PROVING that citizen journalism is coming of age, NowPublic has received a major boost — namely $10.6 million in financing.

Here’s an excerpt from the Agence France-Presse article.

The financing is led by Rho Ventures in the United States and Canada.

Uses for the money will include ways to reward people that upload stories or images, and developing a system to “geo-locate” contributors so they can be found if they are in range of developments deemed newsworthy.

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SOME Filipino bloggers did not mince words, as they blogged about the recent State of the Nation Address of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Former journalist Anton DeLeon’s Slap Happy was not very happy about Arroyo’s speech. He writes:

Things are not definitely getting better. Seriously, if things were booming and zooming and talk of all this economic activity was real then i wouldn’t be holed up here in Dubai, of all places, if the prospects of all economic progress are pointing to the Philippines.

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A-LIST blogger Robert Scoble posed this question recently, as he weighed on the impact of social networking service and other innovations like Twitter on top bloggers.

I theorized that was due to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce’s rise. Most of the non-A-list bloggers have been showing up on those places in droves. After all, if you are only writing a blog to tell your family what your new kid is doing then something like Facebook is a lot better for that.

A-list bloggers are the celebrities in blogosphere. They’re today’s newspaper columnists who write about almost anything.

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GOT this from the blog of Abe Olandres a.k.a. yuga, who took this test and found out he’s 87% addicted to blogging.

How about you, what’s your score?