Soon we will be seeing more of http://flic.kr links
on Twitter since Flickr (after a month of courtship) has officially made a tie-up with Twitter.
It all started with email uploads that simultaneously creates a Tweet with a short of http://flic.kr link directing to the photo on Flickr. Now, as addition to the email uploads, Flickr now lets you Tweet out any photos directly from their site. After linking your accounts, whenever
you click on the “Blog this” button on any photo on Flickr, your
Twitter account will be one of the distribution options. This works for
both photos you’ve uploaded and other photos you find on the site.
The Digital Filipino.com Club is again holding a fellowship / networking event where industry players and bloggers catch up and exchange all the latest updates on the e-commerce industry. This
will be on July 11, Saturday, 6 pm to 11 pm at the Teatro Casino,
Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino, 1st Salinas Drive Lahug, Cebu
City.
This event is sponsored by PAGCOR, a Digital Filipino Club member.
There is no better way to help save our land than to start
moving ourselves. And a perfect event is hitting Cebu this September to let us
do just that.
The Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation (CCEF)
have set a hip event that can make saving the environment challenging and
enjoyable.
The 1st Cebu
Coastal Adventure Challenge is an event organized by CCEF Inc. to help save
the Philippine reefs from trash. This 6-8 hour adventure race around round
Mactan, Cebu, Cordova and Lapu-Lapu is open to all novice and adventure racers,
formed into a 3-man team, with the heart for saving Mother Nature. A total of
50 teams will race against each other and battle their skills in running,
biking, kayaking, rappelling, and navigation to win some cash plus the bragging
rights as the 1st Cebu Coastal Adventure Challenge Champions.
The challenge is crafted in a way that check
points will be related to coastal awareness and coastal preservation. The
whole race is not only about racing and aiming for the gold. CCEF also made
sure that it would build awareness on how to preserve the Philippine coasts.
CCEF is a
recognized leader in practical methods of participatory, community, and local
government-based coastal resource management. Their aim is to work hand-in-hand
with the people in the community through the local government, particularly
those of the coastal areas that would greatly benefit a healthy marine
ecosystem. CCEF also provides social services to improve the quality of life of
these coastal communities.
So mark September 19, 2009 calendars, gear yourselves to
this remarkable event that would not only give you the prize, but would also
help the coastal communities in an enjoyable and adventurous way.
For registration, event schedule, and more event details,
visit www.coastalrace.com , text
0909-3217756, or call 233-5758.
If you talk about history and culture in the Philippines,
Cebu would probably one of the richest. Colon Street in particular has been
filled with historical landmarks. Heritage
markers in the corners of Colon remind us how prosperous downtown Cebu was.
It was once the center of civilization filled with schools, elite residences, theaters,
etc. One building that stood still in the Colon Street is Vision Theater.
Built during the 1920s, Vision Theater was one of the most
popular theaters in Cebu during the pre- and post-war periods, with its
beautifully sculptured façade of nude Greek figures (designed by Italian
sculpture Dante Guidetti). During the World War II, the entire downtown
Colon was set on fire by local authorities when they knew that the Japanese
would invade the place. Yet, the building survived the fire and stood still.
In the 1980s, the downtown progress was drained to the
uptown commercial success – probably the reason of its present situation.
Although the present Colon Street is still a place for commercialism, but it
wasn’t as classy as it used to be on its older state.
Just last July 24, Vision Theater caught fire because of a short circuit in one of the warehouses in the building. This could possibly be a way for the
building to rebel against the people misusing such a valuable piece of history
and culture. For this building, where once stood a popular theater, now bears
merchants and patrons of pirated DVDs.
A sad sight of what the Vision Theater has become when it
could have been a place for every Cebuano to show his passion for the arts -
like theater and the new media perhaps. Then probably, when that happens, Colon
Street or the entire downtown Cebu would rise once more from where it was
buried.
