My Nominees for the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2010
домейнEvery year, the blogosphere recognizes 10 blogs who have made a significant impact in shaping this new industry. I wanted to play my part in nominating 10 blogs whom I feel are indeed “Emerging Influential Blogs” for 2010.
Please do nominate and vote for your own blogs of choice, just write a blog post similar to this.
Full instructions for your entry to qualify can be seen here – http://www.influentialblogger.net/2010/05/join-top-10-emerging-influential-blogs.html
Also, don’t forget to post a link to your entry on that original post so that the organizers can see and count your vote.
My Top 5 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2010 (not in any order)
Camsur.com - It provides latest news and events that is happening in Camsur
Animohosting.com - A blog that provides any kind of news, trending topics from google and twitter and a lot more.
AnimoImages.blogspot.com - A photoblog that provides interesting images, events, etc
Livedito.com - A sport blog that offers live streaming sporting event to the viewers
JunnelAnimo.blogspot.com - A blog that provides latest news, funny videos, etc.
http://www.paolodome.co.cc/ - A blog from art to music to television
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The Engadget Show Live! with Omar Khan, Rock Band 3, and more!
Keep your eyes tuned to this post — because at 8:00 PM ET, we’ll be starting The Engadget Show live, with Samsung CSO Omar Khan, Rick Karr, Rock Band 3! Nilay’s on vacation, but Josh and Paul are on hand with Joanna Stern and Ross Miller, plus we’ll have music from Zen Albatross and visuals from invaderbacca and much, much, more! You seriously don’t want to miss it! Check out the live stream after the break!
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Animator vs. Animation
This video makes me want to create a new animation with the same concept. You’ll surely enjoy this video.
Good Bye Magic Jack! Hello Google Voice
If you’re familiar or heard about Magic Jack, it’s simply amazing with features like you can call to U.S and Canada unlimited for free and you only have to pay a yearly fee. But now Google has come up with another Stand out offer, where you can call Canada and U.S for free without Annual Fees. All you need is to sign up for a Gmail Account and download the Google Voice Software. This is another BIG move by Google allowing more people to use them. I hope their free service will be forever free.
YouTube video shows animation of Manila hostage crisis
QCPD SWAT training of a bus assault simulation
Except Mayweather: Everybody wants Pacquiao
By Joaquin M. Henson | The PhilStar
MANILA, Philippines – Calling out opponents has become a favorite pastime of top-echelon contenders ready to break out and take away the limelight from marquee fighters. It’s called the daring game.
Take WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, the hottest ticket in the sport today. There isn’t anyone in the top 10 world rankings unwilling to face Pacquiao except for Floyd Mayweather whose obsession to preserve his unblemished record has prompted Top Rank chairman Bob Arum to call him a psychological coward.
Fighters calling out Pacquiao are dreaming of a megabuck payday, something that’s almost guaranteed to whomever battles the Filipino icon. Ghana’s Joshua Clottey was assured of at least a $900,000 purse for engaging Pacquiao last March – he couldn’t have earned anywhere close fighting somebody else.
WBC lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez is probably the noisiest of those calling out Pacquiao. The Mexican drew with Pacquiao and lost a split decision in a rematch. Both encounters were close and Marquez insists he deserves a third crack. But nobody’s paying attention. In Marquez’ fight against Juan Diaz last July 31, he tipped the scales at 133 1/2 pounds. Pacquiao weighed in at 145 3/4 for Clottey. Not only is a third meeting an unmarketable exercise but it also is suicidal for Marquez who turns a ripe 37 on Aug. 23.
Pacquiao, 31, will likely tangle with Mexico’s Antonio Margarito on Nov. 13 at a site still to be determined. Margarito, 32, is a viable opponent and ranked No. 1 in the superwelterweight class by the WBC. Conveniently, the WBC 154-pound throne is vacant and the “emeritus champion,” whatever it means, is Mayweather. If Pacquiao agrees to meet Margarito, it will be for a record eighth title in eight divisions.
But Pacquiao may be biting off more than he can chew. The limit in the superwelterweight division is seven pounds over the 147-pound welterweight ceiling and Pacquiao has never fought weighing in more than 145 3/4. Even if there’s a catchweight limit of 149 or 150 or 151, Margarito will be much bigger than Pacquiao when the bell rings.
Because boxing is more a business than a sport, or at least that’s how it has evolved in the modern era, bouts are arranged mainly on the basis of the best deal a promoter negotiates. Arum promotes both Pacquiao and Margarito and that’s why other credible fighters not in the Top Rank stable are excluded from the equation at the moment. Top Rank stands to maximize its earnings by pitting fighters under its wing rather than share the booty with another promoter. Legacy is now something few fighters aspire for – their goal is simply broken down into dollars and cents.
A fighter calling out Pacquiao is WBC welterweight titlist Andre Berto who has a 26-0 record, with 20 KOs, seven in the first round. He won the title in 2008 and has since turned back four challengers. Berto, 26, is launching a movement to pressure fighters to face him and writers to demand the engagements through social networking.
“Arum wants to keep everything in house,” said Berto. “It’s hurting the sport.”
The other welterweight champions are also waiting in line but because they’re not exposed to the US market, there is doubt if they can generate sales even if their opponent is Pacquiao. The WBA titlist is Ukraine’s Vyacheslav Senchenko who has a 30-0 record, with 20 KOs and has never fought outside his country, Monaco and Russia. The IBF king is Slovenia’s Jan Zaveck, now fighting out of Germany with a 29-1 record, including 17 KOs and the only loss to Poland’s Rafal Jackiewicz by split decision in 2008.
Pacquiao could make a strong statement to protect the integrity of boxing by unifying the welterweight championship, disposing of Berto, Zaveck and Senchenko. But it won’t make economic sense.
Another fighter calling out Pacquiao is WBC No. 4 superwelterweight contender and European titleholder Ryan Rhodes. The Englishman, 33, has a 44-4 record, with 30 KOs and is a southpaw like Pacquiao.
“It’s pretty much disgusting,” said Rhodes quoted by Boxing News editor Tris Dixon. “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Margarito gets smashed at welterweight, suspended for nine months, has one fight back – doesn’t look that good – and goes straight in and gets a title shot. All of a sudden, I’m getting bypassed. It’s not nice to see.”
But after all is said and done, there is just one fight the world wants to see – Pacquiao versus Mayweather and from the way Pretty Boy has been posturing lately, the probability is it will finally be staged in May next year.
Amazing Roger Federer trickshot on Gillette ad shoot
China overtakes Japan as world’s second-largest economy
Japan lost its place as the world’s second-largest economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery.
Gross domestic product grew at an annualised rate of just 0.4%, the Japanese government said today, far below the annualised 4.4% expansion in the first quarter. The news added to evidence that the global recovery is facing strong headwinds.
The figures underscore China’s emergence as an economic power that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed. It is already the biggest exporter, car buyer and steel producer, and its global influence is growing.
China has been a major force behind the world’s emergence from recession, delivering much-needed juice to the US, Japan and Europe. Tokyo’s latest numbers, however, suggest that Chinese demand alone may not be enough for Japan or other economic giants.
“Japan is the canary in the goldmine because it depends very much on demand in Asia and China, and this demand is cooling quite a bit,” said Martin Schulz, senior economist at Fujitsu Research Institute in Tokyo. “This is a warning sign for all major economies that just focusing on overseas demand won’t be sufficient.”
China has surpassed Japan in quarterly GDP figures before, but this time it is unlikely to relinquish the lead.
China’s economy will almost certainly be bigger than Japan’s at the end of 2010 because of the huge difference in each country’s growth rates. China is growing at about 10% a year, while Japan’s economy is forecast to grow between 2% and 3% this year. The gap between the size of the two economies at the end of last year was already narrow.
Japan’s nominal GDP, which is not adjusted for price and seasonal variations, was worth $1.286 trillion (£823bn) in the April-to-June quarter compared with $1.335 trillion for China. The figures are converted into dollars based on an average exchange rate for the quarter.
Japan has held the No. 2 spot after the US since 1968, when it overtook West Germany. From the ashes of second world war, the country rose to become a global manufacturing and financial powerhouse. But its so-called “economic miracle” turned into a massive real estate bubble in the 1980s before imploding in 1991.
What followed was a decade of stagnant growth and economic malaise from which the country never really recovered. Prime minister Naoto Kan now faces a long list of daunting problems: a rapidly ageing and shrinking population, persistently weak domestic demand, deflation, a strong yen and slowing growth in key export markets.
In contrast, China’s growth has been spectacular, its voracious appetite fuelling demand for resources, machinery and products from the developing world as well as rich economies such as Japan and Australia. China is Japan’s top trading partner.
China’s rise has produced glaring contradictions. The wealth gap between an elite who profited most from three decades of reform and its poor majority is so extreme that China has dozens of billionaires while average income for the rest of its 1.3 billion people is among the world’s lowest.
Japan’s people still are among the world’s richest, with a per capita income of $37,800 last year, compared with China’s $3,600. America, still by far the largest economy, has a per capita income of $42,240.
“We should be concerned about per capita GDP,” said Kyohei Morita, chief economist at Barclays Capital in Tokyo. China overtaking Japan “is just symbolic,” he said. “It’s nothing more than that.”
But the symbolism may be exactly the “wake-up call” Japanese leaders need, said Schulz of the Fujitsu Research Institute. “Japan is always strangely inward looking,” he said. “And nobody is doing anything about it.”
Japan’s people appear resigned to the power shift. A national poll conducted this year by the Asahi, one of Japan’s biggest newspapers, showed a roughly equal split between those that believed Japan’s fall to the third-largest economy posed a major problem and those who did not. More than half of the 2,347 respondents said Japan does not need to be a global superpower.
The country’s annualised growth in the second quarter was also sharply below expectations of 2.3% in a Kyodo news agency survey of analysts. On a quarterly basis, Japan’s GDP – or the total value of the nation’s goods and services – grew 0.1% from the January-March period, the Cabinet Office said.
Consumer spending, which accounts for about 60% of GDP, was flat from the previous quarter, the figures showed. Capital spending by companies rose 0.5%, while public investment fell 3.4%.
The outlook for the third quarter is uncertain. Private consumption appears to be solid so far, helped in part by unusually hot weather, said Masamichi Adachi, senior economist at JP Morgan Securities Japan. But the slowing global economy is weakening exports and production.
A stronger yen, which hit a 15-year high against the dollar last week, also poses a major risk for the country’s export-driven economy. Yen appreciation reduces the value of repatriated profits for companies such as Toyota and Sony and makes their products more expensive abroad.
The currency worries led finance minister Yoshihiko Noda to say last week that he is closely monitoring foreign exchange rates. Masaaki Shirakawa, governor of the Bank of Japan, released a similar statement to try to calm markets.
Juan Manuel Marquez: Manny Pacquiao Hits Harder Than Floyd Mayweather
