http://guttervomit.com life's a beta. Thu, 15 May 2008 01:45:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en RottenTomatoes recently came out with a very nice feature on the upcoming feature films for the period of May to August 2008 (referred to as "summer" in other countries, although it's decidedly a bit more wet than that here). The article linked above is a lot more comprehensive than this ... http://guttervomit.com/2008/05/15/summer-movies-2008/ I had an interesting micro-debate with @digitalfilipino on twitter yesterday that got me thinking about blogs and their rather sordid relationship with mainstream media. At the heart of the discussion was this article involving writer Luis Teodoro's comments about how journalists need to set an example for bloggers to follow. Specifically: many bloggers tend ... http://guttervomit.com/2008/05/05/zero-barrier/ No updates recently, been pretty busy. Here's why:Once upon a time, there was young byte named 01.  It was a special day for him; match-maker X was finally going to introduce him to his bride-to-be, Aleph.  Unfortunately, he found out that she was infected. But that never stopped 01 before. ... http://guttervomit.com/2008/04/24/once-upon-a-time/ Over at WordPressPhilippines, Ia writes: The New York Times reports that “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop“. Drop dead, that is. They consider professional blogging a “digital-era sweatshop”, referring to a factory where its workers are sorely underpaid and unprotected. It's an interesting analysis of how Filipino ... http://guttervomit.com/2008/04/08/sweatshop-blogging-economics/ Erwin Oliva at the Inquirer writes: IMAGINE a large group of users who write stories together one phrase at a time. That is actually the simple and yet brilliant idea from a startup simply called Octales. Unanimously, the panel of experts said Octales is a “refreshing” idea after an afternoon of elevator ... http://guttervomit.com/2008/04/06/morph-code-post-game-analysis/ The syndeo team and I (mae, raymond and jason) spent most of this past Saturday at a technopreneur workshop in Ateneo, organized by the good folks at Morph Accelerator. This first day was more of an introduction to Accelerator and its partners, as well as how to properly pitch to ... http://guttervomit.com/2008/03/30/the-big-pitch/ Managed to throw Moomai's new layout together over the long weekend, and have focused a lot on simplifying the sidebar and tightening things up somewhat. We're gearing up towards giving the underlying math for the ratings system an overhaul as well, which should be happening within the next week or ... http://guttervomit.com/2008/03/24/moomais-new-groove/ I’ve been listening to so much new music this past year, and I realized recently how much I really miss sharing it with folks. Back during my highfiber days, we’d have a weekly featured download with a short writeup of the artist. I doubt I can pull off a weekly ... http://guttervomit.com/2008/03/19/viva-pirateria-march-2008/ Ah, the shopping lists of the young and sleepless. http://guttervomit.com/2008/03/15/friday-night-at-the-supermarket/ So by now I guess we’ve all seen Janina San Miguel’s epic soliloquy on the important persons in her life during the recent Binibining Pilipinas 2008, a monologue that was only slightly more impressive in its scope and daring than Miss South Carolina’s treatise on geography last year. I actually ... http://guttervomit.com/2008/03/13/an-epic-soliloquy-on-beauty-pageants/