Game, set and match.

The prime minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra presided over the opening of the Thai Open a couple of days ago. With Roger Federer, Andy Roddick and Carlos Moya all in attendance it promises to be a great event. Here in Thailand though all eyes will be on local superstar Paradorn Srichaphan



But if tennis is not your sport, maybe Elephant Polo would have been more your style? (regretably the Chicken Polo tournament was cancelled due to a bout of flu affecting the players!)

Technology: Bloggin' publicity!

The Internet has been back in the press recently with several high profile ‘blogging’ incidents.
For those who only ever log onto a computer once a month to read this newsletter, let me explain: blogging or ‘web logging’ is an online diary of sorts that is kept by literally millions of people. Some are updated every couple of weeks, others are updated almost hourly. Some have devoted readership bases, others are lost forever in the tidal wave of Internet data. However, blogging has now started to cause problems, both for bloggers themselves and for others.
As more and more company employee’s start blogging and start to reveal their innermost thoughts about the company they work for, company lawyers are desperately running around trying to work out how to protect the company image. The result? Several high profile firings and a serious teaser about what company policy should be.

At the same time as this is happening, bloggers have started to wield some power. After an ill researched piece on the US president was aired last week, bloggers worked together to disprove the story in just a matter of hours. Expect more heads to roll and the few major corporations which control most of the world’s news to try and discredit bloggers.