AFP has news that a 37 year old Thai man in Rayong has been arrested "for allegedly insulting the kingdom's royal family on Facebook". The new comes a few weeks after a government press release warned that social networks in Thailand are under "thorough watch" -- as blogged here -- although the comment itself was made last month (March 19), according to the AFP article, more details of which are below.

With the "shrinking globe," an American woman plying her trade in Europe is not as much of a cultural oddity as it may have been in the past. But an American woman racing her bicycle on the European circuit full-time, well that is another story.

This evening my son and I attended a two hour "Light Painting Workshop" at the Oklahoma City CoCo. (Coworking Collaborative) We learned about "makers," building electronic circuits, LCD lights, and photography while we experienced new ways to have creative fun.

It's interesting that those in the social media industry believe everything that's occurring with respect to social media is new. As I look back to direct marketing, database marketing, networking and advertising -- I don't believe our goals for businesses were different at all.

Politifact, the fact-checking project of the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, gives Obama a "No Flip" on the Flip-O-Meter in his announcement to expand offshore drilling in previously banned places.

On the following website you may see an interactive snapshot of the town of Dresden, Germany. It is billed as the largest picture in the world today with a resolution of 297,500 x 87,500 pixels or 26 gigapixels (that's 26,000 megapixels if you compare it with your own camera's megapixel count).

Mostly, when it comes to finding new music, I've retreated to music recommended by friends and/or software-based recommendation systems like Last.fm. But Erika.net plays such a high percentage of music that is interesting to me that I end up seeking out music I hear on Erika probably about as frequently as three times per hour!

It is harvest season across the spectacular Andean valley of Otavalo, 2550 meters above sea level, where mountains are flanked by volcano peaks. But Diego Sucre can not find enough bananas to fill his pockets.

In the past couple of weeks, we've put about 70 people through helicopter ground school, followed by a 25-question multiple choice exam. What has surprised me the most is the lack of predictive value of a bachelor's degree in science or engineering from an American university.

A runner up at the Unive Ronde Van Drenthe last year, Loes Gunnewijk (Nederland Bloeit) would take that final, elusive step up the podium by winning this year's World Cup event, soloing ahead of teammate Annemiek Van Vleuten and Giorgia Bronzini (Gauss RDZ Ormu).

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