Comparative Culture: What We Care About

Thanks to 37Signals, I have become acquainted with Newsmap.

It's fascinating. You can literally pull up the news headlines from all over the world...and it's a telling comparison. Every other part of the world seems pretty concerned with Cyclone Gonu leaving 35 dead in Oman and Iran...but I don't even see it listed on the U.S. headlines. Strangely enough, the rest of the world doesn't seem too concerned about Paris Hilton being released from jail early, either - though India did list it.

Kind of disappointed in my culture right about now...