Thai wide web

Politics-People of Thailand in their native cyberspace

Piyapong Pongbhai

Status

• 10 million users or more

• 99 percent of active users use MSN Messenger.

• 7 big blog or online diary providers.

• Foreign blog provider is not a factor.

Political and Cultural Big Bang!

• Big bang of ideas,political discussion = big explosion of blog+diary sites

• No border between media.

• Citizen journalism on the rise

• Old media –Newspaper,TV,Radio are really OLD!

Save the native habitat!

• Save the whole ecosystem not a species• All native blog or diary are political! • Online gamer incident• Protect all webmaster, system admin and their

web business • Native environment is a must.• Law on spam,virus,libel and insult • Beware of bureaucratic drones-zombies –thai

FDA incident• Webmaster organization or guild

• Bloggang.com,storythai.com,diaryhub.com,exteen.com,diaryclub.com,diarycafe.com,blogdd.com,diarylove.com,monkeystory.com,monrak.com,whenifallinlove.net,