Eye on the Philippines (and other stuff)

Eye, eye, eye


Over the last several days, people in the Philippines were tweeting up a storm about the weeklong special CNN is doing starting April 30 (local time). The Philippines is the latest country to be profiled in this weeklong special, that takes a look at the cultural, economics, what they're doing right, etc, so it's nice to see overrated huge publicity on it.


The last 3 days however, thanks to the Pinoy hospitality, Anna Coren is back on Twitter after 1004 days, albeit she only sent 4 tweets, 2 of which are irrelevant off topic to what is presented here. Anyway, every reporter in the Philippines had to take a picture of her, and had to post it on Twitter, and had to make more publicity. Sounds fair enough. But Anna's focus is on the special (and that's why I like her)


Tweetdeck observations time


Also, besides that, I have 20 columns on my Google Chrome Tweetdeck, which explains my personality. Columns 18 and 20 have been suspiciously been active, while Column 19 regain conscious. Columns 5, 6, and 17... not so much. Column 1 is my feed, columns 2 and 16 being my mentions and interactions, column 3 is my favorites, columns 4 and 12 are for the Eurovision Song Contest (4th year I'm following it), columns 7 and 8 are mostly financial tweets, column 9 is my DM inbox,  columns 10 and 11 are mostly war tweets, column 14 is my Facebook feed, and columns 13 and 15 are empty. Pretty much I am boring.


What? Loreen's getting 12s left and right? Since when?


On the Eurovision front, Loreen from Sweden is getting 12 points left and right. Amazing. It's like Alexander Rybak in 2009 except I'm enjoying this one (Loreen that is). Other favorites (all of which are boring except Russia and Italy) are having a hard time keeping up with Sweden, so Stockholm 2013 it is.


We only go 4 columns at a time.


That's 5 pages for the math-illiterate


Those are just my thoughts right now and if there's anything else that comes up, it'll be there.