Why Filipino Voices?
Written on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm | by NickWhy not? After realizing the arduous task of getting stories out into the mainstream, during the Malu Fernandez controversy, there was a moment when this idea came to light. A collective voice, wouldn’t that be a better way of making our voices heard?
If in one instant, one blog post, powered by a multitude of political and social bloggers started a conversation, then that conversation would be spawned on their respective blogs, and readers would in turn have their own conversation — That’s powerful!
This was a natural progression. In The United States, blogging on political issues and social issues is in a scale that The Philippines has not yet been able to reproduce. But this doesn’t mean we can’t try.
The Filipino political and social blogger, we are a growing group. With this growth comes a need to realize that there is power the collective voice, much more so than if we were to go at it alone. No blog is an island, and blogging was never meant to be so closed.
This was the future, and the future is now.
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