Popular posts
Here’s a list of some of my most popular posts from the last few years.
Posts about Thailand, domestic politics, and other events here:
- Thailand flooding update November 10, 2011: More of the same
- Thailand flooding update November 7, 2011: death toll surpasses 500
- Thailand flooding update October 29, 2011: Bangkok’s flood defenses hold
- Thailand flooding update October 20, 2011: 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, fun stuff, and odds and ends:
- Off topic: calories, carbs, and a new long-term study on weight gain
- 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
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Also, see my journalism page for links to my stories.
I'm Newley Purnell, an American journalist in Bangkok. I report for Bloomberg BNA, ABC News Radio, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and more.