Hat tip to this post for the idea to use Google Trends for tracking the more tech-savvy (well, those that use Google search anyway) voter’s interest — I can’t quite be certain when those “padyak” ads came out, but I’m guessing it’s around the time Mar’s search popularity spiked. Interest in Manny Villar seems to hold steady, and is currently holding a tenuous grip on the top spot — a state of affairs reflected by the recent SWS survey results he commissioned.
I’m a huge visualization fan, and these kinds of tools go a long way in making the wealth of information we have available a bit more digestible. Click on the image below to see the query for yourself.
2010 Presidential Candidates
On a related note, I’ve been using Google’s News Timeline as a kind of feed reader a lot lately (click on the image to see the query):
2010 Philippine Elections
It doesn’t do blogs yet, but it indexes news just fine, and the compact design just makes for better skimming, IMO.
I’m also trying out Google’s Squared app, and although the query options are a bit limited at the moment, it does provide a nice “at-a-glance” functionality. Click on the image below to see my table.
2010 Presidential Candidates
Somebody do a mashup, please? :)
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HOW, REALLY, DID MANUEL BAMBA VILLAR, JR. GET TO BE RICH? It may bear and serve the Filipino nation well to investigate and know that Manny Villar may actually have broken through Tondo-ragged accountancy to billionaire-rich presidentiable by allowing himself to be used as a foreign investor’s dummy in the Philippine real estate business. You see, the conduct of real estate business in the Philippines is made exclusive by law to Filipino citizens, necessarily because it involves business affairs that affect sensitive issues about territory, patrimony, and national security. Wasn’t that a debonair American who was smilingly visible every day at the offices of Crown Asia, Inc., way back before the Villars became politically ambitious? Unfortunately, sighting that American presence at the Crown Asia, Inc. organization deteriorates to zero visibility in hot election weather, especially nowadays! As Manny Villar embarked on a political career, it naturally became strategically imperative to avoid flaks of damaging controversy about being economically beholden to foreign influence, especially from nationalist camps of the likes of then Senator Teofisto Guingona Jr. who was one among those instrumental in passing the general law limiting the conduct of real estate business in the Philippines to Filipinos only. In fact, it was from 1997 to 1999 that the bespactacled, middle-aged, happy American investor (silent or express?) of Crown Asia, Inc. was last regularly observed at the 18th Floor of Cityland Herrera Tower. Most of us often have “humble,” sometimes “rotten,” beginnings; yet being transparent about such beginnings can do more good than harm. Perhaps good Senator Manuel Villar may want to comment on this matter at this time?
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