Filipino Australian community blogs

February 2, 2010
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For those who have been following me on this site, I know I have been guilty of not updating this page for almost a month now. I do apologise for that.
Without offering any excuse, I guess I was just pretty well tied up with other web-related projects which included setting up a community blogs at [...]

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Public education, ACMA, and anti-spamming

January 5, 2010
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We tip our hat to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) for its relentless fight against spamming.
The ACMA is responsible for the regulation of the broadcasting, radiocommunications, internet, and telecommunications industry in Australia. With approximately 540 staff spread over its principal offices in Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney, the organisation is not small.
I have [...]

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Australia’s fight against spamming

December 18, 2009

This post is out of my ordinary posts, but I thought I’ll give you an update on the latest developments in Australia’s fight against spamming.
Two days ago, the Federal Court in Brisbane imposed Australian $6.5 million in penalties to two respondents who were allegedly involved in SMS spamming. The two respondents are part of [...]

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Every local can blog

December 8, 2009
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So, what is this new blogs site we have opened at The Filipino Australian website? No, it’s not something new. We just moved across the news site Local Blogs section to another domain, http://blogs.thefilipinoaustralian.com.
With the new site, we aim to provide a wider mass medium platform for others to have their say. The new site [...]

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Media mourns for Maguindanao journalists, condemns massacre

November 25, 2009

The whole emanila group of websites join the Filipino Press Group of Sydney in mourning for the journalists who were massacred last Monday in Maguindanao whilst in line with duty.
We also join other media groups in condemning this barbaric act ~ of trampling the rights of human beings and make them offerings in the political [...]

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