Blog Awards Challenge

Thank you for submitting your entries for the "3rd Blog Awards Challenge: The Hazards Of Honesty". Here are the entries. Please read the voting rules at the bottom of this entry before casting your vote.
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Honesty Is Not an Internet Meme by indolentindio
Like almost everybody else on the blogosphere, we have chosen to hide our true identities from the rest of the world. Despite whatever issues we may have had with our parents, they were not cruel enough to give us the names we now write and draw under (they did, however, give us long and more cruel Catholic names.) We actually chose these aliases. Why do we do it? It’s funny you should ask, Blog Awards Challenge and random readers. Funny in the sense that it is timely because we are about to answer the question and not funny as in slipping on a banana peel.

Why would a grown man choose to hide behind an obscure reference to Philippine mythology or a punny take on a stock Filipino folklore character? >>continue reading

Anonymously by gypsyone
Why blog anonymously?
1. Being anonymous is a challenge for your readers. Are they really interested? They will try to find out beyond if they are.

2. But some readers prefer the fun of not knowing who this fucking helluva-genius-who -beat-me about this original helluva thought. So, they like and continue reading blogs of writers unknown to them, breeding animosity (ei, I hope I have the right words!) >>>continue reading

United as one, divided by zero by exsanguinatrix
I am thinking of a word that indicates the state of being anonymous. Anonymity. But I am thinking of 'anonymosity,' which is not a real word, but is more apt. Bloggers, or the denizens of the internet (or intarwebz to be precise), all revel in their/ our anonymosity in varying levels.

There is a trick here. The notion that being anonymous denotes dishonesty, that to hide one's identity is to be untruthful. The trick here is in thinking that a person's real nature is the person we can see, the person IRL. How completely asinine. >>>continue reading

ANONIMO by gatsulat
“Ako’y dumarami sa bawa’t kisap ng mata. Singbilis ng ulan na bumabagsak sa tigang na lupa. Mas makulit pa ako sa paulit-ulit na panaginip. Mas maingay pa ako sa sermon ng iyong mga magulang tuwing ika’y umuuwi ng madaling araw. Mas pinaniniwalaan pa ako kaysa sa Diyos at siyensya. Mas kontrobersyal pa ako kaysa kina Kris Aquino at Piolo Pascual. Mas mabilis pa akong umuunlad kaysa sa Pilipinas. Mas sinusunod pa ako kaysa sa ating mga batas. Mas matapang pa ako kaysa sa mga aktibistang palihim na pinapapatay ng unano. Mas pansin pa ang aking vandal sa pader sa may kanto kaysa sa billboard na mahahalay sa EDSA. >>>continue reading

The Masks Bloggers Wear by blogcebuworld
Did you ever wonder why Batman, Spiderman, Zorro and other superheroes wear masks? Superman does something with his hairstyle for people not to recognize him. Ninjas and robbers wear masks too. Some rallyists do wear masks. Naked campus runners put on something to cover their faces. They do not want their real identities revealed. Will it also be the same with blogging? Do you have to wear a mask?

The most common masks we wear in the blogosphere are: The Online Alias and the Online Persona. >>>continue reading

Ang pangalan ko ay Pen Palaboy by Pen Palaboy
Ako ay si Pen Palaboy. Hindi ko tunay na pangalan subalit mas kilala sa ganyang bansag. Ilang taon na din ang nakalilipas nong una kong bininyagan ang sarili sa ganyang tawag. >>>continue reading

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If you want to vote, these 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.

* One vote is tallied as 100 points. A voter is allowed to pick three best 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 three (3) best entry picks. We will manually check your blog for qualification requirements before counting your votes.

Voting ends 20th June 2008.


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