Monday, October 12, 2009

I take offense

I find these Blogger notices offensive.
Whether they are done by robots or humans, as a legitimate user I am offended by the nasty notifications below:

https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspotURL=http://cuzmarc.blogspot.com/

Possible Blogger Terms of Service Violations

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Here's another nasty notice when I accessed my Blogger admin panel:
Marc My Word
3 Posts, last published on Oct 11, 2009 – View Blog View Blog in New Window
– Edit Posts – Settings – Layout – Monetize
This blog has been identified as a potential spam blog. Your readers will see a warning page until the blog is reviewed.
This blog will be deleted within 20 days unless you request a review.

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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?
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?
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?
I want to seek the opinion of the Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF), and perhaps, the InternetEvolution.com (IE)'s, too, about the foregoing issues.
Bloggers have rights, as well as responsibilities, I believe. Inadvertent as the mis-labeling or mis-branding may be, but it is really offending the sensibilities of real people who were nurtured in real cultures.



Sunday, October 11, 2009

In case you did not know...

Emmanuel Mario B Santos also known as Marc Guerrero (I am turning 48 on the 14th of October) of Manila, The Philippines, is a writer & journalist; editor & translator; lecturer, author & critic; historian & futurist; and an entrepreneur for many years. He is CEO of Marc Guerrero Communications Inc. He publishes and produces a lifetime body of media works that make use of his studies, experience and expertise in management, governance and servant leadership more appropriately, for the common good. 

Marc Guerrero Communications Inc is an independent strategic media corporation engaged in media management, marketing communications, public relations and transformative technologies development. (read on)


I believe

As 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.

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.

That's my liberal and libertarian origin and foundation.

I also believe that journalism should be in synergy with truth in advertising, advocacy in public relations, and fair marketing practice.

In my book, however, freedom is not absolute.

Without responsibility and responsiveness to the call of the times, freedom is useless.

Freedom then becomes just an idea, not an ideal.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Welcome to marcmyword, Mabuhay!

marcmyword at http://cuzmarc.blogspot.com is the official weblog of journalist Marc Guerrero.

This was the title of his column at an artists organization journal called Balitaktakan (spinoff of Awit ala News) in the 1980s.

marcmyword is a blog from nothing to something to anything under the sun, the moon, stars and the universes - yours, mine and theirs.

This is dedicated to you.

Iangat ang mga tunay na Sikat: Ikaw.

You
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.

marcmyword shall be all yours, from this day onwards... faithfully!

Pagpalain,
Marc Guerrero
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marcguerrero.com