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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 [...]

WordCamp-PH merchandise coming soon!

Lyle Santos, Chattee Lara and yours truly have been joining heads for some time now to come up with a line of cool WordCamp Philippines merchandise for everyone. Yesterday, the two went out to have a few laptop stickers prototyped. And here they are!
The WordCamp Philippines online store will be open very soon! Please bookmark [...]

WordCamp RP2009 in the works

I’m happy to announce that the gang of Mindanao Bloggers and their supporters will soon be commencing plans and arrangements for WordCamp Philippines 2009! I will be calling the first organizational meeting within the following week.
It has yet to be officially finalized, but I’m excited to let everyone know that we’re working with the Asian [...]

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 [...]

Winners of the Cebu Pacific blog contest

It’s out! The judges (Janette Toral, Mhelford Hipolito and yours truly) have spoken: we now have the five winners in the Cebu Pacific Blogging Challenge. Congratulations to the following:

Rosselyn Jaye de la Cruz, who blogged about Bohol
Zigfred Diaz, who gave a travelog of Dumaguete
Czarina Maye Mariano, who wrote about her Palawan experience
Marck Ronald Rimorin, [...]

WordCamp Philippines blog: a winner!

I know this post is rather late, but I don’t want to pass off blogging about this!
The WordCamp Philippines official blog site was acclaimed the best website in the Events / Conferences category of this year’s DigitalFilipino Web Awards. Needless to say, I feel really proud of this award. It adds to the [...]

Samsung Concept Shop

With Nokia and Sony Ericsson already firmly entrenched in Davao City, it’s high time that Samsung made their presence felt. And so this Friday, 7th of November 2008, this aggressive mobile phone brand is inaugurating their concept shop at SM City Davao.
It will be a rather formal affair, with ribbon-cutting and VIPs and such, but [...]

MBS2: a clear success!

When we appointed Avel Manansala of General Santos City and his group to be the organizers of the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit, it was done without reservation. And true enough, the event was a resounding success! It was even much better than MBS1 in terms of impact and participation.
The theme this year was “Mindanaowon, [...]