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...

This video was filmed on a bus in Hong Kong in May 2006. Since then, it has become an online hit in China, and the subject of various take-offs. The story starts when a teenage boy tells the man in front of him to speak more quietly on his mobile phone. The man- now known as Bus Uncle- begins explaining, furiously, that he wishes to remain undisturbed, that he's under pressure, and that he wants to sort out the dispute by shaking hands. The scene is absurd, mainly due to the outrageous behaviour of ‘bus uncle' himself. Why was this video so successful? Maybe because it shows a person on the verge of a nervous breakdown and exhausted from working, like many in Hong Kong. But also because it illustrates the clash between generations, in which the aggressor is not the one we would have at first assumed. Read more...