TV host Bianca Gonzalez talks about her blog, The Diary of a Supergirl Wannabe, which she started back in 2003 when she was in college.
Video taken by INQUIRER.net online videographer Janie Christine Octia.
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.
IN THIS video, Lea Salonga talks about her blog on Multiply, The World According to Manang. She shares that the blog has become an outlet for her and a means to communicate with her fans.
Interview conducted by INQUIRER.net online videographer Janie Christine Octia. Video taken by INQUIRER.net reporter Relly Carpio.
Want more videos of Lea courtesy of INQUIRER.net VDO?
Check out this video of Lea talking about her role in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” which will have its world premiere in Manila this July. And this 30-second clip of Lea singing “There’s Music in You,” one of the songs in “Cinderella.”
FILIPINO bloggers and fans mobbed Filipino-American video blogger Christine “HappySlip” Gambito during a “meet and greet” event with local bloggers and fans.
More than 100 Filipino bloggers and fans came to the event held at the Mag:net Cafe on Bonifacio High Street in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City. The event was organized by the Department of Tourism and Internet portal Yehey!
Local bloggers and fans were initially given a chance to ask several questions, which Gambito answered readily with a tinge of humor. She then gave each fan a chance to meet her up close. Among the fans who came were children.
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
A FILIPINO tech blogger has launched a blog that is dedicated to helping overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to remotely manage their finances and communicate with their families back home.
“It hopes to bring together information to help OFWs manage their finances. It will contain news and information, such as how they can pay their Meralco (Manila Electric Co.) electric bill remotely,” said founder Edwin “Ka Edong” Soriano, who has been blogging for years.
The idea to start the eOFW blog was born two years ago but only materialized this year after Soriano found a Singaporean partner.
By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net
AYALA-OWNED TriNoma mall in Quezon City recently conducted its first food bloggers tour, inviting Filipino bloggers to savor food choices from over 30 restaurants.
TriNoma marketing supervisor Mench Dizon told Blog Addicts that they partnered with online service portal Yehey! to assemble the bloggers. Around 100 bloggers participated in the event.
HERE’S an interesting New York Times article that takes a look at blogging as a “low-cost, high return marketing tool.”
Excerpt:
But while blogs may be useful to many more small businesses, even blogging experts do not recommend it for the majority.
Guy Kawasaki, a serial entrepreneur, managing partner of Garage Technology Ventures and a prolific blogger, put it this way: “If you’re a clothing manufacturer or a restaurant, blogging is probably not as high on your list as making good food or good clothes.”
Blogging requires a large time commitment and some writing skills, which not every small business has on hand.
But some companies are suited to blogging. The most obvious candidates, said Aliza Sherman Risdahl, author of “The Everything Blogging Book” (Adams Media 2006), are consultants. “They are experts in their fields and are in the business of telling people what to do.”
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
AN ANONYMOUS Filipino blogger who is behind Blog ni Inday: Ang Sosyal na Katulong, believes blogging could communicate the different sentiments and idiosyncrasies of Filipinos through humor.
Blog ni Inday is about a fictional intelligent Filipino maid who speaks perfect English, sometimes to the point of being superfluous. The person or persons behind the blog admit that the project is the epitome of the Filipino who often does not take life too seriously.
“Inday’s life is a collection of ideas from Filipinos from all walks of life,” the anonymous blogger known as the “Manager” said in an e-mail interview.
By Abigail Kwok
INQUIRER.net
ARE you tired of reading lengthy blog entries that speak of philosophical topics that almost give you a headache? Never fear, Twitter’s here!
Twitter is the newest blog site that is uniquely different from its other blog counterparts. The concept of Twitter is micro blogging. That is, you write about minute things and details about you or just about anything and everything. Micro blogging, in short, allows you to revert to those old school diary entries that go something like,
“Dear diary, today I went to school. The teacher gave us a pop quiz. I had lunch at the cafeteria. I went home at 4PM.”
Founded in 2006, Twitter has since gained a huge following, with site visits reaching up to 500,000 in July of this year.
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.
