The Philippine Blog Press

Today’s Blog Action Day was organized to heighten awareness regarding the importance of our seas, and to bring about action to help solve problems facing the marine environment. Here are some of the blog posts that have been published in support of the Save the Philippine Seas movement: The Plunder of the Philippine Coral Reefs [...]

In April and May of this year, we were alerted to despicable crimes against marine flora and fauna, and the illegal trade that perpetrates these atrocities. Are we just going to sit back and allow the rape of the ocean go unpunished? Will we let the plundering of our natural resources go unimpeached? Not us [...]

The 1st Malaysia-ASEAN Regional Bloggers Conference had its culminating event last week at Kuala Lumpur’s posh Intercontinental Hotel, and was participated in by Malaysian bloggers and journalists, as well as by invited bloggers from 7 ASEAN countries. The latter group had held a session to discuss the conference’s desired output — the Kuala Lumpur Consensus [...]

Tonyo Cruz, among other things the main proponent for a national bloggers’ organization in the Philippines, and this author were invited to participate in the 1st Malaysian-ASEAN Regional Bloggers Conference in Malaysia, which had its opening activities at the Sime Darby Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. To date, of all the blogger-centric events I’ve [...]

The Philippine government has forged a partnership with the country’s three telecommunications firms — Digitel/Sun, Globe, PLDT/Smart — to send free public safety advisories and text messages to their subscribers during calamities, disasters and emergencies. The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC), National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), and the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), through [...]

Thanthawut Taweewarodomkul (ธันย์ฐวุฒิ ทวีวโรดมกุล), a Web designer associated with the website, norporchorusa.com, was sentenced to 13 years in prison “for transgressing Thailand’s draconian lèse majesté law and breaching the Computer Crime Act.” (Source: Political Prisoners in Thailand) The website in question has been branded by the Thai government as subversive as it is linked to [...]

This is only a proposal, and still very informal as it hasn’t even been decided yet whether or not to go ahead with the plan to institute a Filipino bloggers’ association. The purpose of my writing this is to attempt to dispel any notion that the organization might be an elitist clique or a political [...]

Why do we need a national bloggers’ association? One major rationale that I would like to discuss now is this: the preservation of the rights of bloggers as human beings and as citizen journalists. An association that is national in character and enjoys recognition by Filipino bloggers can have the mandate to uphold these rights. [...]