Archive for August, 2007

At the Cambodian Bloggers Summit 2007

I am here in Pannasastra University in Cambodia for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit. I have been following Cambodia blogosphere for about two years now and impressed with the diversity of topics that bloggers in Cambodia talk about and the fact that many young bloggers write in English.

My presentation featured some of the blogs I follow and some characteristics of Cambodian blogosphere. Though both Vietnam and Thailand have higher number of Internet users, I know more about Cambodia because a lot of Cambodian bloggers write in English. Cambodian bloggers are also more active in outreach going out to the provinces and universities and helping people understand internet and blogging. Also impressive is the use of web based technologies to set up the conference. The entire registration and scheduling was done on wikispaces and there is a live feed and discussion on uStream
Live Blogging at Cambodia Bloggers Summit

State of Play V Coverage

I am at the State of Play and its nice meeting so many people. Here is what other bloggers are writing about the conference

Pre Conference Dinner

Day 1

Meanwhile HiPiHi - The Chinese Virtual World announced their international strategy. They want to collaborate with other Virtual Worlds. Their investors are also linked to Japan’s biggest social network Mixi.

Wikipress: Wikitravel articles as books

I am a big Wikitravel fan and I have edited some pages on and off.

I met Wikitravel.org co-founder Evan Prodromou and Wikitravel community leader Jani Patokillio at Wikimania in Taipei earlier this month. They announced a new project called Wikitravel Press, they would be printing travel guides based on Wikitravel pages.

Jani showed me a sample guide and it turns out to be Singapore. They say they picked Singapore as Singapore’s Wikitravel page is one of the star articles.

Wikitravel articles are available as Attribution-Sharealike 1.0 Creative Commons license. So if you follow some conditions even you can use the articles in your commercial projects.

Here is an audio interview featuring Evan Prodromou at Wikimania.

Philippines Police Use YouTube to Inform Public

These days I get asked a lot by organisations on how they should go about doing their public facing videocasts and podcasts. I often ask them not to bother with buying/renting their own servers and use free video upload sites like You Tube. If you are targeting young people then your audience are anyway going to be on YouTube. If you put the videos on your site, you need to then figure out ways of driving people to your domain. Put the videos on YouTube, allow others to embed the videos on their blogs and make them fun. Here you have the police in Makati putting up these videos informing the public of the modus operandi of the criminals. The actors are police officers themselves.

Police Videos on YouTube
(Via Mukamo Philippines)