More anniversaries today, as India and Pakistan celebrate 60 years of independence.
Follow the events and emotions at Metroblogging Bangalore, Chennai, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Mumbai.

Just some cool posts I found touring Metroblogging today:
Marijuana Map in Toronto
Drink of the Week in Atlanta
Sunset in Chennai
Citizens on Patrol in LA.

See more at the Best of Metroblogging.

Metroblogging DC are covering the sad events at Virigina Tech University: the deadliest school shooting in history.

We hereby invite you to take part in the first International Metroblogging Streetart Contest.

Streetart is a fancy name for Graffiti. I’ve never seen any Graffiti in Tokyo either, but hey, we like challenges.

Thanks to till in Berlin for this.

In his words, here is how it works:

Metroblogging means global, which implies that all submissions of participating cities will first run against each other “locally” and then the top compete on a global level to find out where’s the hottest spot for streetart in the world.

To participate, follow those steps:

1) We setup a flickr pool - metroblogging streetart
http://www.flickr.com/groups/metrobloggingstreetart/

Feel free to join.

Each one of your submission should make it in the pool. If you don’t have/like Flickr - feel free to email them in to tokyometblog’at’yahoo’dot’com - I’ll post them for you. In this case, let me know whom to give credit to (photographer and streetartist).

2) The contest runs for two weeks. Then a voting process will start to find a city’s Top 3 streetart pieces.

3) After the local heros are chosen, we run another global contest to crown king of all. Top of the world, Master of the Universe - you know the deal! The Top 3 from each city will enter this contest. Watch this blog for more information.

Tags: Tokyo, streetart, contest

towers in kuala lumpur

Originally uploaded by le dieu.

Metroblogging continues its Crusade East, with the addition of Kuala Lumpur, the city no-one spells correctly the first time.

There are now 8 Asia Pacific countries represented on Metroblogging; more than any other region.
w00t!

A big Metroblogging welcome to San Jose!!!
(AKA Silicon Valley)

See how different cultures celebrate Valentine’s: Karachi has an active discussion going on, Detroit has been running a Countdown to the big day, Melbourne has some “cheesy” suggestions of things to do and Islamabad wonders how many people will be celebrating this year.
However, of course, Tokyo is the best place to be.

Have a look, join, enjoy !

Currently, our site doesn’t look pretty, It seems that Japanese sentences were changed to something strange..

Sorry for inconvenience.
Now we are working hard on this issue, so this will be fixed soon !!

A big Shout Out to our newest Metroblogging city: Sacramento, California.

Check out jumping train tracks, Bobbleheads and the weather.

There are now Metblogs in 49 cities.
Where’s the party when we hit the big five-o?!