This division contains categories separated from the others because of topic and nature the winner will be selected. An additional category was added this year in recognition of bloggers who work for blog networks.
Here are the list of finalists:
Reyna Elena
flippin’ in singapore
Tingog — The Voice of a Filipino
Samjuan
This award gives honor to the best blog authored by an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW).
Here are the finalists for the Nokia Connection. FOR THE FINALISTS – Please remember to follow the Nokia Sponsor Award rules:
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2. The video must also be uploaded in their personal blogs with a link back to the Ovi site.3. The Blog where the video was posted and the specific link to the video post must be submitted here.
Here are the finalists:
Connecting People: WITH A PUSH OF A BUTTON
Kaleidoscope Trip
Messages with an Impact
Here is the list of finalists who made it to the Best Blog – Personal for 2008. The winner will be announced during the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards Night. Congratulations!
Ang Pansitan ni Ate Sienna
Bakla Ako, May Reklamo? (I’m Gay, Got a Problem With That?)
Bikoy.net
DITZ-REVOLUTION.NET
fritzified.com
Kwentong Barbero .Com: See the World Thru My Eyes
Misterhubs
Rising Internet Star
Atheista
FunnySexy
A blog that covers the personal. A diary or a journal a record and treasure chest of one’s thoughts and ideas. It could be on any topic from the food eaten this morning to national issues. The important thing is that it is one’s personal take on the issue.
The 2008 Philippine Blog Awards would like to thank the following individuals for being part of this year’s awards as judges. This year’s judges mirror the growing diversity of the blogging community. A number are bloggers like you and me; several are known experts in their endeavors; there are even those who are pioneers and celebrities in their respective fields – although they would never be type of persons who would shout it out. Anyway, Thank you for all these people, members and friends of the blogging community who have agreed to be a judge in this year’s award.
The Judges with and a sprinkling of bios.
Aileen Apollo
Blogger & Google Country Representative
Migs Paraz
Miguel Paraz started working on the commercial Philippine Internet in 1995. He’s been through a lot of significant local Internet events, from the days of personal home pages to today’s blogging.
Today Miguel develops telecoms software and is active in various software development communities. He still finds time to blog once in a while.
Miguel graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1995 with a BS degree in Computer Science.
Adel Gabot
Adel Gabot is a prolific writer, editor, Palanca award winner, and radio DJ. In his past life, he was better known as “Little David” and used to host a radio show with Jessica Zafra. Today, Adel serves as the Copy Editor for ABS CBN Publishing Group.
Christian “Juan Ekis” Valles
Christian Valles, better known as Juan Ekis is a Palanca award winner and playwright. His most famous work is “20 Questions,” a play that has been running for several years and has become popular on online video sites.
Manuel L. Quezon III
Blogger & Columnist. Host of the weekly program “The Explainer”on the ANC cable news channel. Manolo is an opinion and editorial writer and editor: Working as a columnist for the Arab News Newspaper; head of the Speaker’s Bureau, columnist, and an editorial writer for The Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper; and Assistant Managing Editor and editorial writer for The Philippines Free Press weekly news magazine. MLQ3 has received various awards for his professional work – “Opinion Writer of the Year” in 1994 and 2005 by the Rotary Club of Manila’s Journalism Awards, the oldest journalism awards in the country.
Benj Arriola
US-Based Filipino SEO Specialist working with the SEO team of BusinessOnLine (www.businessol.com) has delivered corporate blogging best practices to Fortune 1000 clients including the official blog of Sony PlayStation. Benj, a blogger himself does not consider being a fulltime blogger and dives more into SEO learning and sharing knowledge in SEO circles, primarily visible at the SEOPhilippines Forum. Benj joined International SEO contest winning on various occasions: 2nd place 2008 UKWebmasterWorld SEO Contest, 1st place 2007 SEO World Championship, 1st Place 2006 Vorgermilten SEO Contest. Benj also runs his own company for SMEs, YDS Web Solution (Philippines & US Offices).
Gang Badoy
Gang is a prolific writer, poet, university professor and founder of the social phenomenon, Rock Ed Philippines, a
Erwin Romulo
Erwin is a seasoned journalist for the national broadsheet, The Philippine Star.
August Dela Cruz
August Dela Cruz is photo correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and has garnered numerous awards in sports photography and a Press Photographers of the Philippines (PPP) awardee. Prior to becoming a photo journalist, Mr. Dela Cruz had been a fashion, lifestyle, and wedding photographer while doing corporate and product shots on the side.
BryanBoy
BryanBoy is an Internet celebrity most famous for his blog “BryanBoy” that features fashion, celebrities, and his awesome collection of bags.
Ernesto G. Sonido Jr
Blogger, Fish Keeper, Reader & Librarian, indexer, photo hobbyist, ex B5 blogger and uncle.
Erwin Oliva
Erwin is a Blogger and Journalist for INQUIRER.net and now runs the VDO Section & INQUIRER.net blogs.
Ernie U. Sarmiento
Through his lens, Ernie Sarmiento has witness part of the Philippine’s history as it unfolds — the coup d etat that changed the government, the struggle of his fellowmen as they flee war torn Iraq and Kuwait during the Gulf War and the Filipino athletes as they vie for the gold in two Olympics. The boy who started out as a travel photographer’s apprentice is now the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s chief photographer.
Max Limpag
Blogger & Journalist – Editor, Sun.Star Cebu
JJ Disini
Blogger, Lawyer & Professor
Derek Punsalan
After initially discovering the challenge of maintaining a completely personal blog, Derek Punsalan settled in as co-author at UNEASYsilence in May of 2004. From there, motivated by aspiring goals of web
development, Derek once again embarked on a personal endeavor to start afresh powered by WordPress. After discovering the satisfaction of sharing theme downloads online, Derek created a new personal site at 5thirtyone.com. He would continue on to share a collection of WordPress releases including the October Special (Breast Cancer Awareness Month) and the WordPress Foliage Mod (awarded Most Creative Design).
Enjoying the success of freelance web design, Derek Punsalan now leads YES – a radio station & content tracking service – as their front end design lead moving forward into the 2007 year.
Raised in a mixed Ilocano Tagalog household with deep family beliefs, Derek enjoys the company of close family & friends whenever the Apple displays are turned-off.
Brad Geiser
PR and Marketing Consultant
Analyn Jusay
Blogger and Journalist for Manila Bulletin
Luis Buenaventura
Syndeo Media Founder
Janette Toral
“Janette Toral is the author and publisher of the book Blogging from Home.”
Live Streams starts at around 5:30 PM on Sunday, September 21, 2008 (Philippine time)
On September 21 2008 at 6:00 PM, the Philippine Blog Awards will be doing a live stream of the awards ceremony “over the air” courtesy of SmartBro at the One Esplanade. They will be providing Dedicated Badwidth (1 mbps) for the wi-fi provision to participants with mobile computers in many different areas of the room to enable those who cannot come to the awards to see it live from their computers at home. More thanks to Rsun My Technology Store for providing the laptops and Azrael as the lead live streamer for the event.
You can also chat here:
Other Livestreaming Channels
Sponsors for the Live streaming event
Here are the list of winners of the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards
SPECIAL AWARDS
Best Blog Design: OctTwelve
Best Plugin/Extension : Daily Top Ten
Best Free Custom Theme : Una WordPress Theme
Best Network Blogger : Juan Mandaraog
Best OFW Blogger : Samjuan
Bloggers’ Choice : Batang Yagit
BEST BLOG & POST
ARTS & CULTURE :
Blog : Gibbs Cadiz
Single Post : EJ: Ang Pinagdaanang Buhay nina Evelio Javier at Edgar Jopson – A Review of a Rocking Relevant Musical
by Jester in Exile
BUSINESS :
Blog : Pinoy Web Startup
Single Post : Ang Tibay Naman by Senor Enrique
COMMENTARY :
Blog : Creature Lover
Single Post : The Problem of R.A. 9439 by Tess Termulo
ENTERTAINMENT :
Blog : The Professional Heckler
Single Post : Manila’s Movie Theaters by Senor Enrique
FOOD & BEVERAGE :
Blog : No Special Effects
Single Post : Marketman Learns How to Make Tinapa from Scratch!!! by Market Man
FAMILY & LIVING :
Blog : The D Spot by Dine Racoma
Single Post : Me and Tia Inez by Senor Enrique
FASHION & LIFESTYLE :
Blog : Pinoy Guy Guide
Single Post : Camo Comes Out Of Hiding by Bearbrick Lover
HOBBY/RECREATION :
Blog : Comicology The Study of Awesome
Single Post : Limatik (Blood Leeches): An overview by Pinoy Mountaineer
NEWS & MEDIA :
Blog : tonyocruz.com
Single Post : Confessions of a “New Media” Heretic (or, the jester in exile throws yet another gauntlet before the MSM “priest caste”) by Jester in Exile
PERSONAL :
Blog : Atheista
Single Post : Out of school, part 1: Forks by Martin Perez
PHOTOBLOG :
Blog : Best Photo Blog: lostphotograph
Single Post : Urban Cave by Reginald Balanga
SPORTS :
Blog : The Bull Runner
Single Post : garmin vs nike a test of accuracy by Jaymie aka The Bull Runner
TECHNOLOGY :
Blog : PinoyBlogero.com
Single Post : The Making of Lakbayan (Part1& 2) by Vaes9
TRAVEL:
Blog : Ironwulf.net: En Route
Single Post : How I broke a ritual taboo in Batad by Estan Cabigas
VIDEOCAST & PODCAST:
Blog : CokskiBlue Pinoy Vlogs, Videos and Vodcasts
Single Post : Episode 28: We Love Trinoma! (A Video Spoof) by AJ Matela, Joe Datinguinoo, Kring Elenzano, Poyt Salazar and Coy Caballes
SPONSOR AWARDS:
Level UP! Gaming Blog of The Year : Just Perfect: Perfect World
Nokia Kaleidoscope of Connections :
1st Place : Kaleidoscope Trip
2nd Place : Messages With an Impact
3rd Place : Connecting People With a Push of the Button
The videos can be seen here.
SMC Oktoberfest Best Blog Post :
San Miguel Oktoberfest 2008! (1 of 2)
Geiser Maclang Special Award
Mom Exchange | Celebrating Motherhood
Blog Bank: Blogger, Not the Blog Award
Flippish:Most Flip Vlog/Blog Award
Dear Volunteers: Fellow-Bloggers: Friends,
A BIG THANK YOU!
For you hard work and sacrifices that you made to make the 2008
Philippine Blog Awards possible. Without you this would not have been
possible. I know a lot of you have sacrificed a lot in this endeavor
from working online, sacrificing time and sometimes not sleeping at
all.
THANK YOU.
We are proud that you helped without asking, sacrificed without
expecting and for some of you the awards that you got are due because
of your own work and skill. Let no one tell you otherwise.
The volunteers have been one of the most important assets of the 2008
Philippine Blog Awards. Again, let no one tell you otherwise.
THANK YOU.
Friends,
Thank you for the feedback and support please be rest assured that the Philippine Blog Awards is grateful for this. All for the improvements of the awards.
And we would like to invite our fellow bloggers to join us in making the events better. Our doors are always open and we can meet off-line or start email correspondence to improve the awards.
You can email us specific concerns at philippineblogawards@gmail.com.
Have a nice day!
Dear sponsors for PBA 2009,
We were able to dissect last year’s awards with the help of GMCI. Here are the media values generated from the event. Inclusive are the sponsorships and tie ups for prizes, mainstream media coverage and online coverage by media agencies. Not included are blog posts generated by the Internet community which should definitely not be discounted. In total, we were able to generate close to PHP20 million pesos in media values from mainstream press alone.
We have very exciting plans for October 2009 and this year will be bigger and more engaging 
If you are interested to sponsor for this year’s awards, you can reach me at me at jayveefernandez dot com.
If you wish to view the full page, you can proceed here. Otherwise, here is the breakdown from last year’s event in embedded format:
