FHM Magazine in China

China Smack provides much needed coverage (and photos) from the Chinese version of FHM magazine. Properly called "For Him Magazine" and not the vulgur abbreviation.

Philippines Journalists Murdered for Corruption Reports

World Focus has posted a 7 minute video clip on the dangers of being a journalist in the Philippines.

Today in the Philippines, there are more newspapers in print, more points of view and more influence in broadcast journalism than ever before. But since People Power in 1986, more than 70 journalists have been murdered.

Worldfocus correspondent Mark Litke and producer Ara Ayer report from the Philippines on the risks some reporters face in doing their jobs.

Corona Beer Commercial Filmed in Thailand

I'm watching the opening game of the new American Football season, and Corona runs a commercial for Corona Light which was obviously filmed in Phangna Bay in southern Thailand. Generally, Corona uses Mexican beaches and locations for obvious reasons, but you won't find those seaside limestone karsts in few places on the planet other than Phangna. I guess it's OK, but it's also a slight compliment to the nature geographical wonders of Thailand that Corona came over to make their latest commercial.

Matt Dancing Around the World

This video from last year of Matt dancing around the world always brings a smile. Over 22 million views on YouTube.

Twitter Overload at The Bangkok Post

I opened a Twitter account just a few days ago, so I'm still learning about tweets and Twitter protocol. One of the worst things anyone can do is flood Twitter with an inordinate number of tweets, driving everybody crazy and causing most subscribers to drop their subscription to your Twitter account. Apparently, The Bangkok Post has lost its mind and sends out hundreds of daily tweets, as retold in this hilarious post by The Bangkok Bugle. Thanks, dude, for the warning!

The Bangkok Post is annoying and losing many of its followers on Twitter. In the past 36 hours it has lost more than 120 'followers' due to what is dubbed flooding - sending our numerous Twitter updates (tweets) in a short space of time. This morning alone @Bangkok_Post has published several hundred updates, some of which are duplicated. Some of the comments from followers include:

Ship Navigation with Google Earth

Of course, you can use Flight Simulator to get an idea about flying planes, but what if you want to navigate a cargo ship into the world's major ports? Here's a nifty video that shows you the ropes.

Create Your Own Online Newswire

I have no idea what this is all about, but if you're a journalist or whatever, this might be important. Noodle Pie has the tips on creating an online newswire, something I've always dreamed of doing. When newspapers disappear, we might just need to rely on individual newswires.

Publish2 is social bookmarking service for journalists. The idea is to encourage a kind of link journalism by creating a space for journalists to store links and publish them as a newswire. These maybe links related to a story you're working on, research or clips. I've been using it of late for three very specific tasks;

•publish breaking news on Twitter @frontlineblog
•publish a newswire to the news pages on frontlineclub.com

•publish from my mobile phone
Once you've signed up, installed the wee bookmarklet into your browser toolbar and married your delicious social bookmarking and Twitter accounts to Publish2, the first two tasks on this list are easily doable. I bookmark a story to my account on Publish2, this automatically feeds into the frontlineclub delicious account which in turn automatically appears as the newswire on frontlineclub.com

If I decide a news story requires a tweet, I'll add one at the same time I bookmark the page by scrolling down on the Publish2 bookmarlet and adding the Twitter comment (see above) and using hashtags if appropriate, to help make the tweet more searchable. Publish2 auto-shortens the link using bit.ly which allows you to track the spread of your links.

All of the above works very well, beyond the wee bit of downtime where Publish2 hasn't been working. I could opt to bypass the delicious step and just install the Publish2 widget onto frontlineclub.com but I've been using delicious for so long, I like what it does and it was always the way I wanted to set up the website before playing with Publish2.

The problem arrives when I try to publish from my mobile phone. Publish2 can grab items I choose to share in my Google Reader. What I want to be able to do, and can't, is automatically feed these items from Publish2 into delicious, and then automatically onto frontlineclub.com, and/or send them to Twitter. I also want to be able to edit the description, tags, and tweets too. If Publish2 can solve these last few hiccups, and I see they're working on an iPhone application, I'll be using it exclusively for publishing to the Frontline Club.