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Tuesday, 10 November 2009 |
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
FOR one who admits to not being computer- and Internet-savvy, Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III is not doing badly at all in cyberspace.
He leads other 2010 presidential aspirants in terms of combined number of Facebook and Friendster “friends” with 155,950, followed by Sen. Francis "Chiz" Escudero with 81,114 and Sen. Manuel "Manny" Villar with 56,945.
He is also the leader in Twitter followers with 17,970, followed by Escudero with 14,679 and Defense Secretary Gilbert "Gibo" Teodoro with 3,609.
On Tuesday, he launched his video blog or Vblog, the only one among the presidential candidates to use the innovative medium.
Yoly Ong, director for communications in the Aquino campaign, said the vlog dubbed as “60 seconds with Noy,” will be a series of 18 episodes to be posted at www.noynoy.ph starting Tuesday up Nov. 27, the day before he files his certificate of candidacy.
Ong said Aquino’s vlog will offer an “unscripted and raw look” of the Liberal Party presidential bet so readers can learn more about his advocacies and platform of governance.
Speaking via video satellite from his residence on Times Street in Quezon City to reporters assembled in the Campaigns and Grey office in Makati, the advertising and public relations firm headed by Ong, Aquino said he would like to use the power of the Internet to wage “an issue- based campaign rather than a personality-based campaign.”
A sample of Aquino's vblog:
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