A bunch of Twitter friends and myself - Jerome Gotangco, Dean Berris, Aileen Apolo, and Migs Paraz, put together a little podcast we generically named "Pinoy Tech Podcast", which came out last weekend:
Pinoy Tech Podcast Episode 01 - Swapping Betamax Tapes
The podcast is in a mix of English and Filipino. We hope you listen to it and give us your thoughts. 
I've been so enthralled in participating in StackOverflow that I didn't realize that some of my answers there are, in fact, great blogging material! I have poured a lot of words over there, several of which have earned decent votes. Thus in the next few posts I'll be copying content that I myself created and publish them here on my blog.
An article on this month's issue of The Escapist Magazine talks about the dire scenarios encountered when one's meatspace (real world) identity is revealed and causes them to lose their anonimity online.
Take for example, this scenario:
It began with an impassioned, 5,000-word letter on one of China's most popular Internet bulletin boards, from a husband denouncing a student he suspected of carrying on an affair with his wife.
Immediately, hundreds joined in the attack. "Let's use our keyboard and mouse in our hands as weapons," as one person wrote, "to chop out the heads of these adulterers, to pay for the sacrifice of the husband." Within days, the hundreds had grown to thousands, and then tens of thousands, with total strangers forming teams to hunt down the student's identity and address, hounding him out of his university and causing his family to barricade themselves inside their home. [International Herald Tribune]
Goes to show how China's sexually conservative culture prevails even in the internet, in light of the crackdown on Chinese sex bloggers and porn early this year.
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