I am currently looking for blogs that can be included on my list of the “Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2008″. Please suggest blogs by dropping your comments at our comment section of this post. The 10 lucky blogs will receive backlinks from this post, my Ka Webspy blog and from the digital filipino blog.

Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2008

1. Pa-Cute by Brother G. Urbi
2. Your Partner Online - “Blogging, Branding, Marketing, Troubleshooting and Making Money Online by Joliber MapilesBelow are blogs added today, June 3, 2008
3. Blog Ex Machina. The blog of Toonex which started on January 2008. As of writing this update, the blog has 6 feed subscribers.
4. Filipino Voice. A blog of a group of bloggers blogging about politics, entertainment, technology, or any topic that interest them. The blog started on the month of April 2008 but I don’t know yet the number of feed subscribers and its daily traffic.
5. Can Talk Tech. The blog on technology which is owned by Rhodilee who is said to be an occassional techie.
6. Wealth Building, Money and Personal Finance.
7. CAD Softwares.
8. Mar Roxas for President. The title of this blog speaks on what the blog is all about. I am not campaigning for the candidacy of Mar Roxas but the blog does.

   New Added Blogs as of July 17, 2008

9. Aspiring Entrepreneur. A journey of an employee to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Owned and maintained by Tyrone Charles Solee.
10. Batanggenyong Online. A blog of a Batangeño, Richard Macalintal.

Blogs I Considered

Below is the list of blogs that I want to include on my list of top 10 emerging influential blogs in 2008 but failed to qualify based on the qualification provided by the writing project organizer which says, “… These are blogs that started anytime from July 1, 2007 to the present”; “Old blogs who move to a new domain are disqualified” and “Blogs who remove their archives just to fit in the cut-off date are disqualified.” (source: Influential Blogger) and the qualifications I set for my own list.

• Pinoy Ambisyoso. The Blog of Mr. Lavern Tan about his thoughts and experiences as blogger which officially started on June 2007.
• Our Journey To Forever. The blog started since 2006 and I don’t know who the blogger behind this blog.
• Fashion Express Tips. This blog might be considered emerging and influential considering the start date of it and the number of feed subscribers. But I just don’t want to include blogs on my list of the top 10 emerging influential blog in 2008 that are using the subdomain names of free blog hosting services like blogspot.com and wordpress.com, and the identity of the blogger behind the blog is not revealed on his about-me page. I’m sorry for this. Anyway, your blog gets a backlink from this post.
• Julia Aquino. Self-titled blog of Julia Aquino on entertainment and other topics that interest her. It is the most popular blog listed in Top Blogs (PH) but I don’t know when did it start.
• Silken Hut. I thought this blog is already too old to be nominated for the 2008’s emerging influential blogs, but I realized that it is still qualified to be listed. Silken Hut is the blog of Allen. Ma’am Toral informed me that this blog is disqualified for the Top Emerging Influential Blogs in 2008 because the current domain is the continuation of its old domain.
• Ultimate Bounds. A making money blog but has no archive links.

Blogs I consider:

• Guitar Tutee.

Join the Emerging Influential Blogs Writing Project

Those who joined the writing projects organized by Ma’am Janette Toral (Influential Blogs of 2007 and Filipina Writing Contest) knew already the benefits in joining this kind of program like backlinks, traffic, friends, etc. To understand what I am saying, read few of my posts:

• Reasons Why You Must Participate the Filipina Writing Contest
• The Effect in Participating Filipina Writing Contest
• Filipina Eyeball, I was There

So, if you want to gain more back links for your blog, then list your 10 emerging influential blogs in 2008 now. To join this writing project, please visit this page.

P.S.

I forgot to mention above that one ten of the participants will receive $100. So, participate now. Who knows (in the aparador lol) you’ll be chosen to receive $100.

It’s our blog’s 2nd year anniversary. And as my way of thanking you all for visiting me here, I launched a raffle promo wherein 10 commentators at my post, “Anniversary Gift, Free Cellphone Loads” will receive 100 worth of prepaid cellphone loads.

The following are our blog’s visitors who participated the contest (not really a contest but a raffle promo).

1. Rara
2. Gurbi
3. Rustan 108
4. Marj
5. Kristine
6. Adoracion
7. Cyberbon
8. Chuck
9. Agapito Hampaslupa
10. John
11. WillJerick Tagak
12. 932
13. Mary
14. 923
15. Tes
16. Patricia
17. Eric
18. Denshax Mijarea
19. Christian
20. Renz Ganda
21. Marco
22. Cres
23. Rensonnel
24. Sheila
25. Yanka
26. Jose Antonio Villarba
27. Ahsej
28. Mspre
29. Edward Lao

And with the help of the RAND, =RAND()*(29-1)+1, function of the MSExcel, we have successfully chosen the 10 winners of the 100 Pesos wroth of cellphone load. They are:

1. No. 28 Mspre
2. No. 19 Christian
3. No. 12 932
4. No. 6 Adoracion
5. No. 3 Rustan 108
6. No. 20 Renz Ganda
7. No. 26 Jose Antonio Villarba
8. No. 22 Cres
9. No.  7 Cyberbon
10. No. 13 Mary

I will send the notices to winners to the email registered on their comments.

I found out that few of our visitors are not now asking for free cellphones load from me thinking that I am the one who will give free cellphones loads on my post, “Pinoy Texters’ Time To Win Free Cellphone Load.”

Okay, this time I will be giving away 10 PhP100.00 worth of cellphones load to 10 lucky winners. However, only those SIMs of Smart, TnT, Globe and TM are accepted. I’m sorry for this but my retailer SIMs are just for Smart/Tnt and Globe/TM only.

What to do?

Here’s how:

1. Post your comment below. Remember, you need to comment. I am not asking you to enter your cellphone number for you to avoid any problems with text spammers. Don’t worry, if you’ll win I will contact you using the email you enter at the email field and ask you personally your number. So make sure that your email is valid and correct.And I want to make it clear that you have only 1 entry even if you repeatedly posted comments. However, you can send several entries if you establish a trackbacks from your several blogs.For example. If you have 4 blogs that mentioned this contest and established the trackback, then you have 4 valid entries already, plus your comment, so all-in-all you have 5 valid entries.
2. Wait for the announcement of who win. Medyo matagal to. The winners will be announced on March 6, 2007 March 6, 2008. Why March 6, 2007March 6, 2008? Well, we’ll be celebrating our blog’s 2nd anniversary. And as a way of thanking you for your support, I will be giving away cellphones loads.
3. If you’re one of the winners, wait for my email. Just like what I said already, I will email you if you’re the winner and I will ask you what number should I send the free load. And that will be the time too that you will reveal your number.
4. Then Wait for the load. Once I got your number, I will immediately send you the PhP100.00 worth of prepaid load. And after sending the load I will send you the confirmation that I received from sending you loads to tell you that I really send you the load.

About the number of winners and the amount of prize

I already mentioned above that there will be 10 winners of the PhP100.00 worth of cellphone loads. However, if I have enough cash to be sent you for free, then I can increase the number of the winners or maybe I can increase the amount of the prizes.

So, post your comment now or establish trackbacks from your blog.

Are you one of the Kontera ads publishers? Then, you have the chance to win $1000 in Kontera’s Live Testimonial contest.

The prize is actually not in cash but in free Kontera advertising. In other words, if you win this contest, you can now advertise your site at the Kontera Publishers’ websites and blogs.

Here’s how to join:

STEP 1:

What you should include:

* Length of video/animated flash: up to 3 minutes
* Tell of how and when you started using Kontera
* What sort of impact and benefit ContentLink made for your site/blog
* Your name and website/company name
* Whatever other biographical details you want to include

STEP 2:

Upload your video to YouTube
Tag it: kontera, contentlink, In-Text, contextual, advertising, ad
Send the URL to video@kontera.com

Contest Rules

1. To enter the contest you must be a current Kontera publisher or advertiser.
2. By entering this Contest, you explicitly grant Kontera the right to use and publish the biographical information that you provide in the video. This does not include any other information Kontera has (such as email, street address, telephone number).
3. Submitted videos must not include any profanity or indecent images. Kontera does not work with adult content and gaming advertisers or publishers.
4. Submitted videos must comply with Kontera Terms and Conditions and YouTube Terms and Conditions.
5. Contest begins Dec 1, 2007 and ends March 1, 2008.

For more details please visit Kontera blog.

Did you know that you can win free cellphone loads by just commenting the Entrepinoy’s post, “Free Cellphone Loads at EntrePinoys“?

Yes! Entrepinoy is giving away PhP100.00 worth of load to 25 commenters of that blogpost. If the number of commenter is less than or equal to 25, then these 25 commenters will for sure receive the free PhP100.00 worth of cellphone load whatever SIM (SMART, Globe, TM, TnT, SUN) you are using. However, if the number of commenters is more than 25, then only 25 of you will receive the prize for commenting his post.

SMART New Load

By the way, I recently receive the notification from SMART Philippines that my SIM’s menu has been updated, and 2 new menu were added and these are the:

1. PhP50.00 worth of cellphone prepaid load for 5 days.
2. PhP100.00 worth of cellphone prepaid load for 10 days.

Now, what about if you are SMART user and one of those who will win the EntrePinoy’s contest? Well, it means that you will be texting your friends and loveones who are SMART users too for free in 10 days.

Visit this post (Click Here) for more details.