Philippines Kicks-off Blog Awards 2007

The heat is on this summer as the final night is being awaited by Filipino Bloggers around the globe as the 1st Philippine Blog Awards culminates this Saturday, March 30, 2007 at the Podium 4, RCBC Theater, RCBC Building in Makati City.

The Philippine Blog Awards aims to recognize notable Filipino-owned blogs in their respective niches — a venue to showcase notable blogs with quality content that engages readers from around the globe.

All Filipino bloggers who have full ownership of their blogs are allowed to join the contest under 11 major categories : Personal, Technology, Travel, Entertainment, Home & Living, Socio Political, News & Media, Business & Entrepreneur, Sports and Recreation, Fashion and Lifestyle, Photo Blog, and Podcast.

All entries to this year's blog award will also vie for special awards such as Best Blog Design, Best OFW Blog, Best Free Custom Theme, and Best Plug-in/Extension. Additional special awards was generously given by one of its major sponsor. They were the Blog Achievement Award, Pinoy Ako Blog Award, Family Blog Award, Blogirl Award and Deliblog Award.

As not to over-crowed the event, the committe decided to post a regulation from their site on how to avail for the entrance tickets. The event is expected to gather more that 500 attendees.

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Flock: The new browser in town

My blog is getting so boring...ya i know...it is because of the nature of my work that i seldom post an updates to my blogs. Yes i have several blogs and I am fond of creating multiple blogs. Maybe it is because I am just an addict propelling Filipiniana.net site to reach the no.1 slot in major search engines and thank God I have made it. Blogging was a great help in my SEO strategies... but now, I still don't know what particular topic or area of concern should I pursue to become a serious blogger. Maybe I'm just a person who just want to separate myself from things that i really wanted to do and planning to do in life..

Well, to tell you the truth I am afraid of writing because I'm never good at it. I am sorrounded by real writers and editors and I'm just being afraid of being scrutinized with my grammar and style of writing.. who cares by the way..this is only a personal stuff...this is my own style.. I'm just speaking my mind and I did it little by little.... "kahit pilit."

For this new entry, I want to share something very interesting specially to those who are busy as me and who's life depends on a web browser. I spent 8-12 hours of my daily life in a browser...ya, because my work calls for it. These browsers helps me navigate things easily because of the features being incorporated such as multiple tabs, integrated bookmarks, Answers.com and Google toolbars and more. But, as I went thru it, my browser got cluttered of so many tabs and it's annoying. I have to open every bookmarks and tabs for sites that I wanted and that happens everyday.

What you see and reading right now, is brought by the new browser I have come across reading to a blog of Bryan Veloso - the man behind the internationally-renowned blog, Avalonstar and a pinoy who is a part of the creative team who works for the social web browser called Flock.

I'm so lucky that it runs into may Intel-powered iMac and have installed it right away, navigate and wham! here I am jotting down notes for my blog with ease as if i am inside my blog page.

Flock enables you to import your log-in parameters to almost any popular blog and networking sites plus a feature to use APIs. This browser just like the Safari, is a RSS reader. You can start subscribing to an RSS news feed in a single click to the RSS icon of your browser and it gives you the headlines via a drop-down menu. Trying to view the RSS feed of your blogs, it gives you an snippet view of the entries neatly arranged like a comment box in two columns.

Well, this is quite amazing for me and a must download for all net addicts out there..

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