My life. Online.
Unlike in the US, the online city guide landscape is very limited in the Philippines. Clickthecity.com was pretty much the only choice you had if you wanted a comprehensive city guide. Even then, people only visited the site for the TV and movie schedules (yup, that’s really it).
It was sometime last year when Summit and NMI decided to join the city guide wars with Spot.ph. Needless to say, it was a complete mess. Back then, there was already a clear disconnect between the site and (objectively speaking) the magazine arm of one of the most prestigious print companies in the country. The site clearly didn’t enjoy the same quality control all Summit magazines were known for.
As I write this, both Spot.ph and ClicktheCity.com are undergoing various levels of redesign, reformatting, or whatever you want to call it. Hence leaving me with too many things to write about (and thus more reasons for you to come back here).
All of this just made me think — more than the occasional “blog-about-this-blog-about-that” event, online newspaper, or social networking site, are Filipinos ready to leave everything traditional and go online?
