Jon Joaquin, a respected journalist of long standing in Davao City, and a blogger on WordPress.com for sometime now, has finally decided to get his own domain name and a self-hosted WordPress blog. He calls it JAMBayan. I was thinking he came up with that name owing to his being a musician, but I see that he’s turned the name into an acronym of sorts for Just Another Mindanao Blog.

I’m impressed with Jon because he attacked the installing and configuring of WordPress almost by himself. After setting up the hosting service for him, I pretty much left him to his own devices, and he’s figured things out on his own pretty well! He told me that he really wants to be adept in the workings of WordPress. Next he wants to learn HTML and CSS. Go Jon!

Jon blogs about current events, art & music, and his spiritual life. Being a Dabawenyo blogger, his online publications (JAMBayan and the Third World Journal) are being aggregated into the Davao Blogspace.

Jon is one of the few journalists in Davao City who have taken up blogging in earnest. Another one, whose blog posts are also aggregated by the Davao Blogspace, is Mo Billacura, who writes about sports events and news. As a former newspaperman myself, it’s my hope to see more journalists contributing their skill, experience and content to the Davao blogosphere in the near future.