Riga Talk

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 [...]

Global media giant News Corporation who already owns 100% of LNT, announced Friday May 30 that it has acquired the remaining part of TV Riga (TV5) and now this channel is also under full ownership of the conglomerate. Latvia’s most popular channel LNT was acquired in May last year, together with 70% of TV5. As [...]

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 [...]

[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 [...]

I was watching LNT’s morning show “900 Seconds” today, when I saw Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis speaking on inflation. He has told that Government’s aim by fall ’08 is to “come to inflation lower than a two-digit number. I can’t  tell you now, whether it’s seven or eight percents, but this is our aim”. [...]

I see people getting crazy over Riga’s public transportation fare price rise. Now it has reached an astonishing limit of 40 santims (just over half a euro). How silly. I know, other Latvian cities are still to catch up. I heard Vilnius, Lithuania buses are still cheap. But hey, this is something you can’t really [...]

Я вернулся с моим первым постом на русском. Привет, мир! Как достойный моряк, хоть и привязан к стенке мой галеон вот уж несколько лет, не могу быть не обеспокоен происходящими в последнее время авариями на море. Керченский пролив – халатность капитанов в штормовых условиях и критических обстоятельствах. Неопытность? Нарушения при оценке технического состояния судов судовладельцами [...]

Holandes siers pa Ls 10 kilogramā? Crazy. (I mean, kādreiz bija cik? 3?) Sagaidījām augstas algas, jā – bet cenas jau arī uzkruķītas tā, ka maz neliekas. Algu inflācija reizē ar cenu inflāciju, beigās jau izrādās nekāds labums no lielākas algas nav. Cenas kāpj. Un vēl pie tam tas nav viss. Būs VĒL dārgāks gan [...]