I’d like to share with you a piece of my mind. Oops, just a piece of me.
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One of the pioneer bloggers in the Kingdom, Kounila Keo is the author of blueladyblog.com. Seth Emmanuel Rinoza finds out what motivates Keo to write. Photo by Conor Wall.
Kounila Keo was born with a mindset to share her opinions. With a passion for education, politics, press freedom and culture, the 23-year-old pursues a mission to address her fellow Cambodians, with honest intentions of using her words to help her homeland. According to Keo, blueladyblog.com is also her way of showing Cambodia to the world.
Besides running the blog, Keo serves as a reporter for Agence France Presse and a senior writer for LIFT, a supplement produced by the Phnom Penh Post. She has been a participant in numerous writing conferences and workshops all over the world, including a recent two-month workshop on Multimedia and Online Journalism in Germany.
Keo talks about the roots of her writing crusade and how she wants her writing to impact Cambodian society.
What triggered you to start writing? Why is blogging your medium of choice?
I attended journalism school in 2006 and fell in love with writing to inform people. Then, I tried to find a personal medium that would allow me to express my feelings and opinions on certain things. I started to blog in late 2006 because I had so many things in mind that I needed to let other people know. When you live in a quite-conservative society like Cambodia, all you want to do is talk out loud.
[Blogging] gives us freedom to talk or express ourselves, which we can’t easily do in reality.
Besides, blogging makes you a self-publisher because every time you blog a certain post, you become an author. Who says that we have to go to any publishing house or media these days to publish our words? Continue reading
