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A pen-and-paper post from the airport in Freetown
I got back into Dakar late last night, safe and sound, after waiting around the airport in Freetown because my plane was delayed for nearly 7 hours. I thought I would miss my connecting flight in...
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The muscles from Brussels – not!
I’m headed to Brussels tomorrow to take part in the Euro Foo Camp event, which should be a blast. It’s my first time at such an event, so I really don’t know what to expect, but am ready for almost...
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“Freetown” and Freetown
You may have wondered what I’ve been up to lately and why, even for this blog, there has been such a prolonged radio silence. In fact, the cause of so much ‘dead air’ has been the work necessary to...
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Campcaster installed in Freetown
The days in Freetown were hectic, filled with lots of work combined with lots of waiting in traffic to get from one side of town to the other. Traffic was pretty bad, with a strangely functional form...
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BBC’s “Digital Planet” interviews me about Campcaster
I’ve just finished an interview with Gareth Mitchell of the BBC World Service program “Digital Planet” about Campcaster and its deployment in Sierra Leone. The interview also featured my friend and...
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In the media
In case you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to these past few weeks, I’ve been busy talking to the media about our Campcaster software and the various implementation projects we’re using it on....
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One on one
A couple of weeks ago, in an interview with Valleywag, the supposedly-successful Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs, Inc., made one of his typically smartass remarks about a good friend of mine, Henry...
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ICE: In Case of Emergency
Over the weekend I got an email from my friend and colleague Sahr Gborie in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I’m taking the liberty of reprinting it here, as I think it’s a particularly strong idea, one that...
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A few selected videos from my recent playlists
About a month ago I got an email from a friend who said something to the essence of ‘I have no idea what the music you’re playing sounds like, but judging from the names it sounds pretty exotic.’ So...
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Ada Lovelace Day: Doc. Ing. Zdena Rábová, CSc. (1936 – 2006)
Today is Ada Lovelace Day (www.findingada.com), which marks the contributions of women in technology. I was one of the thousands of bloggers worldwide to pledge to write something about women in tech,...
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