Blog Watch formed to monitor the Phillipines election

A group of 19 bloggers in the Phillipines are getting together to harness the power of the blog in reporting important election related-stories that may not receive as much attention from the country’s mainstream media.

Entitled Blog Watch,it is a project of Vibal Foundation and its news and features website Philippine Online Chronicles and aims to use new media to present a multiperspective, multimedia coverage of next year’s elections.

contributors are diverse, from a teenage student to a 61-year-old grandma. That is why they have very diverse opinions and that makes our commentaries really attractive to our readers because they want to make informed choices,”