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Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs of 2009

Jaypee Habaradas — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:10:11 +0000

About the same time last year, I posted the winners of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs of 2008 writing project. Last weekend, August 8th was the eyeball event and awarding ceremony for this year’s Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs held at the Forum Hall of the Casino Filipino in Parañaque City, Philippines.

Even though I knew most of the participants/nominees last year, this year is different from last year because several nominees are close to my heart. First is Patay Gutom, a Pinoy food blog created by Jehzeel Laurente and of which I am one of the “contributors”. Next is a group of bloggers who belong to the Jedi Bloggers (which I am “officially” a part of) – Jan Geronimo of Writing to Exhale, Doc Z of Zorlone, and Kelvin Servigon of Kelvinonian Ideas 2.0.

Winners of the 2009 Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs

Here’s the complete list of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs of 2009.

I was preoccupied the whole weekend that I totally forgot about the event and forgot to check who the winners are. It was just today that I remembered it and I was very happy to find out that the top two winners are both my friends Writing To Exhale and Patay Gutom. Congratulations to you guys and also to the rest of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs of 2009.

I wish I was able to attend the event and meet my blogging friends and the other Pinoy bloggers. I envy you guys! I’m sure you all had a great time. I’d also like to extend my congratulations to Ms Janette Toral and the rest of the organizers for the success of this event.

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Links courtesy of Fritz.

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2008 Philippine’s 10 Funniest Blogs

Jaypee Habaradas — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:41:24 +0000

The 2008 Philippine Blog Awards was just recently concluded and the winners were announced and trophies handed out. Among the categories listed in those awards there is no category for the best humor blog.

However, this is a certain project that aims to recognize these humor or funny blogs from the Philippines. This project hasn’t come to my attention up until now when I read about it from my friend Dimak’s recent blog post. The Project Lafftrip Laffapalooza was started by Badoodles of the Kwentong Barbero (Barber’s Stories) blog. Just recently, the winners were announced and below is the list of the top 10 funniest blogs in the Philippines.

Aside from that there’s also an entertaining and funny video presentation by Umleo23, which is mostly done in Tagalog (Filipino). So apologies to those who can’t understand Tagalog.

The 2008 Philippines 10 Best Humor Blogs! from Leonard Allan on Vimeo.

Congratulations to the top 10 funniest blogs in the Philippines and to the organizers of this project especially badoodles for a job well done. Hats off to Leonard Allan (Umleo23) for a job well done. Great video presentation. Very entertaining and funny. I almost fell off my chair in the “nosebleed” part.

Hopefully, a category for the Best Humor Blog would be added in next year’s Philippine Blog Awards.

*image taken from kwentongbarbero.com

PinoyLancer: Freelance Hub

Jaypee Habaradas — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:53:09 +0000

PinoyLancer was just launched today! What is PinoyLancer? It is not a brand new car model made in the Philippines but rather a gig and freelance hub for all outsourcing project managers and freelancers. PinoyLancer is a free service made by a Pinoy just for Pinoys. However, it is not only exclusive to Filipinos, anyone who are interested can register and use this service.

PinoyLancer (PL) is your only gig, project, and freelance hub. It was meant to bring all outsourced projects out of private mailing lists, private forums, and other sources into one hub. It doesn’t replace them but rather help in sourcing out candidates in one destination.

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PinoyLancer is the brainchild of Canada-based Filipino programmer and serial startup starter, AJ Batac. PinoyLancer is only one of several startups/projects that AJ has worked on, other notable projects include Eskwela.com, a social networking site for Filipino students/alumni and Mployd.com, a job listing site.

Initially the service was in closed private beta testing but as of today, PinoyLancer is now open to the public. So if you’re a company who needs to outsource some of your work to freelancers, you can sign up now and post your freelance projects for free. Also, if you’re a freelancer looking for gigs or projects to work on, you can also sign up and browse the list of projects available.

Interested? What are you waiting for? Register now and starting posting your freelance projects and gigs!

Top 10 Emerging Influential Pinoy Blogs

Jaypee Habaradas — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:38:55 +0000

Earlier today, Janette Toral posted the winners of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2007 in the Philippines. Below is the list of winners:

1. An Apple a Day / The Philosophical Bastard
2. The D Spot
3. CokskiBlue
4. Make Money Online with a 13-Year Old
5. Culture Shiok! / Utakgago
6. Kubiertos
7. FruityOaty / PinoyBlogero
8. The Dork Factor / The Anitokid Chronikos
9. Gibbs Cadiz
10. Confessions of a Hopeless Romantic

Congratulations to all the winners and kudos to Janette for organizing and making this writing project a huge success. Great job! Looking forward to next year’s writing project.

Btw, I like the comment made by Manuel Viloria:

What’s the lesson here? Build a blog and people will come. If you promote your blog, that is.

Sounds like Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams. Hehe But I do agree with him. “No man is an island” and this is true even with bloggers and blogs. If you want your blog to be successful, you need to reach out to others. And today, this project and these blogs have set a good example for others and for future bloggers out there.

More power to Pinoy bloggers and to the Pinoy Blogosphere! Proud to be Pinoy!

Proudly Pinoy Logo Design Winner

Jaypee Habaradas — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:49:36 +0000

If you remember my post regarding the “Proudly Pinoy” Logo Design Competition, yesterday was the deadline for submission and also the day that the winner would be announced.

The total number of entries submitted reached 297. I’m sure if the competition lasted longer there would’ve been more entries. Anyways, the turn out was good even though the competition ran for only a month. The designers sent in their best work and the judges did a good job with the selection.

The winning entry is this logo sent in by Joe Talisic:

If you’re a Filipino and proud to be one, then display this logo on your website or blog. There are currently two sizes available: large, medium and small. Requirements for using this logo is that you can’t modify the logo except to resize it and to link the logo back to Proudly Pinoy.

Aside from the winning entry, here are my other favorite entries:

designer: brownspank – Runner-up

designer: Bien – People’s Favorites

designer: DELEKET – People’s Favorites

designer: MELISSAP – Most creative entry

To see the complete list of entries, visit the competition archive.

Kudos to the people who organized this worthy cause. Looking forward to more competitions and events like this. Can’t help but say that I’m Proudly Pinoy!