THE NEW PHILIPPINE STAR WEBSITE: IS CHANGE ALWAYS A GOOD THING?

   Hi

 I don’t write here often because I blab my  bite sized thoughts now at http://readnow.tumblr.com. However, I am back because of two things. My friend Butch emailed this blog in a yahoo group and the Philippine Star has a new site. Well… the Philippine Star’s new site turned this site and me upside down….

The Good 

The Philippine Star finally gave us at Supreme a space in their site and didn’t clump us with the Modern Living section. It is also easier to find articles with an improved search engine.

The Bad 

 All my article links here from Phillippine Star archives were relinked. Thus, all links from the archives when clicked from my blog are now dead. Also, you need to register at Phil Star online to find them. The consolation is that most of my articles are now at http://supreme.ph.

The Ugly

     The articles now have the option of translating them to Tagalog by Google Translation. The result is…..

This is how we have been staying Supreme for one year. We do every assignment for an issue with our hearts skipping three beats feeling like it was the first layout, the first interview, the first shoot, the first movie, book and blog read, the first song heard, the first word typed, and the first idea popped into our heads.

It is a fast-food life. Every second, the bar gets raised higher in a matter of click as the wired world discovers and broadcasts human genius instantaneously. We, the cohuman glory, have gotten used to such standards that we sometimes fail to celebrate when recognition. People have become so hard to please because they have lost their sense of wonder at greatness.

has turned to 

Ito ay kung paano namin ay manatili Supreme para sa isang taon. Namin ang lahat ng assignment para sa isang isyu sa aming mga puso laktaw tatlong beats ng damdamin tulad ng ito ay ang unang layout, ang unang interbiyu, ang unang bumaril, ang unang pelikula, libro at basahin ang blog, ang unang song narinig, ang unang salita-type, at ang unang ideya binusa sa aming mga ulo.

Ito ay isang fast food-buhay. Bawat segundo, sa bar itataas mas mataas na nakukuha sa isang bagay ng pag-click ng bilang ng mga wired mundo discovers at broadcasts tao henyo instantaneously. Namin, ang mga mamimili ng kaluwalhatian ng tao, may gotten sa ganitong mga pamantayan na namin paminsan-minsan hindi magdiwang kapag recognition ay dahil. Ang mga tao ay may kaya maging mahirap mangyaring dahil sila ay nawawalan ng kanilang mga damdamin ng pagtataka at kadakilaan.

Nuff Said.