-pax BAD 2009 Team of Robin Beck, a co-changemaker at Change.org in Washington DC led-inspired by Ben Ratray, Heather Graham et al, who are moving and shaking the world with <b>Blog Action Day (BAD) 2009: Climate Change</b>, today, the 15th of October, a day after my 48th birthday. <i>That's BAD </i>for any political, business, civil society and religious leaders and followers who are on the wrong side of history (specially<i> "those who </i><i>cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent" </i>- chief speechwriter Jon Favreau for 44th US President Barack Hussein Obama inaugural)<i>, and I think it's good for me and my next generations! <a href="http://blogactionday.org/about/en">See how 20,000 BAD Australian bloggers started in 2007</a><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASQjMuetNE">I was in Marikina Heights (26 Sept 2009) at the height of Ondoy, down below was a total wreck</a></i><br />
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</div><b>THE PHILIPPINE</b> Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA as in "hope" in Tagalog) had assigned the name "Ondoy" to three tropical cyclones in Western Pacific from 2001. There was a second Ondoy in 2005, named internationally as tropical storm Temblin. Typhoon Ketsana - the third Ondoy - on the 26th of Sept 2009 (wedding day in Los Banos, Laguna, The Philippines, of my son's best man Lythus Lobo) was the strongest Ondoy to hit Metro Manila and the almost entire country.<br />
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<b><span style="color: black;">"Typhoon Ketsana</span></b><span style="color: black;"> (international designation: <b><i>0916</i></b>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Typhoon_Warning_Center" title="Joint Typhoon Warning Center"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">JTWC</span></a> designation: <b><i>17W</i></b>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Atmospheric,_Geophysical_and_Astronomical_Services_Administration" title="Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">PAGASA</span></a> name: <b>Ondoy</b>) formed early on September 23 2009, about 860 km (535 mi) to the northwest of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palau</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The depression remained weak and was downgraded to a low pressure area later that day by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency" title="Japan Meteorological Agency"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Japan Meteorological Agency</span></a>. The low pressure area then reintensified early the next day and was named as Tropical Depression Ondoy by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Atmospheric,_Geophysical_and_Astronomical_Services_Administration" title="Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration</span></a> as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Typhoon_Warning_Center" title="Joint Typhoon Warning Center"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Joint Typhoon Warning Center</span></a> issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the depression. It was then reupgraded to a tropical depression by the JMA later that morning before the JTWC followed suit early on Sept 25, designating the depression as 17W. The intensification of Ondoy was hampered throughout Sept 25 by the system moving into an area of moderate vertical windshear and an upper level trough of pressure which was moving over the system. It was then upgraded to a Tropical Storm and named as Ketsana before passing over the <st1:placetype w:st="on">island</st1:placetype> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzon" title="Luzon"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Luzon</span></a> in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div>"<span style="color: black;">On Sept 24, PAGASA placed the provinces of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28province%29" title="Aurora (province)"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Aurora</span></a>, northern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quezon" title="Quezon"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Quezon</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarines_Norte" title="Camarines Norte"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Camarines Norte</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarines_Sur" title="Camarines Sur"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Camarines Sur</span></a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catanduanes" title="Catanduanes"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Catanduanes</span></a> under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_watches_and_warnings#Philippines" title="Tropical cyclone watches and warnings"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Public Storm Warning Signal No 1</span></a> which meant that winds of 30–60 km/h were expected to affect the said areas within 36 hours. After the floods struck, some were critical of the government's failure to predict the scale of the disaster, or to lessen the damage it caused.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ketsana_%282009%29#cite_note-Why-7"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">[8]</span></a></sup><o:p></o:p></span> <br />
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</style><span style="color: black;">On Sept 24, Ketsana was estimated to be 330 km northeast of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virac,_Catanduanes" title="Virac, Catanduanes"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Virac</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catanduanes" title="Catanduanes"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Catanduanes</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></span></a>with a maintaining speed of 55 km/h at its center.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ketsana_%282009%29#cite_note-26"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">[27]</span></a></sup> A day later, Ketsana was spotted 360 km southeast of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baler,_Aurora" title="Baler, Aurora"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Baler</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_province" title="Aurora province"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Aurora</span></a> with maximum winds of 65 km/h near the center and gustiness of up to 80 km/h. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Atmospheric,_Geophysical_and_Astronomical_Services_Administration" title="Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">PAG-ASA</span></a> alerted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_watches_and_warnings#Philippines" title="Tropical cyclone watches and warnings"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">public storm signal no. 2</span></a> into the provinces of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catanduanes" title="Catanduanes"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Catanduanes</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarines_Norte" title="Camarines Norte"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Camarines Norte</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarines_Sur" title="Camarines Sur"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Camarines Sur</span></a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polillo_Island" title="Polillo Island"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Polillo Island</span></a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quezon_province" title="Quezon province"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Quezon</span></a>.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ketsana_%282009%29#cite_note-27"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">[28]</span></a></sup> On Sept 26, shortly before noon in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Standard_Time" title="Philippine Standard Time"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">PST</span></a> (around 0400 UTC), Ketsana made its landfall at the border of Aurora and Quezon provinces, packed with maximum winds of 85 km/h near the center and gustiness of up to 100 km/h.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ketsana_%282009%29#cite_note-rp_flood-28"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">[29]</span></a></sup><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: black;"> At 2:00 PM PST (0600 UTC) that day, Ketsana approached Metro Manila and caused widespread flooding into the cities of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marikina" title="Marikina"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Marikina</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabon" title="Malabon"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Malabon</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntinlupa" title="Muntinlupa"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Muntinlupa</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quezon_City" title="Quezon City"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Quezon,</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makati" title="Makati"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Makati</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasay" title="Pasay"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Pasay</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasig_City" title="Pasig City"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Pasig</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipolo_City" title="Antipolo City"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Antipolo</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taguig" title="Taguig"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Taguig</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valenzuela_City" title="Valenzuela City"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Valenzuela</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_City" title="San Juan City"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">San Juan</span></a>. Flooding also occured in nearby provinces of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulacan" title="Bulacan"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Bulacan</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizal_province" title="Rizal province"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Rizal</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_province" title="Laguna province"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Laguna</span></a> and other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Tagalog" title="Southern Tagalog"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Southern Tagalog</span></a> areas. Major roads were rendered impassable because of huge flood currents and clogged cars.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ketsana_%282009%29#cite_note-rp_flood-28"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">[29]</span></a></sup> On the same hand, air flights were canceled because of heavy rains.<o:p></o:p></span> <br />
<span style="color: black;">Earlier, power interruptions were reported in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarines_Norte" title="Camarines Norte"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Camarines Norte</span></a> and minor landslides occurred in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarines_Sur" title="Camarines Sur"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Camarines Sur</span></a>.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ketsana_%282009%29#cite_note-rp_flood-28"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">[29]</span></a></sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epifanio_delos_Santos_Avenue" title="Epifanio delos Santos Avenue"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"> EDSA</span></a> was closed because of heavy flooding."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Nearly 500 people lost their lives at the height of the storm. Thousands more were dying on the aftermath due to continuous flooding, unattended garbage collection, unrehabilitated public works and other woes. Damage to agriculture and infrastructure was estimated by Wikipedia at PhP4.9 billion. Combined <i>Philippine Daily Inquirer</i>, <i>Philippine Star</i> and <i>Manila Bulletin</i> and other mainstream media accounts put the liabilities at P10 billion. NGOs were in a consensus that official and unofficial estimates could double in terms of lost business. <br />
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I am still writing my blog action for climate change artcle in Manila now. Hang on. I'll be right back.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">Do you believe in luck? Do you believe in chance? Do you believe in destiny? Do you know how to predict your future? Do you know who you are, what you are? Do you know yourself, really?<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">In the Filipino language, we call them <i>hula</i>, <i>suwerte</i>, <i>kapalaran</i> at iba pa.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">If you asked me, do I believe in the esoterica and such stuff?: Yes I do. No I do not.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Let me put it simply, if the prediction, the forecast, the hula, or the reading of dreams, etcetera, were positive, proactive, productive and progressive (translate: <i>it will make me grow as a person with well being</i>), I believe. If it’s negative, alarming or depressing, I don’t. Forget it! <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">And that is why I call these exercises, a <i>katuwaan</i>, or just for fun. Ready?<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Today is a Wednesday, October 14, 2009 in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manila</st1:place></st1:city>, The Philippines. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The 14<sup>th</sup> of October is the 287th day of the year (288th during leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining to the 31<sup>st</sup> of December 2009.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Not only do the <i>komedyano </i>Joey de Leon, a Filipino renaissance man, beauty queen Daisy Reyes (<i>pa </i>rin), music executive Sharon Dy {<i>now</i>,<i> or still is</i> (?) Law}, and politician Evelio Javier (in the league of Ninoy Aquino) were born today.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Celebrities Usher (1978), American singer and actor; Stephen Smith (1967), American sports journalist; Carole Malone (1954), English newspaper columnist; Shelley Ackerman (1953), American astrologer, writer and singer; Katha Politt (1949), American writer who had a pure Filipino name <i>Katha</i>; Christopher Timothy (1940), British actor; Cliff Richard (1940), English singer replicated by Filipino sugar baron and musician Jose Mari Chan; fashion designer Ralph Lauren (1939); English actor Roger Moore (1927) of James Bond fame; ee cummings (1894), poet; Dwight Eisenhower (1890), 34<sup>th</sup> US President; and William Penn (1644), English founder of Pennsylvania, were also born today. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Great events, both in the positive and negative lights, happened on Oct 14: The District of Columbia Bar Association in 1958 voted to accept Black Americans as members, and that is why there is Barack Obama in DC now. In 1949, the Chinese Red Army occupied <st1:city w:st="on">Canton</st1:city> (<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Guangzhou</st1:place></st1:city>), and that is why Mainland Chinese had always considered themselves Communists or Reds, up to now. Winnie the Pooh, the children’s book, by AA Milne, was first published in 1926. In 1884, George Eastman patented the paper-strip photographic film, and that was why movies up to the ‘60s-‘70s were done in Eastman color. First <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> President George Washington proclaimed the first American Thanksgiving Day in 1789. A Canadian friend says their Thanksgiving Day falls in October. Americans moved their celebration with turkey feasts in November. I was asked, what’s the Filipino Thanksgiving Day? Marcos had his own thanksgiving on Sept 21 (the day he imposed martial law in the entire <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region>). I told my friend, Pinoys give thanks everyday, every week, every month of their lives, and not just for the blessings in every passing year.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">And so I am giving thanks today for the 48 blessed years of my life. I look forward to the next 52 years in prosperity, health and peace of mind, with wisdom and impact. <i>I wrote in a health magazine a few years back that </i>I Shall Live Until 100<i>, but my ideas will live for a thousand years after I moved on.<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I am a Sun Libran.<br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In Sanskrit, the name of my Hindu astrology is <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i>Tula</i></st1:place></st1:city><i>. </i><br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 4.8pt 0in 6pt;"><span style="color: black;">Libra is </span><span style="color: black;">the seventh astrological sign in the Zodiac. It originated from the constellation of Libra. According to western astrologers, my sign is no longer aligned with the constellation as a result of the precession of the equinoxes. In astrology, Libra is considered a “masculine,” a positive (extrovert) sign. It is also considered an air sign and is one of four cardinal signs. I am ruled by the planet Venus that also rules Taurus. Being the seventh sign of the zodiac, Libra has been associated with the astrological seventh house, wrote the wikidotters in the Wikipedia. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
</div>According to Astrology.com, the<span style="color: #330099;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Seventh House is commonly referred to as the House of Partnership. With this House, we see a shift away from the self toward another – a partner. By cooperating with, and relating to, another, we unite for the purpose of achieving something. Purpose is important to the Seventh House, the act of accomplishing something great or small for the self, the partnership, and even society as a whole. In uniting with another, we also become a more valuable member of our world: we make a contribution, one small cog in the wheel of life. We have purpose. Cooperation and partnership help to expedite our purpose in life.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I am an Oxen, not a cow (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region>) but a water buffalo (Chinese) or carabao in The Philippines. I am a Metal Oxen like Barack Hussein Obama, the 44<sup>th</sup> President of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. With all due respect, Mr Obama is not the first black president, our own Carlos P Garcia (tanned or dark as the <i>kayumanggi </i>can be) was “black Filipino,” in jest, of course. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">In a quick-drive through the Hub Pages, a posting from a Chinese who goes by the lunar calendar revealed, Obama, born on the 4<sup>th</sup> of August 1961 (he is also 48 this year), is a metal ox.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">He described the metal oxen as “</span>a gentleman and a man who is very sure of himself.” They are often brilliant at what they chose to do in life and because of this they usually rise to positions of leadership quite easily.<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
Ox men, just like ox women, should never be underestimated. Often people make the mistake of underestimating them because of their cool, calm and quiet exterior – this is always a mistake. When an ox makes up his or her mind to do something, nothing at all can stop them.<br />
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Ox men read widely, they are well rounded and can engage in brilliant conversation that is full of substance. They respect people who have genuine knowledge of the topic at hand. However, in all cases, action speaks louder than words for the ox; you have to be able to back up your talk.<br />
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Ox people like Obama prefer people who are confident and sure of themselves, and who act and live accordingly. This applies to both men and women. <br />
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Hub added, Oxens in general are not considered romantic in the <st1:place w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place> sense of the word. Rather, the ox people are truly passionate and capable of great love and genuine loyalty. He won't give you diamonds and furs - again the Hollywood flash is not appealing when it comes to giving or receiving gifts, but he will give gifts of love that are practical, like a house, a car, investments, etc. <br />
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You won't attract this man with cheap seductive tricks. It is far better to respect his intellect and be a match for it.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">My one birthday wish?: Be ‘One’ with me in my humanitarian pet program: “<b>The Press for Help Project</b>.” Request your invite from <a href="http://www.younoodle.com/startups/the_press_for_help_project">http://www.younoodle.com/startups/the_press_for_help_project</a> and <a href="http://www.zazengo.com/projects/628">http://www.zazengo.com/projects/628</a>.# <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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marc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139939003496102863.post-20180701732828047522009-10-13T06:17:00.000-07:002009-10-13T06:17:30.497-07:00Bloggers are not just journalists, they are the new publishers and producers, editors and news managers, columnists, photographers and artistsBloggers are journalists. Bloggers are more than journalists.<br />
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Move over, mainstream media. Here comes you, me, them, and We, the Media!<br />
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YouMedia and WeMedia are more interactive, more convergent, more interlinked and more interconnected with their newssources and newsmakers than the socalled mainstream media.<br />
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They can report the news, spice the news up with better features, and churn out their own first-person views, if not those of third parties, solicited or not, regarding any one or all personalities, events, places and passions, inside and out, up close and personal.<br />
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Compared to mainstream journalists, bloggers can report the news (as is, where is) and disseminate their news and views, in real time. You need not wait for the early- or late-night news on TV or tomorrow's edition of the newspaper to get any news live, and the protagonists and antagonists, alive, in living color, so to speak.<br />
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Add on to weblogging the socalled Web 2.0 social networking platforms, from Facebook and Twitter, to MySpace and Friendster, etcetera, and what will you get: It's the future of news. It's social media. It's future is now.<br />
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Declares Arianna Huffington, queen ant-and-bee of the online Washington Post<i>ish</i>-wannabe at <a href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=120584762130">http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=120584762130</a>:<br />
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"Despite all the current hand-wringing about the dire state of newspapers, we are actually in the midst of a Golden Age for news consumers. We can surf the net, use search engines, access the best stories from around the world, and interact by commenting and forming communities.<br />
"The days of publishing pooh-bahs dictating to us what's important and what's not are over. We now can get the news we want, when we want it, how we want it and where we want it.<br />
"The Web has given us control over the news we consume. Now the explosive growth of online social networking is fundamentally changing our relationship with news as well. It's no longer something we passively take in. We now engage with news, react to news and share news. <br />
"News has become an important element of community — something around which we gather, connect and converse. We all are part of the evolution of a story now — expanding it with comments and links to relevant information, adding facts and differing points of view.<br />
"In short, the news has become social. And it will become even more community-powered: stories will be collaboratively produced by editors and the community, and conversations, opinion, and reader reactions will be seamlessly integrated into the news experience..."<br />
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But, of course, press freedom and related freedom of expression of bloggers, so with print or broadcast journalists, should be more responsible and more responsive to the call of the times. That can make bloggers as "more effective and more efficient" advocacy journalists, specially, if and when he or she practices the ethics and standards of decent, good taste, and fit to publish blog posts for all the world to take a quick-read or study in full.<br />
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Marc my word, bloggers as journalists and journalists as bloggers both deserve the same respect we accord the big and small professional practitioners of the fourth estate (the press and the media). Bloggers who are dubbed to belong to the "fifth estate" of the web's blogosphere have rights, too.<br />
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When in doubt, please refer to <a href="http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal">http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal</a> regarding the legal rights of webloggers. Feel free to discuss its merits and demerits, uphold it, sustain it, improve upon it, and live it.marc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139939003496102863.post-48257528713140990512009-10-12T08:44:00.001-07:002009-10-12T08:44:12.483-07:00I take offense<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I find these Blogger notices offensive.<br />
Whether they are done by robots or humans, as a legitimate user I am offended by the nasty notifications below:</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #837f80; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10.0pt;">3 Posts, last published on Oct 11, 2009 –<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cuzmarc.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="color: #3366cc;">View Blog</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cuzmarc.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600"
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</div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Now I want you to tell me, dear technocrats at Blogger.com, what's "irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text" in my blog posts? Don't your robots or robotic humans understand the Filipino language or what is commonly the Tagalog language?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">To "what single site" do you think my "large number of links" are pointing? Is there such a single site? Do you consider Ads by Google spamming?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Blogger.com easily brands or labels new weblogs as potential spam blogs (specially if they are created from The Philippines and done by Filipinos, even as Filipinos overseas who number an average 10 million, are living elsewhere in over 100 countries worldwide), but it is taking quite some time to review, decide, realize and mark weblogs as legitimate and nonspam, and therefore, unlock so that real internet freedom may be served well; why and how come?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span>marc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.com1Manila, Philippines14.6010326 120.976159914.5179736 120.8594304 14.6840916 121.0928894tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139939003496102863.post-8121266026445472612009-10-11T10:42:00.001-07:002009-10-11T10:42:19.132-07:00In case you did not know...<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Emmanuel Mario B Santos</span></b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> also known as </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Marc Guerrero <span style="font-weight: normal;">(</span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I am turning 48 on the 14th of October<span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></i></span></b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> of Manila, The Philippines, is </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a writer & journalist; editor & translator; </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;">lecturer, </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;">author</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> & critic;</span></span> <span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;">historian & futurist;</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and an entrepreneur for many years</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span> <span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He is CEO of Marc Guerrero Communications Inc. He </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;">publishes and produces a lifetime body of media works that make use of his studies, experience and expertise in management, g</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;">overnance and servant leadership more app</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ropriately, for the common good</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><br />
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</div>marc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139939003496102863.post-14652365200546155642009-10-11T01:25:00.001-07:002009-10-11T01:25:39.151-07:00I believeAs a practising professional journalist for 20 years, and before that for more than 10 years as a campus journalist, I was nurtured, have always believed in, and upheld the great principles of freedom of the press, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, right to information, respect for intellectual property rights, right to privacy, and related civil liberties.<br />
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</div><div>The Philippines was a co-founder of the United Nations in 1945. The UN's Carlos Pena Romulo, a journalist before he became a diplomat, whom General Douglas MacArthur often referred to as "The General," our longest-serving Foreign Affairs Secretary who had earned the reverence of the world diplomatic community to address him as "Mr United Nations," and whom I had the honor of working with at my first newspaper job when I was 16 years old, was the longest-living signatory to the UN Charter until the 1980s.<br />
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</div><div>That's my liberal and libertarian origin and foundation.<br />
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</div><div>I also believe that journalism should be in synergy with truth in advertising, advocacy in public relations, and fair marketing practice.<br />
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</div><div>In my book, however, freedom is not absolute.<br />
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</div><div>Without responsibility and responsiveness to the call of the times, freedom is useless.<br />
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</div><div>Freedom then becomes just an idea, not an ideal.<br />
</div>marc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1139939003496102863.post-1267512708557267082009-10-09T20:14:00.000-07:002009-10-09T20:31:45.645-07:00Welcome to marcmyword, Mabuhay!marcmyword at http://cuzmarc.blogspot.com is the official weblog of journalist Marc Guerrero.<br /><br />This was the title of his column at an artists organization journal called <span style="font-style: italic;">Balitaktakan</span> (spinoff of <span style="font-style: italic;">Awit ala News</span>) in the 1980s.<br /><br />marcmyword is a blog from nothing to something to anything under the sun, the moon, stars and the universes - yours, mine and theirs.<br /><br />This is dedicated to you.<br /><br />Iangat ang mga tunay na Sikat: <span style="font-style: italic;">Ikaw</span>.<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />You</span> are the shining light of this obra: your think-piece, your feel-piece that will inspire upon you to act, to do, to be and to become.<br /><br />marcmyword shall be all yours, from this day onwards... faithfully!<br /><br />Pagpalain,<br />Marc Guerrero<br />theinstitute.tel<br />marcguerrero.commarc guerrerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040824624263003758noreply@blogger.com0