I SAW an ad in the Philippine Daily Inquirer last Tuesday (April 19) announcing the launch of a new Philippine-based online reference site that fellow journalists and researchers might find useful. It's called the Philippine e-Library, a project of the...

DISENFRANCHISED planholders of Pacific Plans have formed a coalition to protest the pre-need firm’s rehabilitation plan and are turning to the blogosphere — “Pacific Plans: Broken Dreams” — to network with each other and air...

IN i magazine's 2004 yearend issue on the theme about what the Philippines would be like in 2015,  broadcast journalist Howie G. Severino writes a personal essay imagining what future awaits his son Alon. Howie worries about environmental...

THERE are some public documents now online, you'll never know what you might stumble upon just surfing. For example, I was researching on corned beef and corned beef companies, when I hit one of San Miguel Corporation's quarterly disclosures with the...

IN the run-up to the last elections in May 2004, we had tracked the pages that researchers were visiting in i-site, PCIJ’s information site on Philippine politics and government. One of the things that surprised us was that we found visitors whose main...

ONE way of checking the relevance of your Web searches is by comparing results in the various search tools available, the two most commonly used ones being Google and Yahoo!. But you don't have to do it the old fashioned way, which is to go to each site...

FAMILIARIZING yourself with the landscape will help. Here now are some tips to help you through the chase. 1. Know your rights. You can quote the law in the first instance that you make your request. Or reserve that for a follow-up, if your first...