Changkhui: Changkhui

The 3rd episode of this series, this time we had 5 participants; @Kangg, @adct2luv, @Sitdh, @ohm4u and @simplywit

The second episode of 2009 5-likes and 5-dislikes. On this episode, we had Prode (@Rabbitmoon) and Aum (@Mr_Aum). Some of the lists were quite unique and, of course, funny.

Due to an episode on BusinessWeek This Week's Cover Story podcast on October 22 and one on Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders October 28, with a conversation during lunch with office colleagues, those three incidents prompted me to make an episode on it. We were lucky to have @meneeeee and @sitdh to help us on the issue. We then went on to talk about the Twtcon event on November 26. The event info was at http://www.twtcon.com.

A special episode, 2nd year in a row. We simply asked what were your top 5 "likes" and 5 "dislikes" in 2009. This time, we focused on our listeners. On this episode, we hade Guy (@GuyNjoyFoto), Mob (@Pokemaniac) and Sun (@LifeIsSeeker). There were some varieties and mostly fun.

We got some help on this episode. There would be a Twitter event in Pattaya on December 12, 2009, more information at http://unseenpattaya.do.in.th. One of our long-time listeners happened to be a DJ at a local radio station in Pattaya, his name was Eddie and the radio station was FM 106.60, http://www.fm10660.com. He produced an episode on the event, having both the guest and the host of the event on the show and passed it along if we could re-distribute. Hey, that saved me for another week of episode.

After many postpones, we finally managed to record this episode in an office. Having noticed the popularity of GPS this year, we had to find someone to explain the practical use of it. Surached and Toom were my office colleagues who have been using it lately, so this was easy to find someone who could talk about this. All in all, the technology had been quite practical for some time even in Thailand and there were many practical uses of it, other than just maps.

As a parting note when I met Patchara (iHEar), he suggested that I could talk to his friend, Plajazz, the trumpet man on iHear Band on how he went from an engineer to a full-time musician. Since we had no episode in stock, so I contacted him on Twitter and he duely responded within minutes, so we met on Skype on November 10 at almost midnight. Plajazz, Kriengkria Suntipojana, had been playing trumpet since grade 7. He continued to play during his engineering years at Chulalongkorn university. After graduation, he went through a few soul-searching years, until he realized that he was, really, a musician. This guy was still young and it was likely that Changkhui had spotted another star before it would shine in due time. His site was at http://www.plajazz.com and you might follow him at Twitter.com/Plajazz.

Due to a request from a listener, suggesting us to talk about computer viruses, we invited @Nsom to share his knowledge. Nsom talked about evolutions on computer viruses since late 80s to present. Though we did not point out specifically what programs each was using, we did provide a guideline on how one should practice and go about venturing into the cyberworld full of viruses.

For the last 2 months, I could not help but notice a new phenomenon in Bangkok among geeks and music lovers. Every sunday afternoon, a community is forming at a coffee shop. iHear is a loosely-formed band among friends, starting with @plajazz and @iPattt. This is a truely a social-network phenomenon. Pat is a enterpreneur and musician, he actually plays on stage and for studio recording, and the same time, he co-owns a web development company. Pat talks about how this is started, how he uses social network to market his audience. I witnessed this on Sunday October 25, 2009. You could see some of these performance at the YouTube playlist.

Not a tech topic, but purely out of curiousity, we talked about the Thai fooltball league fever. It would have been impossible a decade ago to see what we witnessed today in Thailand. There were actually thousands of people who actually paid to see Thai soccer players play in a stadium. I saw tweets after tweets from Champ (twitter.com/tvchampion) who described or commented in various matches that he went to see. It was a rather niche topic, which might not be of interest to a few people.