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Buhay Coke Video Blog Contest Winners Announced

E. Eder @ August 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Winners in Coca-Cola’s Buhay Coke Video Blog Contest were announced Friday night during the Buhay Coke Party at the Taste Asia in SM Mall of Asia.
MS Aileen Apolo, who helped organized the contest and the party, listed the winners on her blog:
1st Place - Azrael Coladilla
Won a LCD TV
2nd Place - Gerry Alanguilan (the Komikero)
Won [...]

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Blogger Starts Esperon-Resign Petition

E. Eder @ August 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Blogger Kevin Ray Chua last week started an online petition calling for Gen. Hermogenes Esperon’s resignation as peace process adviser.
The petition requests Mr. Esperon to quit “for incompetence and unprofessionalism in threatening North Cotabato Vice Governor Manny Piñol that their province would be left unprotected once they get a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on the [...]

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UP Students’ Food Blog Tops 2008’s Emerging Influential List

E. Eder @ August 12, 2008 # 20 Comments

MANILA FOODISTAS, a food blog by eight University of the Philippines students, was named last night as 2008’s top emerging influential blog.
Other winners in the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2008 project are Filipino Voices, a group blog on news and politics; Visit Sagada, a travel blog; Missing Carlo, a sister’s tribute to her [...]

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Senator Mar Roxas Meets Bloggers

E. Eder @ August 3, 2008 # 4 Comments

Liberal Party Senator Manuel “Mar” Roxas II on Friday, August 1,  met with prominent Filipino bloggers during the launch of his blog at Annabel’s restaurant in Quezon City.
Carlo Ople, Sen. Roxas’s new media consultant, wrote that among those who attended the launch were Susan “Toots” Ople, Noemi Dado, Lester Cavestany, Jester [Pierre Galla], Arbet Bernardo, [...]

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Desperately Seeking Gerry’s Grill

E. Eder @ August 3, 2008 # 5 Comments

Cebu-based blogger McBilly Sy went to Manila last week to join other models in the Bench Blackout fashion show, and he grabbed the opportunity to meet with other bloggers.
After consulting with other bloggers, he set a date for a mini-eye ball: July 27, 2008, 7pm, at Gerry’s Grill Megastrip in SM Megamall.

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We’re Sorry

E. Eder @ August 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet

We’ve been missing in action for the past three months. If it seemed like we’ve abandoned our promise to “regularly publish concise, timely, accurate, fair and interesting reports on events and developments in the Philippine blogosphere,” we’re sorry.
We’re now back, and we will try harder to fulfill our mission to report on the Philippine blogosphere.

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