It’s been two days since the Usual Suspects successfully held the 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit here in Davao City. Due to time constraints, I wasn’t able to report on the event immediately. But of course, knowing bloggers, there isn’t a shortage of blog posts regarding the summit. Check out Jun’s rundown.
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The Davao Blog Party was a big, big success!

The day started with a little “executive” meeting with head organizer Blogie Robillo, cousin-blogger Angel Abella, Jun Macarambon and special guests Janette Toral and Aileen Apolo. Aileen did a presentation on Google Apps and Janette talked about her Digital Filipino club, which I am going to join very soon.

Janette Toral (left) and Aileen Apolo.
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Blogie, Marc, Kim, Ria, Jun and I met a few hours ago at Blugre MTS to discuss our upcoming Davao Blog Party to be held on Saturday, March 17, 2007. The newly-opened NetFront Coffee Shop and Internet Cafe will serve as the venue. There were a few jokes thrown here and there but I’m glad to report that this time we got somewhere. Kim was nice enough to agree to plug the event on her radio show (she DJ’s part-time). Apart from that she’s also responsible for “physical arrangements”. Sounds like a weird sexual medical saga, but no that just means that she decides where all the attendees will be seated. We joked that Ria would be cooking the food at NetFront’s kitchen. But no she’ll only coordinate with whoever will cater the event. There were more senseless stuff about chicken sandwiches, cheese pimiento spreads and oven toasters to be raffled off which I’d rather not dwell on.
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I had a little eyeball with other Davaoeño bloggers last night at the 51 Cafe near Victoria Plaza. It was nice to know that there’s more of us here in the city. Well, maybe just 6 more. It was my first time to meet Bloggie Robillo, Marc Javellana, Jim, Dominique, Floraine and Chris. Newly-mowed Jun and sizzling Ria Jose were there too. The discussions often digressed from planning a blog party to some geeky open source evangelisms. I, for one, like Windows XP. Lol. It was kinda hard to butt in guys. But don’t get me wrong, Microsoft reeks.

After the whole thing everything about the blog party was still up in the air except for one thing — the date: March 17, 2007. I heard from the grapevine that Dennis and Jun will contribute a chunk of their Ituloy Angsulong winnings to the party. Yeah, more food! More drinks! Speaking of guests, Blogie said that Janette Toral will be there. Right now we’re also trying to get Aileen Apolo to attend.

If you’re interested in sponsoring our event, don’t hesitate to contact me: andrew [@] alleba.com. Or visit Mr. Robillo’s blog.

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