(delayed post!)
I arrived 30 minutes late at UP Diliman’s Malcolm Hall for my very first iBlog summit. I was supposed to attend iBlog3 last year but I ended up touring another country. The venue for iBlog4 was quite familiar to and a little memorable for me since that was where I took the UPCAT some 11 years ago. Talk about old eh?
I missed the welcome remarks by JJ Disini and the first half of Charo Nuguid’s talk on Blogging 101 from a non-blogger point of view.
I managed to find a seat beside fellow gay blogger and fantabulous podcast producer, Joel Mcvie who was seated right by the hall’s stage left entrance. When the host, Rommel Casis, announced that the free wifi provided for by the sponsors (thank you to all sponsors, btw: Yehey, Morph Labs, WikiPilipinas, Alfox Computer Center, and Buddy Gancenia) was all set for everyone’s use, I took out my laptop and started my attempt to live blog the event. But no! Twenty minutes later, my battery died (may it rest in peace) and all the electrical outlets in my general area were already taken! So I decided to just put the computer away and enjoy the experience (or catch some shut eye since I had been awake for almost two days already). When I finally found an electrical outlet, I took out my chaka Logitech webcam and held it up high to produce a live stream of the event. Effortness!
Brian Gorrell was up next with a video blog of himself talking about the lessons he has learned from blogging. He shared a few of the things that he has learned from blogging as well as tips to newbies and other bloggers on what I call as surviving the blog world. (I don’t know if it was intentional or not but Brian could definitely use a little headroom since half of his face was out of frame.)
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