Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2008
Saturday, 3 May 2008 • 2,428 views, 1 today
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.)
- • Bariles Republic
- This is a highly informative blog about the author’s hometown, General Santos City. It was started only in November 2007, and yet it feels like it’s been around for much longer. That’s probably because the content is honest, down-to-earth and focused.
- • Davao Delicious
- This is one of my own blogs. I thought I’d include it in my list — risking accusations of tooting my own horn — because I do believe the blog has become rather influential in its chosen milieu. I get quite a number of emails through the online contact form asking me about more places to eat in Davao City. I also get requests for other restaurants to be featured in the blog.
- • Filipino Voices
- A heroic effort to cast the voice of the Filipino to the world, this community blog is comprised of bloggers from a vast spectrum of backgrounds. But they have one common denominator, though: they are passionate about their homeland, and so they write about society and all its attendant issues, concerns, problems, triumphs.
- • Migs Mobile Network
- Author of the popular blog, migs.wordpress.com, Migs finally got his own self-hosted WordPress blog for his favorite blogging topic: mobile and all its attendant technologies. Migs Mobile Network is still so fresh it’s still covered in bubble wrap… but it’s already gaining so much ground in the mobile genre.
- • PRC Board Exam Results
- In less than half a year since it was launched, this site has garnered a popularity borne out of necessity (as opposed to SEO activity). It is now one of the most visited resources for information on exam results emanating from the Philippine Regulation Commission.
- • Techy Kid
- This blog, while no different from other tech-centric blogs focus-wise, is really in a niche, audience-wise. Since it’s written by a very young and just-recently-graduated student, his blog appeals to readers of his generation.
- • Teknostik dawt com
- A hodge-podge of personal takes on his surroundings, his efforts at weights training, and a smattering of technology-related articles, this blog serves up in-your-face posts that are quite entertaining. I think Teknostik has a great potential to retain a loyal audience, with the blogger’s unique voice and writing style.
- • Visit Sagada
- This community blog aims to promote Sagada, in the Philippines’ Mountain Province. Started only in January 2008, this site is a worthy effort, akin to what we’ve been doing for Mindanao. If you plan on making a trip to one of the country’s most visited spots, Visit Sagada should be your first order of business.
- • Work With Ria
- This blog, started in October 2007, document’s the author’s experiences in her various work-related environments. Plural, yes. Ria is an example of the young generation today — aggressive, connected, technology-savvy. Although it has some personal entries as well, those who are just starting out in the world can actually learn from this blog’s kilobytes of wisdom.
- • You Got Tech
- This community blog, in such a short span of time, has turned into a reference site for the ‘tech layman’. Populated by bloggers who are themselves newbies (more or less) to high technology, You Got Tech certainly appeals to its target audience.
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I’m humbled to have your endorsement, Sir Blogie.
My pleasure, benj. I believe VisitSagada.com deserves to be on the Top 10. :)
Indeed, Bariles Republic deserves to be one of the emerging influential blogs of 2008…
@Kevin — I encourage you to participate in this writing project, so that you too can nominate Bariles Republic and other Mindanao blogs! :)
I will! I am already completing my list that I will be posting in my Mar Roxas 2010 Blog probably next week.
Blogie, I have yet to complete my list as well.. I am considering carefully..
I hope you put FilipinoVoices.com on your list to consider..
Columnist Kelvin Lee of Sunstar Davao is on board, but will make his debut on the blog around October..
I’m really loving the high caliber analysis that comes from some Mindanao blogs, such as Peter Laviña’s blog.. And I know Ria has been a mainstay as well..
@Nick — Done! And the blog does deserve to be on the list.
Blogie!
Am touched with your nomination. Now, am challenged more than ever to improve on my blog’s contents.
A million zillion thank you’s to you.
Sulong Mindanao!
@bariles — You really do have something great going on there! Padayon!!! :)
This is a great list. :)
@tahn — Thanks!!
hi…you may try to visit my blog. see if it suits your qualifications. i just started it last week of april and i have growing number of readers….
http://www.batanggenyo.net
@batanggenyo — Congrats on your new blog! It’s certainly worthwhile to have more locale-specific Philippine blogs out there!
whew! that’s a very noble project guys. i salute you for making this interesting effort. to the organizers, hat’s off! :-) goodluck. just passing by.
whew! that’s a very noble project guys. i salute you for making this interesting effort. to the organizers, hat’s off! :-) goodluck. just passing by. (relogged in to register my pes :-))
@ferzam — Register your pes? You mean the avatar? But it’s not coming out… Oh well. :)
Next time, do join this writing project by Janette Toral!
This is to mark your entry as complete.
I hope you can attend the August 11 eyeball. Thank you for supporting this writing project.