CARLOS H. CONDE   A blogger has been having this endless wet dream about blogging being a threat to the mainstream media. He exploits every mistakes of journalists and the press to promote himself and blogging as the alternative, as if blogging and journalism are competing against each other in the first place.

CARLOS H. CONDE   Blogging about the Valley Golf brawl allowed me to let off steam. What that did was give me visceral pleasure – I hate arrogant pricks, particularly arrogant pricks who hold office — but it waylaid my instincts as a journalist.

(Hong Kong, May 26, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
has launched today a campaign blog which documents cases involving
various forms of arbitrary deprivation of life in the Philippines.
The blog entitled ‘Slaughter of Innocents’ chronicles how
a class of people have been systematically murdered on an almost daily
basis. The blog may be accessed at:
http://noprotection.blog.humanrights.asia
Moon Jeong Ho, [...]

Amado Hernandez (Photo courtesy of tinig.com)

A mini-controversy has erupted in the blogosphere. It involves blogger Connie Veneracion who, in a recent column in the Manila Standard Today newspaper, trashed Amado V. Hernadez’s “Mga Ibong Mandaragit” because she, her daughter and her husband didn’t get it.

Blogger Exie Abola wrote what Newsstand has called a “cogent” response to Veneracion’s tirade (”a complete evisceration” of Veneracion, Newsstand says). Others have weighed in, but of course. There’s Stuart Santiago, calling Veneracion “lazy,” “stupid” and “anti-Filipino.” Ouch.

A curious thing is happening over at Brian Gorrell’s. Gorrell, as you should know by now, put up his wildly popular blog to collect money that he claims the “social climber” DJ Montano stole from him. For weeks since he put it up last month, Gorrell posted exposés after exposés on Montano, the so-called Gucci [...]

1) Were you and Brian Gorrell lovers (as opposed to “friends”)?
2) You said the money Brian sent you was for the “bills.” Brian said he lived on Boracay only for a few months. Even if we assume that the monthly upkeep was 100,000 pesos and let’s assume that Brian spent that amount each month for [...]

Luis V. Teodoro: Some people believe that the newspapers and the networks are too scared to report the Brian Gorrell case with any prominence. But it’s not a matter of being scared, but of the fact that that’s exactly where stories like this belong.

In his latest post today, Brian Gorrell said that he received more than $1,600 in donations (via Paypal) yesterday alone. That, to put it mildly, is phenomenal. If he keeps at this — dishing out more juicy stuff on the Gucci Gang and the uber-pretentious Philippine high society, stuff that his thousands of daily readers [...]

The blog of Brian Gorrell, the Australian who launched a personal Internet movement to get back the $70,000 that his former Filipino lover allegedly stole from him, is steadily penetrating the mainstream press. Although the people he exposed in his blog as cokeheads and thieves have not been identified or seen, this should be welcome [...]

Brian Gorrell, the Australian whose explosive blog about his “social-climbing” Filipino ex-lover is now a certified cause célèbre, has launched a boycott campaign against The Philippine Star, the newspaper that carries the columns of at least two of the main (sordid) characters in his real-life telenovela.
Gorrell argues that, by not doing something about his [...]

By C.C. Hidalgo
Pinoypress.net
By his own admission, Brian Gorrell is fighting the fight of his life. Quite literally.
Afflicted with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, Gorrell says he had saved up enough money over the years so that he could take care of himself. Then, in less than a year, all that money – totaling [...]

The blog of Australian Brian Gorrell is one of the hottest to hit the Philippines ever. He says he only put up the blog in order to collect the $70,000 his former lover, a Filipino, owes him. But because of his exposes and revelations, he is shaking up Philippine high society. Read the blog