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Philippine Blog Awards set

September 15, 2008 6:53 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
By Izah Morales The Philippine Blog Awards (PBA) is set to recognize more blogs this year, orga nizers said. This yearâs PBA will give away 36 awards under 3 divisions, namely Best Blog, B est Single Blog Post, and Special Awards divisions, and 15 categories, organize rs said. Last year, PBA only gave 15 awards to local bloggers. "This shows that the Filipino blogging community is actually growing," said PBA vice head and chief executive officer Juned Sonido in an interview. For this year, a total of 600 nominees joined the PBA. About 5 to 10 nominees w ill be judged per category. Blogs will be generally judged based on content design and usability, but the B est Blog Post division will be evaluated based solely on content, organizers sa id. Judges were tapped to choose the winning blogs. However, bloggers and readers a re given the chance to vote for their favorite blog under the Bloggersâ Choice Award category. According to a Universal McCann study, the Philippines has the highest growth r ate in âblogging engagementsâ in 3 years. The country has also exceeded the glo bal average for blog readership â 72.8 percent in 2008 âgrowing form 33 percent in September 2006 to 64 percent in June 2007, and 90.3 percent in May 2008. With more blogs becoming more "mainstream," Sonido said bloggers should now be more responsible for what they write. âEach blog is a representation of your id ea on the internet. Itâs like a kaleidoscope of ideas,â he added. The Philippine Blog Awards is scheduled on September 21, 2008 at the One Esplan ade.

Flip Blog: Wifely Steps

May 22, 2007 5:25 PM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
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! Iâve been enjoying this game called RayRa y Parade because of the cute little characters. Itâs a game of logic. The little RayRays run towards the center of the screen in various formations a nd flash their cute tummies when you solve the puzzle.
Wifely Steps won as Be st Home and Living Blog in the 2007 Philippine Blog Awards, where I got to meet her. Hope to talk to you again soon, Toni :)

Let's be 'bloggers for truth'

April 2, 2007 6:00 PM | 6 Comments | No TrackBacks
ONE of the things that struck me most wh ile covering the Philippine Blog Awards Saturday night was the invocation of Fr. Stephen Cuyos, who is hi mself 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 bl og 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 lear n from each other. Frankly, the danger I see now in everyone's mad rush to be come bloggers, and of companies, politicians and other groups to court the favo r of bloggers, is that people may no longer see the need for objectivity, or l earn to distinguish press releases from real stories. In our desire to personalize all content, will we only hear the truth we want t o hear? Will we filter information that doesn't conform to our preconceived not ions of the truth, and end up only reinforcing our own prejudices? In the thrill of finally getting recognition as bloggers, will bloggers end up wittingly or unwittingly pimping the products and services of the companies th at seek to generate publicity through the blogosphere? Will they continue blog ging out of passion, or be more concerned with generating revenue, increasing traffic and acting as the PR of different companies? Make no mistake about it: these are also temptations that journalists face, th ese are also tests that some among our ranks might fail. The difference is th at as journalists we believe in a code of ethics that we must live up to, and we strive to meet the standards of our profession.  As blogging becomes more mainstream, however, what happens when blogging allow s individuals to exercise power without responsibility? What happens when our l oyalty to our friends is stronger than our responsibility to our readers? Wha t happens when we forget the need to find the truth, no matter who might get hu rt along the way? Here's an excerpt from Father Cuyos' invocation reprinted in the Infotech article written by INQUIRER.net reporter Erwin O liva, who also covered the Philippine Blog Awards and was one of the finalists in the News and Media category for his blog Cyberbaguioboy:
In a blogger's prayer, Fr. Stephen Cuyos who blogs about Linux and his love for open source, called on bloggers to use this Internet innovation fo r God's work and to be "bloggers for truth." "Help us to be steadfast in our Christian commitment that visitors may find in our blogs a source of encouragement and inspiration. Give us strength to procla im your word, that we may play our part in breaking down the walls of hostility in the world and use our blogs to strengthen the bonds of friendship, solidari ty and love," he prayed.
Visit Father Cuyos' blog for a copy of the full prayer.

And the Philippine Blog Awards winners are...

March 31, 2007 9:39 PM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
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 -- In side PCIJ

Sociopolotical -- Philippine Commentary Home and Living -- Wife ly Steps

Entertainment -- Retzwerk

Travel -- Ivan About Town

Tech -- Ki lat: The Cybercafe Experiments

Personal -- Mist eryosa.com And the special category awards winners are: Blogger's Choice Award winner: Market Manila

Philippine Blog Awards finalists revealed

March 20, 2007 7:34 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
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, th e RCBC Plaza Auditorium in Makati City.

Are you a Philippine Blog Awards nominee?

March 7, 2007 8:11 PM | 4 Comments | No TrackBacks
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 t he 2007 Phili ppine Blog Awards is out. Here goes: Date and time of update: February 26, 2007, 10:46 a.m. (Manila Time) Personal Entertainment Technology Travel Socio-Political Home & Living Photo Blog Fashion & Lifestyle Podcast News & Media Business/Entrepreneur Sports & Recreation

Abe and Jayvee talk about Philippine Blog Awards

March 2, 2007 7:17 PM | 87 Comments | No TrackBacks
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 .

Yuga visits INQUIRER.net office

March 2, 2007 7:14 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
jv-ab e-jayvee.jpg THAT'S pro blogger Abe O landres (center), more popularly known in the blogosphere as Yuga, having c offee with INQUIRER.net editor in chief JV Rufino (right) and INQUIRER.net inte ractive media consultant and b 5media.com technology channel editor Jayvee Fernandez.
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