E. Eder @ April 16, 2008 # One Comment
The Philippine Blog Awards (PBA) today started accepting nominations for its second year.
“Nominations for The Philippine Blog Awards 2008 officially starts today,” the announcement on the PBA website read.
This year’s awards are divided into three divisions — the Best Blog Division, the Best Single Blog Post Division, and the Special Awards — and 36 categories. [...]
E. Eder @ March 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
WordPress.org yesterday released version 2.5 of WordPress, a blogging tool for self-hosted blogs.
WordPress founder Matthew Mullenweg in a blog entry atWordPress.org said the numerous improvements in this new version are almost entirely a result of the WordPress community’s feedback.
E. Eder @ March 5, 2008 # 3 Comments
Blogger Victor Lorenzo Villanueva of Bikoy.net was elected number one councilor in yesterday’s UP Diliman Student Council polls, according to Tinig ng Plaridel, the official student paper of UP College of Mass Communication.
Villanueva, a senior film student and member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity, received more than 2,000 votes. He ran under the Student [...]
E. Eder @ March 2, 2008 # One Comment
Friday’s interfaith prayer rally in Makati where tens of thousands called for President Arroyo’s resignation inspired a new blogger to start writing to express her views and “to call the attention of those in power to submit to the will of the people.”
Blogger “secondlady,” who started her blog only on Saturday, wrote that while she [...]
E. Eder @ February 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Spam attacks yesterday temporarily downed the blog of journalist Ellen Tordesillas.
“I got several texts saying this blog was down. My administrator said it experienced unusually heavy spam attacks,” Tordesillas wrote on her blog after it went online again Thursday afternoon.
TonyoCruz.com reported that Tordesillas’s webhost has noticed “‘unusual’ and ‘abnormal’ number of spam being sent to [...]
E. Eder @ February 26, 2008 # 3 Comments
While thousands of protesters took to the streets yesterday to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of EDSA People Power Revolution and call for President Gloria Arroyo’s resignation, a number of bloggers echoed these sentiments in cyberspace.
Participants in the Gloria Resign blogswarm that was initiated by Jen Llarena of Etcetera Etcetera posted images and messages calling for [...]
E. Eder @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A group of Filipino bloggers on Sunday launched VisitSagada.com to promote Sagada, a town in Mountain Province, as a premier destination for adventure junkies.
Benj Espina of Atheista.net said the site will also “serve as a venue where people could showcase their experiences of Sagada through travel blog entries, images and other media that would [...]
E. Eder @ February 23, 2008 # One Comment
Blogger Victor Villanueva of Bikoy.net is running for councilor of the University of the Philippines-Diliman’s University Student Council.
Villanueva, a senior film student, filed his candidacy under the Student Alliance for the Advancement of Democratic Rights – UP (Stand UP), the largest political alliance in the university.
E. Eder @ February 21, 2008 # One Comment
A number of bloggers attended Monday night’s truth and accountability mass at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City.
Dine Racoma, the Philippine Blogosphere’s Sexy Mom, recounted how his son Vince offered to ZTE whistleblower Jun Lozada the St Ignatius Award Pin that he received during the year-end recognition day at the Ateneo High.
“Engr Lozada [...]
E. Eder @ February 16, 2008 # 3 Comments
More than a dozen Manila-based bloggers met Saturday morning at a coffee shop in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig to discuss libel laws and blogging.
“The libel must be given publicity, circulated or publicized. Postings in a forum, message board or blog can certainly be considered as publication,” lawyer-blogger Butch Dado said in a short lecture [...]
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