More than 3 weeks left ’til the Philippine Blog Awards 2009 awards night!

Starring:
Ram Orquiza
Coy Caballes
Mic Angel David
and
Khristel Sucaldito

Directed by Kring Elenzano of Flippish.com

In a gimmick that is fast becoming one of the country’s biggest viral hits, some 300 teens, together with yuppies, kids and even their lolas, converged at the SM Mall of Asia last August 8 for a four-minute dance explosion celebrating the youth’s langhap-sarap life. Read the full story

Bloggers had a special Project Headshot Clinic session with famous photographer Niccolo Cosme. Watch them pose for their One Youth portraits.

Venue: D Zone, Sherwood Place, Taft Avenue – venue is in front of DLSU-Manila, Bro. Gonzales Hall – the building nearest Quirino Ave.

Date: July 18, 2009 4:00pm

‘Kada Kwento Producer and Globe‘s Digital Marketing Head Paul John Pena talks about the origins and inspiration behind the five short films.

Philippine Blog Awards President Juned Sonido interviewed by TJ Manotoc on Tech Talk of Mornings @ ANC about this year’s awards. Here are Behind the Scenes Pictures: Read the full story

There are many things you can’t do in life, but you surely can, eat a Shuriken. This is one of the three commercials produced to support ‘Kada Kwento, a film series produced by Pelicola.tv and Globe.

Shuriken Bars are fictional chocolate bars that exist in the world of ‘Kada Kwento, and can be seen in the second installment of the series (“Pick”). Here are the two other virals: Read the full story

FROM THE FFC 2009 LIVE BLOG:

Ia introducing the vision and mission of Philippine Web Designers Organization. The group is open to professionals, students, amateur web designers. PWDO has organized 3 mini-conferences in Ortigas and Quezon City in 2008.

To become a member of PWDO:
http://webdesigners.org.ph/join/

Membership Requirements:
P1000 (waived for FFC 2009 attendees)
organize a mini-conference (free, barcamp style) (waived for student volunteers)
submit URL of portfolio of web design work (min. 1 website)

Follow Sophia Lucero’s blog at Stellify.net.

FROM THE FFC 2009 LIVE BLOG:

Rico Sta. Cruz – Breaking your Instincts: Common bad habits and how to fight them

Rico explains how convenience affects our work as web designers.

Screw lemonade.

We try to break from our instincts and come up with something better. Some things to avoid: a challenge! Live demonstration with a fictional local newspaper website.

• Three levels of categories? THINK. Going against our istincts, we don’t need to make our navigation mirror the sitemap structure, do we?

Follow Rico Sta. Cruz’s blog at ambiescent.com and RicoStaCruz.com