I’m proud to announce the redesign of Soccsksargen’s leading blog, Bariles Republic. It actually looked good before, but now it looks even better! Blogger Avel Manansala of General Santos City asked Winston Almendras to do the complete makeover of the site.

The layout of the blog is akin to an online magazine, which is what Bariles Republic is all about: an e-zine of Avel’s beloved city. This blog is one of the top nominees in Janette Toral’s writing project, the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2008.

Winston based the WordPress theme on Arthemia, and introduced a number of modifications and his own design elements.

Congratulations to Avel for a very inspiring blog! And kudos to Winston for an awesome theme design!

The 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit will be held in General Santos City. I’m proud to report that the organizing team will be led by Avel Manansala of Bariles Republic.

In the past months, the Soccsksargen bloggers have been quite active, and have been in close contact with the MindanaoBloggers core group in Davao all this time. For this reason, we are confident in their enthusiasm and ability to host the next summit.

Watch out for more announcements regarding MBS2 right here!

Let us remember….
…our rootedness to Mother earth we call home
…where we draw life from
…which nurtures and feeds our body, mind and soul

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

A pioneering effort in print media was launched today — a locally-published magazine intriguingly called m.

To quote its publishers, M is "the first-ever glossy travel and lifestyle magazine that will showcase the best that Mindanao has to offer. M features stories ranging from adventure destinations, culinary pursuits, nocturnal activities, unique fashion creations, beauty and wellness, gainful business endeavors, to little known secrets about this island paradise; it is the primary source of information on Mindanao’s contemporary lifestyle."

Read more about this here »

You asked for it, so now you have it!

We ran a poll asking you if you wanted to have a bulletin board for Mindanao Bloggers, and "Yes" won.

The Mindanao Bloggers Forum is now online at www.mindanaobloggers.org.

It’s still very, very new. In fact I’m still popping the bubble wrap! Meaning, there’s not much in there yet but two forums for suggestions and for complaints. Please feel free to make use of the first (the second, well, I don’t think you’d have anything to complain about… unless we take too long to finish the boards!)

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http://living-101.blogspot.com/

life, living, life’s experiences, people, love, family, relationship Name: bestre
Location: Iligan

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Janette Toral, in her ongoing projects to bring recognition to various entities who are making their mark in the Philippine ICT arena, has published the next round of Top 100 Philippine blogs. Take a look here.

As you might see, MindanaoBloggers.com is again on the list of the Philippines Top 100 Blogs by Blog Juice. Janette has chosen Blog Juice to measure blogs’ ranks. Our community blog’s nutritional value is 3.6 — I gather this is pretty high. And in Janette’s list, we’re at #20!


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Today, we have reached 300 blogs in the Mindanao Blog Directory! Thanks to Migs of WISIWIB (What I See Is What I Blog) for submitting the 300th listing!

As you might know by now, the Directory is organized by region, and the sub-categories are the provinces and chartered cities. Here’s the current breakdown of the blog listings (click the image on the right to see the actual screen shot):

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http://www.aethen.com/

The Stolen Child

Name: Mark Aethen Agana
Location: City of Koronadal

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http://ateria.blogspot.com/

Sumusubok Magbigay ng Payo

Name: Maria A. Jose
Location: Davao City

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http://dainventorsnewscast.blogspot.com/

We promote Inventors & their Inventions locally here in Davao City.

Name: D.A. Inventors Newscast
Location: Davao City

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For some reasons I think brought about by the deregulation of air travel with the help of competition and demand-and-supply the 3 major Philippines-based air carriers Cebu Pacific (domestic and international), Air Philippines (domestic) and Philippine Airlines (domestic) simultaneously have their own seat promotions. Whew! I’m now very torn when and where to go to take advantage of these seasonal offerings, additionally I’m confused what airline to choose.

I now truly believe that our country is being dominated by Chinese businessmen that the Chinese traits and beliefs in business are being adapted in this country because you will see the lucky number “8″ everywhere. There’s nothing wrong with that… In fact, I’m thankful because a domestic seat goes as low as 8 pesos and 888 pesos for Asian destinations.

I will no longer mention the different terms and mechanics on how to avail of the low fares being offered by the 3 airlines. Just visit their websites to find out more and book online to have a hassle-free airline ticket.

Here’s the list of the top 100 Mindanao Blogs for 2007. The list was taken from the registered blogs found in the Mindanao Blog Directory. The blogs’ ranking were based on the data taken from technorati and feedburner.

To the authors of the following blogs, congratulations!

1. http://www.alleba.com/blog
2. http://www.mindanao.com/blog
3. http://www.jehzlau-concepts.com
4. http://www.batangyagit.com
5. http://www.vinceleste.com
6. http://spaceofinfluence.blogspot.com
7. http://blog.jammedph.com
8. http://aclworld.blogdrive.com
9. http://www.dotastrategy.com
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Just read in the news that Northern Mindanao’s Internet connection expanded by 500% compared to last year’s.

Northern Mindanao had a total of 26,788 Internet connections as of the second quarter, this year, up by 570.87 percent compared to 3993 connections in the same period of 2006, a Sun.Star report said Monday.

“Of this figure, Cruztelco posted the highest increase of 1,600 percent, followed by Sotelco, 1,264 percent, PLDT, 1,003.51 percent and Philcom, 826.45 percent but those of PTT dropped by 51.67 percent,” Regional Director Teodoro D. Buenavista, Jr. of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Northern Mindanao, said.

Per share of the region’s total internet connections, however, PhilCom contributed the biggest share of 68.65 percent, followed by Sotelco, 25.46 percent, PLDT, 2.35 percent, ICC-Bayan Tel, 2.14 percent and Cable 21, 1.12 percent while the rest of the providers like Cruztelco, Plaseco, PT&T and TMSI also contributed less than 1 percent each. [source]

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The winners of the You Got Blogged! DigitalFilipino.com / MindanaoBloggers.com Review-a-Blog Competition are as follows:

• FIRST PRIZE: A Councilor Who Makes a Difference by Rey Ian Corpuz
• SECOND PRIZE: Mandaya Moore-Orlis: Blogged Beyond Humor by Caesar Balatero
• THIRD PRIZE: PRC Board Exam Results by Conrad Miguel Gozalo

Congratulations to our winners!!!

And congratulations to those bloggers whose blogs got blogged! You will also receive a special prize from us. We will e-mail the winners and bloggers regarding their prizes.

We’d like to thank all those who participated in and supported the YGB! online event. Hopefully in future MindanaoBloggers activities, we’ll be as successful as the 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit!

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to DigitalFilipino’s Janette Toral, who sponsored the YGB! contest. To keep yourself abreast of the goings-on in Philippine I.T., join the DigitalFilipino.com Club!