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Tag: opinion

  • Facebook’s new profile page disliked by users

    Some time yesterday Facebook introduced the new Profile layout. Initially you had to click on a special link before it gets activated. Now apparently Facebook has decided to make the changes permanent. Like many of Facebook’s layout changes, this immediately caused an uproar in the community. Unlike in the past, the latest update is more…

  • Matter of Taste: Filipino eye for the European guy

    Found this in a forwarded e-mail. Mr. Sutherland if you are reading this, please drop me a line. If a foreigner writes something good about the Philippines and does it with such a flair, I say he gets free coffee from me! Matter of Taste by Matthew Sutherland I have now been in this country…

  • De Quiros to GMA: Your days are numbered

    Conrado de Quiros recently published a scathing piece on his column on the Philippine Daily Inquirer, entitled “May araw din kayo”. For non-Taglog speakers, the closest English translation I could think of is “Your time will come”. While I think this is a good translation, it doesn’t really translate the true emotion behind “May araw…

  • 10 Absolute “Nos!” for Freelancers?

    Funny how Samuel labels his list as “Absolute Nos” and then contradicts himself in a disclaimer on the second paragraph that goes “… here are ten questions I nearly always answer “No” to”. I guess people would say anything to come up with a catchy headline. Why don’t they be like Fox News and put…

  • A Flock-ed Up Redesign

    It looks like Matt of WebRev is more than upset with the recent redesign of the Flock homepage, and with good reason: it’s ugly as hell, and it looks like we are not the only ones who got upset. It seems that whoever did this took away everything that was good about fellow Weaver Byran…

  • 10 Commandments of Blogging

    Just finished reading an awesome article on the top 7 mistakes of blogging by David Airey. If this were to be made into the 10 Commandments to blogging I would probably add: Never use the default theme for <insert name of blog engine here>. I cringe every time I see the a blog using the…