Who is the first Khmer Blogger?
After Bloggers are booming in Cambodia during the last a few years, no one knows that who is the real first Khmer Blogger. Even me; I always asked myself who is the first one. By the way, I have sometimes asked other Cambodian bloggers about it but no one knows real answer to my question.
Recently, The Phnom Penh Post published its headline “Cloggers, the King Father and online dissentâ€. At that time, I knew that the retired King Norodom Sihanouk is the first Khmer blogger. The King started posting regularly on his website since 2002.
The Post reported that “The retired King was enjoying a global revolution in online self-publishing that has been likened to the invention of the printing press. Armed with easy-to-use software, always-on connections and increasingly powerful mobile devices, bloggers, the theory goes, have become active media players- enabling dissent, enhancing freedom of expression and broadcasting democracy.â€
In the interview by Bath Kanter, she posted article saying that “Meet Tharum: Cambodia’s Second Most Famous Bloggerâ€. She added that Tharum became a celebrity blogger when his blog was feature on the front page of The Cambodia Daily.
Lux coined the term “Clogging†(as known Cambodian Blogging). He became interested in blogging and is a pioneer of “Clogging” . At the present, he formed a team, named “Personal Information Technology Workshop†with five Cambodian bloggers: Khmerak, Deedeedoll, Kalyan Keo, and Trajoke.
At the same time, Open Forum of Cambodia is providing Blog Training to students, NGOs staffs, journalists, and other youths about how to create blog, how to write articles and how to use Khmer for blogging.
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I agree that his majesty the king-father is the first Cambodian blogger, even though his blog seems being done manually (not technically or dynamically).
Anyways, I started blogging a few months ahead(august 2004) of Tharum, but I’m less popular *lol*
I just start blogging on December 2006 but base on the article you’ve mentioned it should be King Grand-great-father who is the first. I’ve seen many blog has been growing from day to day in this 2007. Hope everyone will come to blog.
Anyway, not Wanna blog is not a popular one.
Thanks for article.
I don’t have the answer about who is the first Khmer Blogger? I just have to think who is Khmer Blogger’s domain name? To use WHOIS eg. http://www.gandi.net/whois
It’s not sure that King Father is the first Khmer blogger
But it’s sure King Father’s website has really many many important historical and political informations about Cambodia evolution from 1941 till now, especially during his first reign(1941-1970) and his second one(1993-2004) that we (our generation) should learn from and analyze them.
Vutha, I gree with you may his majesty king’s father is the first blogger. Do you have any ideas how many blogger are there??
In my recent interview with an AP reporter i provide my guesstimate of around 1,000 but most of them are inactive. Is my number close to the real figure?