Welcome to Filipino Bloggers Worldwide: September 2012

The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2012 Writing Project is now on its 6th years. It was created to seek new blogs but already made an impact to its readers.

“These are blogs that started anytime from June 1, 2011 to the present. These blogs are gradually gaining a considerable amount of readership, following, influence and fascinating the reader in various ways. The bloggers behind them established the blog for various reasons such as expression of thoughts, sharing of knowledge and insight, building a movement, events reporting or coverage, and some for profit.”

Based on the criteria's mentioned, the top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2012 are:

1. The Purple Doll

When it comes to restaurant and food review, nothing beats Purple Doll. The blog posts are informative, entertaining and honest. With well-written restaurant reviews and attractive food photos, The Purple Doll aims not only to serve as a guide of where to eat and what to order, but to also let readers be part of Sumi's foodie escapades

2. Vivi’s Random Ramblings

One of the best travel and photography blog owned by a well traveled young lady who writes about her adventures from Asia, Middle East and Europe. She inspired a lot of people through her travel experiences and superb photographs of the places she visited.

3. Nanardxz

What makes this travel blog unique, influential and different from all other travel blogs in the Philippines is its being Nationalistic. Nanardxz, created the blog not only for his love to his beloved home province but also to help his fellow Filipinos to know that South Cotabato is rich with Cultural Heritage, has lots of fantastic tourist attractions to offer and is one of the best place to live in the Philippines.

4.The Official Website of Stef dela Cruz – Doctor, Blogger, Writer

We all talk about quality content and well written blog, check this site out. Dr.Stef, writes about her experiences as a doctor. The website also features health articles and updates on important health issues, such as obesity and cancer. She also throws in useful tips on writing and blogging. Here, she lays down the cards about the politics of medicine and blogging.

5. Hefty Foodie

A blog of a foodie at heart that enjoys munching on good food more than anything else. The blogger has been doing food trips on a regular basis and share his dining experiences and great photos of the food. The blog post was made really simple for easy comprehension.

6. I am Vince Crispaul

I consider this blog as influential especially for mommy with children because the blog is more on kids educational toys, activities,achievements and health . The blog author also keeps the readers updated with her kids musings and milestone in life.

7. Sining Factory

Sining Factory is Philippine Blog Awards, Best Culture and Arts Blog for 2011. The purpose of the blog is to share the authors acting and musical talent in theater and most of all his skill and imagination in the creation of crafts out of old and used materials that can be found in the house and make it into an extra ordinary piece of Art.

8. The Urban Walker

The Urban Walker is inspired by its author's professional inclination and practice, that is urban and regional planning with major on transportation. With all the buzzes and pressing issues that we face in the metropolis pertaining to traffic congestion, environmental issues, transport policy and governance as a whole, The Urban Walker has the greatest potential to become much more influential in terms of engaging us with its crucial takes on our urban states and affairs. Web presence wise, the blog started sometime in October last year (2011) and it has been gaining followers. With roughly 8-months of presence in the web and around 40 blog posts, it has gotten about 700 Facebook followers already

9. PALAGUTOM

Palagutom is not the usual food blog because it mixes humor, travel and food in one. If features the cheap food and cheap restaurants to different destinations in the Philippines.

It features food that are less than 100 pesos in amount. Palagutom Boy (the author) believes that you should not spend much just to taste your favorite food if you can have them cheap.

10. Filipino Bloggers Worldwide

Filipino Bloggers Worldwide (FBW) started as a Facebook group on November 1, 2011. The group aims to build camaraderie among fellow bloggers around the globe and help members on opportunities to make money online, increase and build traffic, gain followers, share experiences and many more.

As the name implies, the purpose of the group is to unite all the Filipino Bloggers around the world, and be friends with one another no matter how far we are from each other.

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Tito Sotto, you have to face the fact that you Plagiarized and it is a crime, no matter what your opinions are, don't fool the Filipino people because you are just fooling yourself. Stop making fun of yourself. And don't act like an underdog, you know better than that.

To stop the issue over plagiarism on his RH Bill speech, writer Miguel Syjuco and professor Leloy Claudio challenged Senator Tito Sotto in a tag team debate. The debate is a chance for him to prove that he knows what RH bill is.

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Dear Tito Sen,

Almost a year ago, I challenged you to a public debate on the Reproductive Health Bill. I did so because of your facile understanding of statistical analysis, which led you to question the maternal mortality rate in the Philippines. In response, you said it was “superfluous” to debate outside the Senate, and that doing so would be “an insult to Senators Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Pia Cayetano, who are both defending the bill.”

After I received your love letter, I spoke to both Sen. Defensor-Santiago and Sen. Cayetano. Neither of them would feel slighted if you granted my request. My dear Sen. Sotto, it is in this light that I humbly reissue my challenge. This time around, however, I offer a variation: below is another letter from Miguel Syjuco – my tag-team partner.

Hopefully you are more open to debating now. In your last privilege speech, you complained about cyber-bullying and claimed that your detractors refuse to refute the substantive portions of your turno en contra speeches. Should you accept our challenge, we will do exactly as you requested. Present all your evidence, and we will respond accordingly. If you want a tag-team partner of your own, there is always the CBCP.

In the past year, you have disregarded and misrepresented the arguments of RH advocates, while slandering them as individuals. And yet you ensconce yourself within the protective barrier of parliamentary immunity. It is you, not us, who have refused to engage.

You insist that your cause is just. Your allies from the CBCP and the theocratic right claim you are on God’s side. Such platitudes impel you to defend your views/faith outside the Senate floor. Do not fail your bishops. Do not be a coward.

If you feel, however, that the time for debating is over, it is your job as Majority Floor Leader to let the legislative process run its course. Put this bill to a vote.

As we challenge you anew, we are also encouraging other RH advocates to do the same. If for some reason you – a senator of the Philippines – do not want to debate a junior academic and a freelance writer, perhaps you would deign to square off with our other allies.

Whatever the case, your duty as a public official requires you to face your dissenting constituents. Go on, show us you have what it takes.

Sincerely,

Leloy Claudio
Teacher and concerned citizen
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Dear Tito Sotto,

You are senator to all Filipinos—the millions who live at home and the millions who, like me, make a life abroad. You serve as a democratically elected leader both to those who agree with you and those, like me, who do not. You are answerable to us all.

Your critics accuse you of deliberately delaying voting on the Reproductive Health Bill. Others believe you have also plagiarized in your speeches and acted with conduct unbecoming a senator. It’s time you put that to rest, or allow immediate voting on the RH Bill.

As you know, the legislature and the media are key venues for public discourse on matters pertinent to the development of our nation. Discussion is vital to democracy. As such, Leloy Claudio and I issue you a challenge: a tag-team debate.

In one corner, Mr. Claudio and me. In the other, you and a partner of your choosing from your allies among the Catholic bishops. We can finally debate the benefits and faults of the RH Bill, as well as the legality, ethicality, and propriety of your unauthorized appropriation of other people’s work. No mudslinging. No ad hominem attacks. No senate immunity.

This debate is important because there remain questions that deserve answers. For instance, you’ve avoided allegations that, in addition to Sarah Pope and three other online sources, you also plagiarized the work of Janice Formichella and Peter Engelman, two American writers who tell me personally that you copied-and-pasted from their copyrighted work. Nor have you provided tangible proof that the pill Diane was linked to the very tragic death of your son, nor explained how your wife even took Diane in 1974 when it only existed in 1978. Neither you nor Hector Villacorta has addressed these issues.

Since you say copying is permitted in the Philippines, I propose a catchy name for our event: D'Thrilla sa Manila. Subtitled: Church & State vs. Academia & the Internet.

This will be streamed live on the Internet for the world to see.

To quiet the accusations that you are merely filibustering, this debate must occur no later than the day after your final turno en contra speech, and should cap discussion and guarantee voting in the Senate before the end of session. The wheels of democracy must be allowed to turn.

If you refuse this challenge, there’s evidently nothing more to discuss, and you must allow voting on the RH Bill to proceed immediately.

Sincerely,

Miguel Syjuco
Writer and concerned citizen

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/272179/opinion/a-tag-team-debate-challenge-for-tito-sen

photo credit: http://politicallyintoxicated.blogspot.com/2012/09/claudiosyjuco-vs-sotto.html

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