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Live Webcaset or Video Streaming of the Maguindanao Massacre cases

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Atty. Fred| Leave a comment

In a first for the Philippines, the Supreme Court today provided a live webcast or video streaming in its website (sc.judiciary.gov.ph) of a pending case. The live coverage is for the “Maguindanao Massacre cases“. The SC earlier issued the guidelines applicable only (pro hac vice) to the live broadcasting by radio and television of the “Maguindanao Massacre cases“. These guidelines are (as provided in A.M. No. 10-11-5-SC, A.M. No. 10-11-6-SC and A.M. No. 10-11-7-SC): Read more »

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Identity Theft: Jessica Soho SONA

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Atty. Fred| 3 Comments

A former law school classmate sent a text message an hour ago, referring to me as “Atty. Fred Ramos“. He recognized me in Jessica Soho’s State of the Nation (SONA) but with “Fred Ramos” as label. I haven’t changed my name. It’s still Fred Pamaos, although this is not the first time that my name is erroneously mentioned as “Fred Ramos”. Read more »

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Internet Sources and Legal Blogs in Court Decisions

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Atty. Fred| 5 Comments

Law blogs, referred to as “blawgs” by some, are being cited in court decisions in the U.S. (to the cyber-challenged, the term “blog” is a contraction of the words “web log”). As reflected in a collection of court cases that cite legal blogs, there are 32 citations of legal blogs from 27 different cases in the United States, with 8 legal blogs being cited (as of 6 August 2006). Read more »

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Blogging Students of Law

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Atty. Fred| 7 Comments

By “students of law”, I’m referring not only to law students, but also to lawyers and non-lawyers who are interested about the law. From time to time, we point to blogs of “students of law”. The last time we did that was middle of 2007, when we pointed to the blogs of Macka, Tetch Torres (Life’s Chorva) and Professional Journey. There’s the magnificent Atty. Perez and the barcrammer (Rax). We’ve also added the link of Joselito Basilio (Dissenting Opinion). Of course, there’s The Warrior Lawyer. Let’s add some more. Read more »

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Blog Etiquette and Netiquette

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Atty. Fred| 3 Comments

A recent comment caught my attention because it was written in ALL CAPS (or everything was in capital letters). This, in internet language, is equivalent to shouting and unless this is made in the proper context, it’s definitely rude and offensive. This is just an illustration of internet etiquette that we should be mindful of.

So, for the benefit of everyone who may care about blog etiquette, let’s compile the “rules”. For this purpose, this post will be constantly updated within the week. Do drop us a line if you have an idea or two, or if you have any great reference on this subject matter.

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Blawggers, Hazing and Fraternities

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Atty. Fred| 5 Comments

Many blawggers have cleared the path even before I stumbled on blogging almost two years ago. Lately, I’ve discovered a number of blawgs, and I use this term loosely to refer to blogs that are written by lawyers or students of law. Read more »

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Google-searching the Supreme Court

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Atty. Fred| 1 Comment

Once upon a time, if you do a search at the Supreme Court website for cases or jurisprudence, all you get are decisions or resolutions Supreme Court. You can click, read and quote right away, which is good if you don’t have the luxury of time. The only thing you’ll have to watch out is this – separate opinions (concurring or dissenting) of justices are sometimes presented in a separate page, just like the main decision (without the case title, of course). Read more »

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Google-search for SEC: This site may harm your computer

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Atty. Fred| 3 Comments

Let’s say you’re planning to register a corporation and you’re looking for the SEC website to search for information. If you google-search for “SEC“, you’ll discover that Google has added a tag which reads: “This site may harm your computer.” The actual search result looks like this: Read more »

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Blogging bar examinees – 2007

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Atty. Fred| 11 Comments

There were quite a few examinees of the 2006 bar examination that have blogs. Some of them found their way here, together with other reviewees who shared their opinions, emotions, apprehensions and hopes. Many shared helpful information. Others expressed their appreciation, for which I’m thankful. Read more »

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Webware Top 100 for 2007

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Atty. Fred| Leave a comment

When this blog started, we talked about the choices in blogging platforms. Our choice, WordPress, got the most most number of votes in the Publishing category of the Webware 100 for 2007. In his analysis, Rafe Needleman said:

“Publishing had no mass consumer brands in the top 10, as most of the other categories did. WordPress got the most votes. I was interested to see the Drupal CMS platform placing high in this category–above the consumer-oriented publishing products Typepad and Vox. Even combined, these two Six Apart services didn’t come close to winning the same number of votes as Drupal.”

On the other hand, you probably know, by now, the winners of the 2007 Philippine Blog Awards. Though this is a bit late, I have to say congratulations to all the winners, including, of course, DJB (Best Socio-Political Blog), Ivan (Best Travel Blog) and PCIJ (Best News & Media Blog).

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