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I'm in travelling in Kazakhstan majorly for "Roundtable on blogging development in Kazakhstan". The event is really neccessary to me to understand how blogosphere developed in this coutnry, as well other central Asian countries. Basically, it's very difficult to blog becuase the internet infrastucture is really poor here(though its said KZ is the best developed country in Central Asia area on IT intrastructure). So I'm now using the only two/three cables in conference room to upload these fotos and text(Of course, there is no Wifi).

Many topics and discussions focued on the relationship between journalism and blogging. It's, of course, not a new topic to those developed blogosphere, but it's still a time-to-prove thing in this area. I'm happy to see that more and more people here also realized the potential of blogging and started to become bloggers.

In these countries, whehter they are still "socialism" coutries or not, people still have many concerns and free thinking barriers to become open content sharer---blogger. They questionsed a lot why they need blog in their mind with different kind of hesitations.

Another big issue here is accessibiiliy. With very expensive broad band service, blogging is definitely a luxury thing to common people. So I think we are still lucky living in China. We can anyway have relatively low service plan from the monoply telecom though we are facing another access problem, GFW.

It's really interesting to study another blogosphere as an observer. I will continue to talk tomorrow and get more knowledge about this courtry, beautiful but low paces.