November 24, 2009 in Blog, Site News by admin

Philippine Studies site attracts youth and commenters

Based on what we have been receiving, students of Philippine Studies have found our section on “salawikain” and other Philippine history related articles including the writings of the Philippines national hero, Dr Jose Rizal, very useful.

Judging from their feedback and comments, we are not surprised that a number of our readers and followers are young students. Here is a sample of a comment:

Yetz…. says: “..tHaNx Sa iNyong Nyc PrOvErbs..meRon na Akong aSSynMnT….hehe,,,:-)…..”

We have also serious commenting like this on the article: The Rizal Cult: On How Filipinos Created Their National Hero

Pepe Alas says:

It is true that Filipinos already “venerated” Rizal even before Taft’s declaration. However, the declaration of the Central Filipino Committee in Hong Kong hailing Rizal as the greatest patriot of the Filipino people wasn’t made known throughout the whole archipelago. Theirs was purely a Tagalog revolution (as evidenced by the first eight provinces which rebelled against Spain). The whole country didn’t approve of their rebellion. Thus when they declared Rizal as the greatest hero of the country, the rest of the Filipinos weren’t even aware of it. But the American Occupation did all possible dissemination of its declaration of Rizal as the national hero.

Rocky Sarmiento says:

Why the Spanish Government called the Philippine revolution a “Tagalog War” was understandable. One, the seat of the Spanish Government in the Philippines was located in a Tagalog-speaking region. Two, perhaps they did not realize that the revolution was already widespread. Three, even if they realized the magnitude of the “rebellion”, still it was politically expedient for the Spanish Government to call it as a “Tagalog War” in order to give the impression that the revolution was only a mutiny and a revolt and did not involve other parts of the country.

More than 100 years later and after all the history lessons taught to us, to still claim that the Philippine revolution is a “Tagalog revolution” is an insult to the intelligence and to the patriotism of the non-Tagalogs and to those in other parts of the Philippines who took part in the revolution. The first eight provinces were not all Tagalog-based. Have a look at this list: Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Manila, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga and Tarlac. And then, you can also ask: Didn’t the Ilocos region participate in the revolution?

More of these at Philippine Studies

November 7, 2009 in Blog, Site News by admin

New social network sites for emanila websites

emanila websites have recently expanded their reach to include blog sites hosted by WordPress.com and Blogspot.com.

emanila can now be found at the following social media sites:

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pinoy-Jokes/44426711523
http://www.facebook.com/pages/emanila-poetry/66278214988
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Filipino-Australian/53096238902
http://www.facebook.com/emanila
http://www.facebook.com/romycayabyab

Twitter
http://twitter.com/emanila
http://twitter.com/FilAustralian
http://twitter.com/PinoyJokesnet
http://twitter.com/romycc

WordPress and Blogspot
http://www.emanila.wordpress.com
http://www.emanilacom.blogspot.com
http://romycayabyab.wordpress.com

Most emanila websites have also installed social bookmarks to enable members and readers to share with friends some of their emanila finds.

October 29, 2009 in Articles, Australian Statistics by admin

8 million plus internet subscribers in Australia

In its latest Internet Activity Survey (IAS), the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that at the end of June 2009, there were 8.4 million active internet subscribers in Australia.

Other highlights of the report include:

• Digital subscriber line (DSL) continued to be the major technology for non dial-up connections, accounting for 57% (4.2 million) of these connections. However, this percentage share has decreased since December 2008 when DSL represented 63% of non dial-up access connections.

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October 27, 2009 in Blog Elsewhere by admin

Internet service providers and spamming

The latest report from The Spamhaus Project shows that the world’s #6 spammer is based in Queensland, Australia.

Romy Cayabyab, our principal officer, reports on the latest Spamhaus report at Australia not in Top 10 worst spam origin countries, but home to #6 spammer.

Romy’s assessment is that the assistance of ISPs network to provide information on computers which are feeding out unusual volume of emails a day is needed

But will ISPs cooperate considering that spam gangs are some of their best high-paying customers?

Click here to read his article.

July 10, 2009 in Site News, Spam Watch by admin

Spam watchers gaining followers

SPAMWATCHERS.COM, an initiative of our friends to exchange stories and anecdotes of their “encounter” with spams and scams both online and offline, looks progressing well judging from its ranking with Google and Alexa.

In addition to members email exchanges, the site’s regular features include reviews of trends and previous month’s spam statistics. It also reports on activities of both Australia’s ACMA and the US Federal Trade Commission.

If you against spamming and scams, and wish to share information with others, why not joing our friends at SPAMWATCHERS.COM?

June 20, 2008 in Multiculturalism by admin

2008 National Multicultural Marketing Awards nominations open, emanila.com featured in launch

THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION of New South Wales recently launched the 2008 National Multicultural Marketing Awards at the Westin Hotel Sydney calling for nominations in seven categories.

The seven categories for the 2008 awards are CMC Markets Commercial Big Business Award, Commercial Small Business Award, Integral Energy Community Award, Export Award, Government Award, Integral Energy Community Award, and Advertising Award.

Nominations close on 29 August 2008 and the awards winnners will be presented on 25 November 2008.

The Awards began in 1990 and since then has awarded more than 100 businesses and organisations who are regarded as leaders in the industry and role models in seizing business opportunities through marketing in a society of 420 languages and 265 cultural backgrounds.

In 2000, emanila.com became the first organisation to receive the Technology Award. During the recent launch, a special video highlighting the achievements of previous awardees was played.

Together with the Awards 1990 Inaugural Winner, the Sydney Opera House, emanila.com was highlighted as being the inaugural recipient of the Technology Award and the largest Philippine-related portal website in Australia.

April 24, 2008 in Multiculturalism by admin

Tagalog is eighth language in Australia, second in Blacktown

THE AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS in latest Census reported that Tagalog (Filipino) is the eighth non-English language spoken at Australian homes.

The Census, taken in 2006, also reported that of the 18.9 million respondents, 15% or 2,853,851 reported as speaking a non-English in their homes.

The seven other non-English languages are Italian (12.4%), Greek (9.2%), Cantonese (7.9%), Arabic (7.3%), Vietnamese (6.1%), Mandarin (4.9%) and Spanish (3.3%).

Tagalog (Filipino) accounted for 2.8% of the relevant respondents group. German ranked number nine followed with a close 2.7% of the respondents group.

By region, Blacktown has reported to have the highest concentration of Census respondents speaking Tagalog (Filipino). The ABS statistics revealed that 5.7% of the people in the region speak the language at home. Arabic followed a distant 3.2% second non-English language spoken in the region.

The reported ranking of Tagalog (Filipino) as a non-English language spoken in Australia compares favourably with that in the United States.

According to the 1990 and 2000 United States Census, Tagalog is the sixth non-English language spoken in America, and the second most commonly-spoken Asian language (after Chinese) in the United States. #

April 2, 2008 in Mobile Log by admin

Poetry in motion, literally

Poetry enthusiasts and emanilapoetry members can now have full access to www.emanilapoetry.com using their mobile phones. Recently re-launched by Team Emanila, the poetry site’s mobile version uses a WordPress PDA plugin.

“We are slowly reaping the benefits of migrating our site to WordPress,” says emanila publisher, Romy Cayabyab.

“The WP PDA is just one of the many plugins ~ developed by the WP community ~ that we have installed in the poetry site.  The current site is definitely more flexible and writer-friendly that it was last year.

“The WP install was the overwhelming favorite of our Writers Group members when asked  during a targeted online survey in July 2007.”