Blogging and the Philippine PressOverview and the PCIJ Blog

The Pinoy Blogosphere No definitive study of Filipino blogs yet

Blogwise: 758 blogs in February 2005 (ranked 9th) 1,265 blogs in October 2005 (ranked 10th)

Pinoyblog: 1, 045 blogs in February 2005 2,270 blogs in October 2005

Blogwise Country Ranking

1. United States – 39,0302. United Kingdom – 5,7313. Canada – 4,6314. France – 2,635 5. Spain – 2,2856. Australia – 2,1227. Brazil – 1,703 8. Italy – 1,6709. India – 1,57410. Philippines – 1,265

11. Germany – 1,26512. Singapore – 1,12613. Portugal – 1,11614. Malaysia – 99115. Netherlands – 78716. Argentina – 66317. Indonesia – 61618. Belgium – 50919. Japan – 48320. Iran – 377

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18.9 Million Weblogs TrackedDoubling in size approx. every 5 monthsConsistent doubling over the last 36 months

Weblogs Cumulative: March 2003 - June 2005 Doubling

The Pinoy Blogosphere: Profile As in much of the blogosphere, most

Filipino blogs are rolling personal journals.

Bloggers.com’s Top Pinoy blogs: bLuEsTaRs08 | adik sau petesbethist | A journal on my thoughts on my

friendship with... mzqthuh | shiT haPpEnz... Renzy | herhy kaiKs.xx | blog.blOg..bloG!! kim_pi | Just a bunch of crap jhing | my blog is for my friends to view my profiles hazel | hi

The Pinoy Blogosphere

Pinoy Top Blogs:

Categories

PersonalEntertainmentPolitics/NewsTechnologyComicsPhilippinesBusinessCooking

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511412105431

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51%14%12%10%

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Source: From Now What, Cat? (cathcath.com)

Popular News-related Blogs

Pinoy Top Blogs:

Three are in Top 10 A Sassy Lawyer Inside PCIJ MLQ3

Two others are in Top 40 By Jove! Newsstand

Source: From Now What, Cat? (cathcath.com)

A Sassy Lawyer

Manuel L. Quezon III

By Jove!

The Year of Pinoy Blogs “Gloriagate” served as a catalyst for the

blogging phenomenon in 2005 and was instrumental in the rise of journalist-bloggers.

Born in a time of crisis: Howie Severino’s Sidetrip Sun.Star Cebu’s Arroyo Watch Newsstand Ricky Carandang Reporting CMFR’s Freedom Watch

Sidetrip

Arroyo Watch

Newsstand

Freedom Watch

Photoblogs

Newbies

How Journalists are Blogging Personal Journalism

Political and social commentary Reporting with a personal touch/flavor

Collective Blog

Citizen Journalism “Journalism is turning from a lecture into

something between a conversation and a seminar.” (Dan Gillmor)

Journalism/t Blogs Still, the rise of blogs has not been met with

much enthusiasm by the mainstream media, which have generally been slow in grasping the potential of blogging for journalism.

Old vs. New Media?

Bloggers: driving a powerful new form of journalism

supplanting the mainstream media as a source of news, information and insight

Journalists: “amateur wannabes” in need of skills and

editors, and without a basic grasp of journalistic ethics

Why Blog?

Cool things about blogs: Ease of use Instantaneous/Immediate Interactive Free from marketing constraints Creative freedom

Why Blog?

For journalists, blogging does offer more: Space Personal journalism Niche expertise Collaborative media

Expanding the Media Universe

Doc Searls: “Weblogs will inform old media. They

will increasingly be a source of information that traditional media will rely on.”

J.D. Lasica: “Media organizations would do well to

incorporate (blogging) into their Web sites as an important new addition to the journalistic toolkit.”

What a blog means for PCIJ? space for tidbits from data-gathering and

additional information for our reports reporter’s insights, documents, images,

links, transcripts, research experience and difficulties, tips

enhanced ability to provide insights, additional data and commentary on issues that are within our area of expertise and interest media, press freedom, access to information corruption, governance, news and public

affairs

What a blog means for PCIJ? bringing in professional and ethical

standards to “blog journalism”

interactivity to benefit us learn from readers’ comments, tips, etc.

make us accountable and transparent

Blogging in a Time of Crisis allowed us to go beyond the pace of our

investigative reporting projects

enhanced ability to provide readers not only the mere text of stories, but information in a variety of format, including multimedia

Documents

Images

Audio files “Hello, Garci” Tapes

Three-hour Paguia version Bunye versions Lacson version Chavit X-Tapes

Arroyo July 7 speech “Yung dagdag” Ringtones

Blogging in a Time of Crisis PCIJ blog experience

download requests unprecedented in its existence

one server forced to shut down blog stats we never dreamed of:

356T visitors 8 million hits 3 million pageviews 822 GB of data transfer

Blogging in a Time of Crisis PCIJ blog experience

unintended result of becoming a venue for debate and serious discussion

helps reclaim agenda-setting role of journalists

To Blog or Not to Blog? The reasons are obvious. We hope we have

inspired you.