Ricky C’s blog is back!

Just when I had blogged about missing Ricky Carandang’s long hiatus from the blogosphere, I discover to my delight that he had resurrected his blog.

Welcome back to the world of blogging, Ricky. We will surely enjoy your sharp takes on issues that matter.

Blogging High!

Over the weekend, I attended my very first blog summit. Yup, I did not even know that bloggers in the Philippines had conventions!

Gee, can’t even remember how I even got to their site but when I did, it got me all excited. Imagine, this is already their 3rd summit year. I tried to invite my blogging friends to come with me but each one had something else to do that weekend so I ended up going by myself.

I’m just now looking over the pics I took with my handy digicam and there is one thing that stands out in all this — MY PHOTOGRAPHY SKILLS SUCK!!!! So many pics, many blurry or dark. Aaaaarghhhh!!!!

One of the first speakers, Chris Haravata, showed a demographic profile of bloggers. 51.5% were from 13-19 years old; 39.6% were aged 20-29. Just those 2 categories alone total over 90% of the blogosphere!!! There were about 3 other age categories. Clearly, my age category was in the single digits!!! So…either I am one of the few COOL BLOGGER MOMMAS or I am one of the exceptions to the dinosaurs….

I won’t go into the detailed line-up of speakers. Other better blogs have already done that. Let me just give you snippets of the 2 days as far as they had a personal impact on me: Continue reading “Blogging High!”