Some Thoughts on the Influential Blog Awards 2009
I am not a new blogger, yet I am not a new one. I have tried blogging even years before but it did not appeal to me as I found it too laborious. I was given a nudge by Jepoy that blogging is fun so I tried again but this time he made it easy. He put out a layout that I wanted and I just posted. I have been blogging sparingly since then but at least I was blogging. I have been doing it for less than a year now.
There was an event last year that deeply annoyed me and that was the Philippine Blog Awards. I know our site GameOPS lost and we found the results anomalous so we voiced out our thoughts. There was an annoying PBA winner that bad mouthed the people who voiced out their concerns about that said award, heck he even said cuss words towards a blogger. After the dust settled there was not an act to even address the concerns from the award giving body.
I joined Barrio Siete because I wanted to be part of something awesome, a no-holds-barred kind of thing. I was not disappointed, the traffic was phenomenal the post quality was good then there was this Ten Emerging Influential Blogs 2009. I thought Barrio Siete was a shoo-in but come awarding time the blog was not in it. I am not comparing blogs here I just felt that Barrio Siete had a titan of a chance of winning. Then it was clear to me, it was a popularity contest. Some of the winners indeed deserve to win but some are mediocre.
I did not write this post to complain neither did I do it because I am a member of Barrio Siete. I am not part of any cult to destroy somebody’s name. I just wrote this because I am just a regular blogger heck I am nobody. I do not expect to win any awards nor try to achieve something. I am just trying to be a blogger and with this sad twist of events I ask myself a few questions: “Ganito ba talaga ang mga blogging awards?, Why are there cliques in the blogging world? Does this affect the said awards? What really did happen?”
The questions keep running and I know a lot more people are asking the same questions but still they keep on being unanswered. In a world of uncertainty all we ask for in this world I a decent explanation. Clarity if you may, but I think that there are many of us who choose to keep the questions unanswered.
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