Culture
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?
2011-10-05 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
Resources
- Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Books for Kazakh Students
2011-11-06
- Oh, CNN
Politics
- Image
2011-07-28 - Sub Rosa Endorsement
2011-07-26 - The Naked Truth
2011-06-12
- Image
News
- KZBlog is going down
2013-09-10 - Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - Repentence
2012-07-15
- KZBlog is going down
Fun
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - House Hunters Bishkek
2011-12-02
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
Tourism
- Asian Games Torch
2011-01-12 - Wikitravel
2010-08-07 - ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy
2010-07-30
- Asian Games Torch
Life in KZ
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
2011-12-07 - Healthcare and the Private Sector
2011-11-30 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
Redbubble
Tag archive for ‘KazNet’
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Learn How to Drive Like a Kazakh
Kazakhstan has its first video game! Astana Racer is a racing game set in Astana and apparently features a variety of cars from the Mitsubishi Lancer to a BMW. You can race all over the city from the Left Bank to the old center of town. The game is for sale at Meloman stores and […]
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You’re so Funny. Not.
Ok, what was the point of this piece: You Get One Piece of Carrion Luggage? It takes a picture of Kazakhs hunting with hawks and makes a really stupid joke. So what’s the best domestic airline for getting from place to place [in Kazakshtan -KZBlog]? There is one small one that’s kind of unusual. They […]
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Blogspot?
Usually when people in Kazakhstan write that a website is not working and possibly being blocked, I accuse them of paranoia. I don’t have Kazakh Telecom Interent service so I have yet to meet a blocked site. However, my own paranoia is growing over sites on the blogger/blogspot service. For a few days now I […]
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Foreign Fonts
I’m working on a new T-shirt idea as a Christmas present for a friend–we’ll see if I can pull it off well enough to try to sell to the general public–and was looking for cool Cyrillic fonts. I thought my discoveries might be useful. Dafont has some awesome fonts in Russian Orthodox Church style, propaganda […]
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Who Is One in KZ?
A new ratings site (call it Kazakhstan’s Alexa has sprung up: Whois1in.kz. Basically it tracks traffic to websites in the Kaznet web-space. However, I’m not sure how they limit that. They were kind enough to send me an invitation. So apparently blogging in English doesn’t really matter as long as your site is related to […]
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Some Recent Publicity
KZBlog was featured twice this past week. The first one I knew nothing about, but I was selected as the weekly pancake at at Uncle Shal’s Pancakes. The word Blin in Russian translates literally as pancake, but figuratively it means something like “darn”, a mild swear word. This site however uses it to refer to […]
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Interview with a Kazakh Domain Trader
In March, I wrote about an interesting factoid that I stumbled across: only 6% of registered websites on the .kz domain actually have content. The rest appear to be held by domain traders who hope to sell them to interested parties. For fun, I had tried to guess what .kz domains might be unoccupied and […]
