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Progress.

When heard, the word gives the listener the feeling of things getting better than before, even if its intellectual interpretations is a matter of subjective taste.

That said, I am impressed by the convenors of the Philippine Blog Awards. Although it is barely in its second year of existence, the Crystal Crescent is defining itself to be THE awards for the Philippine niche of cyberspace.

(I called it the Oscars of the Philippine blogosphere last year. What I've read of it today strengthens that impression.)

For starters, let's take a look at the categories, of which there are thirty-six. Divided into three divisions (Best Blog Division, Best Single Post Division, and Special Awards Division), the Crystal Crescent will be given to recognize the best Filipino blogs of as well as the most engaging individual blog posts of 2008. As with last year, special awards will likewise be given to recognize efforts unique to the Filipino blogosphere.

The eligibility requirements and the nomination process has changed quite a bit, and it seems to me that it has, quite pleasingly, been jazzed up and makes the nominations even more relevant to the bloggers. To say that I'm excited to see how this works out is, well, an understatement.

Nominations forms here: Best Blog Division, Best Single Post Division, and Special Awards Division.

Go. Nominate your favorite blogs, blog posts, and bloggers now. Awards night will be sometime in July this year.

Stay tuned. (Oh, and convenors, I hope you don't mind my usage of your nomination gif.)

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Oh, and if anyone intends to nominate this blog (heh heh), here are its details:

Blog Name: Ask The Jester-in-Exile
Blog URL: http://askthejester.blogspot.com
Blogger's full name: the jester-in-exile
Blogger's email address: jester_in_exile@yahoo.com
Date Blog Was Established: December 29, 2007

Of course, if you don't intend to nominate this blog, I don't mind.

(Actually, I will, but I'm going to shut up about it and just bawl in a corner. Heh. Not. I'd rather be celebrating with the nominees.)

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Now who should I be nominating?

Hmm.

Let me think about that for a bit, and I'll post about it in a while.

Off the top of my head, though, I think Nick of Tingog.com, Selvo of Nomadic Thoughts, The Professional Heckler -- see, I don't recall if they were nominated last year, but these bloggers (among many others I should take the time to nominate as well) deserve kudos.

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Later all. Gotta start bloghopping now and copy-pasting URLs to Notepad.



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