Efectivamente, los estereotipos son cosa de quien los tenga en su cabeza.

Sería un buen enfoque el que mencionas pero escribí el post incial para explicar a un cliente aquí en Murcia los estereotipos que tienen los ingleses sobre los españoles, porque estaban metidos en un tema de marketing inmobiliario hacia inglaterra.

Luego se me ocurrió que haría una buena entrada en un blog que mantenía hace un par de años llamado The Big Chorizo.

Además, recopilar opioniones de toooodos esos países, como bien dices, sería un trabajo importante :-).

Hi Luke, I thought it was curious that #gaza was used, appeared and remained on Twitter trends (instead of #israel) and an Israeli related hash tag - #askisrael - only appeared after the Israelis started their publicity stunt.

As far as I know, no-one forces people to use hash tags, so the fact that (hundreds? thousands?) of Twitter users chose #gaza says something.

Great! That's a fantastic effort, I'll add them all under 'I'.

I've been wondering about twitter and languages since I started tweeting 6 or 7 months ago. I went through a phase of tweeting everything in 2 or 3 languages but it became quite time consuming and I started wondering what effect it might have on people reading. I might start again.

As something to watch, reading Narvic the other day, he was talking about SixApart''s new Journalist Bailout programme for all of the hacks being laid off in the States. The economic crisis plus the lack of a viable news business model in many places plus the development (not premature death) of blogs might have a big impact on journalism-blogging.

What about this year's US elections, with Obama's use of social media and blogs to help him into the White House?

of course!

I agree about graphics, images and cartoons generally transcending language barriers but I think cultural ones, or mixing cultural and linguistic ones, are more difficult; depending on what you try and do with the cartoon.

The cartograms are explanatory; your blogger cartoon is simple and amusing and describes a culture - blogging - that is modern, global and technology based. If you were to mix in more ingrained (national, religious, gender or linguistic ) cultural elements, you would run the risk of getting lots of visits but for the wrong reasons.

Cross-cultural satire doesn't work very well, for example: look at the Danes and their Mohammed cartoons (different languages + different cultures) or The New Yorker with Michelle and Terrorist Obama burning the US flag in the Oval Office (same language, different social cultures).

Neither of them worked outside of their cultural contexts and neither contained any words, as far as I can remember.

Leading, provoking, guiding a global conversation in your particular field. You do it very well on this blog, as do people like Scott Karp, Aaron Wall, Michael Arrington and Darren Rowse.

Interesting. While it would be difficult for any new blogger to aim straight for the top 100 successful blogs on the whole internet, hope does not appear to be lost if you want to create a successful post without posting 10 times every day.

In terms of posting rates, the box on the graph seems to be saying that: "if you post once a day or more (25 times a month) then you've a good chance of being somewhere in the top 5000 bloggers on the internet because most blogs post only once every three days or so (10 times a month)."

So if you set your blogging work-flow up for just two posts a day (60 or so a month), you'll go far. Further, I imagine, if they're quality posts.

"outfit which sees students as a source of free content, and therefore money."

Large parts of the Spanish economy, not just shoddy web outfits, are based on that very principle.