Africa and Beyond!
Afromusing ranks 139 in Africa and 9 in Kenya. According to site visitors it ranks 778, and 883 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 51 and 71 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
I’ve kinda been traipsing about, by the time I upload pics, blog/tweet, its time to catch another flight. Below are several slideshows from here, there and TED 2010… ORD Camp Chicago Jan 28th 2010 Berlin – Transmediale Festival Feb 2nd – 7th TED Feb 10th 2010
Written for the Transmediale festival in Berlin – Feb 2nd -7th 2010 Berlin. The transmediale festival is examinining futurity now what the ‘future’ as a conditional and creative enterprise can be. At its heart lays the intricate need to counter political and economic turmoil with visionary futures. With
Simeon Oriko is a student at University of Eastern Africa – Baraton, and today he is talking about the Mobile Cloud Computing paradigm. He starts by saying that web experience cannot be superimposed on mobile phones. It can be terribly frustrating to find information using mobiles. For rural areas
Today at The British Council in Upper Hill Nairobi, I reconnected with a TED Global 2007 friend Joseph Nganga. He has a company called Renewable Energy Ventures (KE) and is currently a reseller for an innovative lighting solution called ‘The Solantern’. He was kind enough to give me a
From the briefings at the Tcktcktck Fresh air center, this ‘Hopenhagen’ is turning into a ‘Nopenhagen’. There were some NGOs whose access to the Bella Center (The center for climate change talks where world leaders etc are in) was revoked, and they planned a protest. BBC has some disturbing
This week began rather uncharacteristically… On Saturday, I dashed to Eldoret to attend a friends’ wedding. I learned that the airport code for Eldoret is EDL and not ELD. ELD was already taken by Eldorado in the US. I still think ELD is a fitting airport code for Eldoret,
PesaPal is a service that enables anyone with an MPESA or ZAP mobile money account to buy goods and services from approved merchants. Why should people with credit cards and paypal accounts have all the fun? For the 6.5 million users of MPESA in Kenya, PesaPal will be
Let me just admit upfront that my mobile bill this month shocked me. So much so I was looking at every charge with a fine toothed comb, all the while wondering, how the heck did it get this way?! Yes, I made some calls to Kenya and sent text
Digital art. At Ars Electronica in Linz, I was struck by the amazing pieces exhibited, and more so by the Ars Electronica center. It is set very near to a bridge on the Danube river.The Exhibitions archive page uses a schematic of the center to give you an idea
Over lunch, kinda distilled Ethan’s talk re:mapping the cloud. On the internet where we do not have to be cognizant of the roads…it is more meaningful to map the traffic. Read his essay here and you can catch the rest of the cloud intelligence symposium live stream here.
