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.
