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SourceForge Finds Openness in Restraint
A few days ago the open source community was livid at a request from the US Department of Commerce that required SourceForge.com to enforce restrictions ...
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Microformats for Macroevents
Around two years ago I had the pleasure of meeting some of Silicon Valley’s brightest developers for a conversation on microformat open standards. Among this ...
Conspicuous Correlation: Coltan and Crisis Reports
Mashing up some data from Ushahidi and a number of reports on the mining of coltan (columbite and tantalite) it’s easy to see the correlation ...
More on afTLDs
Following some great feedback, I thought I’d expand on my last post on ccTLDs. First, however it came across, the post wasn’t intended to be ...
The Untold Story of African ccTLDs
In my Infostate of Africa graphic I tried to bring attention to one of the geekier problems facing Africa: the issue of country-code Top Level ...
Solomon King on Becoming an Accidental Journalist
For blogger and citizen journalist Solomon King, the 2009 Kampala riots began with his tweet “Okay, we’re running for our lives.” Here he talks about ...
Infostate of Africa
People often only see Africa from one perspective, here’s another. The above infographic details some of the happenings over the past few years in regards ...
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Typekit For Arabophones: Arabic Fonts When You Want Them
Angolphone (and speakers of languages with similar alphabets) have many tools available to work with type on the web. As design becomes more sophistocated, designers ...
More Fiber Optic in West Africa
A few months ago, Phase3 Telecoms launched a plan to connect Ghana to Nigeria via Togo and Benin. This week, Phase3 finally signed an agreement ...
Alternative Models for OLPC?