I’d like to use the term explosion. The Filipino Blog Explosion. I’ve been a member of entrecard for the past two months and I just realized that there are a lot of pinoy bloggers. Blissful Weddings, Joan Joyce, Prove Me Wrong, Malinesky are notably very popular on Entrecard. You’d be blind not to notice it :) Even Singapore Entrepreneur TLE concluded that Philippines is the blog capital of the world.

I’ve been thinking how come there are so many Filipino blogs now coming out.. I am Filipino and there are several reason why I decided to blog and why a lot of my “kabayans” are now hooked into blogging.

  • More and more Pinoys are now with internet connection. Healthy competition among service providers is to our advantage. I remember before internet was a a far reached idea for masses since we still needed to have telephone lines installed before we could be connected. Now with the advent of WIFI, broadband connections, its getting easier to be connected.
  • The language facility. A big number of Pinoys are able to read, speak and write in the English language. Makes it easier to express ourselves :)
  • Filipinos are very sociable (imagine how many Pinoys have Friendster accounts :P ).I think it comes naturally for us to blog hop, tag, and socialize with other bloggers.
  • We do have a lot to say.. Pinoys are very expressive, emotional and sensitive. We value our families a lot, and I can see a lot of family oriented sites among Filipino blogs.
  • We have a lot of “kababayan’s” abroad. It’s one way of being updated and sharing our experiences to our families back home.
  • Earning a little extra. Gary of Everything and Everywhere Travel Blog has this observation, ” working online is basically the same thing as working overseas, without the overseas part. You can have an international audience, earn US dollars, take advantage of technical training, and do it all under the radar of local officials and not have to leave your family.”

I’ve stumbled upon very interesting sites like Hulag, Quezon, Yugatech, Makoy’s Blog, Mapiles, Byahilo, Pinoy Bloggero.. The list is endless and I’m proud to say we’re producing a good number of quality blogs. Entrepinoys is one blog I won’t miss out mentioning.. The first site I signed up for an email subscription :) Get ideas on business startups, franchising and other business opportunities from this site.

There is a whole myriad of topics covered by Pinoy blogs, , travel, photo, even about lotto!

Oh and another blog I never miss visiting – Toe’s Kurokuroatbp. It’s wonderfully amusing, informative, very interactive – Toe generates a lot of comments for each of her post :) , addictive and overall a fantastic read. Check it out, its worth a visit.

More lists of Filipino Blogs? A 366 Filipino Bloggers List or Pinoy Blogs with Entrecard? Take your pick <3

Hopefully we could use the world wide web and blogging to our advantage and progress. Cheers to more Pinoy Bloggers!