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		<title>Doing its best for convergence to work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Torres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the early players in online journalism in the Philippines is sunstar.com.ph. It&#8217;s design needs some improvement, its content some refinement, but SunStar has become one of the first, if not the leading media organization in the country that embraced new media and experimented with the concept of convergence. It started with Sun.Star Cebu, <a href="http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/doing-its-best-for-convergence-to-work/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jotorres.wordpress.com&amp;blog=236305&amp;post=727&amp;subd=jotorres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in convergence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004 media moguls like Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. of the New York Times and Rick Camilleri of CanWest Global Communications Corporation of Canada declared that &#8220;convergence is the future.&#8221; Everyone agreed and made attempts at their own interpretations of &#8220;convergence.&#8221; Newspapers like the Inquirer in the Philippines tried to come up with an online <a href="http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/investing-in-convergence/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jotorres.wordpress.com&amp;blog=236305&amp;post=723&amp;subd=jotorres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will people pay for content on the Web?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Torres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It depends. I paid for some apps for my iphone and downloaded the &#8220;Adventures of Tintin&#8221; game. I downloaded a few issues of The New Yorker because it&#8217;s much cheaper than buying the magazine. But will I read the Inquirer or the Philippine Star online if it&#8217;s not free? Maybe not, unless I find something <a href="http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/will-people-pay-for-content-on-the-web/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jotorres.wordpress.com&amp;blog=236305&amp;post=720&amp;subd=jotorres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not so merry Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Torres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(My script for a Christmas report that I will file today.) Christmas this year is not that merry for many in some parts of the world. In the southern Philippines, people continue to mourn for their dead, while others are still searching for missing loved ones after a strong tropical storm hit several cities, washing <a href="http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/not-so-merry-christmas/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jotorres.wordpress.com&amp;blog=236305&amp;post=716&amp;subd=jotorres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Journalism Blues&#8217; on a Sunday afternoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 06:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Torres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no choice but spend Sunday afternoon watching &#8220;Journalism Blues&#8221; as the laundry waits to be ironed and the mess in the room stinks. Our cigar-chomping, wine-expert teacher suggested that we watch the video, maybe to bring us back to reality if we think that spending time in journalism and enrolling in a multimedia course <a href="http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/journalism-blues-on-a-sunday-afternoon/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jotorres.wordpress.com&amp;blog=236305&amp;post=709&amp;subd=jotorres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Getting to Zero&#8217; on World AIDS Day 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Torres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[World AIDS Day this year carries the theme &#8220;Getting to Zero.&#8221; Backed by the United Nations, the &#8220;Getting to Zero&#8221; campaign runs until 2015 and builds on last year&#8217;s successful World AIDS Day &#8220;Light for Rights&#8221; initiative encompassing a range of vital issues identified by key affected populations. WAD2011 [kapsel] November 27, 2011 9:18:40 PM <a href="http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/getting-to-zero-on-world-aids-day-2011/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jotorres.wordpress.com&amp;blog=236305&amp;post=702&amp;subd=jotorres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victory for Luisita farmers</title>
		<link>http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/victory-for-luisita-farmers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Torres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220; CBCP lauds SC decision on Hacienda Luisita; Says this is a victory not only for Hacienda Luista workers but for all farmers as well. News5 AKSYON November 24, 2011 4:14:54 AM EST ReplyRetweet The party-list group Akbayan, which supported the candidacy of Aquino in 2010, echoed the bishops&#8217; statement. &#8220; Akbayan said the decision <a href="http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/victory-for-luisita-farmers/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jotorres.wordpress.com&amp;blog=236305&amp;post=700&amp;subd=jotorres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Cervantes and Sherlock Holmes</title>
		<link>http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/time-for-cervantes-and-sherlock-holmes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Torres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I LOVE  reading and I love books. I&#8217;ve collected thousands of books since I discovered the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and even Bobbsey Twins in the library of my high school in our little town in Mindanao. Robert Ludlum&#8217;s &#8220;Bourne Identity&#8221; and George Eliot&#8217;s &#8220;Silas Marner&#8221; later followed. In college, I almost failed my philosophy <a href="http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/time-for-cervantes-and-sherlock-holmes/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jotorres.wordpress.com&amp;blog=236305&amp;post=687&amp;subd=jotorres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Archbishop is on FB!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Torres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE  Vatican is clearly doing more than just preaching about new media as a tool to bring about change in the Church. Earlier this year Pope Benedict XVI made that “papal click” to launch the news and information platform News.Va, which sources information from the Vatican’s various print, online, radio and television media. As well <a href="http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/the-archbishop-is-on-fb-2/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jotorres.wordpress.com&amp;blog=236305&amp;post=685&amp;subd=jotorres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We nearly didn’t have an Apple</title>
		<link>http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/we-nearly-didn%e2%80%99t-have-an-apple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs, celebrated around the world as a visionary, was an adopted child. He was born to Joanne Schieble, a young unmarried college student who woke up one day and found out that she was pregnant. It was the 1950s and the world was different then. Joanne had few options. But instead of aborting the <a href="http://jotorres.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/we-nearly-didn%e2%80%99t-have-an-apple/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jotorres.wordpress.com&amp;blog=236305&amp;post=677&amp;subd=jotorres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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