"Odyssey to create online community for Filipino music"

"Philippine music and video retailer Odyssey will soon "soft launch" an online music portal and social network for a community of Filipino music fans". Thus reports Erwin Oliva. (The landing page says 21 December).

Almost instinctively, I registered for an account which offered 2 choices, Listener or Artist. (shades of MySpace?) For some reason, I chose Artist.

Image below shows My Profile page.

Now the title above contains the operative words "to create", which makes me wonder: Does the "if you build it, they will come" mantra still hold true?

Onomatopoeic Language?

Sometimes I wonder if the Filipino language is onomatopoeic.

Some samples:

Palakpak, singhot, halakhak. Would appreciate contributions.

Collaborative Internationalization

aka localization, depending on your perspective.

I have recently picked up (where I left off : 6% done) co-translating elgg into Filipino with a certain Boyet (You see, with Web 2.0, you can even be involved in co-creation without directly connecting (Think: 2D2C). Perhaps it's called Anti-social Web. Or shades of Malinowski's phatic communion?