I’m not going to post this on the WordCamp Philippines blog just yet, because it’s not yet definite. However, we might have to move the event date in order to accommodate certain factors. End-October would’ve been a good time, but it seems it’s not meant to be.
No problem, really, if the date were changed — we’ve only started the planning phase anyway. We will just have to start moving faster, because if we do move the date, it will definitely be a month or so earlier. Please refer to the official site for the final announcement.
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Tagged: WordCamp Philippines 2008
We’ve just finished our meeting, and we’ve decided that WordCamp Philippines 2008 should take place in the nation’s capital. The most compelling reason for this is the sheer number of bloggers and software developers in Metro Manila.
The date of this highly anticipated event is 25 October 2008, which is a Saturday. ••• Read on»
Tagged: WordCamp Philippines 2008
You got that right — we’re gonna have our very own WordCamp in the Philippines this year!
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Tagged: Davao bloggers, WordCamp Philippines
Janette Toral’s writing project, The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs, is now on its second year. (This time, Janette has acquired a domain name for the project, influentialblogger.net, which is quite catchy.)
The noble purpose of this writing project is to give recognition to the blogosphere’s relatively new but prominent blogs. (To help them along the road to blogosphere fame, too!) Any blogger — not necessarily Filipino — may join this worthy endeavor. To do so, please start by reading this post. In short, you will need to nominate 10 blogs to your own list of emerging, influential blogs.
Below is my list. These are blogs that, in my opinion, have exerted some well-deserved authority over their chosen subject matter / advocacy. (Listed in alphabetical order.) ••• Read on»
Tagged: blog reviews, influential blogs, Janette Toral
No, I’m not going to do a fiery treatise on how some bloggers make their blogs look like online billboards. I just thought I’d display this thought-provoking sketch from BlogComics.net.
Tagged: comics
The iBlog4 Summit, in my honest estimation, was a success. It was well-attended, and the content of the talks and presentations was, on the whole, engaging and educational. Some of the talks were even inspiring, especially that of Juned Sonido’s, who talked about photo-blogging.
Although I don’t really do photography, it doesn’t hurt to learn about it, right? Juned delivered an easy-to-understand guide to photography for blogging, and gave us a taste of his own unique approach. He also brought out his impressive collection of cameras, from the ultra-professional to the basic point-and-shoot. ••• Read on»
Tagged: iBlog4
2:01PM
The speaker now is Manuel L. Quezon III, and he’s giving us his take on how he blogs, particularly on how he presents his opinion via blogging. Very insightful. I like what he just said about the ‘human aspect’ of blogging, which is, after all, how a blogger should approach his or her writing.
Earlier, after lunch, Aileen Apolo and Coy Caballes gave a presentation on video blogging and podcasting.
The present slot is made up of three speakers: Quezon, and a journalist, Luz Rimban, came before him. And then Janette Toral.
Rimban focused on Elections 2010. She encouraged the audience to blog about the coming national elections because the media is not expected to cover everything. The media, Rimban said, will focus only on what’s “newsworthy”, and so bloggers have a unique position, and that is in the bringing of man-on-the-street news to the voting public.
Interesting: Quezon says he uses Twitter a lot. He believes Twitter will be very useful during the elections. Thinking about the American grad student who was arrested in Egypt and who used Twitter to tell his friends about the arrest, I think Quezon has a point.
Janette Toral is up next. She will talk about “How bloggers can participate more effectively in the 2010 elections”. She is advocating freedom of expression and for bloggers to be more participatory in the coming elections.
Tagged: iBlog4
11:00AM
Karlo Licudine was asked by someone from Inquirer.net: How much do you earn from problogging? The answer: $1,000/mo.!!
The mom is here! She asked: Can we stop giving you allowance then? 
The next speaker is Juned Sonido. His talk is entitled “pHoToBlOg”. Some of his blogs: pinoysnapshots.com, baratillo.net, dalanghita.com, etc. He also writes for b5media and is part of the Blog & Soul Movement.
Juned is telling us about how to create a photoblog. I’m feeling frustrated, because I don’t even own a digicam!
For the platform, Juned is praising Multiply and Blogger (blogspot.com) as excellent sites for photo-blogging. And now he’s showing us his tools of the trade: his cameras and lenses. (I’m drooling now.) Wow! He has sooo many cameras with him!
I’m gonna take a break from liveblogging. Winston of BatangYagit.com will borrow my laptop.
11:43AM
Winston is taking photos of the event. We’ll be uploading pictures later.
Just finished his talk is Jonas Diego (jonasdiego.com, what else?), who does Web comics. He uses blogging as a means of promoting his creations.
Lunch!
Tagged: iBlog4
9:45 AM
Arrived at the iBlog4 venue with Ria and Winston (after losing our way for a little bit inside the huge UP campus). Settled in just when the first speaker was wrapping up her talk. Now it’s a live video feed via Justin.tv, with Brian Gorrell, talking about how to blog (duhh). More of tips, really.
9:50 AM
Brian Gorrell says try not to get sucked into your blog, that we should be able to walk away. Good point. I should listen.
Gorrell says freedom of speech is very important… and that his blog is a prime example of it. Hmmm… Perhaps. Now I hope someone will talk about responsible blogging. 
We’ve been asked to disconnect wifi for a while. I guess they’re fixing the Internet connection… More later!
9:58AM
Now the audience has a chance to introduce their blogs. I grabbed the opportunity to talk about MindanaoBloggers.com. Nice idea by the organizers.
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Tagged: iBlog4
I’ve been here less than 24 hours since arriving this morning and I can already feel the reverberating centeredness of Metro Manila. This is where important things are happening, and this is the place from where many, many things emanate.
Like blogging, for instance. Although we do have a good number of bloggers in Davao and blogging there is alive and, well, kicking, Manila is still where the highest concentration of bloggers can be found. ••• Read on»
Tagged: iBlog, IT industry, PinoyTech.TV
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