Here are some shots at the fun-filled 1st Philippine BlogCon which was held at Greenbelt’s National Sports Grill last night. I simply had to attend this event as a blogger and as a columnist. The bonus was seeing some people I’ve only corresponded with online like the charming Noemi Dado, unassuming Retz, Andrei of Eche..blah..blah; some other new acquaintances I was excited to see for the first time and biggies like Yuga, Jayvee, Marc Gloria, Jangelo and others who are literally rolling in their blogging dollars 
It was nice to see you all guys and I guess we have to thank the sponsor Globe Innove Communications for all of this.
Two things that freely flowed during the event: food and ideas. In between meeting the fellow bloggers I was excited to see, I was delighted to find chicken breast fillet sandwich pasta carbonara french fries potato chips pizza shrimp & fried chicken wings on the buffet table. Most useful were the PPTs from the blogger-attendees like Noemi who talked on why “Content is King,” Yuga’s gospel on problogging and Marc’s “How to Optimize Your Site for Adsense in 10 Minutes” among others. It wasn’t really a BlogCon in the strictest sense of the word since the atmosphere was downright casual and spelled fun all over. There was lots of chatter on who was writing what, how much some people were earning and of course am just happy to check out new people on my bookmarks like Gibbs, Chris, Ade, Sonny, Jun, Rico, Jeff, Markku, Elber and lots of others I wish I had more time to know.
It was nice to know that the guys of The Man Blog were as wacky in real life as they are online. Take for example this conversation betwen me and Mike Villar:
Moi: Hey Mikey, thanks for choosing my blog from among a hundred other blogs to be part of Dash-Media, the newest network for the coolest content on the net.
Mikey: Uhmm, you know we only did that because you write for the Manila Bulletin. Am sure you know that!
Moi: Duh?? ok
hehe.
wow, kakainggit naman kayo! looks like you guys had lots of fun. how i wish i could attend that blogcon and meet the people behind the blogs. thanks for sharing the photos.
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hey annalyn! it was great meeting you at the blogcon last night! i forgot to tell you i’m a regular visitor
so imagine me starstruck when i saw you last night! ~chris
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You look so slim now, Ajay! Karla looks great too (and busy with her new camera). ‘Feel sorry to have missed this. Super-busy lately.
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Finally we meet Annalyn. Too little time to really chit-chat. Next time, it should be a field trip
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Hindi man lang ako sinama!
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awwwww nice. ‘di ko alam toh. nandoon ba si ade? hehehe. take care!
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Nice to meet you Annalyn! See you at the next BlogCon!
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Nice meeting you Ajay
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BlogCon 2006– Field Report
Yup! I attended the 1st BlogCon as planned. My objectives for attending the event are as follows:
(/) personally thank Angelo for the free domain (.com.ph) and Abe for the free ploghost hosting.
(x) meet Jun Asis of MabutingBalita.net– it seems …
Nice meeting you all BlogCon guys:) And for those who weren’t able to make it, am sure there will always be a next time. Here’s to awesome blogging..cheers!
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Sayang wasn’t able to meet you in person. You have a nice name.
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Ajay, what are you talking about? I wasn’t even there. *dunn dunn*
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Hi Annalyn! Wished I could’ve talked to you some more!
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hi annalyn, glad to have met you at the blogcon. now i’ll make it a point to drop by here regularly.
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A Life Of It’s Own
FINALLY! Electricity was restored… This entry was supposedly published on the 27th until we faced off with “milenyo”… tsk… tsk…
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Annalyn. hi! we met sa bloggercon..hehe i think i saw myself sa MB yesterday. actually –my friend saw me-i was in singapore yesterday-didn’t see the papers.
anyway, correction sa article and blog entry: those weren’t PPTs or powerpoints –those where Keynotes and presentations. mac user sila eh.
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