Yesterday we published a post about a street massacre in Tokyo. Shocked Japanese web users have been poring over news reports recorded just after the tragedy, and they've noticed something that upsets them even more. Read more...
We Need Girlfriends is a series that you won't see on TV yet - so far it's been broadcast exclusively on the Internet. It tells the story of three recent graduates struggling to understand the complex world of the New York City dating scene, after all three are simultaneously dumped by their long-time college girlfriends. Read more...
The message Mashada posted on their forum page
One of Kenya's
most popular discussion forums had to close its doors yesterday because
of a barrage of abusive and hate-inciting comments left by web-users. James X
runs the ‘Mashada' project. He explains that the
site's once relatively peaceful discourse had taken a decisively violent turn since
the elections. It seems that the internet is being used to fuel ethnic
loathing. Could this media become the
next Radio Mille Collines? Read more...
Just hours after Société Générale revealed the biggest fraud in history on Thursday, we received a photo of the rogue trader at hand. It appears that one of his colleagues looked him up on the company's intranet and circulated his profile page by email. Using the internet, it took less than half a day to reveal the identity of the young trader and circulate it around the world. Jérôme Kerviel, ‘the man worth five billion', has since become a kind of icon on the web. A funny phenomenon, but worrying too. Read more...