There is no other way of saying it… but … Nominations for The Philippine Blog Awards 2008 officially starts today. Although there were a few eager beavers who were already able to send in their nominations a few days ago. Kudos to their resourcefulness. A few changes to this year’s awards. Three (3) awards divisions and a total of THIRTY-SIX (36) award categories will be open for nomination. This reflects the growing richness and diversity of the Philippine Blogging Community.

The PBA is truly growing and it is only on its second year.

Here are the links to the nomination forms:

Best Blog Division

Best Single Blog Post Division

The Special Awards

Thirty-Six (36) is a big number and to aid you in your task (or would it be pleasure ?) in nominating your favorite blog and post for 2008 here are some more useful links; which can also be found in the upper nav bar of the site but we also provided here so … well to help you; so here they are … the other useful links:
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Hi folks! The Blog Awards is definitely happening but the date we set our sights on was not feasible. The committee is moving the event to July 2008 because of two things: the first is because we’re still looking for an available venue that can accommodate a lot of people at a good price and second, because we’re waiting for the incorporation papers.

The latter is important because the committee needs to issue receipts as a non stock, non profit group to the sponsors. In the meantime, we’d like to wish everyone a safe vacation for the Holy Week!

Happy New Year!!!

To start off 2008, we’ve just finished the new theme for the 2nd Philippine Blog Awards. Most of the pages are still under construction (because yep, there will be some changes and we still need to update content). The theme by itself is ready, but still need debugging.

Many thanks to Karla Redor for lending us her photos for use on the header. Those header photos randomly change upon refresh. There aren’t many photos yet, so if you’d like to lend us your photos (it must be of last year’s Awards Night), we’d love to hear from you. You can email me through kutitots(at)gmail(dot)com.

Help us spread the word about the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards! You can get a copy of our new logo on this page. We’re also looking for volunteers for the upcoming Awards Night. And if you’re interested to sponsor, drop us a line and we’ll be in touch.

Some of the trophies are still with us. Not to worry. They are safe and sound and haven’t been chipped.

If you are within Metro Manila, you cna have it picked up at the this address:

1561 P. Santos St.,
Bangkal, Makati 1223
#02.8857089

If you are outside Metro Manila and you want your trophies shipped to you, please contact abeolandres {at} gmail {dot} com so we can arrange for it.

Again, congratulations and see you next year.

We’re rolling out the judges so that the community can get to know them better.

• JV Rufino, Editor-in-Chief of Inquirer.net
• Malou Mangahas, Editor-in-Chief of GMANews.tv & Co-host of TV Show Palaban
• Bryan Veloso - Creative Director at Facebook, Developer at Automattic, Award-winning Blogger & Int’lly known Designer
• Connie Veneracion - Filipina Problogger & Columnist for Manila Standard Today
• Manuel L. Quezon III - Political Pundit & Editorial Columnist of Inquirer Newspaper
• Annalyn Jusay - Contributor & Blog Columnist for Manila Bulletin
• Melissa Petri - Int’l Travel Blogger & Network Blogger for b5media, Know More Media & Creative-Weblogging
• Abraham “Yuga” Olandres - Netrepreneur, Tech Evangelist & Blogging Advocate
• Gail Dela Cruz-Villanueva - Netrepreneur & Award-winning WP theme designer
• Jayvee Fernandez - Problogger, Contributing Editor for Mobile Philippines & Channel Editor for b5media Blog Network
• Derek Punzalan - CSS & WP Theme Guru
• Dean Alfar - Multi-Awardee Writer, Palanca Awards
• Miguel Paraz - Pioneer in the Philippine ISP Industry
• Jolo Santos - CSS Ninja, UI Architect & developer for Eskwela & Xackup
• Adel Gabot - Group Editor for Hinge-Inquirer Publications, former broadcaster and founder of DWKX-FM, Palanca Award Winner