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TV is dead.

A group of aggressively talented individuals, among them my blogger-friend, Kring E. of FunnySexy.ph, is gearing up for the launch of a bold and exciting project: Flippish.com. Dubbed as “the First Online Pinoy Video Channel”, Flippish promises to be the death of TV.
In fact, that’s what they’re calling their launch: TV is dead.

If [...]

Foodnography.com

I bought this domain almost exactly a year ago (4 June 2008, to be exact), because my friend Markku jokingly threatened to hijack it after I’d told him about a word I thought I had coined: “foodnography”. I was already blogging about food for some time, and the way we bloggers take photos of food [...]

10 new blogs worth checking out

The much-anticipated annual exercise initiated by Janette Toral in 2007 is now upon us once more, and the blogosphere is again abuzz with bloggers and their top 10 offerings. Each year, the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs writing project catapults into fame new blogs that have a great potential to influence thought and opinion in [...]

WordPress 101 seminar in GenSan

I’ve really been enjoying my trips to General Santos City since the start of the year. I’ll be back again tomorrow, 13 May 2009. This time, it’s for a WordPress seminar for the benefit of the bloggers there, and it’s being put together by Avel Manansala. He spearheaded the organizing of the very successful Mindanao [...]

Chicago Popcorn Shops

[Updated]
In the Mall of Asia, Manila, there exists a popcorn store, but not just any popcorn store. It’s the Chicago Popcorn Shops. And, the purveyors of Chicago-style popcorn goodies would like to invite bloggers to a taste-testing spree this 9th & 10th March 2009. Let’s have two group of 10 bloggers: one for Monday and [...]

Davao F.A.T. 2009 – Schedule

[Updated!]
First off, in behalf of the organizers of the Davao Food Appreciation Tour, I would like to thank all the restaurants that have generously agreed to host the bloggers this year. We all look forward to a Davao-style feast in March!
This is the final schedule for DFAT 2009:

13 March (Friday)
12:00 PM  —  Lunch at Tadakuma [...]

Davao F.A.T. 2009

For some weeks now, the team of hyperactive Davao bloggers has been busy preparing for this year’s Davao Food Appreciation Tour. To give you a background of Davao FAT, it’s an annual event — coinciding with Araw ng Dabaw — that sees bloggers from out of town sampling the various cuisine offerings of the city.
We [...]

iPhone-compatible blogs

All my blogs are now iPhone/iPod touch-compatible!
Thanks to Winston for giving me the heads-up on the existence of these WordPress plugins. There are a few similar plugins out there, but the one that I’ve come to like is WPtouch iPhone Theme. As you can see from the screenshots here, the blog is rendered in an [...]

Blog updates: plugins and services

Site Referrer Info
I’ve finally gotten around to implementing a blog function that I’ve long wanted to incorporate into my blogs: a greet box to personalize my readers’ experience. You can see this in popular blogs such as Weblog Tools Collection. The reason for needing this is, I’ve decided to consolidate all my online contact forms [...]

MindanaoBloggers.com: a fresh look

[UPDATED]
After two successful Mindanao Bloggers Summits, the MindanaoBloggers.com site has now undergone a complete redesign. The community blog debuted with the Darn Slick Gadgets WordPress theme by Andrew dela Serna, plus Jojie Alcantara’s awesome photos for the header.
For posterity, here’s that brilliant header that we’ve all enjoyed seeing on the MindanaoBloggers.com blog for about one [...]