Posted in cambodge, cambodia, current events, news on Jun 10th, 2012
I spent most of my time at #SketchSaturday yesterday, while most of the focus seemed to be on TEDxPhnomPenh. The event had been heavily promoted by the US Embassy, the Phnom Penh Post, and business/NGO partners. I did keep an eye on the Twitter chatter emerging that day, and was looking forward to seeing the [...]
Posted in academia, cambodge, cambodia, cambodia blog, current events, more stuff, music, puppetry, theatre, visual art, weblogs on Feb 19th, 2012
A brief response to the frequent assertion that there isn’t much choice in places to go, things to do or people to meet in Phnom Penh. I began blogging about things Cambodian in 2002, initially from Siem Reap. I wrote about nearly everything that took my interest because if I didn’t get it on the [...]
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 cambodia, current events on Sep 25th, 2010
After arriving early at BarCamp Phnom Penh and jockeying for a decent slot for my two presentations, I returned from lunch to find myself speaking against … yours truly. Since both of my talks required a projector, after some discussion this was quickly bumped to the next day. For Sunday I’d planned a follow-up presentation [...]
Posted in academia, business, comics, current events, history, literature, news, visual art on Sep 29th, 2009
Doin’ my best to spread the good word about Cambodian comics & Our Books at South Korea’s Bucheon International Comics Festival (BICOF), with a talk on Cambodian comics history. So many comics, so much art, so many cool people, so many bottles of Soju! Stay ‘tooned for short comic précis, to be drawn during our [...]
