For this post, I decided to honor and give due commendation to three bloggers who I feel raise the bar in terms of the quality of blogging that one would expect from upstarts. Due to their status as relative unknowns in the Philippine Blogosphere, I would like to hope that having them featured in this humble blog would somehow make them more known to a greater number of people. Trust me, these people really do deserve your attention.

In this day and age, it is quite refreshing to an artist to still use the traditional media for visual art and publish it in a digitized manner. Computer graphics artists are dime a dozen in the blogosphere and artists who continue to resort to the old and tested forms of visual art rarely showcase their works in websites and other virtual media. The picture above was drawn by Ellen, a very interesting and capable artist whose blog I first chanced upon on this thread. That’s a pretty good likeness of Michael Buble, right? On her site, you would be able to see her portraits of other known personalities like Nicole Kidman and even Phoenix Suns basketball star Steve Nash. She’s not a woman of many words, but her pictures really do tell a whole lot.

 

Next, I pay homage to the self-effacing Totomai. The guy’s writing and photography skills are definitely a notch or two higher than your average blogger. His eye for choosing which subjects to showcase with his Casio EX-Z40 camera is absolutely impeccable. He stayed for a while in the Land Of The Rising Sun and that gave him the chance to capture this utterly breath-taking shot of cherry blossoms  fine… magnolias set against an equally stunning Japanese sky. That’s easily a book cover right there.

Bloggers of his caliber definitely deserve more hits than what he currently gets.

I chose to put Coy last simply because he’s literally on his way to becoming the toast of the Philippine Blogosphere. One look at his well-produced and smartly-narrated video blog would prove that I’m not exaggerating one bit. He is the real deal. There’s something about his delivery that makes the story that he’s presenting real genuine, sincere and tangible. The production value of the actual program is nothing to scoff at as well. He has the critical ear for which songs would sound best with his narrations and presentations and most importantly, he can talk audibly and coherently in his very commercial (in a radio DJ kind of way) tone.

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It goes without saying that all through are excellent artists and writers in their own right. It’s amazing that in this day and age wherein more than half of the bloggers are busy minding their SEO know-hows and earnings from Google Adsense, there are still upstarts who continue to choose the noble path. Yes, all three of them - talented as they are — do not have any hints monetization on their blogs.

They blog to express themselves - nothing more, nothing less.

Whether it is conscious effort or a product of their naivety as newcomers to the blogging world, it’s quite sobering to see three very good blogs without a mere whiff of a sponsored link, text ad or banner. It almost makes me feel ashamed.

I’m quite sure in the beginning, this was what we all wanted. Blogging gave us the chance to be published without necessarily becoming writers in the magazine or a local daily. Somewhere along the line, we betrayed that noble and most respectable cause by acceding to monetary incentives. Of course, this concession happened in various degrees, but I’m sure almost all of us are guilty.

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