The Essence of Blogging

Wow, when I read this I was like amazed....always impressed at the human spirit, where it will reach, whose heart it will touch. I know Cambodia was a worn torn country due to the Vietnam war and then when it faced its own political internal strife. Reading this story makes me realize how priviledged I am to live in the USA where electricity and yes blogging......is as easy to me as breathing:

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- A Cambodian blogger asked recently whether former King Norodom Sihanouk should be considered the country's founding father of blogging.

Young, tech-savvy Cambodians are embracing blogs.

He got no definitive answer. Cambodian blog watchers say the 84-year-old monarch may not have known he was blogging when he unveiled his Web site, updated daily by his staff since 2002 with his views on national affairs, correspondence with his admirers and news about his film-making hobby.
But it is clear that young, tech-savvy Cambodians are joining Sihanouk in embracing blogs. The trend is changing their lives and their communication with people abroad -- even as electricity remains an unreachable dream for most households in this poverty-ridden nation of 14 million.
"This is a kind of cultural revolution now happening here in terms of self-expression," said Norbert Klein, a longtime resident from Germany who is considered the person who introduced e-mail to Cambodia, through a dial-up connection in 1994. "It is completely a new era in Cambodian life."

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/24/cambodia.blogs.ap/index.html