IN the spirit of the upcoming Valentine’s Day, we’re giving you a chance to say it out loud, why do you love to blog? What compelled you to blog? What keeps you from blogging? Declare your love for blogs.
Fire away!
HI, I’m Pam Pastor. And I’m a blog addict.
I had an afternoon meeting with people from a mobile phone company last week and I made them late for dinner because they started talking to me about blogs. I even had my computer out, as if I was making a big presentation. It’s almost embarrassing, now that I think about it.
Last month, I spent eight days in Germany on assignment with a bunch of people I had never met before. I was fairly (and uncharacteristically) quiet during most of the trip — except on the last night when I couldn’t stop talking during dinner. One of my companions turned to me, “You barely spoke during the entire trip and now this. What happened?”
THAT’S me and the other members of the Blog Addicts team with Abe Olandres (second from right) goofing around with plastic swords. From left to right, that’s me, Erwin Oliva and Jayvee Fernandez.
This was taken on March 2 after we recorded Episode 4 of hackenslash: the podcast (which explains the plastic swords, sort of, heh) and right before the video interview with Abe and Jayvee.
HELLO. My name is Jayvee Fernandez. I’m the guy in the scary picture to the left. By profession I wear several hats, serving the Inquirer Group in several ways — as contributing editor to Mobile Philippines and as an interactive media consultant for INQUIRER.net. I’m also a professional blogger and channel editor. A pro what–?! It’s like being paid to write stuff. Oh wait…
A writer and editor at heart (and sometimes tragic love song composer), I have embraced the call of new media, using A Bugged Life as my platform to write about the things I love doing. In a private conversation with Abe Olandres, the “father of Filipino blogging” he categorizes me as the “Public Relations Blogger of the Philippines” as I love to make press releases about everything that fancies my eye. If you want to know more about me, click here.
I’M writing this entry from my BlackBerry. Why? Power is out, and I am currently fighting the summer heat and the irritating mosquitoes feasting on my toes.
Thanks to the power of wireless technology and the Internet, I can still post a brief entry.
I remember this same scenario during Milenyo, the super typhoon that rendered Metro Manila powerless. It was back to basics. But some people who managed to find power kept on blogging.
YUP, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Blog Addicts is now a blog, and it’s no longer a section in our YOU youth site but the first team blog in the INQUIRER.net Blogs network. With more blogs to come.
I guess a little introduction is in order. I’m Joey Alarilla, the gaming and multimedia editor (hey, the acronym is GAME, heh) of INQUIRER.net, and I’m a blog addict.
OK, I haven’t been blogging that long; it was in late 2004 when I took the blogging plunge after being introduced to it by my UP Tinta college orgmates whom I hadn’t seen in years, namely Pauline Orendain, Dean Alfar, Nikki Alfar and Eric Evano.
