Won’t be able to attend the awards night on the 9th? You can watch it live online on flippish.com.
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The PBA as a nominee and a finalist
When the PBA website announced that nominations are already open for the 2008 Blog Awards, I wasted no time in nominating my favorite blogs, hoping at the back of my head that someone would nominate me too. When the nominations have closed, I was surprised to receive an e-mail asking me for the best 5 posts in my doll blog. To say I was shocked was an understatement: the blog is fairly young and hardly updated. Still, I was flattered, and vowed to update it more often (I still haven’t; shame on me). Soon enough, I get another e-mail, similar to the first, but this time for this blog, Justwandering.org. I couldn’t be happier — this travel blog, after all, is my passion. I sent my five posts for both blogs and hoped for the best.
Winners, organizers and hosts of the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards
More surprises await me when the finalists were announced. Kainpinoy.com was among the 41 blogs up for the Blogger’s Choice Awards. Then when the finalists for the best blogs were announced, I was elated to see that Life on Pinky Street and Just Wandering made the cut. The last surprise was seeing Heinji’s Adobo Bento entry shortlisted in the Single Post category.
Despite being a volunteer, I never won in any of the awards my blogs were nominated and shortlisted for (what a loser!). However, I’m glad to see two of my favorite bloggers, get the recognition they deserve: Ferdz for the Best Travel Blog and Estan for his entry, How I broke a ritual taboo in Batad, which also won the writing contest I had last year.
Doodling for the Philippine Blog Awards
The PBA as a volunteer
I’ve experience handling two events, and both accounts left me slightly traumatized. I’ve since been wary of event organizing, so I wasn’t too excited about being a volunteer. However, the people behind the event more than made up for it: they were people I know and they were people I love hanging out with. I have to say I was quite glad I volunteered. I was able to see firsthand how the organizers manage to exhibit grace even under pressure, and how the volunteers give their all for an event they all believe in. It’s amazing how everybody spent precious spare time and energy for a project that wouldn’t give any monetary compensation, and even got a lot of flak afterwards. It’s really disheartening, but eh, what can you do? You can’t please everybody.
The Batang Yagitt (who is not so yagit) was mobbed by the press. That’s his campaign manager, Jehz, who’s taking a video/photo of him being interviewed.
Closing remarks
A fitting end to this post, I believe is a snippet from Jayvee’s own closing remarks during the awards night. I barely paid any attention to it, as I was preoccupied at the dessert station. I’m glad Jayvee published a copy of it online because it’s something both bloggers and non-bloggers must read.
]]>“But what is truth?”, asked Pontius Pilate.
What is the truth behind pay per post, behind controversies of SEO and the “nofollow” variable, about link selling or blog advertising, or attending blog events?
The truth? The Truth is Conviction. If there was a right answer, we wouldn’t be blogging. Rather, what is important is that when we are asked what our personal convictions are about these things, we tell the unbiased truth, and unlike Pilate, we should not wash our hands. As bloggers, we value our convictions and integrity the most.
Character, Dealing, and Conviction. I forgot to mention – if you translate “dealing” into a habit, it is called Prudence. These are three things that sum the totality of my message: It is not about how well we blog – it is about how well we live our life.
Source: ABuggedLife.com
Believe me, it’s hard to choose among the 41 blogs competing for the award. I know this for a fact because I went through ALL 41 blogs. What won me over was Jester‘s entry on Sinfully Good Sex:
So here we are going to talk about sex — sinful sex (as far as the Roman Catholic Church and quite a number of other denominations are concerned); more precisely, we are going to talk about sinfully good sex and why we should support it.
First, let’s agree on something: those who believe that SEX IS YUMMEH, gimme a “hell, yeah!”
Dissenting voices? Is anyone going to say that they honestly hate boinking?
None? Oooh.
Since there isn’t anyone who honestly wouldn’t want to have hot, slick, tear-up-the-sheets, forget-one’s-name, “oh my God oh my God oh yes yess yesss” boinkfests with their partner of choice, let’s talk about sex.
Good sex, of course.
Source: FilipinoVoices.com
How can you NOT vote for that??
Have you voted for your favorite blog yet? Vote quick, and get a chance to win a Nokia N82! Only VALID votes/entries are eligible to enter, so be sure to read the mechanics!
There are also TWO Sponsor Awards that you can still join: The Level Up! Gaming Blog Award and Nokia’s: Kaleidoscope of Connections Award. Deadlines for submission of entries has been extended to the 19th of September.
The Philippine Blog Awards night will be on Sunday already, have you registered yet?
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- Adventures of theCoconuter
- Alfredo B. Palconit Jr.Blog
- Basta Igat, Sikat!
- Basta…
- Batang Yagit
- Behind Wonderland
- bikoy.net
- Buhay Coy on Campus
- Comicology
- Confessions of a Pinoy Blogger
- Day-toDay Heroes
- Dog Are Us!
- ederic@cyberspace
- Filipino Voices
- Flavored Tongue
- FruityOaty
- Heart of Rachel
- Hola Filipinas
- IndistinguishableGibberish
- just curious
- kain pinoy
- Kiss the stars with me
- L A G A L [ O G ]
- Life’s Existence
- LUCKWATCHERO: My STORY. My PRIDE. My THOUGHTS.
- Macuha.com
- Makoy’s Memoirs Of A Certified Blogger
- marketmanila.com
- Mico Santos’s Lagalag
- Mike Villar
- My Boring Life… Now A Blog!
- Mykiru Isyusero
- NewIvory
- Octwelve
- Philippine Nursing Resource & Updates
- Philippine Nursing Seminars & Trainings Source
- Pinoy Ambisyoso
- Ready To Be Rich
- Reel Advice
- Seed Interactive
- Senor Enrique
- Serena Mithane
- The Heritage of Cebu
- The Journal of The Jester-in-Exile
- The Konoha Ground
- TurfSite Manila
To vote, simply follow these instructions:
This year’s voting is quite different from last year’s. In order for us to accurately tally the bloggers who voted, we jazzed up the voting a bit and made it more exciting.
To vote, you MUST be a Filipino blogger, which means, you need to own a blog. You might be blogging on Blogger, WordPress.Com, Live Journal, Friendster, Multiply, or on a self-hosted
blog—it doesn’t matter—the point is, you need to have a blog to vote. Your blog must be established at least three (3) months from today with a minimum of 10 posts.Why? Well, read on for the instructions on how to vote for your favorite Bloggers’ Choice Award nominee!
- Choose only ONE (1) blog from the list of official Bloggers’ Choice Award nominees above. On your blog, tell us why you voted for the nominee. Yes, you can vote for your own blog. And no, you cannot vote for a blog that is not on the list of official Bloggers’ Choice Award nominees.
- You may choose to include the sponsors list in your post. We’d like to thank our sponsors for supporting local Pinoy bloggers.
Co-Presentors
Level Up! Games
Nokia
Blog Bank
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Yahoo
2go
Belo Medical Group
XFM 92.3
Buddy Gancencia Reality TV
Ultravision Photo and Video
Click Booth
Aloha Board Sports
Sheero Media Solutions
YourPinoyBroker.com
PLDT
Red Box
Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
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California Pizza Kitchen
David and GoliathMedia Partners
Inquirer.Net
ROAM Magazine
flippish tvHere’s the code if you need it:
Submit your post URL and some basic info tthe Philippine Blog Awards committee using this form. Make sure
that you provide the COMPLETE URL of the post you created for your vote to be valid.Source: Philippine Blog Awards
Voting for your favorite blog not only shows your support, but it also qualifies you to win a Nokia N82 phone!
There are also TWO Sponsor Awards that you can join: The Level Up! Gaming Blog Award and Nokia’s: Kaleidoscope of Connections Award.
What are you waiting for? You have only until the 19th to vote, send in your entries and your votes now!
Interested to attend the awards night on Sunday? Register now, because there are very limited slots available!
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