Information about the Neweurasia Kazakhstan site
1. Neweurasia Kazakhstan – http://kz.kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/
2. The site uses Kazakh, Russian and English languages.
3. The site authors are:
Leila is an authour of neweurasia-Kazakhstan and execucutive editor of the neweurasia weblog in general. She also contributes to the Global Voices Online, and blogs on her LiveJournal.
Her email is leila@neweurasia . net.
Askhat Erkimbay is coordinator and the editor of the news in kazakh language on “Neweurasia.net” weblog.
His E-mail: urimtal@gmail.com and his personal weblog: http://urimtal.wordpress.com
Bakhytgul Salykhova is an advisor of CAECN (Central Asia Education Cooperation Network). When she has free time out of work she writes an articles in kazakh langauge on different blogs including Neweurasia.
Her e-mail: baqytgul@gmail.com and weblogs: http://adebiet.wordpress.com/ http://qazaqblogshilar.wordpress.com/
Adam is a coordinator of the neweurasia’s Kazakhstan weblog.
Skype: adam_kesher2000, icq: 174-421-941
Kuanish Magzuov is a blogger who dreams to increase the popularty of Kazakh language inside the internet. E-mail: huanysh@gmail.com
neweurasia is a network of weblogs coordinated and written by bright young individuals from Central Asia and the Caucasus together with their peers around the globe.
4. All authors of Neweurasia Kazakhstan site are from Kazakhstan, and live in Almaty city.
5. The site has been active since Sep. 2005. It has unlimited number of users and members that publish their own articles. There are 5 or 6 entries per week.
6. Yes, the site allows it’s users to leave comments, but there are few articles in the site, probably the reason is that it is not so popular at the moment, but it develops and I hope it will attract many people in near future.
7. Yes, the site provides RSS feeds. If someone would like to subscribe for its RSS feeds here is the link to do so.
8. What community? Community of CIS countries (almost all countries of CIS). Also group of different people with different tastes and points of view, but all of them are attracted by the interest of the development of journalism and mass-media in the country.
9. Topics are mostly news oriented.
10, 11. Well, when you visit the website for the first time you see very simple and primitive project, but when you start to observe and explore it from the title to the core you become a person who realises that his/her first impression was misleading… it has really huge data, information, news, articles and so much more… that’s why it makes Neweurasia Kazakhstan a good example of online participatory journalism…
Thank you! Just I would to add something.
We have readers and authors outside of CIS and you can read this blog with Latin fonts. It gives opportunity to European Kazakh’s to read and leave comments. You now that Kazakh use three types of Alphabet