Iblog2 coverage (from other bloggers)

I wasn't able to go sa Iblog2, so I have to rely on other bloggers para malaman kung anong nangyari kaninang umaga at hapon.

PCIJ wasn't there either, but they have links of people who were there to cover the event.

Jove Francisco has blog posts on Rebecca MacKinnon, Kuya MLQ3, and more photos of your favorite bloggers here and here.

Balita ko some of the sessions will be made available as podcasts on iblog2. Aabangan ko yan, lalo na yung sa kay Rebecca Mackinnon, MLQ3 at Ellen Tordesillas.

Dean Jorge Bocobo has more on IBLOG2.

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PCIJ: Conservative U.S. think-tank hits Gloria

BARELY two weeks since a scathing New York Times editorial that accused President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of undermining the Philippines’ “hard-won democracy,” a senior policy analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation hit the President for resorting to “the methods many dictators use to silence criticism.”

In a commentary published in the Fox News website, Dana Robert Dillon, the Heritage Foundation’s senior policy analyst who writes regularly on the Philippines and Southeast Asia, criticized the Arroyo government’s moves to curtail free speech and assembly and suggested that the US Congress and President George W. Bush review American security assistance to ensure that “accountability procedures are followed” and U.S.-supplied military equipment is properly used.

The commentary is one more indication that that the Arroyo government is losing support in Washington, despite its expensive efforts to shore up its standing in the United States by hiring American lobby groups.
Last September, the PCIJ reported that the Arroyo government had signed a $75,000 monthly contract with the Venable LLP law firm to lobby for grants and congressional earmarks for the Philippine military and also for charter change. While the government said it had rescinded the contract with Venable, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita recently admitted that the contract continues.

REad the whole article.

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From Google Blogscoped: Downloadable Tiananmen Square Massacre Documentary in WMV format, including:

-Prologue

-Tens of Millions of Protestors and the Theater of Massacre

-China’s Rise and Two Chinas

-The Struggle to Control Information analyzes how Western IT companies like Google work with the Chinese gov’t
PBS has more on this documentary. [Via Digg.]

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- Lito Banayo: Ang daming isiningit si Arroyo during Holy Week, when everybody's away and no one's looking.

- More on Davide, Baja and Del Rosario from Ellen Tordesillas.

- Batasan 6 asks SC to stop probe

- MLQ3: Unintended Unity

- JB Baylon:

"I was also happy to read in yesterday’s papers the position of Senator Richard Gordon on charter change; the former Miracle Worker of Subic is advocating Cha-Cha after the 2007 elections and urging that the first thing we ought to do is clean up the Comelec and restore its credibility in the eyes of the public.

I agree with this position 1000 percent."

Well, that's better than what is being done now, but as long as Arroyo is in power, I'm still very uneasy about this CHA CHA thing.

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On the Mayuga Report:

Malaya Editorial: Stonewalling all over the place

PCIJ: Mayuga's Resource persons named

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Oh yeah, hanggang ngayon wala pa rin ang Daily Tribune sa internet.