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The initial guidelines for bloggers holding contests

Posted by on Aug 4, 2011 in Features, Internet | 13 comments

I attended the bloggers meeting with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on bloggers holding online contests. I was an hour late because of the terrible traffic but I got to hear the question and answer part of the meeting. So here are the rules I gathered. These are just temporary until DTI, with the help of select bloggers, comes up with a final (?) list 3 to 6 months from now.

  • Personal and Professional Bloggers (probloggers) are exempt from DTI if the annual sum of the value of prize/s which they personally spent for is less than P1 Million.
  • Personal and probloggers are exempt from DTI if the annual sum of value of prize/s which are from sponsors is less than P200,000 provided that sponsor isn’t a big company.
  • Bloggers are the ones responsible in securing permits whether sponsored or non-sponsored contests.
  • Once a purchase is needed in a contest, a permit is a must whether the value is less than P200,000.
  • DTI will rely on the honor system of bloggers to patrol the online community. Those caught without necessary permits penalized.
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Review: Cocoon Firefox add-on

Posted by on Jul 25, 2011 in Features, Internet | 2 comments

review

Cocoon is a Firefox Browser add-on which protects you from virus from web sites and offers secure web experience. I downloaded it after reading it from one of those tech blogs (sorry I forgot which one) and decided to try it two days ago but then it messed up my current open tabs. Now that I closed all those open tabs (I was able to retrieve them), I decided to give it another try.

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