Comments on: Gotta Love CJ http://www.peterimbong.com/?p=1170 THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:38:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Peter http://www.peterimbong.com/?p=1170&cpage=1#comment-81 Peter Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:10:08 +0000 http://www.peterimbong.com/?p=1170#comment-81 Awesome. Awesome.

]]> By: Judd http://www.peterimbong.com/?p=1170&cpage=1#comment-76 Judd Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:06:08 +0000 http://www.peterimbong.com/?p=1170#comment-76 @Peter: Give or take a couple hundred meters; I got there on site a few minutes after I heard the blast. @Peter: Give or take a couple hundred meters; I got there on site a few minutes after I heard the blast.

]]> By: Peter http://www.peterimbong.com/?p=1170&cpage=1#comment-73 Peter Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:43:27 +0000 http://www.peterimbong.com/?p=1170#comment-73 @Judd: Although I think it's important to differentiate that mindless blabber that mostly compose many blogs is not citizen journalism. It's well, mindless blabber. But when events like this happen and people like you blog about it, it becomes citizen journalism. Media people call it such, but to the common netizen, it's still a blog entry. Yes, it is weirdly beautiful. By the way, just how far from the scene of the accident were you? To have captured those images even before the police arrived to cordon it off, you must've been there seconds after it happened. @Judd: Although I think it’s important to differentiate that mindless blabber that mostly compose many blogs is not citizen journalism. It’s well, mindless blabber. But when events like this happen and people like you blog about it, it becomes citizen journalism. Media people call it such, but to the common netizen, it’s still a blog entry.

Yes, it is weirdly beautiful.

By the way, just how far from the scene of the accident were you? To have captured those images even before the police arrived to cordon it off, you must’ve been there seconds after it happened.

]]> By: Judd http://www.peterimbong.com/?p=1170&cpage=1#comment-70 Judd Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:28:43 +0000 http://www.peterimbong.com/?p=1170#comment-70 Hey, I stumbled on your blog from one of the link-backs from my site. Thanks for this, I really appreciate it. That's the nature of blogging. We talk about things that happen to us on a daily basis - as it happens, as soon as we are ready and willing to talk about it. Even more so than news like this one I posted, it's a direct way of subjectively gauging the sentiments of the people; just the sheer number of people who looked at the blog entry I posted and commented and shared their views attest to that. They wanted to know about it and they wanted to talk about it. But then again, while the form is very democratic, not everyone will be responsible citizen journalists. We have a long ways to go before we could deliver news and happenings in a truly objective, unbiased, and truthful form. Then you have to think too that maybe that's missing the point, because people blog about what they think and people are biased towards their own preferences and inclinations. Isn't it weirdly beautiful, either way? Hey, I stumbled on your blog from one of the link-backs from my site. Thanks for this, I really appreciate it.

That’s the nature of blogging. We talk about things that happen to us on a daily basis – as it happens, as soon as we are ready and willing to talk about it. Even more so than news like this one I posted, it’s a direct way of subjectively gauging the sentiments of the people; just the sheer number of people who looked at the blog entry I posted and commented and shared their views attest to that. They wanted to know about it and they wanted to talk about it.

But then again, while the form is very democratic, not everyone will be responsible citizen journalists. We have a long ways to go before we could deliver news and happenings in a truly objective, unbiased, and truthful form. Then you have to think too that maybe that’s missing the point, because people blog about what they think and people are biased towards their own preferences and inclinations.

Isn’t it weirdly beautiful, either way?

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