Renascent

Two years ago, I  wrote my last blog entry.

I must admit that I missed blogging- which I consider as an avenue for sharing my thoughts and expressing my emotions on various topics through the art of writing. However, the daily grind of work as a broadcast journalist and family responsibilities as a father should not be a hindrance to me in pursuing my love for writing, So today, I am renewing my vow to write again on this blog site.

Perks of writing.  I believe that one of the perks of writing is that one could harness his abilities to orderly arrange his thoughts and putting it to words. Moreover, one could also enrich his vocabulary by incorporating terminologies new to him and applying those words on sentences that he uses.

Giving birth to ideas. One of my friends who is a writer (who actually published a book on his own) said that writing gives opportunities for new ideas to be conceptualized, or shortly, to be born. I think this is true because one could also challenge a debate on a particular post if a reader finds the article confusing or questionable. That is aside from sharing information to readers on a particular topic or idea.

Moving forward. From this day on, this blog will not just be about thoughts or random rants that I encounter to just express my frustrations but will also be an avenue to inspire people. I will share unique and unforgettable experiences that I encounter while gathering news on the field where I meet people of different background and struggles.

Untold stories. This blog, I hope, will also be an avenue to share inspiring stories that are untold in a one-minuter news story package.

     

Feelings when you do not blog

It has been a long time- five months to be exact, since the last time I posted here on my blog. Then upon waking up this morning I just realized that I have been so selfish about some of my thoughts because I am not sharing them to anyone such as to the readers of my blog.

There are feelings that a blogger feels when he or she is not blogging, according to my self-centered monitoring scheme. Such feelings include sadness. A blogger feels sad whenever he has an idea that he should have blogged but he didn't. Sadness, due to the fact that he cannot share his ideas to his readers. There is this scenario that when a blogger feels an urge to post something and because he cannot do so he feels exhausted and sad all at the same time. Blogging is like an extension of one's self already and that even a single and short post can put a smile to a blogger's face already.

I don't know if this is also felt by some blogger because as of now this is what I am feeling. Sadness due to inability to blog anymore due to time constraint. Other social media platform such as Facebook and the micro blogging site Twitter serve as a blogger's resort when he or she cannot blog.

What other feelings do you feel when you do not blog? Share it here now.

Catching up

There are so many things to write about and to blog about here, albeit I find the time as a blocking body that inhibits me to blog, or maybe it’s just me who does not find time to blog and to share various experiences.  I’ve been inactive in the blogging sphere for almost two months already. Well, I have reasons which range from academics to personal. I was very busy finishing my thesis and doing so many projects, and taking exams in the previous months. What makes me busy now is job hunting. I should’ve written all my experiences from various interviews and exams from different companies and from bunch of industries. I have a lot of interesting stories to share, but I guess those narratives are reserved for upcoming pages here.

Academics. I was very busy perusing piles of reading materials for my classes last semester, particularly for my thesis. It must admit that doing thesis is problematic when you have different perspective in your initial proposal to the time you finish your final draft. Exams were suicidal when productions and written exams collide in a week- this means that you have to write script, shoot you video materials, and edit your footages, and then you have to read and review for another exam. Imagine this cycle in just one night. Yes, in just one sleepless night. To those who are belittling my course, the hell with you. This seems easy for you, but heck my school is UP Mass Comm and we experience doing these things over and over again.

Personal. This category should have been sorted from extracurricular activities to more personal activities, or not. I am currently the Master Councilor of DeMolay Pangasinan and I have to manage our organization to meet our objectives for this term. We have to do projects, meet, and drink- the last one is optional. Aside from this, I have this more personal sphere of my life, which covers my love life and my family life. I wanted to spend more time here, but due to some constraints such as the academics, what I want is usually not met. So I have to make time for those missed times with Lyle and family.

Job hunting. I have a DeMolay brother who called me one night and asked if I am already employed. This is because his sister who happen to graduate cum Laude, too with a degree in Tourism is not yet hired. I told him that I am just waiting for calls. He was worried that even Laudes in the premiere university in the country is not automatically hired. I told him that maybe it was before, but now with more competitive graduates but less job openings, the only edge that UP graduates have is their ideologies and independence, and these things are not absorbed in school rather these are learned in the process of learning while in school.

My series of fortunate events in job hunting will be shared later here. I have to prepare to go in UP, and this time to get my graduation photos. Ask me who’s excited to get these documents- of course, my parents. The story of my graduation will also be told here, but I guess not now. Chao!

Personal na Espasyo sa Pangmadlang Midyum

Ang blog ay isang personal na espasyo ng mga nasa isip o iniisip ng isang tao, subalit ito rin ay espasyo upang ikawala ang mga nararamdaman ng nagsusulat. Naniniwala ako na ang mga blog ay espasyo ng pag-alaala sa mga masasaya at ganoon din ng mga malulungkot na pagkakataon kaya ito ay ating isinusulat at ibinabahagi sa ating personal na espasyo- ang ating blog site. Matagal akong hindi nakapag-blog at aaminin kong sa bawat pagkakataong ninanais kong makapagsulat ay siya namang panahong inaatake ako ng aking katamaran.

Sa taong ito, ang blog entry na ito ang siyang unang entry ko sa aking personal na espasyo sa isang alternatibong midya na naka-direkta sa pangmadlang espasyo, ang Web o ang Internet. Masayang malamang sa lawak ng mundong virtual ay mayroon pa ring mga taong nagtitiyagang malaman ang iyong saloobin o naiisip ukol sa ilang isyu sa lipunan, maging ito nga ay pang-lipunang sakop o pang-personal na daing lamang.

Para sa bumabasa nito, mabuhay ka! At para sa may-akda ng entry na ito, nawa'y sikapin mo pang mas mapaunlad ang blog na ito sa simleng pagta-type ng mga saloobin o opinyong nais mong ikawala mula sa iyong isipan o damdamin.

Blogggggg

I just wish I have more time to blog and to share with my fellow Netizens my daily encounters as an individual in this world, and as a new media scholar in the academe. Yes, maybe this is the effect of thesis and of internship taken in just a semester.

PODCAST: Bringing lectures and seminars on cyberspace

We have a major production in my BC 148 or Interactive Broadcasting class and that is to make a video podcast on How to's but that I have not started yet. I know, my partner Ivy and I will air our production on the 19th yet I have not started it.

I may not have started doing the assigned podcast in class but I have started podcasting a lecture on the web! It was the lecture of Dr. Ed Portugal in our BA 101 class. To know the story about the lecture click here. If you wanna hear the entire playlist of the podcast click here. To check my podcast channel on podbean, click here.

Yesterday afternoon, while I got a chance to get out of my Comm 140 classroom to buy some snakcs, I saw Ma'am Data and asked her if she knows a free host for podcasts. She suggested Podcast Ally but when I checked it out, it was not really my type of thing so I googled for other free hosts. Then I found PodBean and I was interested on that site so I decided to make an account there where I can upload my podcasts.

I am pleased knowing that internet applications nowadays such as Podcasts and even RSS Feed, allow you to share your stuff on the cyberspace and makes it viral- reaching larger audience. I believe that it is one of the most significant tasks of the internet and that is to share what you know to contribute to others knowledge as well. It's a mutual relationship among producers and prod-users.

BC 148 does not only teach you the know-hows on the net but also teaches you the value of sharing and acknowledging the source. It's not that I am not for the productions it's just that I am not the production type of guy. As a matter of fact, I do not want to have production classes since I think it kills you. This class has a production but the type of prod that makes you enjoy it while doing it.

There you go, I have to end blogging now since I need to start doing the script of the podcast production since Ivy might get really even at me.

What's with the post

So I decided to post some of my outputs in my Malikhaing Pagsulat 10 class last semester since I think it can be viral. And it's about sharing the talent with the world!

Hey wait, you can leave comments on the posts, be not afraid since you are helping me in a way through commenting.

VIRAL-ity: On RSS Feed and Syndication

Finally I got to apply RSS on my sites!
I am happy having a class such as BC 148 or the Interactive Broadcasting especially having a professor who is really into these things on cyberspace. She introduces a lot of facts and things we can do on the internet and how to expand our horizons especially on the posts we make.
Now, one of the things we discussed, and I reported on this in fact, is on RSS Feed and Syndication.
It allows you to make your blogs, or podcasts viral on the internet. As Google Feed burner states:

"Feeds are a way for websites large and small to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically via a web portal, news reader, or in some cases good old email. Feeds also make it possible for site content to be packaged into "widgets," "gadgets," mobile devices, and other bite-sized technologies that make it possible to display blogs, podcasts, and major news/sports/weather/whatever headlines just about anywhere." 

One more point is that, since it allows you to make your ideas or posts viral, it can reach Yahoo News, if and only if it deserves to. I saw one time especially in the Yahoo Philippine News an article made by a student and I thought that it came from Yahoo per se but it is actually from a blog.

So here I am wondering what this RSS Feed may lead me into. Anyway, here is the feed of my blog. You might want to subscribe therein.

So guys, start adding RSS Feed on your blogs or podcasts, too! See you on the net!

UPDATE:

When I checked my twitter, the feed was already there!

Truly, it makes your posts VIRAL! :)