Blog Awards Challenge

Thank you for submitting your entries for the "7th Blog Awards Challenge: Bloggermania: Challenging The Platforms Of Old Media". We would want to remind everyone about the number of words required for a post to enter the challenge.

Here are the 3 final entries. Please read the voting rules before casting your vote/s.
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Traditional Journalism VS BloggerMania by Kwentong Miko and General Nonsense

LAKANDIWA

Magandang araw sa lahat, masugid na mambabasa
Isa pong Blogtalastasan, sinikap kong inihanda:
Ang Traditional na Media, noon pa man ay subok na,
Laban sa uso at bagong Blogging – ‘to ang ating paksa.

Sa Traditional na Media, mga bagay na kasama
Dyaryo, radio at magazine, pati TV ay ang bida.
Sa kabilang panig naman, sinasabing BloggerMania
Dahil sa murang internet, nararating din ang masa.

Pagdating sa journalism, ano ba ang naaangkop?
Blogs na likha ng Netizen, doon ba tayo tututok?
O manatili sa luma, tradisyunal na at subok?
Halina’t ating alamin, bawal ang aantok-antok.

TRADITIONAL
Mayroon pa bang uubra, sa pahayag na tradisyon.
Masusing pagbabalita, ganap na imbestigasyon,
Mahigpit na pagsusuri, paglakap ng impormasyon,
Totohanang paglalahad, sinusumpaang propesyon. Read more >>>

Blindspots of Blogging by PROSETITUTE
In today's Web-driven arena of information, print journalism seems to be a fading name in the game.

The advent of blogging has undeniably shaken the foundations of traditional media by introducing new sources of information. It has challenged the radio scene with its podcast, the television with its vlog (video log), and, of course, the newspaper with its blog (web log). The internet has indeed drawn a new line of media, and, consequently, a new line of contention between blogging and the old media. Read more >>>

THE RELEVANCE OF OLD MEDIA AND CARLOS CONDE IS THAT THEY ARE IRRELEVANT by the Philippine Daily Idiot
FIRST QUESTION. So, is Old Media still relevant in the blogosphere?

Answer: A big It is.

FIRST OF ALL, in the unlikely event that I, self-important blogger, will be weaned from my daily cud of self-important Op-Ed pieces in the Philippine Star, I'd be sad.

I would miss thrashing Old Media.

FOR EXAMPLE, I've been asking no end: How the hell did Dr. Charles Chante become an Op-Ed page columnist at the Philippine Star?

With kindof due respect to the doctor, I am nevertheless shocked by his writing, which I could do by Googling and cut-and-pasting.

BUT MORE THAN THAT, I would terribly miss pseudo-meta-analyzing the news stories in Old Media. Read more >>>

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If you want to vote, here are the guidelines:

* To promote peer-to-peer recognition and respect only bona fide bloggers can vote for the competition. Anonymous voters without a valid blog will not be added to the tally of votes.

* Voters must be blogging for at least three (3) months with a minimum of thirty entries in his blog prior to his voting in the competition. This will eliminate phantom voters and reduce incidence of cheating.

* A voter is allowed to pick two entries among the finalists.

* The votes are added up and the winner is declared with a Reader’s Choice Award citation.

* The total number of votes (converted into weights) are added to the other weight points as set in the Winner Selection Criteria.

Are you qualified to vote? Then LEAVE A COMMENT here (please don't use the chatbox) with your best entry picks. We will manually check your blog for qualification requirements before counting your votes.

Voting ends October 24th 2008.
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