I’ve left writing for my English blog for too long. Today I decided to write more regularly. I hope my friends, who know English better than me will help with my grammar and style.
Lets start with this simple link: Habit Fields by Jack Cheng
Impressive video showing one of the possible directions of digital magazines. This is working in a model, not a computer generated shiny concept.
My friend Gatis has started new blog karikaturas.lv where he is expressing his biggest passion – drawing.
Recently he started little experiment – he will draw his blog visitors for free.
So, the deal is simple. You just need to send him email with your photo preferably with funny expression and wait for great hand drawn picture (post produced in Adobe Photoshop)
You can already see his first two drawings here and here. So don’t wait too long, send your picture and who knows, maybe you will be lucky enough to get a hand drawn caricature for free.
The Latvian Security Police have detained a college instructor for two days of questioning and banned him from leaving the country after his release for making comments, published in a newspaper, about the Latvian banking system and currency.
Friday’s (August 22) concert at Riga was truly awesome. Sigur Rós gave the audience the best songs from the previous albums, but the most positive feelings overwhelmed me upon the kickoff of Gobbledigook.
Today, while exploring the fun and useful addictomatic.com, I found how easy it can be to find information about various topics. I decided to have a look at Latvia from the side, and entered ‘’Latvia’’ in the search window.
It generates a new page containing the most popular news and blog entries, photos and videos about Latvia. The latest piece of news, naturally, is the Olympic gold medal of our BMX rider Maris Strombergs.
I like the music of Travis, but up until now I wasn’t a huge fan, and didn’t know what they look like, so after sorting through the pictures from the Positivus AB event, I went to wikipedia to have a look at the band’s members.
I was somewhat surprised to see that no photo at all had been added to the wikipedia page of the band’s lead singer Francis Healy. Upon checking the history, I found that the encyclopaedia contributors had had problems with image copyrights, so pictures were regularly being added to and removed from this entry.
A month ago, a survey was carried out and information was published on how much the journalists in Latvia read blogs and are affected by them. (7 guru article in Latvian)
Main findings:
I wanted to buy some original t-shirts for the summer. Went to threadless.com and picked 4 really cool shirts from their huge selection. The total order amount was 22 LVL (~49$) – a good price, especially considering that the chance of meeting anyone with the same shirt in Latvia is very low.
Sadly, it turned out that Latvia was not included in the shipping list – all the neighboring countries were there, but not Latvia. I sent a mail to find out if there was really no way to get the shirts.
Research company TNS Latvia has carried out a survey which has shown that a truly impressive number of the inhabitants of Latvia (151 000 or almost 7% of all Latvians) read blogs.
There are 952 000 inhabitants of Latvia which have used internet in past 6 months, but active internet users which have used internet in past 7 days are only 877 000. So that means 15% of active internet users in Latvia read blogs.
