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In a long journey backed from Almaty to Shanghai(via Delhi and Bankok), I was thinking of the big potential for blogging in Central Asian countries, now I can eventually tell who they are(Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan), heh-heh.  I did Wikipedia them before I headed to KZ, but i can't really do perceptions on those countries until I talked with them face to face in last days.

Frankly speaking, the roundtable meeting about blogging was the least internetworked one ever in my recent years though other life facilities were as same as other countries. I didn't expect the expense of internet there are still a key issue to such a international conference. Blogging is still luxury fashion here. We can't always grant things to be everywhere. We should also try to think in context all the time.

But, just like I said in my last post, the landscape of blogging in these countries are realy open and promising. I can imagine the current attendees of the conference will become prominent bloggers in their countries soon by building their fames online. But first of first, the local government/grassroots should co-compete to improve their connectivity first. It's a time issue, I believe. Then with affordable and even free infrastructure, the blogosphere can boom like in China. So I can also see the potential of the blog related business and social changes in this area that worth venture capitalists to consider investment there. Anyway, any venture investment should be well evaluated before accomplishment, we still need many interactivities with local teams to examine their capabilities on enterpreneurship and dilligence. 

The advantages of those countries are also obvious. People there are facing big changes similar to China. They are eage to find new tools and hopes to change their social life. The democracy system is shaping itself better than in China, freedom of speech is almost ready(may differ within those countries). So they are really ready for adopting blogging and new web 2.0 concepts. They can also learn experiences and lessons from China(though they talked more about US and EU as sample) on censorship, language barriers and and internet ethics.  Whatever, they are in golden time to develop their own blogosphere.

That's why I'm thinking how can someone can promptly register some interesting domain names in those countries, like kzblog.org, youarefool.ru, etc.  :D

posted by im  # 3:43 PM