Remember Brian Gorrell? I barely do, as it’s honestly been a while since he’s been newsworthy. Looks like he’s finally taking a sabbatical, citing poor health as a reason, and promising to resume blogging once he’s “better”. To recap, Brian Gorrell—thinking that his ex-boyfriend Delfin “DJ” Montano had swindled him out of $70,000—opened a blog [...]
read more »Update: According to a 2009 ruling by the DOJ, there is no such thing as libel online, under the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines. Abogadamo.com features an in-depth article on Libel Laws in the Philippines. The entire Brian Gorrell issue made libel locally relevant in the technological sense, because it made people realize that [...]
read more »We recently came across an article that—surprise, surprise—talks about Brian Gorrell and his blog. Of particular interest is following excerpt, which provides a new perspective to Brian’s enemies’ supposedly lavish display of wealth: Our legal system calls this thoughtless extravagance, or the ostentatious display of wealth – an act made illegal under Article 25 of [...]
read more »On a recent post, socialite-basher Brian Gorrell calls local blogger Abe Olandres “a disgrace to REAL journalism” [capitalization his]. Brian continues to attract thousands of visitors a day, as he continues his campaign to shame his former lover into paying back the $70,000 allegedly owed to him (see “Australian Blogger Shares Dirty Filipino Secrets“). Abe [...]
read more »Have you heard? Mainstream media has finally heard about the whole Brian Gorrell-DJ Montano brouhaha! Here are some articles from the country’s major newspapers—the earliest of which was published a day after we originally broke the story: Naming names: Online ‘telenovela’ indicts RP ‘high’ society Brian blogspot, the movie Hell hath no fury Brian blogspot: [...]
read more »We considered the Brian Gorrell-DJ Montano issue done, since Brian apparently achieved his objectives and closed the socialite-bashing blog located at delfindjmontano.blogpsot.com. Turns out Brian hasn’t been satisfied, because we’ve received reports that the blog is up again. This time, Mr. Gorrell has gone Pirate Bay on his targets, posting a letter sent to him [...]
read more »Does Brian Gorrell’s apparent success suggest that technology is a great way to blackmail (or at least, arm-twist)? Out of morbid curiosity, we checked out delfindjmontano.blogspot.com a few minutes ago. We discovered that most of the content was gone, and a final post stated that “This blog is officially over.” The blog has attracted a [...]
read more »We at Technograph don’t know who Brian Gorrell and DJ Montano (pictured above) are. And we’re really not interested in their break-up. But apparently a lot of people are. The blog that Brian began last March 4, delfindjmontano.blogspot.com, has experienced at least 160,000 visits in a span of under a week, according to SiteMeter. We [...]
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