{"id":206,"date":"2006-11-18T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2010-11-25T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:08:00","slug":"thailand-thru-the-eyes-of-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/thailand-thru-the-eyes-of-slashdot\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand thru the eyes of Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bangkokpost.net\/151106_Database\/151106_data02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 159px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bangkokpost.net\/151106_Database\/151106_data02.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>If you are a tech guy or gal, you read <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\">Slashdot<\/a>. Period.  But after the <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/11\/16\/0323202\">recent statements<\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/bangkokpost.net\/151106_Database\/15Nov2006_data001.php\">new Thai IT Minister<\/a> which made the Slashdot front page and alienated open source developers world wide, I was curious to see how the Slashdot community views Thailand, so had a look at the biggest stories about Thailand.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=&amp;query=thai&amp;author=&amp;sort=2&amp;op=stories\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">top stories relating to Thailand<\/span><\/a> give you a rough idea of how much of an impression Thailand makes on the global IT scene.  Basically Thai officials dislike opensource, <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/11\/25\/1615253\">want to control gaming<\/a> and a lone programmer has made <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=02\/07\/31\/1614250\">software to repel mosquitoes<\/a>. Yeah! The next most important news: <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/07\/01\/0628214\">Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a tech guy or gal, you read Slashdot. Period. 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