I’ve posted some great Amharic dance videos earlier, and today I came across Ethiotube.net, a Youtube clone started in February this year and describe themselves in this way:
Founded in February 2007, EthioTube is the leader in Ethiopian online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos related to Ethiopia worldwide through a […]

There has been a ton of mashups of speeches from the American primaries, but here are three amusing ones - two Latino songs about Obama, and one where he (surprisingly) performs a Bollywood hit. America needs a president that can perform Bollywood song and dance numbers to restore its standing in the world!

Stian

I have been thinking about trying “event blogging” for a while, since I have such a portable laptop now, and inspired by the master, Ethan Zuckerman and his tips for conference bloggers. Incidentally, I am going to a conference on international comparative education (CIES) in New York in March, maybe I will try this there. […]

I love how Web 2.0 and a lax enforcement of copyrights is making it possible to access cultures from all over the world, I can see Russian TV-shows, and music videos from Ethiopia, things that I could never even buy before (perhaps in Toronto, if you knew exactly where to go, but certainly not in […]

Not one to normally promote Microsoft or the Zune, I came across this site with beautiful short films created by various artists, and wanted to share them. They are very much worth watching. I realize this is just what Microsoft wanted to achieve - viral spread - but hey, if they promote cool artists, I […]

In a few days Norwegians will vote for local and county representatives, and of course the newspapers and TV channels are full of debates and analysis. Today I watched the equivalent of a town hall meeting with mostly representatives from the national parties in Northern Norway on our state television channel (link in Norwegian). The […]

This entire summer, NRK2, one of the state TV channels in Norway, have been broadcasting Bollywood movies every Friday night. To me, this was a real treat. Although I don’t enjoy every singly Bollywood movie (how could I, when they produce over 900 per year?), I seem to me more receptive to them than many […]

Update: I removed the inline-link to the trailer, since it didn’t look nice in Windows browsers. Quicktime.
I came across this documentary on Yao Ming, the Chinese NBA player that has made, and found it quite interesting. I knew that Yao Ming was an important role model to Chinese in the US and in China who […]

EastSouthWestNorth has long been among my favorite blogs about China, providing real insights into the media and internet world by posting long translations of newspaper articles, forum postings and the like. That’s where I got the story of Fu Rong, the mayor of Lingao in Hainan, who logged on to one of the most popular […]

Update: I apologize for a) posting a broken link and b) taking so long to fix it. Thank you to those who pointed it out, and please try again, it’s worth it.
I just found out that the excellent documentary on the sit-in at Harvard, that I mentioned in the last post, is available online! I […]