Common topics and regular features here include:
- Books, which I often summarize in my Book Notes posts
- Newley’s Notes — the text of my weekly newsletter
- Sports — mostly soccer
- HOWTO — guides on gadgets, travel and more
- Tech
Here’s a list of some of my notable posts from the last few years.
Posts from 2016:
- Book Notes: The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen
- Book Notes: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- The Best Books I Read in 2016
- Facebook Live Video: A Colleague and I Discuss Demonetization in India
- Video: Me on Facebook Live Talking about Our Recent Amazon Story
- Book Notes — Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Book Notes — The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller
- Some news: WE MOVED TO INDIA!
- My Top 10 Southeast Asia Travel Tips
- Book Notes — ‘Deep Work,’ by Cal Newport
- Book Notes — ‘Den of Thieves,’ by James B. Stewart
- Single, Individually Wrapped Bananas for Sale in Singapore
- Why You Shouldn’t be Surprised When England Lose
- IPhone 6 Touchscreen Problems? You’re Not Alone
- My Brief Chat with Pat Conroy in 1995
- The 10 Must-Have Apps I Install on Every New Mac
- My iPhone Home Screen, Early 2016
- Two and a Half Days in Istanbul: How to Have an Amazing Time
- Recommended: Decker Barbeque, Texas-Style BBQ in Singapore
- 2015 Media Picks: My Favorite Book, Album, Movie, TV Show — and Goal and Save
Posts from 2015:
- Video from Thailand Shows Pedestrian Bridge Built Around Overhead Cables
- Me on Bernard Leong’s Analyse Asia Podcast
- Rise of the ‘Coyowolf’ — Part Wolf, Part Dog, Part Coyote
- How to Spell My Name, According to Starbucks Baristas Across Southeast Asia. Update one. Update two.
- My Interview with Minsi Chung at Covering Business
- Yes, This is a Photo of Me with Giorgio Chiellini
Posts from 2014:
- Photos from ‘Bangkok Shutdown,’ day 1
- Some favorite albums, books, TV shows, movies, and in-depth stories from 2013
- Programming note: I’ve joined The Wall Street Journal
- How I’ve helped with our Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 coverage
- Our Stories on Anti-Coup Protests and Social Media in Thailand
- This Happened Today — That Time I Met Edwin van der Sar
- Personal Blogging: Everything Old is New Again
- David De Gea’s Goalkeeping Masterclass Against Everton
Posts from 2013:
- Some of My Favorite Email Newsletters
- The Mysterious NYC Fire Hydrant Poles Marked ‘Thailand’: We Have an Answer
- Another unexpected stateside reminder of Thailand: Gale Boetticher’s karaoke performance
- Why Michael Wolff is Wrong about Columbia Journalism School
- My 2 Favorite NYC Public Transport Apps
- Tweets from Tom Wolfe’s Talk Last Night
- And just like that, I’ve completed my Columbia master’s degree
- Google Reader Dies Tomorrow. My Replacement: NewsBlur
- 3 Digital Tools I Used to Write my Master’s Thesis
- What Domesticating Siberian Foxes May Tell Us About Dogs
- Self-Promotion: My NewYorker.com Story is on the Site’s ‘Most Popular’ List
- My favorite chart illustrating trends in Thai governance over the decades
- Thailand protests: anti-amnesty push morphs into an effort to topple Yingluck
- Thailand update: Yingluck dissolves house, calls new elections—and protests continue
- Thailand update: Drone footage provides vivid views of yesterday’s clashes
Posts from 2012:
- Newley.com in the New Lonely Planet Thailand
- Off Topic: My Soccer Team Won Our League!
- Notes from Thai PM Yingluck’s FCCT Speech
- Myanmar elections: Today’s Front Pages
- Political Ephemera from the Myanmar By-Election
- Lady Gaga Arrives in Bangkok
- Yellow Shirts Protest at Thai Parliament
- Off Topic: A Remarkable Motorcycle Helmet
- Bangkok Street Life Inventions: Garbage Bag Poncho and Frond-Fashioned Napping Shade
- 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
- A Few Notes After My First Week of Classes
- 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.
- There’s No E-Book Version of Nicholas Negroponte’s ‘Being Digital’? Update: There’s Finally an Ebook Version Available of Nicholas Negroponte’s ‘Being Digital.”
Older stuff:
Posts about Thailand, where I lived from 2006 through 2013:
- 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
- Two paperback techno-gems from the 1990s
- 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
Also, see my journalism page for links to my stories.