NINI CABAERO’S journalism career is marked by her passion for innovation. She started as reporter then moved up to news editor of Sun.Star Cebu. Her love for innovation and the alternative brought her to the only cooperative daily newspaper in Cebu, The Independent Post, in 1997 where she was managing editor and, later, editor-in-chief. When the Post folded up in 1999, she moved to an entirely new field. Online journalism. Nini is a pioneer in new media in community journalism. She heads the Sun.Star Network Exchange that runs the Sun.Star website. She hasn’t given up on innovation as a tool for the practice of good journalism.

MARLEN DEL MAR-LIMPAG is online editor of the Sun.Star website. She manages the Sun.Star Blog Chronicles, a section devoted to Sun.Star’s coverage of the blogging community, and existing Sun.Star blogs Citizen Watch: The Arroyo Presidency and Cebu ICT 2005. She also maintains her own personal blog Engkantada at marlen.limpag.com. She has 11 years of journalism experience working for various media organizations in Cebu.

MICHAEL MACHACON is an English major currently working as an online writer for the Sun.Star Network Exchange. A self-confessed film buff, he maintains a movie review blog called “5th Row From the Screen” and a website, “Head in the Clouds. Feet on the Ground.”, where he shares anything and everything that comes to (and out of) his mind.

J. ANGELO RACOMA is an economist by profession and an I.T. exec by occupation. Writing is his passion, and blogging is his advocacy. Angelo has made it a personal mission to spread the word and share the benefits of blogging with individuals and organizations. Having a passion for writing since his more youthful days, Angelo has been active in the online community from the time he operated his own Bulletin Board System (the Cyber County BBS) in the mid-1990’s. He maintains his own blog, the J Spot, which he started late 2003. Angelo is married to educator Caren Marie Guevara, with whom he has two daughters, Sofia Bernice and Agatha Clarisse.

MARIA LOURDES CRIBE-ANGALA is a special education teacher at Jefferson Junior High School in Washington, DC. She has more than seven years experience in handling special education, where she integrates writing and technology in her written expression classes. She is the only teacher this year to be selected as one of the 14 Fellows to the DC Area Writing Project Summer Institute with $3,000 Scholarship Grant from the School of Education Howard University. She is currently a Teacher Consultant and the newly appointed Technology Liaison to the DC Area Writing Project. She is presently maintaining 4 personal websites, plus, a professional site for a teacher’s organization (DC Area Writing Project), a class homepage, and the Pinoy Teachers Network homepage.

FR. STEPHEN CUYOS is a Filipino priest belonging to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, an international community of religious men of the Roman Catholic Church who work to deepen the appreciation of God’s love. He is presently taking his master’s degree in Mass Communications in Rome, Italy, and blogs and podcasts from there about anything that interests him but concentrating largely on life, faith, Linux, open source software, Filipino migrants and mediated communications like film and photography. He is presently the program director of Radyo Pilipino Ng Vaticano, the weekly Filipino radio program broadcasted all over the world via the Rete Gialla of Vatican Radio. He was a member of the ecumenical jury of the 2005 Infinity Film Festival in Alba, Italy. He is, in a sense, a “technopriest” — he wants to place the latest communications technology at the service of the Church and its mission.