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Didier Drogba – so good they named a style of music and dance after him. Excellent music and football post from Teju Cole
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Excellent Q&A about Second Life open sourcing and the potential for the server to go open source
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Kick-ass article on the impact of mobiles in Kenya, including info on the launch of M-Pesa, a mobile-based payment and remittance system
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Jordan Planet goes on hiatus – alas. Interesting landmark in the history of aggregators, and the history of bridgeblogging… or, interesting to me at least
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A very generous post from David Weinberger which elegantly sums up why Global Voices is so cool, and so worth my time the past two years…
January 12th, 2007 at 9:04 am
I saw Paul Mason’s report from Kenya on Newsnight. He asks the Safaricom representative, not entirely seriously, when he’ll be able to pay a matatu fare with a mobile. Later this year, she replies in a perfectly matter of fact way.