I’M happy to announce that Mac-A-Doodle, the Mac blog of Hinge Inquirer Publications group editor in chief Adel Gabot, is the latest site under our INQUIRER.net Blogs network.

Adel’s also made history, as Mac-A-Doodle is the first existing blog to migrate to our network

Read the Breaking News story for more on this launch. Then, visit Mac-A-Doodle and give Adel a warm welcome.

Mac-A-Doodle is our 22nd blog. Hard to believe that it was only on Feb. 23 that we launched our first blog, with @play as the guinea pig. And yup, we’ll be launching more blogs soon.

Will Mac-A-Doodle start a trend of existing blogs migrating to the INQUIRER.net blog network? We’ll see

I GOT to meet a lot of people in Clark, Pampanga when I attended and blogged about Media Nation, and one of the coolest journalists is Joe B. Javier, director for Allied Businesses and Special Projects of broadcast network ABC-5.

Joe and I had an interesting discussion about technology, online journalism and games at our breakfast table, which also included Isagani Yambot, publisher of the Philippine Daily Inquirer; my college orgmate Dodge Dillague, who directs shows for ABC-5; our INQUIRER.net reporter Thea Alberto; and PDI reporter Alcuin Papa, who was also my UP Tinta college orgmate.

It was great to find out that Joe is really into technology — he loves gadgets and is an avid gamer, and you’ll find out more about that soon. He’s also a big believer in the power of online journalism and tech-enabled news delivery.

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