a blogging conundrum

On the recommendation of my program manager from Cross Cultural Solutions, I signed up for a Google service that sends me an email every day with headlines and blog postings about Thailand from around the world (speaking of Google services, I found out yesterday that Google has it's own free 411 number: 1-800-goog-411. Cool, huh?). There's been a lot of stuff in my Google alerts about internet censorship in Thailand, particularly surrounding YouTube, which was blocked in the entire country because it was hosting videos that mocked the King--Thais treat their royalty with HUGE respect, even though there's also more-or-less democratic government in place. Yesterday one of the blog highlings in my Google alert indicated that blogspot.com is at least temporarily blocked in Thailand. It certainly wasn't an official Google or Thai statement, just a comment that indicated that the blog's readers in Thailand had been having a lot of trouble accessing blogs hosted by blogspot. This obviously wouldn't be problem for you all (gentle readers...) here in the States, but if I can't get on to blogspot to post from Thailand, you won't have much to read. Anyway, I'll keep my internet ears open, and see what develops.