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    • Two-edged knife

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    A day in a jungle
    This is not Cambodia’s autumn

    A day in a jungle
    It’s dry season; the heat of April is coming

    These pictures were taken with my new camera phone; I also posted these pictures using this new smart phone over a 3G connection.

    Not only that more and more print newspapers decided to offer more digital content, more mobile phone network service firms are at the battlefield to provide their users advanced technologies and competitive services. I now use High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), a 3G (third generation) mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) family. The speed is not as fast as some broadband connections over telephone line I’ve experienced, but I can now have my email inbox in my palm. I can use my smart phone to check email when I’m on the road; I turned the phone web browser to text mode only so that I can easily read online news. As far as I could figured out, the speed I’ve access is 384 kbit/s. Not too bad as it can be used when I’m on the go.

    As Alfonso Gumucio Dagron reminds us, “when we talk about technology we are only referring to instruments, not to social, economic or cultural development. A knife is just a knife; it can be used to hurt someone or to carve a beautiful wood sculpture. Content and utilisation is what makes the difference.”

    Cambodia's most innovative newspaper

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    This early 2008 sees The Phnom Penh Penh Web site’s got a new look–very casual, simple, and features-rich. It’s claimed that the new redesign newspaper Web site is modeled after the look and feel of the BBC and the Guardian Unlimited site [but why not the New York Times?].

    On Saturday, a day before the new site came up, I took a look at the site via this web address http://thepppost.com/ when I was trying to load The Phnom Penh Post site (http://www.phnompenhpost.com/) on my favorite web browser Mozilla Firefox. I came to understand that there was some changes made at its back-end.

    And what’s the new revolutionary features included? It’s got a Blog section, of course, and so it comes with the Web feed.

    Its old site used HTML frames to present the news content in multiple views. The problem is: it’s not compatible with some mobile web browsers. And to access its online Full Edition one needs to be a subscriber. I enjoy reading the BBC, The New York Times, and International Herald Tribune for how I can access to most of the content.

    I’m not that so surprise that this country’s oldest English-language newspaper has now become the most innovative

    Let’s wait and see the bounce back of The Cambodia Daily, an English-language daily newspaper started in 1993, just one year only after The Post.

    The Economist has an interesting piece, Who killed the newspaper?, about the falling of the print newspaper and rising of the digital media.

    Pantip Plaza

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    Intel at Pantip Plaza
    Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor company, running a marketing campaign at Pantip Plaza, Bangkok’s IT shopping mall

    Intel at Pantip Plaza in Bangkok, Thailand
    I found it amusing to see the way these fellows acting as if they’ve just been landed on earth after a long distance travel from space

    Pantip Plaza is probably comparable to Singapore’s Sim Lim Square. The shopping malls are huge and tall from what I see as a Cambodian. Sorya shopping mall in Phnom Penh is the largest and tallest one, where consumers can find lots of stuff, from clothes to electronic stuff, unlike Pantip Plaza and Sim Lim Square, where tech enthusiasts find nothing beside gadgets and computer products.
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    'I want to go to school'

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    I'm not a schoolboy yet
    An isolated boy

    This is an old picture I already posted months ago; but I like my experiment with color to distinguish the main object and the background to tell the story. I took this photograph of a boy (whom I thought is not yet a schoolboy yet) in Kampong Speu province some time last year. He was playing with his own flip-flops. He’d some small wounds on his left leg. No smile on his face at all.

    First day at Thailand's IT camp

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    Mekong ICT Camp 08
    Klaikong Vaidhyakarn kicking off the Mekong ICT Camp 08

    Mekong ICT Camp 08
    Go Suzuki talking about ‘Do & Don’t’ early in the morning before the ICT campers going to attend their learning sessions

    Mekong ICT Camp 08
    Before his IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T61, computer network lecturer Huy working on an assigned project with great determination

    Mekong ICT Camp 08
    Somsak holding both his BenQ laptop and Asus Eee subnotebook. He’s setting up the small and lightweight portable computer, which runs on Ubuntu (Debian derived Linux-based operating system), as a thin client.

    A week-long Mekong ICT Camp 08 took place at Thammasat University Learning Resort, in Chonburi province, Thailand, where nearly 70 people (mostly from the Mekong region) participated. It’s a five-day capacity development workshop on information and communications technology to enhance the skills of young people.