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The above is a question asked by lots of my blogging friends. After almost five years of blogging, I somehow can’t push myself to write a single post into this blog. I even somehow wasted an opportunity when my time came as the “Featured Blogger of the Week” in my P50 group. I actually planned to write a post, but the draft remained a draft.

The post I published prior to this doesn’t require enough thinking. Well, copy-paste a previous article, update, then publish. The real work will come when the results of the October 2010 CPA board exam will come out next week. Even the optimization part I failed.

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Popularity: 19% [?]

Under normal circumstances, I will not post any board results here unless I have certain connections to it. I did post bar exam results and architecture board results in the past because of friends who took the exams. Since I wanted to know first-hand how they fared, so I thought I might just as well make a post out of it. Nursing board exams? No way, Jose! It will be like committing suicide for this blog. My shared hosting package cannot take the rushing traffic. Besides, I am not the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), and blogs (or whatever site is out there) cannot and should not take the place of the official PRC website.

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Popularity: 36% [?]

I haven’t been around the blogs of the other Philippine bloggers for quite some time now. My blog visits are mostly spent on my own sites, my close friends’ sites, and my group’s sites. Other blogs I used to visit no longer have new updates. A lot of them also changed their blogging directions – from personal to catch-all blogs, which are rather more on news. So, what’s the latest news around the Philippine blogosphere? Here are some of the news I gathered:

1. iBlog 6 on April 16 and 17, 2010. – This is a two-day event wherein the first day is targeted for entrepreneurs and businesses wanting to tap blogs to promote their products and services. The second day is meant for everyone else interested in blogging. If you are interested in SEO, Gary Viray will speak about it on the first day while on the second day, Marhgil Macuha will tackle the topic. And if you want to see your blogging idol/crush or whatever, this is the time you’d be able to see them in the flesh. Registration is FREE!

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Popularity: 11% [?]

Three of the influenza bloggers were very busy chasing traffic early this week. We even competed against each other. Bloggista wrote about it here, and Thirdworldgeek had his take here, too. If you don’t know what I mean, just take a look at my last four posts. Names, names, names. These are the names of those who passed the October 2009 CPA Board Exams.

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How to come up with a good blog post in just 30 minutes? Can you do it? Well, think about an essay question in high school wherein you have to pass your paper in 30 minutes, finished or unfinished. I’m sure you’ve done it. But whether it’s good or badly written, the teacher is your judge. In a blogger’s case, the readers are the judges.

Actually, I’m pressing for time as of this moment. In 30 minutes, a very important meeting will have to start. So while waiting for my boss and colleagues to arrive, I write this post. Here are my 5 suggestions in how to come up with a good blog post in just 30 minutes.

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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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Popularity: 17% [?]

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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Popularity: 15% [?]

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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Popularity: 18% [?]

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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Popularity: 19% [?]

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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