Winners of the Philippine Blog Awards 2009
Oct. 11, 2009 22 Comments Posted under: Blog Action, Blog Feature, Scoops, Specials
Grabbed from the Philippine Blog Awards website
Bloggers trooped Friday night to the PETA-Phinma Theater in Quezon City for the Philippine Blog Awards 2009 which carried the theme “One Blogging Nation”.
I had the privilege of sharing the stage with Benj Espina of Atheista.net, a fellow crew member at Bloggers Kapihan, as presentors for the last four award categories. Last year, both Benj and I won awards for best personal blog and best news and media blog categories.
Here is a list of this year’s winners I was able to take note of through my Twitter posts Friday night:
- Best Personal Blog: Writing on Air
- Best News and Media Blog: Virtual Journals
- Best Commentary Blog: The Marocharim Experiment
- Best Technology Blog: JaypeeOnline // Blogging News & Reviews
- Best Beauty Blog: The Doctor Is vaIN
- Best Photo Blog I Am A Documentary Photographer
- Best Fashion Blog: who is elyoo?
- Best Culture and Arts Blog: magnetic-rose.net: Japanese Pop Culture for Filipino Fans
- Best Sports Blog: Fire Quinito
- Best Advocacy Blog: Autism Society Philippines
- Best Humor Blog: The Professional Heckler
- Best Podcast Blog: Brink Notes Entertainment Daily
- Best Business Blog: Negosyo Ideas
- Best Gaming Blog: Mike Got Game!
- Best Family and Living Blog: Make or Break
- Best Food and Beverage Blog: Table for Three, Please
- Best Travel Blog: Langyaw – Sojourns and Off-the-Beaten Path Travels
Awarded too were the year’s top blog posts:
- The Parable of the Furry White Rabbit (Good Times Manila)
- Lost Gems Of Philippine History: The 1896 Board Meeting (It’s true! It’s true!)
- Finding Your Soul Mate: A Statistical Analysis (guttervomit)
- karnabal (tuyong tinta ng bolpen)
- The Diving Boys of Quezon Bridge (Dennis Villegas)
- Twenty Pesos (lost photograph)
- The way of the leaf (SMOKE)
- Portrait of a dramatic highlight in Nick Joaquin’s A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (Gibbs Cadiz)
- Kaya Dumarami ang Bading Kasi… (Manila Gay Guy)
- The Amazing Bulul: A Story of Epiphany (The Cat Whisperer)
Special Awards
This year’s Bloggers’ Choice honors went to Micamyx.com.
Other special awardees were:
- Best Blog Design: The Site Guy
- Best Filipino Blog Abroad: The Warped Zone
- Best Foreign Blog: My Sari Sari Store
- Best Filipiniana Blog: Pilipino Komiks
Also eliciting laughs and applause from the bloggers in attendance was this video by When in Manila:
Sponsored Awards
Good Times Manila won the Chikka Media-Philippine Blog Awards Reader’s Choice Award.
Globe named ten bloggers/blogs as part of what the company describes as its “Digital Tribe” for Luzon:
- Hay! Men! Ang Blog ng Tunay na Lalake
- Good Times Manila
- Enrico Dee of Byahilo.com
- Marck Rimorin of The Marocharim Experiment
- Lori Baltazar of Dessert Comes First
- Cecil Zamora van-Straten of Chuvaness.com
- Karen Ang of bury me in this dress
- Dine Racoma of The D Spot
- Azrael Coladilla of Azrael’s Merryland
- Rico Mossesgeld of Technogra.ph
Noemi Dado, Janette Toral, Anton Diaz, Aileen Apolo and Manolo Quezon were dubbed “Digital Elders”, also by Globe.
Geisler-Maclang’s “Transformative Influencer Award” went to Jonel Uy of Lets Go Sago, who also won the grand prize — a Nokia E75 — in the grand raffle.
RalphGuzman.org was likewise awarded as the Flippish Viewer’s Choice for Personal Blog.
Tribute
It was also during our turn on the podium when the Philippine Blog Awards paid tribute to journalist and techie Alecks Pabico who died Wednesday. Pabico was multimedia editor of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. He put he PCIJ on the worldwide web and made history with the PCIJ Blog, the first institutional blog of a major news organization in the country. With Pabico at the helm, the PCIJ won the best news and media award in 2007, and the best podcast award in 2008.
Congratulations to all the winners and to the organizers as well. Thank you, too, Gang Badoy of Rock Ed Philippines for her keynote speech that should serve as a call to action to bloggers.
Check out too these awards night photos:
[As you can see, the list of winners cited here is by no means complete. I will update this as soon as I get more information on the other winners or if there is any correction.]
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Atheista - › Being A Presenter For the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards said:
Oct. 11, 2009
[...] other winners were painstakingly collated and live-blogged by [...]
benj said:
Oct. 11, 2009
Yan ang best news and media blog! Una lagi sa balita. hehe
tonyo said:
Oct. 11, 2009
Benj, your comment sounded like an ad copy for an AM radio station! Hehehe!
Thank you Philippine Blog Awards ‘09! | Digiputz.com said:
Oct. 11, 2009
[...] List of winners from Tonyo Cruz [...]
deejay said:
Oct. 11, 2009
hi tonyo!
if only i had known you were live-blogging or tweeting the whole thing..!
i arrived late and missed the humor category part. but i was too shy to ask who won. (inside my head, i was going a little crazy.)
but thanks for this list!
tonyo said:
Oct. 11, 2009
Hi Deejay! Thanks too for passing by my blog.
Most folks at the awards venue were looking for you each time Good Times Manila was called to receive an award or citation.
Congratulations!
Roy said:
Oct. 11, 2009
hi tony, who won the best photoblog award?
Jaypee said:
Oct. 11, 2009
Hi Tonyo,
I found out about the initial results through your tweets. I was trying to follow the program via Flippish.com’s live stream but it was choppy and kept going offline.
Thanks for sharing this list!
tonyo said:
Oct. 11, 2009
Roy, sorry about that. The winner for the photo blog category was “I Am A Documentary Photographer”. Post updated.
Jaypee, we’re happy you won! Good work!
Jehzeel Laurente said:
Oct. 11, 2009
wow naunahan mo pa official website!
sayang di ako nakapunta sa PBA3. huhuhu 
Congrats to jaypee for winning the best tech blog award! astig!
tonyo said:
Oct. 11, 2009
Sayang nga wala ka dun, Jehzlau.
Nakakatuwa yung silent movie na pinalabas
I-embed ko mamya dito
Jaypee said:
Oct. 11, 2009
Thanks! Reall? Wow, I didn’t know you guys wanted me to win. Btw, mind if I ask who’s “we”? Hehe
Correction on Byahilo.com’s URL. Its pointing to Tunay Na Lalake, not Byahilo.
Thanks Jehz! Baket ka di nakaattend ng PBA3? I was expecting you to be there.
Winston said:
Oct. 11, 2009
thanks for posting tonyo.
Winners are posted on PBA site na rin. 
tonyo said:
Oct. 11, 2009
Jaypee, link corrected!
Winston, buti na lang naglabas na ng official list. pero wala pang name ng winners ng sponsored awards, ano?
Readers’ Choice: A special award for special people like us « Good Times Manila said:
Oct. 11, 2009
[...] tonyocruz for a more complete list of the winners. Cheers, [...]
PBA 09 Best Beauty Blog | The Doctor is vaIN said:
Oct. 11, 2009
[...] where the screecaps appearing on this post were taken from. To know the complete list of winners, Tonyocruz has it. Congratulations to fellow beauty bloggers Shen, Candy Blush, all the nominees, finalists, [...]
Ax said:
Oct. 11, 2009
Yawts, dito ko lang pala makikita ang lists ng mga nanalo sa PBA awards! Thanks for these info!
eric said:
Oct. 11, 2009
Congrats sa lahat!
clarence said:
Oct. 11, 2009
congratulations sa lahat ng winners..
\m/
reigun said:
Oct. 11, 2009
i love the silent film! (watched for the nth time) hehe.
congrats to all!
Millionaire Acts said:
Oct. 12, 2009
Congratulations for all the winners lalo na sa mga nanalo ng Nokia Phones!
Let’s Go Sago! Bags GeiserMaclang Transformative Influencer Award; Nokia E75 :) said:
Oct. 13, 2009
[...] combined list of category winners and sponsor awardees from the Philippine Blog Awards website and Tonyo Cruz’s: BEST [...]