Gays and lesbians are pitching their colorful tent and claiming their rightful places in the Philippine blogosphere.
Category: Blog Feature
UPDATE: Correction! Correction! Ms. Jessica Zafra sent an email to clarify that she did not write this letter. Kevin Allman is the real author.
My apologies to Ms. Zafra, Mr. Allman and everyone.
To Madame Jessica Zafra: Bravo (for this good find)!
Allman‘s Zafra’s reaction to the US economic meltdown will put to shame each and every spammer from Nigeria, they who send us endless pleas for assistance in exchange for gazillions of dollars.
Thanks to Ms. Zafra for the heads up.
Nuffnang, an Asian blog advertising community, has reached the country.
Applause, cheers and the never-ending flicker of camera lights welcomed the country’s top bloggers at the 2nd Philippine Blog Awards held Sunday at glitzy rites held at 1Esplanade near SM Mall of Asia.
Some bloggers came in formal attire, while others came in smart casual wear, but no one seemed to mind. Everyone was up on their toes on who were chosen by the judges, mostly bloggers too, as the best across 36 categories.
A number of attendees twittered and plurked and liveblogged, while those who were not present watched the proceedings through webcasts.
A few hours ago, this blog you are reading — tonyocruz.com — received the trophy for Best News and Media Blog in the 2nd Philippine Blog Awards held at the 1Espalanade near SM Mall of Asia.
Filipinos are at the top of the world in terms of social networking and up there too in terms of blogging!
This is no wonder since Pinoy culture is strong on networking:
Filipino Netizens among most sociable
By Riza T. Olchondra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:29:00 09/19/2008MANILA, Philippines — You think that collectively sending about one billion text messages daily is enough for Filipinos to stay in touch? Apparently not.
In the third edition of Universal McCann’s study on social media, the Philippines had the social networking highest penetration among Internet users (83.1 percent) compared with the global average of 57.5 percent.
Bloggers and tech enthusiasts are invited to two great events this weekend.
Wondering about the effects of the meltdown on the IT industry?
Way ahead before Bikoy Villanueva won a landslide victory to become the No. 1 student councilor at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, there was the blogger Bikoy, the lad behind bikoy.net.
Dear Correspondent:
You are so insightful and I think I will reward you with something, perhaps soon.
But you know, dear Correspondent, a blogger obviously felt alluded to and has hidden behind lotsa verbal deadwood. I will leave Dana to defend herself and her views because I have 100% confidence that she can competently do so in the face of fact-twisting and misrepresentation. I think a blogger saw so many things in her blog post, so many goblins, and went to even more absurd lengths to twist stuff even further — and made the makers of Alaxan FR so giddy (parang masel na pinili-pilipit).
A big number of bloggers attended today’s WordCamp Philippines at the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde in Manila. Touted as the first such event in Southeast Asia, the event is now part of local blogging and internet history.
Keynote speaker was Matt Mullenweg, Mr. WordPress himself, who had an instant rapport with the admiring audience of Filipino bloggers.
A blogger got it all wrong, I think. He took it personally, and raised the issue to absurd lengths when he attempted to write an intelligent retort to Dana Batnag’s blog post that raised the question why there was no liveblogging or citizen journalism coverage at all in the recent polls.
UPDATE (Aug. 19, 9:30 pm): The VERA Files website was hacked again, with the assailant leaving the following note:
Joomla 1.0 is not safe… please download Joomla 1.5.1 ;]
great job: marwo12
Dla kolegów z Polski: Zen, eth00 & Patrycja;)
Gr33tz: Zen, eht00, & my honey;)
My friend and former officemate Miguel Paolo Celestial started La Bosquejo last year with a solitary post, but went full gear last month.
Thanks to Jhay for the heads up on FormatFactory which makes it a cinch to convert a whole avalanche of file formats.
Lenovo has launched its $399 mini-notebook IdeaPad S10, joining the fun ride started by the EEE PC.
The IdeaPad S10 will start shipping in October.
President Arroyo claims that more than 80 percent of VAT revenues are paid by the rick and at the same time, it is the poor that benefit from the onerous, regressive tax.
Bulatlat has a story contradicting this claim, quoting heavily from an expert whose study of government data has showed the exact opposite. Blogger/electrical engineer/activist Monram lighted the way for the Bulatlat report.
Please visit Tech Blog Philippines where a number of tech bloggers are holding fort, sharing important news, updates and musings about gadgets, mobile, the net and all things tech.
Below are my choices for “Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2008” :
Erwin Oliva of Inquirer.net, who also blogs at cyberbaguioboy, filed a story on last Saturday’s Bloggers Kapihan event at the Commission on Elections.
Erwin reported:
I’ve been tagged several times and I only tagged back twice (?) and this time, I’m returning the favor to good friend Sarah.