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Survey: “Latvian journalists are entering the blogosphere”

Published
by
Miks Latvis
on July 9, 2008
in Latvia and blogs
. 3 Comments

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:

  • 82% of the surveyed journalists read blogs regularly
  • Every fourth media worker reads blogs for entertainment
  • More than half (58%) of the respondents claim that they rarely use blogs in their work
  • 32% have never used blogs in their work
  • 41% of the respondents read blogs several times per week
  • 32% of the respondents read blogs at least once a day
  • 55% of the surveyed journalists say that they are merely passive observers of the blogosphere, only reading blogs, but never commenting
  • 20% of the surveyed journalists are considering the possibility of creating their own internet journal

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Latvians committing fraud or Latvia Post making money on the side?

Published
by
Miks Latvis
on July 9, 2008
in stuff
. 0 Comments

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.

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