Pinoy Life At Large » philippine blog awards 2008 http://arpeelazaro.com Food that is Pinoy and pleasant can be found here Thu, 24 May 2012 09:31:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= It’s the blogger, not the blog http://arpeelazaro.com/2008/09/22/its-the-blogger-not-the-blog/ http://arpeelazaro.com/2008/09/22/its-the-blogger-not-the-blog/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:18:54 +0000 Arpee http://arpeelazaro.com/?p=227 pbarp

Last year, I begged Jun Asis for an extra ticket so I can bring my wife to the 2007 Philippine Blog Awards. He was nice enough to pull some strings, and bend a few rules to accommodate a stranger’s request. This year, I won a special BlogBank award. Noemi says (via Plurk) that it’s a cute award and that it suits my personality. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Noemi. If you want to see a complete list of winners, click here.

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The next blogger I met after Jun was another Jun: Juned, that is. At that time, the “prayer controversy” was burning the online forums and everyone seemed to have a point. Nostalgia Manila was complaining about his representative being mistreated, though I think it was all a misunderstanding. They sorted it out just as quickly as tempers flared. ‘Ah, so this is how the blogger egos collide!’, I said to myself. So I wondered if I would behave that way when I “join the majors”? A little more than a year after starting my blog (and $17 dollars in total adsense earnings since then), I still haven’t figured out how to put Google Analytics to my blog. How could I even dream of “playing with the big boys (and girls)” of the Philippine Blogosphere? However, this award has given me the opportunity to learn from them and they made me realize how much more there is to know about blogging.

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This year, I have met some of the most brilliant bloggers who are out to change the Blogosphere as we know it. There are haters and lovers, but best of all, there will be change. Like a rabid fan, I watch the Blogosphere evolve constantly with every event, with every product launch, and with every award. The rules for next year’s awards will change and the standards will be redefined. Today’s trash could be next year’s treasure and vice-versa, but that’s a little too far off to worry about. No matter what people say, I will hang my plaque on my wall and smile my biggest smile each time I look at it. I hope to give this award next year to someone who is more popular, but with a more obscure blog. It’s all up for grabs, dear bloggers and readers. But for now, it stays with me.

Thank you very much to everyone at BlogBank and the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards! Good night.

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It’s that wonderful time of the year. No, I’m not talking about Christmas. I’m talking about the Philippine Blog Awards 2008, where only the best of the best Filipino bloggers will be given the ultimate recognition and bragging rights. Now, we will see who is the best.

And you can vote! Read on to know more

And the nominees are…

But hang on a sec. 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.
  • Make sure that the links to the websites of the 2008 Philippine
    Blog Awards sponsors are included in your post. You MUST
    include the sponsor links to validate your vote.        

    Level Up! Games

    Nokia

    Blog Bank

    Smart Communications

    Josiah’s Catering

    Rsun Technology Store

    Yahoo

    XFM 92.3

    Buddy Gancencia Reality TV

    Ultravision Photo and Video

    Click Booth

    Aloha Board Sports

    Sheero Media Solutions

    YourPinoyBroker.com

    Belo Medical Group

    Inquirer.Net

    Toshiba

    ROAM Magazine

    PLDT

    Here’s the code if you need it:


  • Submit your post URL and some basic info to
    the 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.

Once you have submitted your vote post URL, wait for the confirmation
from one of our committee members. Please be patient, we will manually
go through each and every vote post to make sure it’s valid.

So what will you get out of this? Well, aside from the fact that you
will make your favorite blogger happy, a valid Bloggers Choice Award
vote entitles you one (1) raffle entry.

ONE BLOGGER = ONE VOTE = ONE RAFFLE ENTRY

Prizes? Stay tuned :)

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