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Sawadee, Acharn Richard. Welcome to my topic. I really appreciate how you've been a major part in the movement of Srinai net and all. Many congratulations and tons of respect for you.

Yes, it's so great for Gor to win that award. Put him and Thailand on the mark. (Please pass him my best wishes.) I noticed the info on the award some time after I read his story. The thing is that his is not a conventional weblog. But I've learnt a lot from reading his webpage/weblog. I learnt to change what I was looking for, because probably the blogging tools that are available don't suit Thais. This also helped me see the limitations of the western blogging community. I have since found a couple of personal Thai webpages that have characteristics of "blogs". But in the blogging world (called blogosphere, BTW), they won't be counted as blogs.

"All about Thailand Forum" had me started thinking about the possible nature of group blogs as an evolution of conventional blogging. But then the format would have to be easy use and copied many times in different topics, and used by different types of users for it to be a blogging convention.

I found a similar webpage built for the Lao community,Lao Hub. I wonder if they were influenced by this forum.

There's also DiaryHub, which actually got recorded in the blogging world. A remarkable piece of work, done by another remarkable young Thai. But observing the way it is used, I see also that it is used differently.

So I really need help to look up this use of the internet in Thailand for me. Any leads always welcome. Many thanks.