CRITICAL UPDATE: Before simpleminded people start to misinterpret the purpose of this article, I do suggest you read this post I made after a so-called controversy was made.
I’m going to start a small intrigue.
There’s a new tech blog out there, founded by print publication stars such as Palanca award winners Adel Gabot, Butch Dalisay and other people in the technology journalism fields. I was reading the complete roster of authors and realized that the main difference between this blog and Pinoy Tech Blog (I’m comparing because the content and structure is pretty much the same) has to do morewith the reputation of the authors.. sorta like grassroots bloggers versus grassroots print media.
Let’s look at the lineup shall we?
Pinoy Tech Blog
Here’s the lineup of PTB. Composed mostly of seasoned bloggers, they have conquered the online space with SEO tactics and most important of all - TIME spent in the blogosphere.
PWiT: Philippine Week in Tech
Composed mostly of literary awardees (hail Adel Gabot and Penman!) and fueled by print publication star power: Vince Sales of T3 Magazine, Gary Mercado of Inquirer, Art Ilano of SME Insight and PC Magazine, Jason de Villa of Mobile PH, retailer Howard “John C. Dovorak” Paw and many many more to be added to the PWiT army - this legion of literary icons are truly experts in the technology scene.
We doubt that there will be any near plans of monetization for PWiT, since it looks as if these guys are writing for writing’s sake so there is no motivation for income - at least not yet. I just found these two lineups interesting because of the clear diversity of the two groups, where one has its grassroots in radio and print whilst the other are truly grassroots bloggers.
It’s the Leo Laporte vs. Jeremy Wright. The Chris Anderson vs. Darren Rowse. The Adel Gabot vs. Abraham Olandres. Pushing the envelope: Is this the battle of mainstream media vs. the bloggers?
Again, this is all for fun. No harm intended to either party since I’m friends with both groups 
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My fearless question for PWIT (my affiliation with PTB notwithstanding)…
so is PWIT a way to write about tech without doing it for The Man (Summit, HIP, Inquirer…)
I guess it’s a way to write about tech exactly the way we want to write about tech, i.e., without the fear of an advertising backlash or some other business-driven decision interrupting and scrambling your thoughts.
jayv, help me convince adel to get a domain naman o
[...] Jayvee pits Pinoy Tech Blog against PWiT: Philippine Week in Tech in a head-to-head battle. Well, not really - but I can’t explain. Just go read his post. [...]
gar, but if you buy a domain, it will subject PWiT to the standard advertising models available to bloggers. wont there be conflict??
huh? i dont get what you’re saying. adel doesnt have to put ads if he doesnt want to. getting a domain allows it to be hosted, which allows me to put fancy wp plugins among many other things.
[...] So I looked the other bloggers sites. Jayvee’s Pwit Vs PTB post had me grinning. Adel Gabot vs. Abraham Olandres, eh? Hehe. Angelo’s having a wordpress upgrade problem - which somewhat signals me NOT to upgrade yet. I’ll wait till Angelo’s own site is upgraded and he posts about it. It will save me a lot of hassle. [...]
Eya Jayvee, really liked this post. I re-posted a link on Noypi.com.
[...] The trouble with PWiT, is not that they are Mac zealots. It’s not that PWiT is competing against Pinoy Tech Blog. [...]
PWiT will make a go at it. It will sometimes make UToT and get noticed.
I dare not say that I ‘belong’ to both the mainstream media and blogosphere even if I write for both media. There are both unwritten and written rules that govern both media. In mainstream, as was pointed out, it is quite difficult to go against the advertisers or suffer the consequence.
Bloggers, while it gives potentially all types of journalistic freedom, are treading a path that has many gray areas - are they really journalists or not? Do they subject themselves to the same ethical code that mainstream journlists uphold? And more…
In end, both are welcome in this world - real or virtual.
Hm..quite interesting. PWiT’s content are quite good, but I’m a subscriber of PTB. Ah yes! The beauty of the free market, more choices for the consumers.
It is good that I will not only read PTB and TechCrunch. Mabuhay Pinoy
[...] (Okay, I just quoted half of the whole post. The “source of the controversy” was actually less controversial.) [...]
[...] The first was the seeming misinterpretation of my post about PWIT and Pinoy Tech Blog - as if there really was some controversy going on. My intent was to help promote PWIT as the cast and crew involves people whom I have worked with in the past - people who have helped me in my career and personal life in various ways. That was it. Help promote PWIT. And thanks to the person too who cited that the original post I made was not controversial compared to the PTB post that was picked up. [...]
i like pinoy techblog