You can call it crowdsourcing.
But I can’t.
Because I don’t know what that means exactly.
And second of all, it didn’t involve a crowd.
Only four people participated, if you include me and my imaginary friend, Mang Carding.
Yup, he's the guy.
Below is a poem by award-winning poet, fellow tippler, and literary felon Amado Bajarias Jr. which he wrote a few years back. Just find it fitting to post and share it after Yap, a self-proclaimed eventologist mistakenly identified an Inquirer reporter for winning the P741 million ($16.5 million) jackpot. This was reposted previously in eatingthesun.blogspot.com. [See: eatingthesun.blogspot.com, Amado Bajarias Jr., Reporter fears for life after Tim Yap tweet]
infecting the feckless
world
with their mi-droga tu-droga
faux naif venom
Manolo Blahnik et Prada et Miu-Mui
as Weltanschaung chi-chithese post-Weltschmerz,
post-kitsch, post-irony,
post-cynicism, post-posturing,
post-superficiality, post-hype
post-hubris, post-epater les bourgeois
Nosferatu kindred
with their Roppongi pallor
cultivated in the ciggie-smoke
miasma
of buy-this-and-buy-that
blatherI need to see them tortured, squealing
like abattoir pigsMy God Marcos was right
to ban them society pages
with their pasty-white
vampiric
flash-bulb denizens
sassing
each another
fawning fake-smiles for photo ops
in the Grand Guignol styleI need to see them
faute de mieux disembowelled
slowly
on a rotating spitMarcos was right to shut them down
a pity he stopped short
of giving them a coup de grace
to their oh-so-chic
beaucoup heads
(From lonewolflibrarian.wordpress.com)
Twitter makes many things possible.
It provides tips to clean your coffeemaker [See: Three things I learned from Twitter] or a link to a catalog featuring a series of Mercedes Benz cars — and their specs — produced for the American market in the 1960s (which I got from the person managing Donald Draper’s Twitter account.)
This latest blog piece — which includes what may well be my third attempt at podcasting — was similarly brought about by Twitter.
In a tweet posted at around four in the afternoon of October 19, my Twitter friend @nicknich3 said:
No, it's not the lanzones we're talking about here. It's the tweet before that, my friend.
His tweet’s shortened link, in turn, brought this:
This reminded me of portions of the interview I held last June with some executives of Meralco, the Philippines’ largest electric company, regarding the firm’s Twitter strategy. [See: How Meralco got its Twitter name back]
During the interview, Kirk Campos, the company’s corporate communications staff, said that he once attended an internet convention in Manila which dealt with social media, including Facebook and Twitter.
According to Campos, a speaker in the event said that Meralco’s foray into Twitter was “a noble cause” since it was going to open the floodgates of complaints from its customers. However, the speaker said that without knowing that Campos, and his supervisor, Joe R. Zaldarriaga, the company’s media relations manager, was in attendance.
For more, you can listen to a three-minute portion of the interview, which lasted more than one and a half hours.
Twitter, Meralco\’s noble cause
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From the Give Credit Where Its Due Dept.
As indicated in podomatic.com, the website where the podcast was uploaded, the interview was held last June 22, 2010 at the Meralco headquarters on Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City, Philippines. [See: Podomatic.com] Among those in attendance included Campos, Zaldarriaga, and Ernesto A. Fraginal, senior manager of the company’s call center operations. No credit goes to yours truly for failing to embed podcast. What the $%#@*&^+~!
