Wordpress 2.6 was released earlier than announced. Don’t think that its a small update for 2.6 has a lot of new features for you to check out.

• Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits
• Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web
• Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging (Google gears support)
• Theme Previews: See it before your audience does (At last)
• and many other smaller features and improvements (read more about it here)

Here’s another blogger event that would surely satisfy your cravings for partying, enter Buhay Coke ng Bloggers Event!

Yes, my dear friends, Coke is another one of those companies who are beginning to see the power of bloggers when it comes to alternative advertising.I heard their going to make it real special!

Professional Photographer and blogger, Anton Sheker, is suing major daily giant, Manila Bulletin, for copyright infringement after the said publication used Sheker’s photos without any permission or credit on one of their issues last October 2007.

I’ve been so busy trying to revive my blogs back to life that I only managed to post a single entry this week. Phew. Anyways, here is the recap of the Pinoy Blogosphere during the past week.

Who doesn’t know Jun Lozada, the star witness on the NBN-ZTE Deal? In recent months we’ve seen him on TV as he revealed one of the biggest controversies in Philippine History. We also witnessed how Lozada’s revelations have divided the country into believers and non-believers.

As a mere observer of the whole charade, I could never make out what was true or not. My stance on whether Lozada was telling the truth was not clear partly because I didn’t know him very well for me to have the right to judge him. Then again, no one really knows who Jun Lozada really is. The Filipino people had placed him under scrutiny, judging him under the facts given to us by the media. But let’s face it, truthfulness on such matters is not the media’s main priority. There would always be bias on such controversial matters.

I’m back!

At last, I finally found some free time to blog again. Being on the final year of my college life, I consider this opportunity as a miracle. Rarely do students like me have the luxury to slack off from studying and have the time to engage in an equally demanding task such as blogging.

Unfortunately, my free time is limited to only a couple of hours per day. And so, to avoid overstressing myself once again, I have decided to make some adjustments to my posting frequency. Instead of the regular T-Th-S-Su schedule, I’m lowering the frequency down to 1 to 2 major posts a week (excluding weekend recaps and news).

Anyways, enough with that, let us check what has happened in the Pinoy blogosphere during my absence.

To all those who will be attending the IBlog4 event this coming April 26 (saturday), you may also want to register for the bloggers’ party sponsored by 88DB.com which will be held on the same day, immediately after IBlog4! It’s a night of booze, party, and more networking!

Oh, and as an added twist, all who could come dressed up as their blog (or as something that is related to their blogs) will get a chance to win a Sony PSP! The one with the best costume bags the prize! I know what I will be wearing, hehe.

In our attempt to become successful bloggers, we rely heavily on the wisdom parted to us by those probloggers who had already gone down the path that we are taking right now. However, there comes a time when some of them contradict each other – One problogger says that sponsored posting is unethical, the other says the opposite. One says that a long post could bore the readers, the other says that a long post is essential. And so on.

With all the conflict in ideas and teachings, who should we believe in? What steps should we follow in order for us to become successful?

Yeah, another late Pinoy Blogosphere Weekend Recap. Classes in Mapua officially starts today and I am as bummed as ever. Byebye vacation!

Anyways, here are some of the interesting posts and news that has happened in the Pinoy blogosphere throughout the whole week:

The number of Pinoys who are trying out blogging is increasing in number with every passing month. I was wondering if this is caused by bloggers who have already started promoting blogging to non-bloggers. Well, I know I have, what about you?
How many non-bloggers have you invited to try blogging?
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Some say that a measure of a blog’s worth is through the number of traffic, subscribers, and how big the earnings of that blog are. Although this is somewhat true, a lot of people forget that the quality of posts are also crucial in determining a blog’s value. Covered with all the hype of money making and marketing, little importance is given on the quality of the thing that really matters: Content.