Bloggers Love Media – Media Love Blogs, so Who Loves More?
Armenian blogs have always been attentive towards Mass Media, although you can’t really call it love, in part because there’s not much to love in the Armenian Mass Media these days. As to the newly...
View ArticleArmenian Elections: Bloggers also Facing The Challenge of Choice
Despite rapid political developments and political campaign pouring onto the Armenian voter from all sides, many people haven’t yet made up their mind about which presidential candidate to support. The...
View ArticleThe usual week vs the political one
The announcement of “popular walks” started a chain-discussion of usual vs political everything – bloggers discussed things like usual cats and chess and “shaurmas” (eastern dish: grilled meat rolled...
View ArticlePodcast: the week in the Armenian Blogosphere
The Armenian blogosphere this week was diverse and watchful – bloggers covered everything happening in the country: Onnik Krikorian has shared his impressions of the September 26 opposition rally,...
View ArticlePodcast: The global crisis as seen on the blogging week
The 23rd issue of “Armenian Blogosphere” Radio Program is out and can be downloaded from here. The program brings comments by bloggers on the decline in global markets and shift in US and Russian...
View ArticlePodcast: football, censorship and more…
Football dominated the Armenian blogosphere this week. Virtual discussions focused on the two games of the Armenian football team – both ending in crushing defeats for the Armenian team....
View ArticlePodcast: Karabakh not for sale
Artak Kirakosyan, HIMA blog and Uzogh have commented on the halt of rallies announced by Levon Ter-Petrosyan on October 17 rally in Yerevan. Unzipped has established a link between Russian president...
View ArticlePodcast: Criminal Chronicles
This week’s blog roundup reminds more of criminal chronicles than anything else. At any rate, we have invited Christian Garbis of “Notes from Hairenik” blog for an interview to give you and incentive...
View ArticleGeorge W Bush and the size-10, black, flying shoes
The 29-year-old journalist Muntazer al-Zaidy from “Al Badgadia” TV, threw his shoes at the US President George W. Bush at a press conference in Iraq. Even though the journalist missed his target, he...
View ArticlePodcast: Armenian Eurovision Choice – Arshakyan sisters
Armenian blog community had predicted the Armenian choice of Eurovision-2009. By the end of January bloggers had noted Anush and Inga Arshakyans’ names as winners. Facebook social network contained a...
View ArticlePodcast: Between dram and dollar. Bloggers’ calculations, predictions and...
Information about the US dollar trading at stock exchange is published almost every day in the print media. People hesitate whether to keep their savings in Armenian dram, or to hurry and buy dollars?...
View ArticlePodcast: Dram is not floating, it’s just taken for a swim
Armenian bloggers noted a certain trend this week: on Mary 1 the opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian declares that “the country is falling into abyss”. On March 4 the country nearly falls into that...
View ArticlePodcast: more on the red-apple and a bit of barcamp
The new episode or the Armenian Blogosphere podcast is now available for download as a 1.3 Mb mp3 file as well as for listneing online – just click the player icon below to start playback. Download:...
View ArticleArmenian blogosphere on Obama’s Turkey visit
Obama, on his first day of visit to Turkey, said his views on mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, which he has termed genocide, have not changed. However, Obama said he prefers not to...
View ArticlePodcast: Armenian blogosphere talks Turkey
“Armenia and Turkey have agreed on a comprehensive framework for the normalization of their bilateral relations,” is said in the joint statement disseminated by the Armenian and Turkish foreign...
View ArticleThe Obamameter, Armenians, Turks and blogs
As President Barack Obama’s 100 days in office went by the American analysts tried to find out how many of US President’s 514 campaign promises had been fulfilled, making use of the famous Obameter....
View ArticlePodcast: the ‘emergency’ week in the Armenian blogosphere
“What’s burning? Is it at Nairit? Can’t see very well”, these were there questions asked at 18:55 on Dabavogr’s blog, minutes after the first deadly explosion at Nairit Chemical factory’s rubber...
View ArticlePodcast: interview with Vahan Ishkhanian
This week’s Armenian Blogosphere podcast features an interview with journalist Vahan Ishkhanian about his blogs, specifically the one on Tert.am. Ishkhanian is well known around the Armenian...
View ArticleNotes from the Armenian Blogosphere
A group of Armenian and Azerbaijani parliamentarians and intellectuals initiated a one-day “public diplomacy” trip visiting the Presidents and key officials in the disputed Karabakh region, Armenia and...
View ArticleArmenian bloggers call for Foreign Minister Nalbandian’s resignation
Following the release of a statement on July 10, 2009, in Aquila, by presidents of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries, containing the so-called Madrid basic principles of Karabakh problem’s...
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