Archive for October, 2007

@ Meta House Tuesday Nov 06

Posted in comics, literature, visual art on Oct 31st, 2007

Em Satya gets his day in the sun. More info @ What's On.

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Lire en Fete

Posted in comics, literature, news on Oct 18th, 2007

Today, tomorrow and Saturday is Lire en Fete book festival at the French Cultural Centre,Phnom Penh. More pictures and news to follow.  This should be fun, it is Cambodia's only annual book festival!

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Is Blogging Journalism?

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 Networking: http://pitw.wordpress.com http://www.khmeros.info http://www.cloggersummit.net Blogging or 'news'? http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/24/cambodia.blogs.ap/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/bethechange/cassie/ Blog Aggregators and Networking Sites http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/east-asia/cambodia/ http://feed.e-khmer.net http://www.technorati.com http://blogsearch.google.com Blogs ...

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Snakehead Fish

Posted in fish, food on Oct 4th, 2007

spotted on their way to someone's dinner in Phnom Penh traffic. For more on where these fish come from, and how they get to the dinner table, take a look at Phil's excellent writeup on the Chbar Ampouv fish markets. Tags:fish,food

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Blogs for Burma

Posted in buddhism, information technology, weblogs on Oct 4th, 2007

... rhymes much better than 'Blogs for Myanmar'. Today is the international day of support for Burmese bloggers, and in keeping with this, I'd like to note that the Cambodian Government has asked the Burmese government to exercise restraint. (Courtesy Radio Free Asia: http://tinyurl.com/2demqk) I'd be quite happy if Myanmar's internet connection ...

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