tharum's train of thought

My first tech reporting via YouTube

tharum — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:39:45 +0000

Internet penetration in Cambodia more than doubled last year, according to a new survey. The proliferation of smart phones and data plans helped boost usage from about 1.3 percent of the population to
3.1 percent, said Bun Tharum, a technology reporter and researcher.
Most of the users are in their late teens or twenties, he said. The country now has nearly 450,000 Internet users. (Men Kimseng in Washington interviewing Bun Tharum, a regular VOA Khmer contributor, via Skype.)

What’s ‘Solve For X’?

tharum — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:38:11 +0000

This looks like a great Internet site to learn and get inspired by technologies. If you’ve been enjoying watching TED videos, you’d also find this online forum, nicely organized in video mode, very useful in many ways.

Solve For X: A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork.

The Cambodia Daily’s “Twitter account is apparently a fake”

tharum — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:04:51 +0000

While I was reading a blog post on The New York Times about how Google is using one of its last cards in a bid to compete in the social media world, I also found The Cambodia Daily, the nation’s oldest print newspaper, has its Twitter account.

The Daily has launched its Twitter profile on Wednesday, but it has already attracted nearly a hundred followers, which is an amazing figure. I thought it could get new media savvy people to keep talking about this online presence of this print newspaper for weeks. The main reason, I think, is that this paper has a huge potential to go head to head with The Phnom Penh Post, a more business-oriented English-language paper.

But after sending an email to a former Cambodia Daily journalist, I’ve learned that “The Twitter account is apparently a fake.” The journalist, asked in the email, “Wonder who did it….”

The first tweet from this account says:
“On behalf of all the staff at #Cambodia Daily, we are very pleased to announce that we have joined twitter. Stay tuned !” 11 Jan via web

Not yet officially verified, but…
On Twitter, Faine Greenwood tweeted saying here, here, and here:
“@ThCambodiaDaily is a fake account, everyone can return to their homes now. Now….who did it? #cambodiadaily #phnompenh”

“@DevEconHealth @thcambodiadaily I think the Cambodia Daily account is fake. (also, why leave out the “e” in “the”?)”

The Post, its main rival, has exploited the power of digital media for a couple of years. Until this 2012, The Phnom Penh Post now has more four thousand followers on the micro-blogging site and still counting.

What Cambodia’s traditional newspapers can do much now is get its news headlines out via social platforms like Twitter. Twitter is best suited for the media as well as citizens to report breaking news, and the RT (also known as re-tweet) helps spread the news message as we were used to word of mouth, but as fast as the travel of light.

Stop American Censorship

tharum — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:51:23 +0000

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Atlas Shrugged movie

tharum — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:37:20 +0000

Watching this movie this mid night: Atlas Shrugged: Part I.

Dave Winer on Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs

tharum — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:38:27 +0000

The Jobs book
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/27/theJobsBook.html

For me, I’ll finish reading this book in a few days. I’ve got a copy of digital version, reading it on my ThinkPad laptop in the past couple of weeks. It’s until this week that I received the print copy. What’s great about it is that it’s signed by the notable author, Walter Isaacson.