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October 12th, 2009

Freshly Ratified Blogs Batch #24 PBA Edition

Congratulations PBA 2009 winners! You’ve been ratified!

• Best Beauty Blog: The Doctor is vaIN (#239 – Detail)
• Best Advocacy Blog: Autism Society Philippines (#598 – Detail)
• Best Gaming Blog: Mike Got Game (#451 – Detail)
• Best Humor Blog: The Professional Heckler (#193 – Detail)
• Best Videocast Blog: EntrepBuff.com (#599 – Detail)
• Best Photoblog: I Am a Documentary Photographer (#599 – Detail)
• Best Commentary Blog:The Marocharim Experiment (#191 – Detail)
• Best Fashion Blog: who is elyoo? (#598 – Detail)
• Best Sports Blog: Fire Quinito (#102 – Detail)
• Best Business Blog: Negosyo Ideas (#388 – Detail)
• Best News & Media Blog: Firefly360’s Blog (#599 – Detail)
• Best Family & Living Blog: Make or Break (#185 – Detail)
• Best Food & Beverage Blog: Table for Three, Please. (#564 – Detail)
• Best Personal Blog: Writing on Air (#230 – Detail)
• Best Entertainment Blog: Lessons From the School of Inattention (#361 – Detail)
• Best Travel Blog: Langyaw (#244 – Detail)
• Best Filipiniana Blog: PilipinoKomiks (#598 – Detail)
• Best Foreign Blog: My Sarisari Store (#151 – Detail)
• Best Filipino Blog Abroad: The Warped Zone (#327 – Detail)
• Best Blog Design: Marco, The Site Guy (#595 – Detail)

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August 17th, 2009

Philippines Top 10 Blog Movers

With formula changes and new metrics included, measuring the growth of Philippine blogs will require a much longer period of time to generate. However for this mid-year report, we intend to give a snapshot by reporting top 10 blog movers in terms of Feedburner subscription, Technorati authority, and Alexa rank growth.

Here are the blogs that made it to list covering the period of January 2009 to June 2009. Note that only those with base data as of January 2009 were included in this report:

Technorati Top 10 Movers

• A Taste of Both Worlds (http://tasteofbothworlds.typepad.com)
• Rickey.org (http://www.rickey.org)
• Retarded’s Notebook (http://www.retardedsnotebook.com)
• Student Athlete (http://www.galwinfabian.com)
• WOW Pinoy (http://www.nikkypals.com)
• The Mike Abundo Effect (http://www.mikeabundo.com)
• Shmula (http://www.shmula.com)
• Wish You Were Here (http://senorenrique.blogspot.com)
• By Jove! (http://www.jovefrancisco.com)
• Finestkind Clinic and fish market (http://fkclinic.blogspot.com)

Feedburner Top 10 Movers

• Pinay Celebrity Online (http://www.pinaycelebrityonline.com)
• Jehzlau Concepts (http://www.jehzlau-concepts.com)
• YugaTech (http://www.yugatech.com/blog)
• OFW Life Blog (http://www.ofwlayf.com)
• Pinoy R.N. (http://filipinonurse.blogspot.com)
• Cebu Pacific Air Philippines Blog (http://www.cebupacificairlines.ph)
• LJDiaz || Jargonized (http://www.ljdiaz.com)
• ChiQ Montes – Wordpress Theme Designer (http://www.wpthemedesigner.com)
• Gary Viray (http://www.garyviray.com)
• SELaplana (http://www.selaplana.com)

Alexa Top 10 Movers

• AniMotivation (http://animotivation.blogspot.com)
• So Far So Good (http://elsalvadordelmundo.blogspot.com)
• Techy Kid (http://www.techykid.com)
• Why Not Coconut! (http://www.whynotcoconut.com)
• Rising Sun (http://risingsun.dannyarao.com)
• Adaphobic (http://adaphobic.com)
• I Heart Manila (http://mayniladailyphoto.blogspot.com)
• Rockersworld (http://www.rockersworld.com)
• Thoughtskoto (http://jbsolis.blogspot.com)
• Filipino Voices (http://www.filipinovoices.com)

I’ll be presenting the above and observations on blogging growth trends as well in our webinar this August 18 from 11 am to 12 noon (Manila time). Feel free to join if you have time.

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June 30th, 2009

Ratified.org Interviews: Lyle Santos

Indeed, many of the brilliant minds of the Philippine blogosphere hail from Davao City. And Lyle Santos is certainly no exception. Unfazed by his success, Lyle is alway eager to help others succeed on their blogs through monetization. His site, Pinoy R.N., is an extremely popular hangout of nurses and nurses-to-be. He is also a great photographer and dabbles in designing Plurk themes. Here’s more of Lyle and his blogging life:

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June 28th, 2009

Freshly Ratified Blogs Batch #23

• Crimson Heavens (#275 – Detail)
• Pinoy Seminars (#544 – Detail)
• Everything Nice! (#577 – Detail)
• Pensive Thoughts (#241 – Detail)
• Biz N Honey (#293 – Detail)
• All Out My Naked Truth—Rowena (#357 – Detail)
• My Ganda Ako, May Reklamo? (#589 – Detail)
• Maarte Girls (#565 – Detail)
• Nurses’ Pad (#546 – Detail)
• Living a Sugar-free Sweet Life (#197 – Detail)
• Ron Del Rosario (#244 – Detail)
• Marikenya (#378 – Detail)

Congrats, bloggers!

Note to newly added bloggers: Ratified.org buttons are currently down. I’ll try to resolve this in the next few weeks.

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June 27th, 2009

Ratified.org Interviews: Aileen Apolo

Aileen Apolo is a great friend of mine who takes her job at Google rather seriously. Because of her hard work, Google has made great strides in reaching out to the Philippine market, what with the recent Independence Day Doodle and the flurry of events that saw its top engineers coming in and out of the country. She is also an avid blogger and here she tells us how she started out and gives us her thoughts on the local blogosphere:

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June 26th, 2009

Ratified.org Interviews: Jayvee Fernandez

In our slice of the blogosphere, everyone knows Jayvee Fernandez. Seriously, who doesn’t? He co-founded ultra-cool BlogBank and currently holds Editor gigs for Uno Magazine and Splashpress Media. Heck, he even teaches at AIM. Jayvee lives and breathes new media. Here he shares a little bit about himself and his thoughts about blogging:

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June 25th, 2009

Ratified.org Buttons Down. Again.

Ratified.org buttons have been disabled due to some server issues. They’ll be back up soon. Thanks for your patience.

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June 15th, 2009

Submitting a Blog for Ratification

Ratified.org now has a new submission form for new blogs.

For a blog to become ratified, it must meet these requirements:

1. Blog must be Philippine-made, or made by a Filipino, or about an aspect of the Philippines.
2. The blog’s feed must be hosted by Feedburner.
3. Blog must be live, actively updated and not derelict or under construction.
4. Blogs with adult content will no longer be accepted.
5. Spammy blogs will never be accepted.
6. Blog owner must complete all required fields for the blog to be considered.

Due to volume, ratification may take as long as 1-3 months. Please be patient.

Follow @andrew_ds on Twitter for freshly ratified blog announcements.

Submit your blog here.

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June 2nd, 2009

Freshly Ratified Blogs Batch #22

• Fatherly Yours (#199 – Detail)
• Billycoy’s Blast Brain Blogs (#416 – Detail)
• Pinoy Food (#127 – Detail)
• Dear Bloggery (#173 – Detail)
• The Warrior Lawyer (#324 – Detail)
• Mindanaoan (#330 – Detail)
• Davao Life (#591 – Detail)
• Live. Love. Stupidity and Stuffs! (#585 – Detail)
• Dayong Laya (#293 – Detail)
• Only in the Philippines (#590 – Detail)
• Dabaw Pinoy! (#557 – Detail)
• The art of life by deejames (#240 – Detail)
• Digdesignz (#353 – Detail)
• atenean101 @ Blogspot (#176 – Detail)

Serving up Batch #22! Welcome to Ratified.org!

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May 29th, 2009

Freshly Ratified Blogs Batch #21

• Kelvinonian Ideas 2.0 (#454 – Detail)
• Davao Poker (#549 – Detail)
• Thinking Out Loud (#595 – Detail)
• Blogging Frenzy (#757 – Detail)
• Plurk Designs (#757 – Detail)
• Marikina City Life (#757 – Detail)
• Magnetic Rose (#450 – Detail)
• The Extraordinary Kiddo (#661 – Detail)
• Karendayle.com (#327 – Detail)
• The Gasoline Dude’s Life (#301 – Detail)
• Out of Town Blog (#649 – Detail)
• Manila Freelancer (#307 – Detail)
• Pinoy Cravings (#231 – Detail)
• Lost in Manila (#530 – Detail)

Welcome to Ratified.org fellow bloggers!

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