Dapat magkaroon ang PWA ng Kategorya ng Blog.

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief July 27, 2005 · 2 min read

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Ilang araw na lang at isasara na ang mga nominasyon para sa 8th Philippine Web Awards. Gayunpaman, nagtatanong ako kung bakit wala talagang ingay tungkol dito kamakailan. Bukod sa katotohanang nagsimula na silang singilin ang mga nominado para sa bayad sa pagpasok, halos pareho pa rin ang lahat, bagaman mapurol at walang kapanapanabik.

Sinuri ko muli ang kanilang website para sa anumang balita ngunit wala, at natanong ko kung bakit hindi nila napag-isipan na maglagay ng hiwalay na Kategorya ng Gantimpala para sa mga Blog. Bakit hindi? Naniniwala ako na ang blog ay isang bagay na ganap na hiwalay mula sa personal na website kahit na sa kanilang kahulugan ng personal na blog, isinama nila ito bilang "mga site na nakasentro sa isang tao o isang grupo, tulad ng pamilya at mga kaibigan, na tumutuon sa background at interes, i.e. mga personal na homepage, personal na blog, mga barkada site". Hindi ba dapat na personal ang mga blog?

Isang pag-iisip lamang iyon. Sa tingin ko, ngayong taon, ang pagba-blog ay naging isa sa mga pangunahing movers and shakers ng Industriya ng Internet sa Pilipinas at wala nang mas mainam na paraan upang ganap itong kilalanin kundi sa pamamagitan ng pagdaragdag nito (bilang hiwalay na kategorya) sa Philippine Web Awards.

Sa pag-iisip muli, bakit hindi tayo magkaroon ng sarili nating hiwalay na Blog Awards?

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50 Comments

Jorge · 21 years ago

I think Webbys should create blog categories to accommodate more entrants in next year’s awards. Blogs come in many forms, so there must be several categories for blogs alone. For example, there are blogs which are about the promotion of a certain place for tourists. Then there should be Tourism Blog category too. How about that?

a8 · 21 years ago

nagpapayaman pala ng todo ang mga telcos na yan. As for the PWA, parang wala na yatang wenta. Nawala na yung dating appeal niya.

hoop · 21 years ago

yikes!, ang laki pala :-)

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

I think by volume daw sabi nung friend ko. It’s in the five to six digits of sms volume yung quota a month then 70-30 na yata yung sharing in favor of the telcos.

hoop · 21 years ago

Given that web awards are once a year, guess that’s out of the picture…

Anybody have an idea how much it would cost as well as what percent goes to the telco’s?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

You will need to apply to the telcos to get one. A friend of mine who works at Smart’s marketing dept. told me it ain’t easy because you need to develop a system or content that will use the special numbers and convince them that it will generate enough volume to merit the 4-digit number.

hoop · 21 years ago

How does one go about getting those 4 digit no.s from globe and smart? The one where they charge you Php 15.00(?) for every text you send to them.

I think that’s a great way to get funding… then again, it does sort of deter people from voting… hehehe

karla · 21 years ago

yeah there should be a blog category. :)

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

@ Sean and Ka Edong

Connie and I have been planning for months now on the concept of a Pinoy Blog Awards. But it’s just the two of us and though we have a shortlist of potential bloggers to serve as judges, we still do not have the mechanics concretely layed out.

The owner of PBA is a good friend of mine (I guess he’s reading this already) and I’m a little hesitant to go head-to-head on his two-year old project. I did however told him years ago to really develop the site and get as much help as he can to standardize the awards. He did ask me to sit as a judge on the first year but I declined due to the fact that I was also busy as panel in the Diarist Awards.

With the format, a good consideration would be that of the PWA although it needs a little revision IMHO. Popularity vote is very messy and technically challenging considerign the lenghts people would go through in order to bypass the voting restrictions.

SMS voting is also good as long as only unique votes are counted. We don’t have the facility to provide thsi though. Maybe Ka Edong can help. :)

ka edong · 21 years ago

> Iâ€™m wondering why the comprehensive list of entries on the Philippine Blog Awards site hasnâ€™t changed in three months.

Same observation. Are they still at it?

Some suggestions for blog awards:

kung may people’s choice voting, do it as one cellphone number = 1 vote. Kung paramihan lang ng votes, it becomes a pa-yamanan contest, no longer a popularity contest. I wrote about it when Airfagev was in the running for people’s choice award sa community category.

Sean said:
> Their ensemble of judges includes more web professionals than non-technical users.

Web professionals instead of non-technical users?

I don’t think so. I think judges should be people with authority and should represent the regular blog hopper.

I think the general blog hopper isn’t a techie nor a web professional.

Besides, it doesn’t take a techie to judge whether a blog is written well or has a visually appealing layout.

my two centavos. peace ;-)

ka edong

Sean · 21 years ago

For all the advertisement, however, I’m wondering why the comprehensive list of entries on the Philippine Blog Awards site hasn’t changed in three months. Or for that matter, why I haven’t received confirmation letters for the two nominees I posted last May.

Personally, I’m not willing to place much faith in the Philippine Webbies unless 1) Their awards garner significant influence among the online crowd, and 2) Their ensemble of judges includes more web professionals than non-technical users. I don’t see them as having either of those qualifications at the moment.

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

The nominal Philippine Blog Awards can be found here: http://www.philippineblogawards.com

It is run by a friend: http://www.heavenslair.net

AnP · 21 years ago

Kaye: there already is a Philippine Blog Awards :-)

Kaye · 21 years ago

Why don’t we come up with a Blog Awards instead? Master, care to start forming a yearly Blog Awards? I’m sure there will be a lot who’ll help you!

Kung pwede lang, hehe!

hoop · 21 years ago

@yuga

That’s great! :-)

Jolo · 21 years ago

I thought there willl be a “blog category” as my preconception for the 8th philippine web awards this year, but unfortunately the oranizers haven’t put up one. They’ve included the “blogs” under personal category but I think it shouldn’t, why because in a much wider sense, (although blog is personal) blog has its own thought space of interactivity as oppose to what the Philippine web awards means of “Personal Site Category”.

Imho, they should put up a separate category for this…. surely a lot of netizens/bloggers will flux this event een though for the payment.

Putting separate blog awards — I like the concept, blogs will be categorize and filtered. Beyond the subject, am I the only one using TXP? I like WP too but we’re all free here… :D

mr nice ash · 21 years ago

do i need to have a WP to join??? :D

DarkBlak · 21 years ago

sana matuloy ang mga plano nyo :)

magandang move yan para sa mga bloggers :)

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

@ Fleeb

The Phil. Blog Awards is an independent award site, ran by my good kumpare.

@ Hoop

It is in the works at PinoyBlog, but we still have not finalized the mechanics and criteria. It should be launched within the year. Been on my calendar for months now actually.

@ Rain

I actually did thought of that as some sort of a plogHost-sponsored content for local WP users. Still, my lack of time prohibits me to push them at an early date. :D

@ Retz & Kates

It’s in the works. Something almost fool-proof and concrete. ;)

Kates · 21 years ago

Huwag ipa-alam kay garci please. Pwede ba mag vote thru email para medyo mahirap mag bogus. I vote per email address lang. Pwede silang gumawa ng multiple address pero medyo nakakapagod.

retz · 21 years ago

@hoop – pwede naman yung PTB dun, diba? it also logs in the voter’s IP. ang kulang na lang eh sponsor :P.
re: logo/graphix/emblem, no prob ako dyan basta wak lang ca-ching$$ nyahaha wala ako nun. Todo pati pato ang supporta ko sa PTB hehe.
wak tau maingay at pahalata na nagpaparinig tau sa mga pwedeng magSPONSOR!!!

Sino kAya ang Sobra Sobrang bait at mamimigaY ng tulong? hmm. palimos pow! hehehe :D
SPONSOR! SPONSOR! SPONSOR! hehehe. ,V..

rain · 21 years ago

How about deploying the ‘awards’ ala WP Theme competitions? Low-key, for hardcore bloggers only :D

On second thoguht, nah. The attention feeds the ego very well :)

hoop · 21 years ago

Yuga, Fleeb

I think it would be a great idea to put up a pinoyblog web awards. Sort of like a people’s choice award. Voting to be done online. One vote only per person/site in order to weed out bogus voters… maybe some other criteria would be needed to further strengthen this.

some categories would probably be personal blog, tech blog, group blog… etc or you could expand to sites other than blogs.

No physical prizes of course, unless somebody wants to donate, maybe the recognition and a logo would be good enough for an award (paging retx.. hehehe).

just a thought :-)