Posted in cambodge, cambodia, cinema, current events on Mar 23rd, 2013
I was tired. I was hungry. I had lots of other things to do. But wild horses couldn’t have kept me away from this year’s FilmCamp. Like the label says: it’s a meeting of film enthusiasts. In Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I’d first encountered the organizers ‘Kon Khmer Koun Khmer’ at their amazing ‘Golden Reawakening’ film [...]
Posted in cambodia, information technology, islam, muslim, news, weblogs on Dec 18th, 2011
Ever since our first ‘Clogger Summit‘ in 2007, Cambodia’s blogging community has been fortunate to receive both enthusiasm and visits from overseas bloggers. Today at the Digital Media Collective’s ‘Freedom of Expression Forum’ we were joined by what may be our first (indigenous) guest blogger from Afghanistan, Hameed Tasal. From his hometown of Jalalabad he [...]
Posted in information technology, weblogs, Yet More Blogs on Nov 12th, 2007
Thomas, Chantra, Virak, Phatry, Lux and more (left) at what is becoming a regular meeting of Phnom Penh bloggers. In the wake of the Clogger Summit, a number of us have been meeting to discuss new projects and plans. Stay tuned shortly for a site and mailing list. Want in? Zap an email to me [...]
Posted in academia, agriculture, information technology, Other Goodies, weblogs on Nov 2nd, 2007
During the Clogger Summit, Beth Kanter brought over some durable video cameras that shoot directly to MP4 format. Perfect for beginning videobloggers. One of the concerns that came up at the summit was getting more rural voices in the world of blogs. Especially in primarily agrarian Cambodia. Agricultural researcher Mandevu’s Ph.D field work is to [...]
Posted in academia, information technology, news, stuff, weblogs, Yet More Blogs on Oct 5th, 2007
Today I did a short lecture introducing the subject of blogging to a journalism class at the University of Phnom Penh. As promised, here is a list of links I covered in my very brief overview: Blogging Service providers: http://www.blogger.com http://www.wordpress.com Cambodian Web Logs: http://www.norodomsihanouk.info http://deedeedoll.blogspot.com http://www.tharum.info http://www.vireak.net About Cambodia: http://beth.typepad.com http://www.phnomenon.com Blog Training and [...]
