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		<title>Bloggers on &#8216;Save the Philippine Seas&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blogpress.ph/2011/06/bloggers-save-philippine-seas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog Action Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine seas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogpress.ph/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Blog Action Day was organized to heighten awareness regarding the importance of our seas, and to bring about action to help solve problems facing the marine environment. Here are some of the blog posts that have been published in support of the Save the Philippine Seas movement: The Plunder of the Philippine Coral Reefs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Action Day: S.O.S.</title>
		<link>http://blogpress.ph/2011/05/blog-action-day-s-o-s/</link>
		<comments>http://blogpress.ph/2011/05/blog-action-day-s-o-s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 17:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog Action Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal coral trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine coral]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In April and May of this year, we were alerted to despicable crimes against marine flora and fauna, and the illegal trade that perpetrates these atrocities. Are we just going to sit back and allow the rape of the ocean go unpunished? Will we let the plundering of our natural resources go unimpeached? Not us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Asean bloggers network</title>
		<link>http://blogpress.ph/2011/05/an-asean-bloggers-network/</link>
		<comments>http://blogpress.ph/2011/05/an-asean-bloggers-network/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 14:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASEAN bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuala Lumpur Consensus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogpress.ph/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 1st Malaysia-ASEAN Regional Bloggers Conference had its culminating event last week at Kuala Lumpur&#8217;s posh Intercontinental Hotel, and was participated in by Malaysian bloggers and journalists, as well as by invited bloggers from 7 ASEAN countries. The latter group had held a session to discuss the conference&#8217;s desired output &#8212; the Kuala Lumpur Consensus [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Asean bloggers confab in Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://blogpress.ph/2011/04/asean-bloggers-confab-in-malaysia/</link>
		<comments>http://blogpress.ph/2011/04/asean-bloggers-confab-in-malaysia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASEAN bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuala Lumpur Consensus]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogpress.ph/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonyo Cruz, among other things the main proponent for a national bloggers&#8217; organization in the Philippines, and this author were invited to participate in the 1st Malaysian-ASEAN Regional Bloggers Conference in Malaysia, which had its opening activities at the Sime Darby Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. To date, of all the blogger-centric events I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Partnership in Public Safety and Disaster Communication</title>
		<link>http://blogpress.ph/2011/04/public-safety-disaster-communication/</link>
		<comments>http://blogpress.ph/2011/04/public-safety-disaster-communication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press Releases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster coordination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine telcos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public safety]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogpress.ph/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Philippine government has forged a partnership with the country&#8217;s three telecommunications firms &#8212; Digitel/Sun, Globe, PLDT/Smart &#8212; to send free public safety advisories and text messages to their subscribers during calamities, disasters and emergencies. The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC), National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), and the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), through [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thai netizen gets 13 years</title>
		<link>http://blogpress.ph/2011/03/thai-netizen-gets-13-years/</link>
		<comments>http://blogpress.ph/2011/03/thai-netizen-gets-13-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lèse majesté]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogpress.ph/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanthawut Taweewarodomkul (ธันย์ฐวุฒิ ทวีวโรดมกุล), a Web designer associated with the website, norporchorusa.com, was sentenced to 13 years in prison &#8220;for transgressing Thailand’s draconian lèse majesté law and breaching the Computer Crime Act.&#8221; (Source: Political Prisoners in Thailand) The website in question has been branded by the Thai government as subversive as it is linked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What sort of a bloggers organization?</title>
		<link>http://blogpress.ph/2011/03/what-sort-of-bloggers-org/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Zeitgeist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[code of ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipino bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national bloggers association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine blogosphere]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogpress.ph/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is only a proposal, and still very informal as it hasn&#8217;t even been decided yet whether or not to go ahead with the plan to institute a Filipino bloggers&#8217; association. The purpose of my writing this is to attempt to dispel any notion that the organization might be an elitist clique or a political [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>For the protection of bloggers&#8217; rights</title>
		<link>http://blogpress.ph/2011/03/bloggers-rights-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://blogpress.ph/2011/03/bloggers-rights-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zeitgeist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national bloggers association]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogpress.ph/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do we need a national bloggers&#8217; association? One major rationale that I would like to discuss now is this: the preservation of the rights of bloggers as human beings and as citizen journalists. An association that is national in character and enjoys recognition by Filipino bloggers can have the mandate to uphold these rights. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>A national bloggers association</title>
		<link>http://blogpress.ph/2011/03/a-national-bloggers-association/</link>
		<comments>http://blogpress.ph/2011/03/a-national-bloggers-association/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Zeitgeist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipino bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national bloggers association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine blogosphere]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogpress.ph/?p=121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having witnessed progressive movements in the Philippine blogosphere, and having gone through challenges facing bloggers across the country, a few bloggers began talking about forming a bloggers&#8217; association last year. Tonyo Cruz and I, in particular, spoke about this around middle of 2010. It was shortly after I&#8217;d arrived from an international conference where bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ratify Freedom of Information!</title>
		<link>http://blogpress.ph/2010/05/ratify-freedom-of-information/</link>
		<comments>http://blogpress.ph/2010/05/ratify-freedom-of-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 10:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Information Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Media Release] The Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed to advance the resumption of its session to 24 May 2010, Monday, instead of its original schedule of 31 May. When the House of Representatives convenes on this day, we, representatives of over 100 organizations and coalitions comprising public-interest groups, environmental protection advocates, independent [...]]]></description>
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