Here’s a list of some of my notable posts from the last few years.
Posts from 2012:
March
- Newley.com in the New Lonely Planet Thailand
- Off Topic: My Soccer Team Won Our League!
- Notes from Thai PM Yingluck’s FCCT Speech
April
May
June
July
- Off Topic: A Remarkable Motorcycle Helmet
- Bangkok Street Life Inventions: Garbage Bag Poncho and Frond-Fashioned Napping Shade
August
- Programming Note: I’m Off to NYC for Nine Months
- Off Topic: An Excellent Book about Nutrition
- Spotted Today in Bangkok: The Umbrella Hat in Action
September
October
- Notes from Tonight’s Presidential Economic Advisers Forum
- Tweets from Bob Woodward’s Columbia Journalism School Talk Last Night
- New York City Fire Hydrant Poles Marked ‘Thailand’ (Updated)
- My Tweets from Eric Schmidt’s Talk with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher
- Multiple posts: Hurricane Sandy hits NYC.
Older stuff:
Posts about Thailand:
- Thailand flooding update: More of the same
- Thailand flooding update: death toll surpasses 500
- Thailand flooding update: Bangkok’s flood defenses hold
- Thailand flooding update: New flooding maps, and details on threat to inner Bangkok
- Thailand election: liveblogging the results
- Photos from Democrats’ rally at Rajaprasong last night
- A few images from today’s PAD protest in Bangkok
- Notes from Sen. McCain’s remarks yesterday here in Bangkok
- Observations on “The Hangover Part II”
- Notes from Thai PM Abhisit’s FCCT speech
- A visit to Pheu Thai’s red shirt exhibition
- Update on Map Ta Phut
- Thailand’s World Cup Behind Bars
- Rajaprasong aftermath: images from today
- Bangkok: the events of May 19
- Red shirt protests: images from this evening
- Explosions in Silom
- Red shirts and pro-government demonstrators in Silom
- Thai troops, redshirts clash: images from last night
- State of emergency: What life is really like in Bangkok
- Thailand blood protest: images from the prime minister’s house today
- Images from today’s red shirt blood protest
- Thai PM Abhisit on Map Ta Phut: Notes from last night’s FCCT speech
- My World Hum Q&A on Thailand protests and traveling here
- Audio Slide Show: State of Emergency in Bangkok
Posts about journalism and media:
- Off topic: Diagramming my social media involvement
- My Twitter list of Thailand journalists and commentators
- Social media and Thailand’s red shirt protests
- Bangkok Post — in 3D
- More on Matt Gross, the NYT, and multimedia travel journalism
- 2009 media picks
Posts about technology:
- How to transfer domains from GoDaddy to DreamHost
- Some thoughts on audio recorders
- Mobile phones in Bangladesh
- How to make netbooks run faster
- The iPod-ification of Khao San Road
- Nokia E71 review: notes after five months of use
- How to use Skype: a tutorial
Posts about food, travel, fitness, and more:
- Off topic: calories, carbs, and a new long-term study on weight gain
- Off topic: Analyzing the US federal deficit and GDP to debt ratio
- Fun with Thai vocabulary
- Thoughts on fitness: in praise of “Starting Strength”
- Spotted in Surat Thani: sign for coffee, tea…and Lady Gaga
- World Cup bids, England, and the (apparently) cancelled Thailand friendly
- Looking back at the 2010 World Cup
- World Cup: USA beats Algeria in injury time
- World Cup: USA’s comeback against Slovenia
- The World Cup so far: goalkeepers in the spotlight
- A brush with George Steinbrenner in 1996
- Krispy Kreme arrives in Bangkok
- La Monita: Bangkok’s best Mexican food
- Cameroonian food in Bangkok: Amirra restaurant
- More on China, the U.S., GDP, and economic power
- My CNNGo audio slide show about David Thomspon
- Audio Slide Show: Kolkata (Calcutta), India
- How to learn Thai
For more, you can check out the following categories:
Also, see my journalism page for links to my stories.
I'm Newley Purnell, an American journalist whose work has run in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and more.
I was based in Bangkok for six years and am now a