CHECK out Toni’s blog Wifely Steps, where she details the never-ending adventures of married life.

Here’s an excerpt from her latest post:

Cute game alert! I’ve been enjoying this game called RayRay Parade because of the cute little characters. It’s a game of logic. The little RayRays run towards the center of the screen in various formations and flash their cute tummies when you solve the puzzle.

Wifely Steps won as Best Home and Living Blog in the 2007 Philippine Blog Awards, where I got to meet her. Hope to talk to you again soon, Toni

ONE of the things that struck me most while covering the Philippine Blog Awards Saturday night was the invocation of Fr. Stephen Cuyos, who is himself a blogger and podcast host.

At times as humorous as it was heartfelt, the good priest’s prayer was a timely reminder of our need to be responsible bloggers. Sure, we blog for different reasons, and as I’ve said many times, including in this blog post for CNET Asia, bloggers are not journalists, and journalists, even though we may blog, are journalists first, with different standards, different values, than bloggers.

This does not mean, however, that we cannot celebrate our differences, and learn from each other. Frankly, the danger I see now in everyone’s  mad rush to become bloggers, and of companies, politicians and other groups to court the favor of bloggers, is that people may no longer see the need for objectivity, or learn to distinguish press releases from real stories.

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HERE’S the list of Philippine Blog Awards winners in the major award categories:

Podcast – Happy Slip

Photo Blog – Senor Enrique

Fashion and Lifestyle – Bryanboy

Sports – Who Rides Vespa?

Business — Reflections of a BizDriven Life

News and Media — Inside PCIJ

Sociopolotical — Philippine Commentary

Home and Living — Wifely Steps

Entertainment — Retzwerk

Travel — Ivan About Town

Tech — Kilat: The Cybercafe Experiments

Personal — Misteryosa.com

And the special category awards winners are:

• Far from Neutral for best blog design
• Kwentong Tambay for best OFW blog
• Blu3zin3 for best Free Custom Theme
• iPAP for best plugin/extension blog

Blogger’s Choice Award winner: Market Manila

THE FINALISTS for the Philippine Blog Awards have finally been unveiled.

The complete list of finalists for the main categories can be found here. The finalists for the special awards can be found here.

The Philippine Blog Awards will be held this 31st of March 2007 at Podium 4, the RCBC Plaza Auditorium in Makati City.

HI, I’m a blog addict….

I just love saying that now that Pam Pastor has officially joined us. Welcome Pam.

Okay, the list of nominees for the main categories of the 2007 Philippine Blog Awards is out.

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HERE’S the video interview I conducted with Abe Olandres and Jayvee Fernandez, who talk about the Philippine Blog Awards that will be held at 5 p.m. on March 31 at Podium 4, RCBC Plaza Auditorium in Makati City.

THAT’S pro blogger Abe Olandres (center), more popularly known in the blogosphere as Yuga, having coffee with INQUIRER.net editor in chief JV Rufino (right) and INQUIRER.net interactive media consultant and b5media.com technology channel editor Jayvee Fernandez.