I was very passionate about campaigning for this blog for the Ten Emerging Influential Blogs writing project from a few months back but unfortunately, Pinoy Mountaineer missed the cut despite having more visitors and page views than probably all the other winners combined. As we very well know, you can’t keep a good blog down (pun intended), so when the Philippine Blog Awards revealed their short list of finalists for Best Hobby/ Recreation Blog, Pinoy Mountaineer was included.
Ironically, it took a more meritocratic -albeit less democratic — body to give the site the attention it truly deserves. I’m very please with this development and I surely hope that inspire others – others who aren’t necessarily in our little club for bloggers to come up with fresh ideas with content that people could actually use. We are at a dawning of an age wherein all that SEO/spamming bullshit have reached a point of obscurity and people are starting to use the internet for things that could actually help them grow in various facets of their lives. Ok, I was talking through my nose on those last two sentences but you do get the point.
Mr. Pinoy Mountaineer is no other than my classmate Gideon Lasco. He was also a schoolmate back in high school but we never were well acquainted. I’m very happy that the class of 2010 from the UP College of Medicine have one other *ehem* blogger making waves in the local scene.
As for the competition, Pinoy Mountaineer will be up against a very distinguished and varied pool of finalist blogs:
Brown Rice -self-made cartoons and illustrations
Comicology – comic books
Life on Pinky Street – toys and collectibles
Bear Brick Love – toys
Bibliophile Stalker - books
The World Thru Postcards – postcards
DotAStrategy Blog – computer gaming
Sped Life Cebu – special education *how is this a hobby blog exactly?*
Stylemo – style
 GOOD LUCK GIDEON! Make 2010 proud. hehe
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good luck Pinoy Mountaineer!
good luck Benj with your so many nominations!!! am sure you deserve all of them.
Benj, nawala comment ko?
hi benj, many thanks for this! will be rooting for your blog too come sunday. 2010 bigaten!
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