#blog awards

Was just told this evening that YugaTech was selected as one of the finalist for the Asia-Pacific Blog Awards that NuffNang organizes every two years. Bloggers from several countries in Asia and the Pacific (Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, HongKong, China and Australia) will meet in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 16 for the awards night. Nominations have been going on for the last two months and we got picked for the category "Best Geek Blog". I am told that I need to post this entry as a form of my acceptance to the awards and the category that YugaTech is included. This last segment of the awards involve some voting from the public. For the last two years, I've been invited by the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) to be in the panel of judges for their annual PopDev Media Awards. This year, they've decided to add a special citation for citizen journalists (bloggers). This year's awards will include Citations for Blog (text) and Photo Blogs (Single Photo and Photo Essay) in recognition of the significant contribution of bloggers, or citizen journalists, in enriching the public discussion of population and human development concerns vis-à-vis socio-economic issues. Read more in our articles including "Flying to Malaysia for the Asia-Pacific Blog Awards" and "PopDev Media Awards to cite Bloggers".