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.) Read on»
Recenly, Mike Thomas of BlogInterviewer.com emailed me and said that a kind soul had recommended my blog to be interviewed. Whoever you are, thanks very much!!
That site is a unique service that helps blogs get promoted through link-love and ratings. What’s good about BlogInterviewer.com, as far as I know, is that it brings out the blogger from behind the blog. In fact, the interview is mostly about the person rather than the blog itself. Since many bloggers do not take the time to write an About page, being interviewed by this service might spur them to do so. Also, readers are given the chance to get to know their favorite blogs’ authors on a bit more personal level.
If you feel like it, vote for my blog interview by clicking here. You could help me win some moolah, which I intend to donate to charity. You could win too — BlogInterviewer.com gives away prizes to randomly-chosen commenters on my interview.
What on the Internet isn’t burgeoning or spreading like wild fire, especially if it’s something that lets Web warriors express themselves? Content management software, social networking systems, blog hosting — both paid and free-of-charge — and now newfangled services such as those for video blogging and podcasting have cropped up in exponential numbers.
However, I don’t think it’s merely a case of opportunists jumping in the bandwagon. There truly is a huge demand for various Internet-based services. Let’s take the case of blogging. Since no one platform can satisfy everybody’s peculiar needs, many blog platforms have burst into the scene and are flourishing, each catering to a segment of the global blogosphere. One more entrant: a Blogging Community by thoughts.com. It seems to me that this is a fairly recent development.
I’m guessing this Blogging Community could take off and be the next big thing on the ‘Net. But this will depend on how responsive this service is: the technical aspect vis-à-vis the people factor. If the operators of thoughts.com respond fast enough to growing subscriber needs and demands, the level of acceptance will surely increase just as quickly. And the snowball effect will have begun. Read on»
I’ve accepted a review opportunity from ReviewMe, for a blog called The NextPost. It purports to be “centered around writing reviews of websites, books, products and services.” And the author apparently also does copywriting and editing. Just up my alley, I thought, and that’s why I accepted the offer to review the site. Read on»
Janette Toral has embarked on an ambitious writing project called Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007. Janette aims to collate the blog picks of her extensive network of colleagues, friends and fellow bloggers, and subsequently come up with the top ten. This is my contribution to this worthwhile undertaking.
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