• 81% of total participants access the internet from home while 41% access it from work.
• 45% of total participants do own a computer of their own today while 39% have a shared computer with family members.
• 24% of total respondents consider themselves internet experts.
• 49% of total respondents consider themselves “internet” knowledgeable but do sometimes require help.
• Top reasons for total respondents to use the internet are: e-mailing friends at 83%, reading news at 78% and searching for job opportunities at 77%.
• 87% of total respondents state the internet has replaced print for political news.
• 90% of respondents state the internet had now become their main source for business news coverage.
• 45% of total respondents are comfortable making them while 55% are not comfortable- to varying extents.
• 70% of total respondents feel that virtual contact has sidelined personal social interaction.
• 53% of total respondents feel there is too much information available on the internet.
• 65% of total respondents would be interested in pursuing online education in the future.

It is also nice to know on how other think with regards to the internet. Middle east is also known place where lots of Filipino stay and work. So any comments ? This kind of information might be a source of strategy that an internet entrepreneur could use. There are only few known English site in Middle East compared to USA or any other part of the world since mainly they use Arabic language on their site.

Source : Bayt.com

Student’s Blogging Survey

Be a blogging Evangelist.. Help those students. Please be noted that this survey are for Filipino Blogger only.

To get the information they approached 20 top-tier tech bloggers and social media consultants, half of them responded (so this isn’t a massive sample).

Their research only involves a small group of Tech blogger and here is their findings,

Most bloggers getting paid about $25 a post (with the full range being between $10-$200 a post).

• In house/Full time bloggers earn annual pay of between $45,000 to $55,000 (with benefits) and up to $70,000-$90,000 with bonuses.
• The real money seems to be in consulting with hourly rates not below $150 an hour and $300 an hour the most common rate named.

Read the full report and analysis at How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants Get Paid? We Asked Them!

Pictures Credit : Jen Jen

Rory Cellan-Jones from BBC – I was beginning to think Twitter – the micro-blogging service that’s all the rage amongst the technorati – was just another fad for people who want to share too much of their rather dull lives. Until this morning.

Online Journalism Blog.com – The first interesting point is Tweetburner: its most-clicked links shared on Twitter are almost entirely about the earthquake, and show some interesting uses:

Twitter Beats (Wow, By 3 Minutes) The USGS With China Earthquake News – Hey, I like Twitter, but this entire thing Robert Scoble started about how Twitter had news of the Chinese earthquake before the US Geological Survey seemed absurd. Did it really? As it turns out, probably so — by about three minutes. Reading some of the accounts, you’d get the impression Twitter seemed to alert the USGS to the news.

Chinaherald.net – For me, Twitter had developed in a few hours time into an excellent information tool, combining different sources of information and I knew more about the earthquake than many people in China.

Indeed above information only shows that lots are having benefits from new Twitter Tools. So Twitter is not just like expressing your ideas it can also a channel of lot’s of information. I wonder if Media researchers used this tools also?. You may want to check my Twitter Experience.

Here is the link : how many filipino bloggers are using the following blog platforms

Comments are closed, Please visit link to vote

Update : You can now use this page to vote

The online survey was commissioned by Deloitte and conducted by Harrison Group, an independent research company, between October 25 and October 31, 2007. The survey polled 2,081 consumers between the ages of 13 and 75.

I know the fact that lots of Filipinos become interested in blogging after an interview with Filipino Probloggers in Philippines. But how far are we in terms of Blogging and being online? Thinking that there are lots of tools that has been invested already in Philippines.

When do you think we can attain those 50% Filipinos is now Blogging ? I think it is not an impossible scenario to happen. If and only if Filipinos will only focus in Online Marketing and not waste their time in surfing $candal.

I have heard at the news yesterday that 50% of Filipinos time is being used in surfing the net . I am not so sure with the figure but I have heard it is high.

I do believed that in future, Online Marketing will be one of the major source of dollars or EURO in Philippines someday.

Who will be the beneficiary ? Of course those who are doing it now.

It will be great if you could share some of your thoughts regarding this matter. Free to comment or even post an answers to this question

My suggestion is to use the service of winksite.com where in your feeds will be converted into a mobile ready blog. It is a site which will convert a blog to a mobile blog.

You are allowed to make a 5 free site. I have made an address for this blogsite that could be accessed on your mobile phone ( http://winksite.com/dcpanganiban/Techathand ) the only difference is that this site address will not be the same as your original blog domain address. And the advantage will be less KB to download since it will only show the text portion of the blog.

Below is the details found in their site:

Winksite makes it easy to publish mobile Internet sites and build simple mobile connections via mobile phones. At Winksite you can:

» Create a mobile web site & profile.

» Mobilize your Blog, Twitter, Jaiku, & Upcoming feeds.

» Activate mobile-tuned features like chat, forums, & surveys.

» Join mobile communities, connect with friends, or meet new people.

You may create a free winksite account here. What about you, Do you have any suggestion?

• adsense
• $100 – 500
• $100 less
• $1.000 – 5.000
• amazon
• clickbank
• still in the dark
• text link ads
• $10.000 – 50.000
• $100.000 – 500.000
• $500 – 1.000
• adbrite
• agloco
• paypal
• $500.000 – 1000.000
• cafepress
• chitika
• kleeneze
• mediabarre
• podcast
• surveylion
• typeinternational

I do hope my name will be there someday.. If you have one and you want to brag about it follow this steps:

send email to cheques.gallery@gmail.com
And follow these rules:
1. Send only real cheque(s).
1. Send the cheque(s) in zip.
3. Tell me about the cheque(s), your site/blog, and you.
4. You fake it, I’ll delete it.

See you there and wait for me..