First and Only Name: Thai Crediting Culture

2011-10-27T14:42:00.001+07:00

Last week, I wrote a comment on Blognone. (The tech news website I founded with Isriya Paireepairit.) The comment was a response to previous comment which praised Steve Jobs for his diligence and creativity even in time of sickness. I replied that comment on purpose to criticize that Jobs wasn't only person who work on Apple's products.

My comment makes people uncomfortable with it, like I did not honor Jobs as he deserved. This is something I expected, not because Jobs has so many fans but because of it's Thais' culture to overlook the people behind the scenes.

This culture is disgusting to me. Thais are seem to be okay when those who work hard get just their wages and then someone took all credit.

We need to change, we need to learn to respect the efforts. Some people may deserve to earn more credit but everyone who placed their efforts deserve some credit too.

In Thailand, it isn't uncommon if a book will come with very short acknowledgement. Most thesises from universities are usaully contain the name of the parents, and the advisor. You won't find a name of the person who talk to the writers just once or twice, most books have not included their editors' names in the acknowledgement.

At Blognone, me and Isriya are trying to change this. We tried very hard to ensure that anyone who took the articles from the web to use in any purpose will include the writers' names. (Using the articles doesn't need any prior permission for web declared them as Creative Commons.) This requirement make those who want to use the articles feel uncomfortable for the never met such a requirement. Some were acting like we just try to make it harder for them to use the articles on their website.

Hopefully, we could change it some and things will get better in future.

Welcome

2011-10-25T09:08:00.000+07:00

This is the first post on this blog. It's my intention to move the blog from lewcpe.com to this blog soon. The domain should be redirected here in about a month or sooner.

The reason for this is I don't have time to maintain the wordpress on my own. So I decided to move it to somewhere else. Blogger provides me very good set of services. It have a writting assistance from Google Scribe. It provides free hosting without charge. The best of all, it's now integrated with Google+.

Google+ is the best social network service for me so far, it's the balance between publicity and intimacy. People could follow my public posts and I could easily limit who to interact with some other posts. But posting on Google+ is very limited when it comes to formatting. So now I hope Blogger integration should help the best of the both will be together.

Kudos to Googlers who work hard on this, you bring a very lucrative competition to social market. While I can't predict if you will ever gain the siginificance market share or not. I always hope you will drive the market forward for it will be benefit to all users.

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First and Only Name: Thai Crediting Culture

Welcome