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12 March 2012

Germany: Email Monitoring #Bomb(e) Drops

Written by Katrin Zinoun · Translated by Rachel Horst · Western Europe

German intelligence agencies examined more than 37 million emails containing particular search terms, for instance "bomb". Reactions in online media ranged between outrage and humor.

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11 March 2012

Egypt: Mixed Reactions to Porn Ban Proposal

Written by Ahmed Awadalla · Middle East & North Africa

Only one month after the first session of the newly elected parliament in Egypt, much debate and controversy arose. The Egyptian blogosphere and twitterverse have been watching the new parliament and tweeting under the hashtag #EgyParliament expressing demands, concerns and sarcasm. A recent episode at the parliament stirred much discussion, but this time it was about pornography!

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5 March 2012

MENA: Which Salafist Movie Would You Watch?

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

Iraqi Lebanese blogger Karl Sharro decided to start a new hashtag where people tweet movie names after putting a Salafist flavour into them. And like most of the humuorous hashtags, this one got spread in no time, when Twitter users in different Arab countries started using it.

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4 March 2012

Jordan: Amman's Welcome Snow Day

Written by Nadine Toukan · Middle East & North Africa

Amid a rough winter in Jordan with little optimism in the air, Ammanis found solace in getting snowed in on Thursday, making it a long white weekend; joyfully hyper tweeting and photo sharing snow covered neighborhoods and some whacky snow creations.

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China: Challenging the 50 Cent Party

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

With a new spoofed flag, China's army of paid pro-government online commentators have recently gotten the sharp end of a number of new jokes. Oiwan Lam reports.

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1 March 2012

Global Voices Podcast: Remembering Our School Days

Written by Jamillah Knowles · Sub-Saharan Africa, North America

In this edition we’re going back to school! From extreme teaching on the Niger River, to the fondest or most memorable educational moments of Global Voices contributors around the world. Plus: How Ethan Zuckerman learned to type so fast.

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28 February 2012

Colombia: Speaking Spanish is Hard and There is a Song About It

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

Song on the difficulties of speaking Spanish rings true with native speakers as well as those trying to learn the language. With humor, Colombian songwriters and performers Juan Andrés and Nicolás explain the confusions that come with the regional variations of the language.

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24 February 2012

East Timor: Cats, Monsters in Pre-Election Video Humor

Written by Sara Moreira · East Asia

Less than one month to go for the presidential elections in East Timor, and one of the most original uses of citizen media in the anticipation of the elections is not serious at all - user Slogheinn on Youtube, has uploaded a series of humorous videos that mock four of the best known presidential candidates.

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17 February 2012

Tajikistan: Tajik Voices Muted in Putin Video Debate

Written by Chris Rickleton · Central Asia & Caucasus

A song apparently dedicated to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has surpassed 1,000,000 hits on YouTube, becoming one of several politicized clips to gain 'viral' status on the RuNet ahead of the country's presidential vote in March.

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16 February 2012

China: A Portrayal of Portrayals of Cultural And Ethnic Stereotypes

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

One Chinese vlogger has gone viral with his impersonation of the accents of a few Asian neighbors and other cultures from around the globe. How much do these differ from similar crude stereotypes you've seen elsewhere?

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Updates about Humor

29 February 2012

Barbados

B.C. Pires “couldn’t let the leap day go unobserved”.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Slovakia

In the situation when the U.S. action film star Chuck Norris leads in the public vote for the name of the bridge across the Morava River into Austria [en], blogger Ondrej Horváth recommends [sk] asking Mr. Norris before making the final decision, because otherwise it is possible that the bridge will not last there for a long time.

• Tibor Blazko

28 February 2012

Trinidad & Tobago

“In an attempt to imitate art…culture in T&T seems to have perverted itself and in trying to become something else, may have succeeded all too well; the business model of Tribe and the other new ‘Rio' styled bands seems to be built on encouraging excess for profit”: Plain Talk suggests that Carnival is now all about “Me”, while Mark Lyndersay, tongue firmly in cheek, shares similar sentiments - from a photographer's point of view.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

22 February 2012

Egypt

Egyptian blogger Cinderella Nabil blogs [ar] about her refusal in accepting any job just for the money.

• محمد الجوهري

17 February 2012

Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidadian bloggers go to town over a photograph of the Prime Minister at a Carnival fete sporting expensive brand-name shoes: B.C. Pires says: “She’s bound to get flak for such a vulgar display, even at the height of the vulgarity of one of the world’s most vulgar displays, the modern Trinidad Carnival”, while The Eternal Pantomime adds: “The real story is not Das Boots…but what Das Boots represents. These Louis Vs may well be the way we remember the PM’s reign in years to come: a garish, coskelle display of inappropriateness.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

13 February 2012

Trinidad & Tobago

Perhaps the best (or worst!) recommendation letter ever - diaspora blogger CunningLinguist shares.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

11 February 2012

Argentina

Argentinean stand up comedian Malena Pichot, best known for her webshow “La Loca de Mierda” has a new series, Cualca! and on this first episode[es], she shares her perspective on how women really feel when they receive unwanted attention from strange males like catcalls and genital exposure on the street.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

10 February 2012

France

Dédé l'Abeillaud (another name for a drone - a male bee in a colony of social bees, which inspires his costume) is the self-proclaimed candidate of biodiversity for the French presidential election of 2012. He boasts of winning over 300 promised votes for local officials, as much as the National Front candidate Marine Le Pen. He humorously details his commitments, particularly the defense of bees, and his political agenda on his blog [fr], where his press representative is said to be “responsible for the clearing of the conscience”.

• Suzanne Lehn

8 February 2012

China

Jacky Huang from ChinaHush translated a local story from Beijing News about the new discovery by netizen of the printing of a “worshipping cats” totem on the RMB100 Banknote. The cats' image is very comical, but experts said it was from Ancient China's the Warring States period (5th-3rd cent. BCE).

• Oiwan Lam