PROJECT: You Define Your Blog Conviction

I first encountered a blog several years ago. A friend of mine invited me to one of those on-line blog communities. As I surveyed the terrain, so to speak, I was amazed at the plethora of blogs. This was interesting I said to myself. It was like having a soap-box on the web, you could say what you wanted, and it was all dependent on you. You could almost unhindered write whatever you wanted and you could present your ideas at little cost. It was a virtual Hyde Park and it was self-publishing at its most basic.

Baratillo is a second reincarnation of my first blog. A personal blog and a blog shoppe. Somewhere I can place my ideas and on the side sell stuff – books and other stuff. My idea for the blog was some sort of curiosity shop one can drop by and have a chat and exchange views with the owner. If there ever was a personal blog conviction for baratillo it was top put ideas and opinion forward, discuss it, and probably sell some stuff.

What drives one to do this? George Orwell was right when he discussed the following reasons why he wrote. They were (i)Ego , (ii)Aesthetic Enthusiasm [to point out things of interest and entertain], (ii)historical impulse [To report and record things], and political purpose [discuss and the desire to push the world into a certain direction].

Then one realize that one personal blog might not be enough for certain topics and niches. Gradually other personal blogs focused on different niches were born: http://www.piscinarii.com for aquarium keeping; http://www.dalanghita.com for food and fruit juices; http://www.pinoysnapshots.com for snapshots; and others.

A bit long winded. Sorry about that. But, thats it.

I started blogging because I wanted to write again. I wrote a lot back in college, but I stopped for 8 years. I just wanted to write for myself and possibly regain the creativity I lost in the past years.

I didn’t expect anyone to read my blog. I know it’s so me, me, me… but hey I’ve always been shy about my writings. And then people started telling me I inspire them and that I should continue to write. Oops! That’s when I realized I had readers!

So that’s basically it. I blog about living life to the fullest. Enjoying whatever comes my way. And hopefully, someone out there who bothers to read my blog gets inspired. 🙂

It all started with a personal blog. “Tongki’s World” is about living with people with special needs (Tongki is my son’s pet name, looking at ordinary things in an extraordinary way and motivating others.

Lifebridge is a group of professionals I belong to. We seek to spread God’s Word(lifebridge.wordpress.com), while excelling and being productive in one’s chosen field (bridging faith, life and work).

Marketplace 2.1 (marketplace21.wordpress.com) is the blog for the business we have set up. On this blog we also publish some of the articles we have written before.

On top of this I also have a day job. It’s hard enough to maintain one blog, let alone three. I really can use some advice on how you keep the ideas coming in. =) Some days I feel that nothing really impactful has happened, so there’s really nothing to write about.

hi folks im adding you all slowly as it involves some copywriting efforts on my part 🙂 but dont worry i got you all covered on the links page!

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yes, im just one of the million lonely monkeys typing away, hoping to come up with the works of shakespeare.

that it’s my passion, and i am a pro-blogger … NOT!

actually i am a 2 months old (irregular) blogger. ‘newbie’ as you may call it. but when i have seen the abounding potential in blogging, i want to try it myself. and my first blog project was a product of my T.A.E. method (trial and error) – i used blogger.com – put the codes i like, scripts, tools, widgets, glitters, optimization and many other ‘ek-eks’, until i’m satisfied with my curiosity. But i almost forgot to fill it with quality contents which i am supposed to give to my readers, so i dropped it. 🙂

now i am blogging for free at i.Ph and my initial curiosity is now evolving, giving me a clearer picture of my (ano nga ba ulit ‘yun? … scrolled-up … ayun) “conviction”. (yeah!)

i guess i should post it first on my blog entry, which i plan to do tomorrow, which perhaps will be done on monday (i hope so). i want to compose my thought and emotions first before i can translate it in a nice “my conviction” entry, written in fewer words than i said it here.

(i hope i didn’t upset you of my wordiness, but this is my freestyle of writing.)

but to (*cut the crap*) answer briefly what is my conviction in my blog, it’s about one word, “SALVATION”.

“Sinag, Sinagiph” is my blog title, (which suggests the phrase “Ako’y Pinoy (i.Ph) na Nasinagan, at Sinagip”. and i’d like to lay all my basis to prove that little by little.

anyone can have all their prejudices against me (even you … hehe, peace bro) but i’m seriously honest about it.

well, that’s the raw of it. you better check my blog for the rest of “my conviction” post. 🙂

Alexis,

thanks for your insights. I’m going to put up all your comments once I find more time 😀

I started blogging more than 3 months ago for a BIG reason – I wanted to promote financial literacy among our “kababayans.” My blog would be my own little response to the BIG and MASSIVE problem of poverty and financial struggle that we see everywhere. You might say that it is both an advocacy (the description under my blog title would explain its reason and purpose) and an experiment (I’m actually blogging in Tagalog). I have neither technical nor literary talent. I just feel I have something to impart.. something worth sharing with most Filipinos – especially those leaving their families for high-paying jobs abroad.

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to introduce and explain my blog.

whew! finally i got to visit this one.. btw i’m barley blogging in a tag of dazedblu* over at blogspot.

honestly, i started blogging with a purpose to release my thoughts without telling it anyone, even the closest person i have.

marahil ganun ako ka-secretive, but with the fact that i published it to public, i don’t care… i’m not afraid to be criticized by these persons around me. in fact mas-natatakot akong magsalita sa harap nila.. i felt a tendecny na ma-missunderstood nila ako lalo.

so for me my conviction is to elaborate the feeling i’m hanging on! sabi nila make your life stress-free and i think eto yung paraan ko paraan para maka-iwas sa cheaptalks, and i could live my life in this way. it also happens wit my mood, sometimes i could get showbiz talks,while most of the time are very revealing and aggresive, a personality of mine na hindi halos kilala ng mga friends ko.

sometimes i hate what i’m doin’ pero i didn’t expect that for almost a couple of years eh natagalan ko siya. not because i don’t like it, but it’s difficult to maintain such one when you don’t have the tech in your hands.

well i just hope i could be more a responsible and more serious blogger too. as i would like to offer my thoughts without hiding any charatcer, mas gusto yun!

I came from K. Blogie’s blog… and he posted something about this.. and this sounds like a good project.

It makes sense actually, to maximize your life one has to define a purpose… just like blogs… to maximize it… one has to define his/her own conviction.

When I started blogging, I have no idea what it was really.. all I know is that i’ll be having some kind of online journal. I have a journal since I was in 6th grade and I love to write… inspired by authors i read.

Basically, my blog exists as my outlet for emotions, I can’t express to anyone around me. For things.. I want to remember. Then, it evolved.. now I want to share my experiences to fellow bloggera who might get a thing or two about loving life and living in abundance.

Saw this link from Tina’s.

I’ve been hooked on the net for a long time now. I started blogging since I was 16 years young. 😛 I never really had any idea what to post at that age. My entries were mostly about pictures with captions on it *yeah, I should’ve just made a photo album right?*, and i posted about movies and songs i liked. After a few weeks, i stopped blogging. I found no reason to continue. But then, as I visited some blogs then, their posts were mature, insightful and very informative even for an online journal.

Since then, I’ve been motivated to vent out all inhibitions and emotions I have and at the same time give useful infos about techie stuffs or just about anything that helps. Kasi honestly, I’ve never had anyone to talk to about this things. Just your regular friend-problem-absorber. Time went on, I enjoyed writing about things I’ve noticed and learned lessons from. I met people who shared common interests and those I’ve been looking up to.

My blog is my therapist and gateway to share and learn from fellow bloggers.

Journeyist is a chronicle of my inner life seen through the curious, and sometimes inane, episodes of daily living. It is at once an attempt to retrace my steps on the quest for the proverbial one true path, as it is an affirmation of my resolve to walk the narrow path that leads to truth. Why, on earth, are we journeying from the cradle to the grave and on to the great unknown? This I ask myself daily… and everyday I get more convinced there is more to life than we could ever hope to see even with an open mind. Just imagine how much more helplessly ignorant are we in the face of inevitable death!

My little “crusade” is to get people to consider Faith as the only real and viable, albeit invisible, alternative to a lifestyle of doubts, fears and endless speculations. I do discuss politics, money, news and a host of other useless stuff but I try to write from the “invisible” point of view. It’s no surprise I don’t always succeed but I shall keep trying. Failure and folly are as much part of my journey too.

My blog conviction can be summed up by quoting what I wrote in my blog’s profile, below:

“A cyber critic of the dysfunctional governance in the Philippines dubbed as the pearl of the orient now ravaged by corruption and mismanagement. It is not the intention of the UROT errrr author (ok, wanna be author) to contribute to the growing apathy of a frustrated people but by pointing out the aberration may trigger a collective response to demand meaningfull change in the spirit of participatory democracy.”

It’s a new venue that offers an individual to express and interpret the world and hopefully in our own little way create a dent in making this world a better place to live in. An attempt miniscule as it maybe can act as a catalyst of hope when others share the same vision and act on it. Blogging for a meaningful change starting with the Philippines badly needing and long overdue change to benefit it’s citizenry just like the developing nations reaping the bounty of a transparent, accountable and responsible good governance.