Tuesday, August 22, 2006

A baby Latvian blog is born :)

Some guys have launched a Latvian language blog, telecomblog.lv. I am most flattered that they have linked a feed of this blog to theirs. The idea is excellent, just all you Latvian readers...whoa, what was I about to say...? Yeah, go ahead and rush right over and check this blog out. Just come back, for fuck's sake :), OK? Looks like I gotta watch these guys and they watch me. All that means there will be more info, more voices and thoughts about our favorite subject, telecoms & IT in Latvia.
It also brings to mind that a certain newspaper has sorta blown the chance to, hehe, adopt and Latvianize the blog of one of its journalists. Well, we shall see how far the theory of first mover advantage goes. Actually, I hope to share information and opinions with these guys. Good luck! Right on!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi there!

I am one of those guys who launched the telecomblog.lv. In the beginning we thought that this is a good topic to write about, because there is no common place for information on telecommunications in Latvia (then we did not now yet about Latviantelecoms). And at the end during a brainstorm me and my friend we got till idea that the Internet can be as infrastructure provided and maintained by government. If the internet would be for free it is half a step away form free telephone communications. The question is how and if such an infrastructure for free or with minimal tax would boost the national economy, social and business activities?

If really anyone could talk and communicate for free, how would it affect our information society? Would the people hear that someone loves them more often? Would we face the increase of business communications and thus the improvement of economic indices?

The first step is to achieve the Internet for free. Here is a good example GoogleWiFi. This is an advantage of a small market, not without a political decision, but we can make the national coverage of internet for free faster than Google can do it in USA.

And speaking about complementary or competitive relations with Latviantelecoms, we are definitely looking for a friend. Today me and my friend Ingus, we thought that we might need a slash/eng section for our blog and we decided that our English side of blog can be Latviantelecoms:)