janeabao's blog

I’m like an ant transferring my blogs – from a site where I could not access them. I have 5 title blogs - each one with a distinct purpose in my role as communications activist - and I really groan from anguish, in not being able to add to them. I just think my login has been hacked. Sure, I can open to these blogs but since I cannot log in, I cannot add. So many opportunities have passed where I could have added to them. But since I cannot, there is no other way but hitch in other sites. Posting my views in other channels, however, leaves much to be desired.

read more

For the last two days, we were in the area of Clark Air Base shooting for my life story. From there we went somewhere else but not after we were caught “for obstruction� on the road. One of us at the front thought he knew the directions and the driver had followed him. Alas! The traffic officer gave us a ticket and we had to turn back to claim the driver’s license. For ignorance, we failed to be in harmony with the flow of the traffic. Just before this, we spent a long, long time waiting for something that didn’t come. Anyhow, all things work together - in sync with what is best.

read more

Indian journalists display much of social consciousness, compared to other internationals. In their writings, one can clearly see that they have a fight - against poverty, ignorance, lawlessness, corruption, complacency and the like.

While most writers would focus on the more expected topics about day-to-day existence, Indian journalists seem to have a beyond-self orientation with an eye to their future as a people. They write about their society in a way enjoining the common tao to progress.

read more

Honesty is a value lost in most of us. Honesty in what should have been revealed, however, takes qualification. If what should be revealed solves something, gives added benefit to most, then by all means reveal it and be relieved from keeping it.

Personal secrets do not need to be revealed if it does not help, however. They may be mistakes that are part of growing up. One writer wrote of being relieved after telling her secrets, which she said, made her a prison all her life. This included revealing her mother’s being an alcoholic and not knowing who her father was. Certainly, one must be selective in choosing whom to reveal secrets.

read more

Learning other languages can make one express oneself very well – better than the native speaker at times. It can be akin to "people watching gorillas or ants 24 hours a day." However, learning many languages is an altogether different issue

Why do people need to learn so many languages? To rule the world?

What do people want to do with the many languages they’ve learned? Why don’t they just aim for one international language that almost everybody understands? Or go simplistic with just two or three, and stop from there?

read more

Every piece of communication has a social responsibility. It does not end with just transmitting a message and leaving it there. Communication thrives in a system and in that system, there is a message to be sent and an effect to be considered.

There was a poem defining a situation where some secret had long been held from the poet and he felt so bad. The poem ended with a threat. Then another poem detailed a situation where he was raped, graphically presenting the incident – move for move. Still another poem depicted stammering while one spoke and with it that slap, slap, slap to “slow down the mind so he could speak out the words properly.�

read more

It is reported that Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, does not take too kindly on citizen journalism. Wales' Wikimedia Foundation houses the citizen journalism experiment Wikinews, but Wales, according to A. Adam Glenn, does not endorse the concept because the reporters are motivated to write mostly on stories they care about personally; their output is typically commentary or analysis. A. Adam Glenn, an internet news veteran now working as an independent online consultant posted this impression in Poynter Institute.

read more

Everybody wants to make business out of citizen journalism but don’t understand quite well the concept.

In the case of the German groups, they probably don't want a repeat of the Korean's OhmyNews' present predicament just because it did not operate as a business enterprise. Hence, the German groups would want to ensure they will also make money by making reporters pay. Please read first this one from Hugo E. Martin’s blog. Take note that I found this piece because it mentions my name, saying I am right. This was a comment I made in BusinessWeek.com

read more

To be credible is very important to a writer as nowadays charges of manufactured "news" are being found in whatever medium. In fact, complaints after complaints have been written about this. Credibility is defined in the dictionary as "the believability of a statement, action, or source, and the ability of the observer to believe that statement."

Every communicator is expected to have this quality as it has much bearing on his message. If a reporter lacks credibility, it is also most probable that his message may lack credibility in the presentation.

read more

Publications may come in many forms and purposes. Two published journals, The Beat Within and Mother Jones are not any different. On the surface, these published journals have striking similarities, but on the whole they have more differences than similarities. Aside from the outright difference in the age of their writers and the type of write-ups and contents, there is more to be said between these two publications.

read more

It is good to form good habits of writing by not using slang. There is a proper time to use this and it is when one is trying to characterize one’s subject through level of language. It is when language is used as a tool to convey something about the character. This is mostly done in short stories or novels.

One can use slang to convey something like tone, mood, emotion, but it is not to be used as a norm. We may find it cute using slang - or chatspeak for that matter -but it is always a good writing habit not to be sloppy with language.

read more

I don’t come mainly from a news organization but I do write news. In writing for news, I have not thought of using blogs as my source. However, I had tried using it for research.

There was a time I had to look into [Product A] and its so-called prime, and its relationship to [Product B], another competitor. This calls for user input, I thought. I did not have the luxury to do surveys as my primary obligation was to write - from literature.

read more

I happen to have found this in Google –

Welcome to my blog about furtefish
fuchsschwänze > ID #1328316 by janeabao 1 on 07-15-06 4: 11 pm. ---> > breitschwanz ID maggie sottero #1329566 devotee links by furtfetish Kraken ...
furfetish.lodur.info/ - 32k
>>>>>>>>>>>

Let me just say at the outset that I think this is a pedophile I am dealing with – looking at me as a child or wanting me to join his group’s activities. I have looked into his group's messages that I think have sex undertones.

read more

Re Bread of Rulers by Gaijin de Moscu

Bread of Rulers is about an Indian chief expected by the people to solve the famine in his land. Unfortunately, the man lives at a time where fate is often connected to the gods. Every time man suffers, it is because the gods are hungry and angry.

The premise is that the gods had sacrificed their lives so that the sun could continue burning bright and by that, people could continue living on. Consequently, the people owed it to the gods to feed them – constantly with blood. If not, there would be no rain; there would be no food.

read more

Re: Gannett "Information Centers" -- Good for Daily Journalism?

I don’t work for Gannett. I am a professional journalist, and a communications specialist by education. I have some doubts about this Gannett approach. From newspaper to information center, that’s their business. But looking at it from the perspective of legitimate communication practice leaves some doubt.

The Memo begins: “The Information Center will let us gather the very local news and information that customers want, then distribute it when, where and how our customers seek it.�

read more