26 Apr '08
Liveblogging iBlog4 - Part 3
2:01PM
The speaker now is Manuel L. Quezon III, and he’s giving us his take on how he blogs, particularly on how he presents his opinion via blogging. Very insightful. I like what he just said about the ‘human aspect’ of blogging, which is, after all, how a blogger should approach his or her writing.
Earlier, after lunch, Aileen Apolo and Coy Caballes gave a presentation on video blogging and podcasting.
The present slot is made up of three speakers: Quezon, and a journalist, Luz Rimban, came before him. And then Janette Toral.
Rimban focused on Elections 2010. She encouraged the audience to blog about the coming national elections because the media is not expected to cover everything. The media, Rimban said, will focus only on what’s “newsworthy”, and so bloggers have a unique position, and that is in the bringing of man-on-the-street news to the voting public.
Interesting: Quezon says he uses Twitter a lot. He believes Twitter will be very useful during the elections. Thinking about the American grad student who was arrested in Egypt and who used Twitter to tell his friends about the arrest, I think Quezon has a point.
Janette Toral is up next. She will talk about “How bloggers can participate more effectively in the 2010 elections”. She is advocating freedom of expression and for bloggers to be more participatory in the coming elections.
