http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld the world in your pocket Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:58:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sadly Olive will not update The Life of Riley any more. The oldest blogger in the world passed away on July 12th aged 108. Olive took up blogging in February 2007 at the age of 106 with the help of Mike, her helper, and through her blog she became known ... http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld/2008/07/24/all-about-olive/ Cherry is a freelance web editor, information architect, screenplay writer and DJ from Slovenia. So her blog Lust for Life has a bias towards music. Recent topics included nipping over the border to Italy for a rock concert (the joys of living in Continental Europe!) and the advantages of working ... http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld/2008/07/17/lust-for-life-in-slovenia/ Written by a student from Malaysia, tiMes JoUrNaL is a mixture of life and travel. Kyh clearly loves his country and is keen to show its best sites off to anyone who visits this blog through frequent travel posts. This recent post describes an annual architectural workshop this year hosted ... http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld/2008/07/11/times-journal-of-malaysia/ More than 3 years ago Eric had the idea of posting one photo every day of his town, Paris. His blog ParisDailyPhoto now contains hundreds of photos taken all over Paris. Photo: Place des Vosges from PDP There are famous monuments, exhibitions, even a peep inside a Parisian flat. It's a ... http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld/2008/07/02/see-paris-with-a-new-photo-every-day/ How did we get this far without mentioning any blogs from Canada? Maybe because there are so many good ones to choose from, it was hard to make a decision. Probably fittingly for such a multi-cultural country, our first Canadian entry is written by a foreigner in Canada. Zhu (aka ... http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld/2008/06/26/out-of-the-cold/ Ahmed Sharif is an avid traveller and photographer from Dhaka. Deserchobi (the name means 'photos from back home') is a photo-documentary of his travels around his homeland Bangladesh. A nice way to discover this beautiful and fascinating country. http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld/2008/06/19/deserchobi-photos-of-bangladesh/ Melinda moved to Florence three years ago, and writes about her Italian experiences in Living in Florence. Read it and you will be transported to the streets of this beautiful European city. She loves exploring Florence and the surrounding region, but also writes about daily life, such as Sunday lunch with ... http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld/2008/06/12/an-american-in-florence/ In India Uncut, journalist Amit Varma provides acerbic commentary on a range of current Indian and world topics. He has a knack of picking out the most interesting and sometimes surreal-sounding anecdotes from the Indian and world press. As well as taking a look at what's going on inside India, it's ... http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld/2008/06/05/online-india-the-full-story/ After many years living abroad Alda returned to her native Iceland in 1994. She works as a translator, bringing Iceland to the world and the world to Iceland. In The Iceland Weather Report Alda describes her life in 'Niceland', with almost daily updates on the weather and the Icelandic days ... http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld/2008/05/30/icelandic-weather-report/ Multi-cultural couple Ben Curtis and Marina Diez write Notes from Spain from their home in Madrid. There are articles and podcasts on just about everything to do with Spain and its culture. We've written before about Spanish food, and there's more of it here. It's an entertaining read for anyone ... http://pocketcultures.com/blogsoftheworld/2008/05/22/notes-from-spain/