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I'd like to take the time to extend my thanks to the men and women who set apart the Get Real Philippines Network and communities from the rest of the noise of the Philippine National "Debate".

After just three months online newly-equipped with its collective blog, Get Real Post , it is interesting how GetRealPhilippines.com now holds third place in world traffic rankings among the top six known (to me) Filipino collective blogs focused on politics and social issues. This is according to Alexa.com data. Here are the rankings as of the 26th May 2011:

Get Real Post is now online! This is the forum where issues will be discussed from well-considered perspectives . Check it out right here , or logon with the following URL: GetRealPhilippines.com/Blog

The Philippine blogosphere tends to buzz a lot about stuff that has to do with blogging. That's quite natural. Car enthusiasts talk about cars, sports fans talk about sport, and bloggers talk about blogging. The thing with this of course is that non-bloggers (more so those outside even its outer circle of Twitterers and other "social media" aficionados) cannot relate. This collective navel-gazing that the Pinoy blogging community gets into every now and then seems, therefore, to yield no real social value beyond, hopefully, an inward reflection that might result in some self-policing and, even more hopefully, some positive outcomes.

The Get Real Philippines Network is on Twitter. Check out our cadre of elite opinion shapers and follow their work by subscribing to GRPhilippines_Network on Twitter! This is a list of people who form the TOP of the food chain of the Philippine blogosphere. Keep updated on their exploits and the sharp insights they inject into a sea of undifferentiated chatter! Click here to follow!

Here is a review of some of our most seminal concepts, one of which we hope is permanently dead and buried while the other three, sadly, remain characteristic of the outside-the-square, oblique, and often seen to be obtuse way we engage the National "Debate". Sad, because of the fact that only a small minority possess the insight to approach the issues in the way collectively described by the latter three, while the rest that make up the majority and often loudest voices of the national chatter see only the easy discourse.

Thank you for your continued interest in the top network of commentary outlets in the Philippine blogosphere. There is no other community of pundits more insightful , more original , more consistent , and more open than the men and women who make up the Get Real Philippines Network.

Click here to visit Get Real Philippines