This post is part of the crossblog survey 2007 in retrospect. You can also vote on the most important event of 2007 in our online poll. 

It’s high time to sum up the developments of the passing year and to start all over again in the New Year. Looking back, I see that we have had 136 posts on the Kazakh version – and 444 comments to them. Therefore, I decided to analyze the most commented posts on Kazakh blog of neweurasia. “Blog” and “new media” are the new terms for Kazakh language vocabulary – and the top posts are about blogging.

For example, “National Internet Award» is most commented post (18 replies). Readers were very active in showing their reaction to this competition. The main idea of this post was that an expert from Russia – who doesn’t’ understand Kazakh language – has had a privilege to choose the best Kazakh site. Interestingly, this problem was discussed only in new media, while mainstream media didn’t cover it at all. This post is a good example of a blog being an instrument. Here is \one of the comments:

Bakytnur: Somebody registered our site Massagan.com on Award.kz. I missed it, but it has won the 2^nd place! Let’s celebrate it!

Second place in the chart belongs to “Podcast: I want to visit Kazakhstan“ (16 comments). This podcast was made by me after my Prague trip. I interviewed a Kazakh girl, born in Germany and never been to Kazakhstan. This was one of the first podcasts in the Kazakh language blogosphere. I think its success was determined by the readers’ interest in audio post and in a Kazakh-speaking young woman from Kazakh diaspora abroad:

Quanysh: I’m really happy to know that a Kazakh girl living and born abroad is fluent in Kazakh! I’m very proud of her!

“What does the local people see in repatriants?” (12 replies) — this post was very actively commented immediately after it had gone online. I didn’t know how to answer to all aggressive commenter. Then I decided not to voice my opinion. In the post I show only those facts that I see in Almaty. I preferred to keep silent as there was no sense in commenting. This post gives me a good lesson on the impact of information through the new media. Only one person understood me right:

Tomiris: You all misunderstand Askhat. He didn’t want to make a strife. We should look deeper into this problem. I know Kazakhs from Mongolia, China, Iran and Turkey. I respect them for keeping knowledge of the Kazakh language and traditions. Only one case is disappointing me – we have 1 language and 3 types of scripts. The Ministry of Education should undertake a special program to solve this problem.

“Being a Judge” (11 comments) — the post was written by our active author Bakytgul, who had been invited to participate in the National Internet Award as a member of jury. She decided to describe her experience and the whole process. In result, we have an interesting post which is being commented up until now. Yesterday Nurgisa has left comment:

I hope it was a good practice for Bakytgul. I think she voted without any bias.

“Result of cut-and-rule policy” (10 replies) — a post by young Kazakh journalist Yesengul Kap, a new author of neweurasia. She writes about national problems that are frequently self-censored by the Kazakh journalists. To solve a proble you need to perceive it. Here is one of the comments comment to her post:

Rauan: … every representative of other diasporas in Kazakhstan are our guests. And a guest should respect the host. Kazakhs are a nation, which doesn’t love to give the power to rule to the guest.