Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts

July 10, 2012

PayPerPost is trolling me

So, last week, I signed up for PayPerPost.com (And maybe you should, too, if you wanna make some money from blogging. This is not product placement, guys.)

WARNING: Bieber fans, turn away from this blog post. This post is not for you. I believe in your freedom to choose what kind of music to listen to, I think I have that same freedom to post something like this. We're equals now.

Here's what this post is all about:

It's amazing how your very first offer from PayPerPost is something you think you will never write about. I have to write a 30-word post for Justin Bieber's concert including links where anyone can buy tickets. That should be easy, right? I don't think so.

It's like one guy from PayPerPost.com said, "If this kid can write about Bieber, he can write just about anything. Because Bieber's hard to write. Let's put him to the ultimate test," to everyone in the meeting. Now,  I will Click the Save button. As soon as you read about this, please raise your hand, think of me, and whisper your wishes and "goodluck" to me. I need that.

July 5, 2012

Social Media for Social Change

So, tomorrow almost all of the Budyong staff will be participating in Rappler's Move Bicol: May Power Ka Ba?


They said in their invitation that they will be talking about the "looming power crisis." Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa and Mutimedia Reporter Patricia Evangelista will be there to lead the citizen journalism workshop for fifty participants.