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J. Angelo Racoma N2RAC/DU2XXR in racoma.org

Nov 12, 2012

DesignCrowd launches in the Philippines, aimed at crowdsourcing design works

Crowdsourcing is the in thing in just about any industry today. Popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia is crowd-sourced. Open source projects are likewise crowd-sourced, to some extent. Meanwhile…

J. Angelo Racoma N2RAC/DU2XXR in racoma.org

Jul 3, 2007

Corruption in the Philippine Postal System

During my brief stint in NEDA, one of the projects I handled (to some extent) was one for the modernization of the Philippine Postal Corporation. Among the goals of the project was to make the postal system more efficient, and to lessen corruption in the…

J. Angelo Racoma N2RAC/DU2XXR in racoma.org

Mar 15, 2007

Thank God I’m Not A Registered Voter

Some people do the stupidest things with information entrusted to them. Take this case for example. PTB contributor Arnold Gamboa discovered that a certain website purporting to belong to the Commission on Elections NCR (National Capital Region) has published the…

J. Angelo Racoma N2RAC/DU2XXR in racoma.org

Feb 10, 2007

It’s Election Year And I Have A Crazy Idea

2007 is mid-term election season here in the Philippines. Every three years, we get to elect local officials from lowest (barangay, or town) level up to national Senate level (senators have alternating six-year terms). And this is one of those years.

J. Angelo Racoma N2RAC/DU2XXR in racoma.org

Oct 28, 2006

The First SEO Philippines BeerCon

Got home this midnight from the “first SEO Philippines BeerCon”:http://www.macalua.com/2006/10/23/seo-philippines-beercon-2006/ (hey, it’s October, after all!). I’m too tired to give a detailed explanation of everything that happened, so let me just use the ol’ trusty…

J. Angelo Racoma N2RAC/DU2XXR in racoma.org

Oct 23, 2006

Vulnerability in Xoom’s Password Retrieval Procedure?

After reading my post about online payment systems “not being as easy to implement as we think,”:http://racoma.com.ph/archives/electronic-payments-in-the-philippines-it-may-not-be-as-simple-as-we-think/ Marhgil earlier emailed me about…

J. Angelo Racoma N2RAC/DU2XXR in racoma.org

Oct 3, 2006

The Isulong SEOPH Awarding Night

I was unable to post about the Isulong SEOPH awarding night earlier because of the extended power outage we had in our part of town. I thought power would’ve already been restored, but it turns out we lost power again after coming back home, and it wouldn’t return until…