Investigative journalism often means that your own personal luck spits you out at the right time at the right place. Finally I am able to solve one of the mysteries of the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. How do the pinks that live there in summer move around the MQ?... • more

Five times I had thought should I go in or shouldn't I. So many stories squeezed into this little bookshop. They were too shy to walk out of the door. Silently they looked out of the window. Not all of them speak Austrian. I had to go in and ask... • more

I had a pretty strong feeling of disconnect tonight. Maybe it was from sitting in Picante, a Mexican food take-out in the center of Prague, trying to enjoy my burrito and being annoyed by a herd of EasyJet British lager louts insistently asking "'ave yew go' enny CHIPS?" Over and... • more

This week's Blogjam is out and Living in Australia has a guernsey.... • more

Finally the moment dawns. Chennai will witness the first bloggers' meet that I will be attending ;). More details are on the official site and on kiruba's blog. DETAILS Venue The Amethyst Date 6th June 2004... • more

Here at the edge of the planet in Australia, footballing sportstars are men of large crushing frames who can hardly string 2 words together. In the US, Slate.com reports that athletes are turning to blogging to ignore sportsreporters and communicate with the fans. • more

Yesterday Eurostat published its first 'GDP per capita nowcast' for the EU-25. It runs under the headline "GDP per capita in new Member States ranges from 42% of EU25 average in Latvia to 83% in Cyprus". For the non-economist that I am, there are a few points in this that... • more

To commemorate today's anniversary, we offer a selection of links (via a proxy where necessary) to bloggers and journalists who have written on Tiananmen 15 years on

Feel free to e-mail the editor [phil (at) livinginchina (dot) com] if you wish to add to the list. • more

In their weekly report 21/04 the DIW Berlin reports that there is big distrust in institutions in Germany. The instated surveyed 850 people about their trust, privately and institutionally. The survey showed how deeply the institutional trust has been shaken. The police is the one institution that enjoys the most... • more

All those of you who are old enough to remember media reporting on the last days of Josip Broz Tito might remember how long it took him to "officially die" in 1980 in a hospital in Ljubljana. Being aware but also afraid of what might follow after his death, the... • more

America is a land of convenience and Europe is not. That in my estimation built on spending about a third of my adult life hopping around, traveling through or living all over this continent, is the main difference between Europe and America.... • more

This is the second part of a three part essay exploring discussion forums or bulletin boards, weblogs or blogs and wikiwikiweb or wiki. This is a personal enquiry to understand the informatin ecology that we all have the previlege of sharing. I welcome all your comments, tips, suggestions and your participation in expanding the JargonFile. Between a blog and a... • more