Alodia at Herocon

One of the crowd draws at the Hanep Hataw Hero 3 anime convention was the appearance of Filipina gamer Alodia Gosiengfiao and friends. They sold signed prints of their photoportraits as a fundraiser for their Freelance Art Society.

I particularly like this shot of Alodia at the Wasabi Toys booth. Girls and Gundams, what more could you ask for?

What’s really interesting here is that these girls sold a lot of prints even though most of their photoportraits are freely available online. That’s what Hugh MacLeod does with his cartoons. Alodia and her friends are proving and learning that, when it comes to digital goods, abundance leads to value.

(Photo by Tyrone Orbase via Alodia.)

New Trillanes Site Blocked from Digg

Looks like Gloria lackeys have penetrated Digg. When I submit Senator Trillanes’ new site, I get this error message:

URL blocked
This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg’s submission process and cannot be submitted at this time.

Take note that I’m no fan of the good Senator. He’s a sloppy coup plotter who just gives Gloria more excuses to push the envelope. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if he secretly works for Gloria. Love him or hate him, his site is still newsworthy and should be dugg.