Dead-tree blogging

The Cambodia Daily today offers a dead-tree blogger’s perspective of the weekend’s activities. Not only does the story reveal that Vireak lives in Singapore, it also says that when it comes to blogging, Cambodia easily holds it own against her neighbors.

Despite trailing behind its neighbors in terms of how many people use the Internet, Cambodia is on par with Vietnam and Thailand for how many of those people create blogs — or Web sites made up of frequent, journal-style entries — in English, according to Preetam Rai, Southeast Asia regional editor for Web site Global Voices.

The International Telecom Union and the Vietnam Internet Center report that around 44,000 people use the Internet in Cambodia, compared to 8.4 million in Thailand and 16.5 million in Vietnam, Rai said Friday at the summit.

That’s very impressive.