I would like to put my views regarding the post made by Janette Toral in Sunstar.com.ph regarding the 2007 election and Blogging and thanks to Rhodilee for the tip

” Duplicate information. A lot of the blogs had the same information “

I think this blog is one of them because most of the blog post that I made are based on the blogs, News, e-Groups of different people who had direct knowledge on what is going on their particular location. As a web researcher I need a site wherein I can get some valuable information in one site alone to save time in browsing and that is the main objective of this blog.

” Localized coverage. There was not much information on representatives and local officials. This is one area where we could do a lot of improvement and, perhaps, groups, who are into a transparent and full coverage of the elections, especially the media networks, should heavily invest in this for the 2010. This can be a form of citizen or barangay “

Janette’s observation on this area is really true, since for me, I have a very little information about the local candidates. Even on my own town I were not able to find the complete list of candidates. I think the comelec should post this candidate for us to be able to know who are they. And then we can search who they are and what

” Bloggers’ accreditation. Perhaps the Commission on Elections and political parties should seriously consider accrediting bloggers for more coverage for the 2010 elections or at least, open it to those who are determined to participate and document the process. “

If this happen I would love to be part of it.

” Although, there is no means of stopping any blogger from writing anything about the elections in the blog. The 2010 elections will see the serious level of participation of bloggers. “

Even if I would not be accredited, of course it will not stop me on blogging about the next 2010 election. But maybe this time I will start earlier, this blog covers the election since Dec. 2006 and I believe the information was not yet sufficient. I was not able to put profile of all the senatoriables. I was only focus to the Big Party that participated in this election. ( GO,TU,Kapatiran )

In my total assessment Janette is right about the lack of resources by the Comelec. Since if you will check COMELEC Website it will give you more information about the past election and not the information regarding the present election. I also agree with Janette that if there will be a group of bloggers that will really focus on 2010 election, The training and concept should be formulated as early as this year.

I also thank Jannette Toral for providing some head up to this blog on her post at the www.manilatimes.net.