Blogging Idol
How about an intensive “reality” contest to find out who will be the next Blogging Idol?
Show time! All the competitors have until the July 31 (midnight) to prove their blogging skills and to improve their RSS subscriber base.
This contest, hosted by Daily Blog Tips, has begun! To participate, you must prove that you are more than capable of improving your feed subscriber count as a measure of your popularity as a blogger.
The Blog Idol winner will take home $3000 in prizes, so join now!
2.3 Million Filipino Bloggers
Here’s a list of Philippine internet and blogging usage by the numbers, according to the Wave.3 Social Media Tracker (PDF file, 25.66 MB) by Universal McCann, a New York media agency.
- 14 million use the internet (15.4% penetration rate as of April 2007)
- 3.7 million actively use the internet (as of March 2008)
Out of the 3.7 million active users (between 16 to 54 years old):
- 3.6 million / 98.6% : watch videos
- 3.3 million / 90.3% : read blogs
- 3.1 million / 86.4% : post pictures
- 3.0 million / 83.1% : create profiles on social networks
- 2.3 million / 65.8% : have a blog
- 2.2 million / 60.5% : upload videos
- 2.2 million / 61.8% : listen to podcasts
- 1.6 million / 45.2% : subscribe to feeds
(Note: some figures were rounded down or roughly calculated to complete the number-and-percentage pairings.)
It’s interesting to see that podcasts are actually more popular than feeds even though they’re usually powered by syndication technologies.
(Via 100% Batangueno)
