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Pictures of the UFO Last Year

KZBlog — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:14:33 +0000

Update on: UFO in Kazakhstan which does appear to be the real deal in so far as something did fall. Whether it was a UFO or not, I couldn’t say.

Still no new information but we do have some pictures, including pictures that seem to come from official news agencies.

Thanks to Above Top Secret for the links to the pictures and thanks to Alex for reminding me to follow up on this story. Even at the risk of being the UFOs in Kazakhstan blog!

Does anyone have any follow ups on these objects that fell in Zelenosk last year? It’s been exactly one year, I believe.

New Media in Kazakhstan

KZBlog — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:05:04 +0000

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 as the government Kazakhstan is accused of restricting local press freedom more and more, these alternative news sources should be flourishing.

The latest episode, which I’ve embedded below, covers a few subjects I haven’t really discussed: Mukhtar Ablyazov’s accusations of corruption on the part of Timur Kuliabayev and the strike in Zhanausien.

Silk Road Intelligencer

KZBlog — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:04:37 +0000

One resource I often consult is the Silk Road Intelligencer, a site that just reprints news from other sources. I don’t usually like sites that have no original content, and that reprint articles in whole from other sources. However SRI does give credit and usually includes a link to the original source. However, SRI does do a good job of picking through all the news on Kazakhstan in English (I suspect they use a Google News Search for Kazakhstan, like I do) and picking out only the relevant or interesting articles. So it does save time and there’s a lot of good information there.

However, if you subscribe to their feed, you get all their stories plus category round-ups, which repeat the same stories by category, and then the daily round-up which reprints all the stories for that day in every category. This feed was quickly flooding my feed reader and leading to a lot of repetition. However, I discovered a neat trick which is that most site feeds can be filtered by category automatically. So here is the Daily News Round Up Feed which only updates once a day and links to all the stories that day. By substituting something else for news-roundup, you can get a feed for any one category you want. And this same trick should work with any WordPress blog or any RSS 2.0 feed, I believe. Perhaps someone smarter than me can correct me if I’m wrong about that in the comments.