How will Twitter censorship affect people living in Thailand?

By now most of you will have read about Twitter's adoption of a country-specific approach to censorship. In case you missed it: Twitter has adopted Google's tactics for coping with legally binding censorship demands: from now on, when it receives a legal demand to censor a tweet, it will only censor that tweet for users in the country from which …

Nov 29, 2010

A cold day in hell

Today I went to the huge Apple store in Covent Garden and bought a 13” Macbook Pro. Those who have heard me talk about Apple will perhaps be surprised at my decision. For the past few years I have been very anti-Apple, arguing tooth and nail against friends and acquaintances who have tried to convince me that Macbooks and iPhones …

Feb 25, 2010

Welcome to last year

I can't work out if this tech column in the Bangkok Post is a joke or not. It was published yesterday and it appears to have gone in the newspaper. It's a review of Twitter. That's the same Twitter that's one of the most popular social networking sites in the world. The same Twitter that's been around since 2006. The …

Apr 24, 2009

Thailand's top 100 blogs

The list of the top 100 Thailand blogs that I set up a year ago continues to grow. On the list at the moment are 180 blogs about Thailand. I update the rankings as and when I remember and add new blogs if they are suitable (i.e. if they are actually blogs). At the moment, the header isn't showing up …

Feb 1, 2009

MMO blogs are rubbish

A little while ago I sent up a make money online (MMO) blog called World of Angel. (MMO blogs are written on the subject of how to make money with a blog.) It was my “big idea” and was supposedly going to make me rich. It didn’t because make money online blogs are just about the dumbest type of blogs …

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