Question: How much of what you read online (or offline) is good or positive?

After reading or watching bad news, ask your self: How do I feel? Better or worse? Especially reading or watching negative news before sleeping, you would find yourself more tired or stressed when you wake up.

Try this: read an inspirational story such as those from Chicken Soup for the soul before sleeping for a week. Or find small-town news of ordinary people helping each other out, of that young buy who risked his life to save his friend, you know, the little things that do not make it to the front page. You will notice that you wake up more relaxed and in a better frame of mind.
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The current state of this site is not what I’ve envisioned it to be. The CNN-ish fonts are intentional. I want this site to be the bearer of good tidings and news. ( My other site, MabutingBalita.net is the site for the Good News).

Consider this a beta version. When the site becomes gold, it will be more community-based and less mainstream (meaning, it will not focus on what the big media outfits put out). The real stories and lives of the Filipinos around the world and events that affect them will be its main feature. This is no little task for a full-time employee and family man who also is involved with several organizations and advocacies. (One has to sleep too, you know). If you have ideas on how this can be done or you are willing to help, just drop me a note and let us exchange ideas and collaborate.
For now, I just scour the blogs and my everyday experiences for inspirations. Like these:

Shakey’s Pizza delivers (and no, this is not a paid post) and now you can pay with your Credit Card. I’ve been wondering why there are so few businesses which are taking advantage of this. PLDT has its SWUP after all but I have not heard much after the launch. Taking it a step further, how about a roving “Pay Your Bills through Credit Card” guy? He can take cash too, though that makes him a likely target of mugging but these are just details. The technology and feasibility is there.

Thank God It’s Friday! from Noemi. She left a Macbook, and maybe can include the byline ..Aboutmyrecoveredmacbook hehehe! It was returned (Though I’m not sure if she had fries with that=). Hats off to you guys. That’s customer service, honesty and good guy values we want to see more of everyday. I’m sure that there are a lot more examples of these that are not being reported or discussed. If there are some more, please ping me so we can put them here.

If I become a TV news producer, I would make good deeds the headlines rather than novelty or feel-good fillers. I wish one government station or major network would dare to be the source of good news more than the bad news. On second thought, why not a YouTube-like streaming good news? Paging Karlo, Greg and Web 2.0 guys…

Another great find is from Pedestrian Observer. Filipinos have great talent and artistry, and Charmaine Clamor is making waves in the Jazz scene. She describes her style as Jazzipino, a testament to her roots and influence. More details here.

To cap it off, Chris features an item from Entrepreneur.com.sg praising Filipinos for their friendliness and even suggesting the Philippines may be the Blogging Capital of the World.

Wouldn’t that be great?

Give us more of these good news everyday.