Bb. Pilipinas Grand Coronation night on March 19, 2005 at the Araneta Coliseum will be shown live on GMA7.

Do bloggers have the right to keep their sources confidential?
Some bloggers want any protection available to journalists at traditional media companies to also be available to them, and journalists at those companies want to make sure that the reporter shield privilege is preserved.
Yet if recognizing a privilege for bloggers means that everyone online can maintain that they are journalists, judges may conclude that rather than giving everyone the privilege, no one should have it. That possibility worries reporters, who could find themselves at new risk for what they write …

Guess what the most watched TV show last week was? Find the answer here. It was consistent at above 40% in the AGB overnight ratings.

Orbit is to broadcast a Filipino TV package from GMA Network in the GCC. The Pinoy Plus package will be launched on March 1 and comprises: Pinoy Box Office, GMA7 Channel and Pinoy Prime Sports. The package will also include the 10 standard Orbit channels. [source]

GMA Network has signed a deal with IPS, Inc. for the carriage of its International Channel, dubbed GMA Pinoy TV, in Japan via the Access TV DTH (Direct-to-Home) platform.
Beginning March this year, GMA Pinoy TV will be seen in Japan where there is a large population of Overseas Filipino Workers. Present were GMA Network Chairman, President and CEO Felipe L. Gozon shakes with IPS President/CEO Koji Miyashita and Edgardo Opulencia – IPS Carrier Relations Officer, Joseph Francia – OIC and Head of Operations for GMA International, Gilberto R. Duavit, Jr. …

Sunday, March 06, 2005
‘St. Louis must justify tuition increase’
By Rimaliza Opiña
STUDENTS of Saint Louis University (SLU) Friday criticized the school’s plan of imposing increased fees saying the school is financially capable and should not increase the matriculation of its students.
SLU is set to impose a 10 percent increase in tuition and five percent increase in miscellaneous fees beginning school year 2005-2006.
In a position paper, the rallying students said while they understand the school’s contention that the planned increase is to cover additional expenses brought about by the effects of inflation, …

Caludine Barretto’s next soap.
Together with Diether Ocampo.
Directed by Erik Reyes.
Also
Angelika dela Cruz
Shaina Magdayao
John Lloyd Cruz
Bea Alonzo

There is a growing tendency to categorize rather than celebrate eccentricity CNN.com – Age of anxiety
The link no longer works. But the article talks about Jon Winokur’s Encyclopedia Neurotica
This often acerbic dictionary-style guide is an indictment of the self absorption of the affluent West, and the growing tendency to categorize rather than celebrate eccentricity. “In this country, we just have so much of everything and so much time to analyze ourselves. We seem to medicalize oddity and quirkiness. I also wanted to try to make the point that, as actress …

When theCongress website got hacked, will the law makers realize that they have a lot to do make our laws attuned to cybercrime?