Snapshots from Openspace.ru's multimedia "new year's presents"Little time, but lots of blogworthy info... Some staccato-style announcements:

Four mini-mini-reviews of recent and upcoming publications which scrutinize the RuNet from various disciplinary angles.

How does the famous padonok-jargon sound like, Ellen wondered some time ago here in the blog, when reporting on offline-meetings of the famous RuNet scumbags. Now you have the possibility to listen to the celebrity padonok number one, the founder of the website Udaff.com, Dmitrij Sokolovskij alias Udav. And wow, now slang, no mat to be met in his oral speach!

Victory day is one of the most important dates in contemporary Russia. Some historians believe it to be the last event that is able to unite the diverging Russian society. Thus, it is no surprise that the topic is extensively covered on Runet. The Georgievskaja lenta, the Ribbon of St. George widely used in Russia to commemorate the sacrifices and heroism of Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War, ornaments the welcome page of the popular searching engine Yandex.ru.

It’s a bit late for a traditional congratulation on the International Women’s Day, nevertheless as the “pishushie” in this blog are all women, I allow myself to draw the attention of my fellow-“bloggershi” to the “Krivetizator”, the “Scumbags’ slang generator”, opening up new horizons for our entertainment and communication on the web: Girls! Do you write too grammatically correct in order to chat with the guys on the internet? The Scumbags’ slang generator will help you – do fill in the text in the upper window and collect the translation below Девушки! Вы слишком грамотно пишете, чтобы общаться с парнями в интернете? Криветизатор Вам поможет — пишите в верхнем окне и забирайте перевод внизу... And this is how this simple phrase sounds in “padonki zhargon”: пелотки! вы слишком граматна писчете, щобы обсчаццо с парнйами в инете? самый песдатый он-лайн переводщикъ падонковского жаргона вам поможет, бля — писчите в верхнем окне и забирайте перевод внизу... Russian-cyberspace.org and guests have been discussing these last days the subtleties of statistic analysis. These problems evidently cannot always be solved to our satisfaction. Problems of how to “correctly” converse on the Runet, though, seem to be obsolete in the future - with the help of the “Krivetizator” and the “(Bes)Tolkovyj Slovar’ Russkogo Mata”, the “Russian-English swear words and slang dictionary” compiled by Charles Boutler and generously shared by him with us on his website.H.S.P.S. By the way, do you know of any gender related analysis of the padonki subculture and its language 'policies'? Must be an intriguing object of study.