Cambodia Blogs (& video & podcasts) in the News (again)

Village Girl gets a writeup in the New York Times, in an article on Video Bloggers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/arts/25vlog.html
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http://tinyurl.com/bqelq
(her husband also does a videoblog, and appears to be doing some work in Cambodia).

and Tharum (‘Cambodia’s Second Most Famous Blogger’ gets interviewed at Global Voices.
http://tinyurl.com/cxocz

Khmer Operating System gets a mention in Linux World News! Serious Geek Cred.


Meanwhile, you can hear a local radio interview (105.5 FM) (podcast in Khmer) of members of Youth Council of Cambodia, regarding their work and weblogs. (Caution, big download if you are in Cambodia.) http://khlog.mypodcasts.net/

Video Blogging and podcasting raise some interesting technical challenges. Was in Hurley’s Cantina the other night and we were checking out the news. “Cool, video blogs”. Hurley starts to download a clip from Village Girl – then realizes that it’s 18 megabytes.

That’s nothing in the developed world, but here if you go over your quota you could be charged a dollar a megabyte, depending on your internet provider. If I want to download something, I go to an internet cafe – they charge by the minute, not by the megabyte. Plus while connections are fast in Phnom Penh, in the provinces they’re 128kilobytes per second. A real headache if you’re on Hotmail.

That’s why I try to optimize pictures and pages whenever possible. You never know when there will be a power outage or the internet will suddenly become… slow, for no apparent reason at all.

One Response to “Cambodia (video) Blogs in the News”

  1. Solynna says:

    Hello there, this is Villagegirl, i just want to say thank you so much for the infor…to lat other know about it:))

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