Wherever I May Roam…

I’ve recently participated in the Stop SOPA Blackout Day. And just now deactivated & deleted Toby Cox’ SOPA Blackout Plugin.

I’m also surprised and laughed at the reaction of some people who were not aware of the blackout. Reading those articles made my day.

And I’m happy that a lot of website owners from across the globe decided to participate. Everyone is, afterall, affected by it once it passes congress. Philippine citizens who owns a .com cough cough and .net domains/websites are especially affected. No one wants to be extradited to the US and tried for copyright infringement even if what we did is legal in the Philippine soil.

Business owners and SME’s running community sites are also affected. Imagine someone copying a jpeg from another website and posting it to yours. Someone complains, and the next thing you know, US IP packets are blocked from reaching your website. And that’s not all. Once SOPA (or PIPA) becomes law, say goodbye to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Why? Just take a look at your timeline, everyone is sharing everything.

Anyway, here’s a nice article explaining why a lot of sites went black yesterday.

And here’s a screencap of this blog when it went black.

Ooh, another spam… And I almost clicked on the virus-laden PDF file.

I’m switching back to Pulse Reader. Taptu may be able to merge and utilize hundreds of feeds but it can only retrieve a handful of posts. I’m a night person and I sleep in the morning (or in the afternoon), so those news articles lullabys’ me to sleep. And I get pissed when I run out of news to read. Launching the Google Reader app is out of the question since it takes a while to load.

Another feature I miss is Pulse’ ability to share seamlessly from the app to Twitter and/or Facebook. Sharing a link from Taptu to Tweetdeck ain’t fun, I also need the title of the blog or article I’m sharing.

This email was sent to me a few days back:

The Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) is the pioneer organizer of Software Freedom Day (SFD)  in the Phippines are already starting to organize the SFD 2011, on-behalf of the CPU we are inviting some individual volunteers from different organisation/Local group/Company to join the 2nd Meetup of SFD 2011  on August 6, 2011 and help us organize the SFD 2011.  For more information you can email secretariat [at] cp-union.com you can also confirm your attendance at FB: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161439537257490&notif_t=event_invite

If you’re sympathetic to the cause of helping Free/Open Source Software move forward, join us on August 6. You can contact RJ Ian Sevilla (the main organizer) via the email address posted above or confirm your attendance on the FB event page. The SFD 2011 will be held this September. Specific details will be discussed in the meeting – so stay tuned.

Apparently, the Philippine Team will hold two Natty Narwhal Release Parties this June 24, one in Manila and other in Zamboanga City. This would allow us to maximize effort and exposure by serving 2 out of 3 island groups.

The Zamboanga City event is organized by Yolynne Media and will be hosted by ELearning Centre, Inc.

Date: June 24, 2011
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (UTC+8)
Venue: ELearning Centre Inc.
3F ZGU II Bldg.
Gov. Alvarez St.,
Zamboanga City

Ubuntu-PH Article: http://ubuntu-ph.org/node/7831
LoCo Directory: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/1024/detail/