Philippine Blog Awards: One Blogging Nation

Winners of the Philippine Blog Awards (PBA) were announced last October 9, 2009 at the PETA Theater in Quezon City. This goes for Luzon blogs and bloggers only. There is a scheduled announcement of winners for the Visayas and Mindanao regions. With the theme, One Blogging Nation, the PBA aimed to cover and unify the Filipino Blogging Community.

Going through the list of winners this year, I was pleasantly surprised to find Jim Paredes' Writing On Air come out as the winner for Best Personal Blog. I love his writing and his reflections on life, parenting, music, art and culture. Since redesigning my personal blog early this year, I have not gotten back to putting the old blogroll. As for the Best Filipiniana Blog, Dennis Villegas beat out my personal favorite for the award. But no matter, there's still next year.

As an added info, Juned Sunido, true blue blogger and Filipino blog mover is part of the board and organizing committee of the PBA 2009. He is also a licensed librarian.

Blograrians in the Philippine Blog Awards 2007

Two Filipino Blograrians, Von Totanes and Arnold Zafra, are in the list of nominees for this year's Philippine Blog Awards. Well, their blogs are there and not their names. But this is an interesting development in the field of IT dominated by the technocrats. One continuing challenge for us librarains is to to make our presence felt. In an ever changing digital environment, the more we are needed to make meaning out of the chaos; to provide sense in a deluge of information from varied resources; and to perserve intellectual rights and cultural heritage of our peoples.

Von's blog is under the Socio-Political category while Arnold's is in the Technology category. To Von and Arnold, good luck! I hope that you both win in your respective category.