Killer name for that killer blog event
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 14th, 2006A few months back, a few Filipino bloggers wanted to organize a “bloggers for bloggers” event similar to Gnomedex. Of course, Gnomedex was sponsored by Lockergnome which meant they had the resources to pull this off. At that time, we were looking for a sponsor for this type of event which would be geared more towards serious bloggers, which basically allude to adjectives like: prolific, stat-crazy, and “pro-.”
So here we are, and guess what? We may finally have a sponsor for this event to be held in a few weeks. The first item on the agenda is to think of a KILLER NAME for this event. Any suggestions?
Band of Bloggers is out. Some other suggestions include:
1. Blogcon
2. Philblog
3. Philippine Blog Summit
4. Father Abe-raham and the Pinoy Top Bloggers
Note that this is a bit different from the iBlog Summit that is held once a year. This event will be a bit more targeted towards specific problogging and blog optimization topics.
Leave a comment for suggestions. 
The Blog and the Beautiful
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 13th, 2006If you check PTB everyday, you’d be entertained to find ot how often Eros and Rickey try to snag the number one place. As you would know Basang Panaginip made it to number one for about a month due to a high traffic hit because of his post on the world’s most realistic vector art.
As of today, BP has gone down to rank number 4 and once more, superstar Bryanboy has retained his position at number two.
Has Rickey’s plea for help (see comment underneath his blog) been answered? Find out next month in Pinoy Top Blogs. Oh the drama!
When the sensuous get desensitized
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 12th, 2006I’ve been reviewing gadgets for the past three years. In sum total I’ve written about a hundred plus reviews ansd columns and how to’s and such. It makes some people wonder if ever I get desensitized when I see a new toy.
Short answer is yes, in fact. With mobile phones, in fact. The last time I ever got excited over a phone was back when the Treo 700w was announced, mainly because it was a fusion between the world’s best smartphone and the more powerful Windows Mobile operating system. With the advent of MS Mobile version 5, the 700w was sure to be a killer. Later on it really didn’t turn out to be a killer phone, but it was still a hype back then.
So okay, I’m not that hot with phones. So maybe thats why I’m the one who always reviews them. Why?
Well, in the same way that John C. Dvorak doesn’t get hyped up about a lot of technology, he gets to give a more honest-to-god opinion of things when it comes to tech – especially when it comes to the PC. (Would you believe he didn’t know what a .Mac account was?).
So there. If you are suddenly getting desensitized with your field, then don’t fret. It may actually be a good thing. In our company, Adel reviews the Macs and audio devices, Art does the laptops video and I mostly do the phones and other small handhelds. Why? Because we get excited enough to see something new, but even more excited and then utterly disappointed to see what has been improved from the previous versions.
Or maybe we’re just hard to please.
Tagged!
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 12th, 2006
Coming soon to a mobile phone near you: A Bugged Life … mobile!
Philippine Christmas Bazaar Schedule
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 9th, 2006Thanks to Viloria, through Trissie, we can now schedule our Christmas shopping spree. The whole schedule is here.
So what gift do you give a blogger during Christmas? Some suggestions would include:
1. a wireless mouse
2. a WiFi account
3. hits
4. a shirt with your blog URL as text
5. seed money to open a USD savings account
6. extra battery for laptop
7. trackbacks
8. Bluetooth headset
9. Microphone for podcasting, preferably this brand
Is problogging a sexy job?
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 6th, 2006Let’s say you want to score points on your date. When she asks you, during a romantic candlelight dinner, “so what do you do?” what do you end up telling her?
Technically, you’re a writer. “But problogging is more than just writing” you end up thinking, out of pride in a local industry that is still on uncharted lands.
Here are some choices, based on some feedback from people:
“I am a web content editor” (sounds too technical to score)
“I blog for a living” (close, but no cigar)
“I make money out of Google” (sounds too exploiting)
“I am an editor for an online publication” (easiest to understand)
“I write” (most profound, and it comes from this casanova)
Any other suggestions? Because sometimes I find it hard to describe exactly what I do. Which is why having a regular 9-5 job is a good thing, because that is what you mention.
The Digg Army, 20 trillion thousands strong
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 5th, 2006I met up with Gail and Marc this afternoon before going to the gym (a gym! you’re finally going to the gym? the full story for another day) to discuss some business. We talked about several things including some logistics that are being made in the WWW.
And so this question came up:
What do you do when your site is expecting a huge AS IN TIPPING POINT PROPORTIONS amount of traffic?
Here is what you can do:
1. Warn your webhost guy. If you’re friends, this is very easy to do. If you really hate the service of your host, you can go ahead and crash his server. Heehee.
2. Prepare the weapon of mass destruction: a killer headline, and an army of people with shovels
3. Spread the link love and let nature take its course
When bloggers unite, the PR grows
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 4th, 2006I learned two things today. First, making use of powerful and controversial headlines such as “Will Gail get sued for blogging?” is a neat way to grab attention.
The second thing I learned today is to never buy that book. No, not this book (this one you buy), but that other one.
Erwin, are you reading this?
Monday once more
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 4th, 2006
Uncategorized Posts
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 3rd, 2006Do you ever forget to classify your post categories? Yankeemom seems to be the number one in rank in Technorati’s Uncategorized category.
Posts that contain Uncategorized per day for the last 30 days.
Get your own chart!
I was so tempted to classify this post under “Uncategorized.”
Globe Innove Aftermath
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at September 2nd, 2006So Globe Innove made first contact with twelve bloggers on Thursday. The food was great, the free-flowing alcohol was even better.
There were two sets of interactions going on that night. First was the blogger-to-blogger osmosis effect where:
We did the typical “my PR is bigger than yours” spiel
We talked about what Adsense bought you last month
We pulled out our dSLRs and took photos, once more
The second type of interaction was the Globe-to-bloggers outreach program where they presented some of Globe’s new products, got feedback about some of their services, and analyzed blogger behavior which included their online schedule and other demographics.
Conclusions
As a “meet and greet” for bloggers, it was something we could have organized ourselves, but kudos to Globe Innove for taking the (baby) steps to recognize bloggers as a sizeable and highly influential demographic.
I just wish that the company had taken a more grand vision and actually have bloggers try out the menagerie of services they offered, as mentioned by J.Angelo in his blog.
The evening was basically a mix between a focused group discussion slash free consulting about trends in the blogging scene such as viral marketing, where Filipinos stand in today’s blogging industry, and advocacy.
As a blogger who helped organize this event, I am wondering what phase 2 of the plan will be, if there be any. The last thing I want to happen is to have companies take advantage of bloggers by pulling them into the “dark side of blogging” by buying them out without full disclosure.
Thank you Innove for the mojitos!
