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• Tomato

  Chris Merriman has up a link to a great resource: Tomato, which is a Kazakhstan-based review site for businesses. A little like Yelp for Kazakhstan, Pomidor (which means “tomato” in Russian) lets people put up reviews and stories of their experiences at different businesses in Kazakhstan. It needs a little more work–be nice to have [...]

  1/26/11 • (2)

• Kazakhstan Widget

  Wolfram Alpha, the statistician’s Google, has a new feature. You can build widgets that basically take Wolfram Alpha searches and allow users to change selected variables. I was playing around with it and came up with this simple example. Enter the information you want and the year. Clicking the x at on the upper right [...]

  8/02/10 • (1)

• ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy

  I put up a post on ALZHIR, a museum at the site of a labor camp for women near Astana. I definitely would put it on my list of things for people to do around Astana. I did notice two posts about ALZHIR from Kazakh Nomad after her trip on the 4th of July: Why [...]

  7/30/10 • (0)

• What to Expect

  One Peace Corps Volunteer put up a series of posts on what to bring to Kazakhstan, what you need to know, and other advice. Now these are targeted for PC volunteers so they may not apply to tourists or diplomats planning to come live in Kazakhstan, but they are an interesting point of view so [...]

  7/13/10 • (1)

• Eyewitness Accounts from Americans

  A couple of eyewitness accounts of the events in Kyrgyzstan from an American expat living there. If you want a narrative of one person’s day and what they saw on 7 April, check out Part I and Part II. Note that the author of the blog, Kazakh Nomad, is not the author of the narrative, [...]

  4/13/10 • (0)

• I Am Not a Number!

  It has been noted here and elsewhere that there is a lot of bureaucracy in Kazakhstan. One of the most frustrating aspects of this is the number of ID documents and ID numbers one must carry around with one to do anything. Whereas in the US my Social Security card is sitting safely in a [...]

  4/09/10 • (0)

• Some More Voyeurism

  Some resources for seeing what has been going on in Kyrgyzstan. On Twitter #newkg and #freekg are the main trending topics for people in Bishkek (as well as experts, analysts and voyeurs). The opposition PM is tweeting at @otunbayeva though her tweets are intermittent. The BBC has an article up with some eyewitness accounts from [...]

  4/08/10 • (0)

• New Media in Kazakhstan

  KplusTVeng is a news show broadcast on Youtube. It isn’t clear who is behind it, but it’s very professional and the first time I’ve heard of locals using new media in such a high quality format. I’m sure the rumors will start about who is funding it and in what way it is biased. But [...]

  3/25/10 • (3)

• Sports.kz

  Just discovered Sports.kz, a website that covers Kazakh sport, both national and international. Unfortunately it’s in Russian. Some other useful links on that page: RSS feed Asian Games category Newsreader a downloadable desktop app And thanks to this site, I just found the national football team site: Sbornaya.kz Sbornaya is the Russian word for team, [...]

  3/24/10 • (0)

• PSA for Website Owners

  If you have no idea what Google page rank is and don’t care, read no further.

  For the rest of you, just a quick note that I had been using a page rank checker from Pagerankbar.com and it has been showing a rank of 0 for this page. Haven’t questioned that up until today when I thought I would check out the Google toolbar. Turns out I have a rank of 3. No idea whether the problem is with pagerankbar.com or my domain or Wordpress coding or what. Anyway, just wanted to share that the widget here is not working in case you have similar problems.

  And yes, I am really proud that my page rank is so high, not that I pay too much attention to such things, but it can’t hurt.

  3/13/10 • (0)

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