About

Angelo Racoma This page is a bit dated, and I’ll have to revise it real soon! But if you’re interested to learn more about me and this blog, read on.

Hi. I’m J. Angelo Racoma, and the J Spot is my personal blog on technology, economics, writing, and getting things done.

I’m a full-time professional, and I’m currently the editor in chief at Splashpress Media. Prior to giving up the corporate life for a virtual-office/home-based business and career, I was an economist working for the Philippine Government, and then an exec in a Philippine I.T. firm specializing in domain registry and blogging solutions. I have also worked on several independent web development work for government and private enterprises. Do check out my profile and Curriculum Vitae to learn more about me.

I used to publish this blog at jangelo.i.ph (where most of my old stuff is still located), but I kind of got tired of how I couldn’t fully control a hosted service. Thus, after some time, I decided to move my main tech blog here at racoma.net, which subsequently became racoma.com.ph. Much of my writings on blogs and other online publications relate to tech matters, and here, I discuss a lot of things I find interesting, particularly on how tech relates to business and economics, and most of the time just anything to do with IT. I’ve also started blogging about productivity, pro-blogging and writing.

Navigation

You may search the articles by entering keywords on the search box above. You may also browse more than three years’ worth of blog posts by date, or tags/keywords (tags are the evolved form of “categories”).

Elsewhere

If that’s not enough, you can find other articles stuff at these sites I either publish, manage or contribute to:

The J Spotter (my blog on personal stuff)

The Blog Herald

I joined the new editorial and management team of the Blog Herald when it was purchased from Problogging, Inc. (the successor of BlogMedia, which I wrote for for a very brief period). The Herald is considered to be a premier source of news and commentary about the blogging industry.

BloggyNetwork

I wrote for the Bloggy Network from March to December of 2006. Most of my blogs were tech and gadget-related blogs. I particularly loved writing for Apple Gazette, the MacHead that I am!

Philippine-based networks/team-blogs

In Other Media

A recent interview with talk show Mel & Joey, and my reactions thereto.
ABS-CBN Father’s Day Feature interview
Insider Interview Video
Guesting at Ricky Carandang’s morning programme at the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC).
Sun.Star Cebu – A print copy of my Blogging 101 article on the Sun.Star Blog Chronicles was published in October of 2005.

FM Radio – The same intro article on blogging was aired on 90.7 Love Radio in Manila in November of 2005, albeit translated in Filipino (and not citing the original source).
Entrepreneur Magazine – Interviewed about online consultancy in November 2006
PC Magazine, Philippines – Interviewed by fellow problogger Abe Olandres about problogging

Problogging

If you’re intersted to know how I became a full-time pro-blogger (well, I’d say about 80% pro-blogging, actually), you can check out these posts I’ve made here and elsewhere:

My Journey: From Full-time Employee to Full-time Professional Blogger (at ForeverGeek);
Problogging Options – Read about the different ways you can earn from blogging and other online activities;
Other articles about problogging.

I also ~~publish~~ tried publishing a podcast, or an audioblog, which is very much like a radio show, but downloaded from the internet and usually played on portable music players or personal computers. Do check out the J Spotter Podcast, Episode 1: Business Blogging.

I’m making it a point to blog only about serious and relevant material here on the J Spot. If you feel you’re not getting enough content, please do visit my Elsewhere page for links to my other blog posts. You can also see links to interesting stuff I happen to stumble upon and bookmark on del.icio.us and DIGG.

Interests and Advocacies

You can check out what I’ve been reading up on at my del.icio.us account – del.icio.us .
The PayPal for the Philippines Advocacy, which I helped initiate

Citations

The J Spot was given the “Successful and Outstanding Blogger” badge on June 3, 2006.

Feedback and Contact

Please feel free to leave a response to any of my articles, using the forms provided at the bottom of each post. You may also email me directly at jangelo (at) racoma (dot) net. I try to respond to all my (relevant) emails as promptly as I can, except perhaps when I’m busy or down with something bad. I may also be reached via my mobile phone (call or SMS) at +63-927-5360123 or at +1-425-906-3733—this is a U.S. number routed to my VoIP client.

You may also use the contact form below to send me email.

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Comment Policy

Being a co-author of the Blog Herald Comment Policy, I subscribe to the same in letter and in spirit:

We do not pre-moderate any comments and welcome all kinds of thoughts, supportive, dissenting, critical or otherwise.
We do not delete or censor comments unless they have content that:

is abusive

is off-topic

contains ad-hominem attacks

promotes hate of any kind

uses excessively foul language

is blatantly spam

All comments are filtered through spam filtering technology; the kind we uses varies over time, but we are currently using a combination of Akismet, Spam Karma 2, and Bad Behavior 2. The spam-filtering technology isn’t perfect, and from time to time it flags legitimate emails (false positives).

If you find that your comment isn’t immediately showing up, it may have been erroneously flagged as spam. Please contact the author to follow up on the status of your comment if it hasn’t shown up after 24 hours and we will do our best to sort it out.

This is with the added disclaimer that:

All comments made by third parties on this site are considered copyright their respective authors; and
This site and its author is not liable for comments made by third parties. We do our best to keep the comment threads clear from potentially harmful content, as long as it is within the above-cited comment policy.

Interview Policy

To avoid being taken out of context, or being misquoted, any media or new media interviews would have to adhere to this policy:

Interviews have to to be shown or published in full, as much as possible.
This author reserves the right to post or publish the interview on this site in full. If not possible, such as in the case of television shows, the author reserves the right to require a copy or duplicate recording of the entire proceedings. This may be posted or published here in full, or as transcribed, where necessary.
If the interview is in email form, the author prefers that that the entire question and answer exchange be published. If the interviewer is to construct an article out of this author’s responses, it is preferred that the interviewer submit a draft first before publishing the content.

Final words

In case you would like to quote, cite, or refer to articles I have written here, please refer to my site license page, for information on fair use and copyright.

Sorry if this took quite long. Have so much to say, with so little time.

I hope you enjoy your stay!

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