By Candice Montenegro, Contributor
INQUIRER.net

WHAT if you were given a chance to reveal a secret without anyone ever knowing it’s yours? Would you?

PostSecret is a blog that allows you share your deepest, darkest secrets anonymously. The blog is a collection of secrets from people across the US and around the world containing revelations ranging from childhood humiliation and betrayal, to funny experiences and fantasies.

You can reveal practically anything, and you only have to follow two rules: it must be true and it should never have been previously shared with anyone else.

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By Abigail Kwok
INQUIRER.net

IT was not until two years ago that I got hooked into blogging.

Before that, I found it absurd that people would post their thoughts and their daily activities for all the world to see. I found it even more absurd that people would post on their blogs yet change the preferences to private so other people will not read the entries. I thought, “Why create an online diary if you are not going to make it public anyway?”

So I shunned the idea of creating my own blog, even as my friends maintained either a personal website or an account with a blog site. But everything changed two years ago. My friend sent me a link to her blog, and I decided to check it out. Within minutes, I found myself absorbed in reading her blog and was amused at how many people gave their inputs to her entries. It was more like an online community where you can share your thoughts with your friends and they get to share their points of view as well.

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By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

WHAT if you get a famous British writer, say, Neil Gaiman, to help you propose to your girlfriend during a book-signing event. Wouldn’t that be cool?

A Filipino blogger tried and succeeded.

The story begins with Jason Drilon, a Filipino writer for a local advertising agency who had been blogging for close to five years. Egged on by his friends to make his proposal “creative,” he decided to drop Gaiman an e-mail through his popular blog. It was, as he recalled it, suntok sa buwan, a Filipino phrase which roughly means he had his fingers crossed when he sent a long e-mail to the famous British author.

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FILIPINO blogger Ding Fuellos thought nobody would notice his simple act of extending his sympathies for the families who have lost a loved one during last week’s mall blast that killed 11 people.

“Everyone seems to be blogging about what happened, to the point of pointing fingers to every possible suspect in the country. Everyone is busy trying to know what the cause of the blast was. Every blogger is interested on the political angle, and its repercussions, too mechanical, too cognitive. But no one is paying attention to the mourners themselves. I would have written my own blog about this incident but what counted more was the fact that there seems to be no one expressing their sympathy to the families of the victims,” he said in an e-mail interview.

Fuellos, author of the Inkblots: Life Unraveled blog, has urged bloggers to offer their prayers and post a photo of a flower in their blogs.

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By Myrna Rodriguez-Co
Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines–In this digital age, people don’t just exchange mobile phone numbers and e-mail addresses. They’ve also begun swapping web and blog addresses.

Having a blog is a badge of honor among serious Internet users. It’s like saying: “I have an online home, you have yours. You visit me and I’ll visit you.”

As they read and comment on each other’s posts, bloggers form friendships and build an online society like no other. This is known as the blogosphere, where members converse, share ideas, join forces for some common cause, arrange to meet face-to-face, and, yes, differ and bicker.

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