ThaRum - Musings from Cambodia

Community Radio

October 28th, 2004

Recently I translated an artcle, Community Radio, into Khmer and found it interesting. It is a valuable idea from Nepal, providing service to villagers while having them responsible and involved with the radio station. This is something great since it exists in this commercial media world.
When people involve in doing something for their own society, [...]

Journalism Complements Work

October 26th, 2004

I have talked to a colleague who participated in a short course of journalism. The two weekds training runs by Cambodia Communication Institute, a project supported by UNESCO Cambodia. The two weeks training takes place at Royal University of Phnom Penh. And there is another one year course. It is likely that I will have [...]

ICTs and Cambodia Society Transformation

October 18th, 2004

People live with information. Listening to radio and/or reading daily local news after waking up. Walking on road, looking at crowded street, we see messages (typically information) are well-displayed on walls, stuff and anything possible. It is all about information. It surrounds us. Whether we are reading a not-orgnized-information, poor content, or impossible to access [...]

Javascript Cause PageRanking?

October 16th, 2004

I have removed a photo board, a javascript from my entry page, as I realized it has something to do with search engine crawling and especially PageRanking of Google. On several other lower level pages, they were ranked higher than the default page, at least PR 2 not 0, since there is no unfamiliar code [...]

Bonn Pchum Ben, Spirits Festival

October 11th, 2004

I will have three days off on Pchum Ben (in Khmer), Spirits Festival, from 12 to 14 October. Usually the boulevards and roads look quiet. People from every walks of life visit pagoda, or Watt in Khmer, to make offerings (bens) to their dead relatives. And many people visit their homeland, meeting friends and family. [...]