I am enjoyin being accredited for the FIBA U19 for real. Just got home from Valmiera where I spent a basketball-filled afternoon yesterday. And media reception at the event is perfect, I tell ya. Everything is in tact, organizers working like a swiss clock. Nice and smooth registration (check out my media pass, what!), personal [...]

I am proud to let y’all know that Riga Talk finally has got a facelift – it’s became cleaner, more focused and easier to navigate. I have dumped Latvian and Russian languages too, making the blog English only. Older multi-lingual posts are still available in the Archive, but there’s no language switcher anymore – I [...]

I keep hearing bout how Riga Talk was awesome and I should blog more frequently. This is real inspiring, so.. Call it a come back. Props to my die-hard readers, and you know I bounced back before. This time ain’t no different. Picture me bloggin’. Since I’m down with Latvia’s Silicon Valley giants, Capital Inc., [...]

I was ready to go to sleep when I thought I’d check my Twitter page and then I saw this tweet from Janis Krums with the TwitPic link. At first, I thought the picture was unreal. Some kind of joke? The making of Lost-like video or something? I thought Janis is on a movie set [...]

Over the last few months I’ve been implementing the Getting Things Done system in my life. I’ve read the book by David Allen and all, tryna see where it takes me. A couple words about it though – that’s a personal and business productivity management tool, sorta what I used to call time management. Only [...]

If you have an original idea / business model / startup to kick off on the web, but feel short in cash or resources, then the perfect way for you to nail down a potential partner are OpenCoffee format meetups, which are now going to take place in Riga too. That goes to investors as [...]

On the note of TNS releasing the news of the tremendous growth online media advertising market saw through 2007, I would like to praise and applause for this thing we’re so used to: the Web. C’mon y’all, stand up! That’s what I’m talking bout. Ad market is surely reflecting what the masses chew on – [...]

[lang_en]..Before you start making an incubator, you should decide how many eggs you would like to incubate simultaneously.. We’re at BarCamp are kinda different from all of those farmers and embryologists out there. The eggs being incubated simultaneously, umm, the applications for funding, were not limited – everyone could submit whatever amount of projects to [...]

[lang_en]What’s been up? I have been traveling to our Lil’ Switzerland and back all week long, but I know I should come in here and post. Thanks for staying on the line! Today, I wanna point your attention to comments on the war between internet and printed media that been showing up here and there [...]

[lang_en]Blogs seem to be liking the idea of expansion of The Schengen Zone. Mines, baumas.blogspot.com has successfully migrated over to this ish right here to find a new stand-alone home. Those who’re just joining our channel, what up? This here is Riga Talk, a.k.a. The Real Talk Blog. Don’t go away. So, all posts published [...]