http://mamutong.com Blogging from Bukidnon, Philippines Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:52:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ramon Tulfo makes a good point today about leadership. But I find use of the term "colonial mentality" as mere name calling and not very useful. Certainly, Rudi Giuliani doesn't know jack about leadership in the Philippine context, but I don't know that he claims to. In any event, colonial mentality, if ... http://mamutong.com/2008/08/02/colonial-mentality/ Crispin Beltran died this week, at age 75, from an accidental fall from the roof at his home. From the KMU website: For the last two decades, the name Crispin B. Beltran has been associated with pickets, demonstrations, strikes, and generally everything connected to the militant labor movement. Not surprising with him ... http://mamutong.com/2008/05/22/crispin-beltran-from-laborer-to-legislator/ MLQ3 points to a nice post by vaes9 showing a bunch of Filipino bloggers' business cards. This past weekend I didn't get off may ass to go attend the 4th Philippines Blog Converence at U.P. (worked instead) even though I was at my pied-à-terre here in Diliman. I regret that. I still ... http://mamutong.com/2008/04/28/bloggers-business-cards/ Nice poem I found over at the University of Minnesota's student magazine, The Wake: Generations of Fear And I was struck by elegance and clearness of Thomas Paine's writing in the initial quote. How deft is this turn of phrase?: however prejudice may warp our wills, or interest darken our ... http://mamutong.com/2008/04/19/generations-of-fear/ [Ay! I'm pulling this post. It just wasn't appropriate for today ... given where I am.] http://mamutong.com/2008/03/21/dinner/ Wow. Paul Stamatiou is using a MacBook Air as his primary machine! I don't. But I do use it at my clients' sites and, of course, on the road. Paul has a nice pic of why. The size trumps! http://mamutong.com/2008/03/07/size-counts/ Wow. We're all facing the same issues - across the globe, at the same time. This discussion on the Harvard campus two afternoons ago with Clay Sharky (as captured by Dr. Weinberger) is covering exactly what we (well, people like the Black & White Movement and others) are wrestling with ... http://mamutong.com/2008/03/01/protest-culture-veering-toward-postmodernism/ Ethan writes today about "Everyday Is For The Thief," a book by Teju Cole: The book wanders the fine line between fiction and memoir. It’s the story of a Nigerian intellectual living in New York returning home to Lagos, a story told in part on the Teju Cole blog. Reading it, ... http://mamutong.com/2008/02/18/searching-for-place/ Wow. I just noticed. Certain online articles of the Philippine Daily Inquirer - see here for an example - are embedding author-initiated (presumably) links directly into the text. This is fabulous. It's advanced for a traditional media outlet. But it goes to the heart of the (now ages old) hypertext concept ... http://mamutong.com/2008/02/10/inquirernet-huge-subtle-advance/ I think David Weinberger begs the question here. He's basically saying that just because something deserves to be covered (in the media, including the blogosphere) doesn't mean bloggers will blog it. But he's presuming that the criteria for "deserves to be covered" is something other than something that someone, somewhere cares ... http://mamutong.com/2008/02/09/news-and-blogging/