The Philippine Blogging Community has successfully transformed a vibrant network of webpages and journals into even livelier off-line blogger meetups and events. You can’t really compete with parties. The once faceless bloggers get a chance to pick their best shirt and make a strong and hopefully positive impression with the other once mysterious personas behind random URLS.
It’s a chicken and an egg story, but for some reason, there has been an explosion of profit-driven bloggers as of now. Though blogging primarily for financial rewards is in itself not repulsive - not to mention that almost all bloggers have some bastard child of AdSense or Bidvertiser — it somehow takes a way from the whole idea of keeping a blog. I would like to think that self-expression is at its purest form when it is not influenced by monetary-inclined aspirations.
Sadly,the trend has been going towards the opposite end of the spectrum. The thrust is undeniably inline towards that direction and if nothing changes, before we know it, things that were originally peripheral to what blogging was all about would take centerstage.
But if that’s the wave of the future, there’s no stopping it. There’s a clear shortage of people who would resist the flow. Most will fall into the fold of the majority sooner or later.
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I  should have written about this a few weeks back, but I think today a good time. I’m very honored to have been accepted by Bloggers Kapihan as a member of their relatively new and progressive (not in the leftist sense, of course haha) approach in encouraging young people (high school students!) and teachers (for BK 2.0) to blog. These upstarts are starting their blogs because they want to share their thoughts, hone their skills and allow for greater interaction between them and their students. The purity of their intentions just inspire me and make me immensely proud to be part of BK.
I’m sure the people that we have introduced to blogging are welcome additions into molding a more socially-relevant, aware and expressive community. To Bikoy, Ederic, Jhay, JM, Mong, Sarah, Shari, Martin, Tonyo and Vencer, thank you for letting me be a part of this great organization.
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Thanks for visiting my blog. I’ve updated the list to include your friends.
I’ve been dropping your site too but have not left a comment during my visits.
This and your previous post… EMO!
Here’s to going against the tide! =)
It will be difficult to encourage web logging because we are now experiencing problems with peak oil, rising food prices, and major financial crises (due to mounting debts). Given these, technology that is expensive and that requires a lot of resources and energy (like the Internet) might be used less in the near future.