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“Blog about your passion.” I am sure you have heard of it. I heard of this statement many times before when I first started out and the blogs that I read then were mostly not involved in the monetization wave. And so I started with some “Thoughts” blog, and wrote just about anything that comes to mind. The first comment I received made my eyes twinkle and my heartbeat faster. My fingers were aching to type more.

What was it that I was passionate about? Am I blogging about my passion? Plenty of us probably don’t know about niche blogging when we started out, so our early blogs were of the general type. Or shall we say, a little of everything.

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If you look at my sidebar, you won’t find my blogroll. It used to be there, but I decided to transfer it to another page. The long list won’t be a good thing to watch, as it disrupts the balance and the beautiful design of this blog. I know, I know. Some readers out there would say that there’s something wrong with my theme because the side bar is down under. I think the problem is with the browser and the settings of your screen display. But maybe, I really have to change theme soon.

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Admittedly, there aren’t many posts here unlike the early days of this site. And sometimes, the posts that I made were targeted at search engine users. Board exam results here, boxing results there. These led me to reread one of my early posts: For whom do you blog?

I guess we have our various reasons for blogging. It may not be as noble as others would expect us to do. Why do we blog in the first place? I got my 5 reasons why I blog. You may even have yours too and wrote about it. Have you read the article about blogging’s effect to the brain? No, blogging won’t be your entry to the mental hospital. LOL!

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I’ve nominated some blogs in the 2008 edition and was an observer in the 2007 version. Like any other blogging events that I’ve heard while not actually participating in person, everything was just forgotten. Until Ms. Janette Toral approached our lonely table during the after-event party of iBlog5 and told us about her writing project.

I promised her that I’d join the project (and hopefully the EB party and the raffles, too). So, here are my 10 nominees for the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2009:

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A few weeks ago, I learned of the iBlog5 over at Dexter’s Techathand.net. I immediately contacted my friend, the Third World Geek, and asked him if he wanted to sign up. “No problem” he said. In our 3++ years of blogging anonymously, this time we decided to give this blogging summit a try. The iBlog5 event (May 9, 2009 at the Malcolm Hall of UP Diliman) was the first real blogging event that that we’ve attended.

I woke up early to fetch my friend. We wanted to be one of the first registrants so as not to miss the freebies. (Yay, we’re PGBs here!) I also wanted to see how UP Diliman looks like. Having graduated from UP High in Cebu 18 years ago, I just heard tales from my classmates who went there to study in the Diliman Campus. The Campus is huge. I saw familiar names of the buildings, similar to the section names in our High School. There were joggers too, and they reminded me to shape up. That’s how early we were.

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A few months ago, I converted my other site, a blog that was chasing the Busby SEO Test challenge, into a Sports Blog. I did it so that I can better express my thoughts on certain sports events without getting “off-topic” on this blog. I was also avoiding duplication and crisscrossing of topics like my early posts on SEO. And so I just posted entries like a sports analyst, making predictions here and there. It’s fun, easy to do and not much thinking required. 300-400 words post is easy especially if you are writing about a sport you have followed for a long time.

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If you are a blogger wanting to earn from your site, you must have known by now what is pay per click. It is one way wherein bloggers make money from their sites. Plenty tried without success while a few others have brought cars, houses, and home appliances out from their online earnings. What is really the secret to their success?

Here is what the Wikipedia has to say about it:

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The other day I added 113 people in MyBlogLog. Do I know all of them? In my 3 years of blogging, I bumped into their blogs at least once. Some of them are even in the blogroll of my other blogs. And some had been like pals some months back.

Some of them I used to visit and comment on, not as Ceblogger, but as some other names, which only a few are privileged of knowing. But hey, why network anonymously? These are just aliases you see. I have a pic now at the bottom of page, and I have pic in my twitter and in the other social networks I joined in.

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Ceblogger is now on Twitter. Twitter, what? That short messaging system wherein you can tell the world what in the world you are doing right now. You can also see what others are saying in their twitter page. Others call it micro-blogging.

I’ve began following some people. Yeah, friends and interesting people. No, not stalking. Just following. If you want to follow me too on twitter, just click on “follow” in my twitter page. By the way, clicking on the image above will lead you to my twitter page.

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Someone copied my Pacquiao vs Hatton Pacquiao Fight Results Predictions post and posted word-for-word the whole thing in his website. My misspelled Pacquaio was not edited and damn he is even ahead of me at Google’s SERP.

I don’t really mind if we had the same title, as I know that mine is so generic and bland. What I am furious about is that he copied the whole thing, even the headers and the bold words and phrases. He could have restructured, rephrased, rewrite, add or subtract something in that post. It would only take a few brain nerves and muscles to do that.
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