Another weekly roundup of blog posts and news articles that were of highlight this week about Iceland.

Web Site: Statistics Iceland
Sale of sound recordings 1991-2008
“Sale of sound recordings declined by 31 per cent between the years 2008 and 2007 as counted in numbers of sold copies. In last year roughly 446,000 copies of domestic and foreign sound recordings were sold at a distributor level, or 200,000 fewer copies than in the previous year.”

Blog: Iceland Review
Children in Iceland Feel Better After Crisis Hit
“Kids spend more time with their parents and parents provide their children and teenagers with more support and pay closer attention to what they’re doing,” one of the report’s authors, Álfgeir Logi Kristjánsson, told Fréttabladid.”

Blog: Rhiannon and Sam
Living in Iceland
“The English media would lead you to believe that people are moaning about the ´crisis´ all the time but they are not. Everyone is just getting on with it.”

Book: Meltdown Iceland, By Roger Boyes
Reviewed by the Independent’s Boyd Tonkin
“Boyes’s utterly gripping account of how Iceland swiftly became the “microcosm” of a planetary market panic yields as crisp and bleak a saga of the downside of globalisation as you will ever read.”

Forum: Iceland Weather Report Forums
Ideas for a traditional food for an Icelandic meetup
“Here is the English language website (and blog) for Icelandic cuisine: http://icecook.blogspot.com – maybe something will catch your eye.”

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