What happens when a cute geeky girl plays a cute little Pokemon? You get a cuteness overload. That’s what happens as Japanese otaku queen Shoko Nakagawa voices a female Pichuu with a quirky left ear in the upcoming Pokemon: Arceus ni Semaru E movie. Apparently, her character gets friendly with...

Whenever I doubt that the Web upsets the oppressive order of old media, whenever I doubt that the new media landscape gives a powerful voice to even the oddest of oddballs, whenever I doubt that one person can become a media entity unto herself, whenever I doubt that a nerd can become a star, whenev...

It’s funny how various online communities see themselves and each other so differently. Check out this matrix of Reddit, Digg, and 4chan users’ perspectives on each other. How do your favorite online hangouts stack up? (Chart by Andy Sauter.) Related Posts: Digg Loves Jesus King of Digg ...

Filipina gamer-blogger-cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao’s Facebook account, with thousands of friends, was suddenly deleted today without notice or explanation. She just recovered her account from a hacker last week. When Robert Scoble and Lindsay Lohan were deleted from Facebook, they were at lea...

When Filipina gamer-blogger-cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao was mobbed by fans at ToyCon 2008, vastly overshadowing Filipina TV actress Marian Rivera at the event, I speculated that an AlodiaCon was not far off. It’s not impossible for bloggers to get whole conventions centered around themselves ...

[[Show as slideshow]] Filipina cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao, an online celebrity in the Philippines, joined offline celebs like Carlene Aguilar and Abbygale Arenas in judging entries for the Philippine International Cosmetologists Association’s recent hair and makeup contest. As you can probab...

iPhone? iPod? Bah. Mere children’s toys. They’re nothing compared to the i-LIMB, a $42,000 bionic arm you put on and throw a ball with in just two minutes. Heck, you can even write with it. It doesn’t look like a factory robot, either. In fact, if you don’t look above the elb...

Anime and cosplay have hit the mainstream so hard in the Philippines that even local makeup artists are getting in on the act. The Philippine International Cosmetologists Association (PICA) is holding a hair and makeup competition today, and one of their categories involves composing an “anime...

Japanese gamer-blogger-cosplayer otaku queen Shoko Nakagawa shares her geeky passions in an interview with The Japan Times today. She reveals how, as a mainstream idol early in the millennium, she initially hid her anime and gaming geekery on a blog she didn’t expect anyone to read. I wasnR...

Print magazines are doomed. Soon all publications will move online. As with all media trends of late, this one starts with the geekiest information technology publications and rapidly cascades to more mainstream spaces. PC Magazine, an icon of IT journalism, started the trend in November. Now Electr...