Moody’s Report
Moody’s has released a report on Philippine power sector reform.
Durians Are IN Season
Let’s all head down to Magsaysay Park in Davao.
Journalism
“Journalism is not a thing, it is an act,” says Jeff Jarvis in this piece.
Its component pieces are, he says:
- Witnessing
- Asking
- Editing
- Commenting
- Distributing
Hey! Sounds familiar to me.
USAID Country Strategy Moro-moro
With all the dancing around and mumbo-jumbo here, it all boils down to this (Angelo de la Cruz).
USAID dollars are not predicated on need. USAID’s Philippines Strategy document is just moro-moro.
Indonesia Quake
Eyeballing the Indonesia Earthquake 29Mar05.
Whoa
Less than 24 hours after my paean to Manuel Quezon III, he’s outed as an editorial writer for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Blok M
Via FriscoDude. Jakarta’s Blok M on the southside. Here’s a little insight into part of the nightlife in the the capitol city of the worlds most populous Muslim nation.
Just How Cool is This?
Via John Robb, regarding use of corporate weblogging by the Commander US Strategic Command, USMC:
“The metric is what the person has to contribute, not the person’s rank, age, or level of experience. If they have the answer, I want the answer.
When I post a question on my blog, I expect the person with the answer to post back. I do not expect the person with the answer to run it through you, your OIC, the branch chief, the exec, the Division Chief and then get the garbled answer back before he or she posts it for me.
The Napoleonic Code and Netcentric Collaboration cannot exist in the same space and time.
It’s YOUR job to make sure I get my answers and then if they get it wrong or they could have got it righter, then you guide them toward a better way…but do not get in their way.”
JAMES E. CARTWRIGHT
General, USMC
Commander, USSTRATCOM
The Philippines are or is?
Manolo Quezon is quite simply a national treasure. I remember listening to his TV color commentary during Gloria’s inaugural in Cebu and thinking “no one else has the capacity to bring these observations to light.”
The combination of his sense of history and access to history and passion about history produces timeless commentary.
Folley and Tokenism
The U.P. Eleven boldly cut through the crap, reminding us that a simple increase in VAT rate, althought not social engineering will stave off a fiscal crisis. See Economy on the Cusp. Excellent paper.
But my anarchist proclivities keep whispering in my ear that such a fiscal crisis has the potential of disrupting the current treadmill where the rich get richer and poor get poorer. Guess who has the most at stake in staving off such a crisis?