People displaced by the post-election violence in Kenya line up to receive supplies in Jamhuri Park, Nairobi. Photo by Afromusing I’ve been taking a particular interest in the post-elections situation in Kenya, as I’ve got friends there. Today one of those friends, Juliana Rotich, who’s been blogging extensively about the goings-on in various parts of [...]
No response as yet to my letter about my plan to pro-rate my TSTT Wireless Broadband bill. I suspect I won’t be getting one. My service at home is worse than ever: it still takes minutes for web pages to load, when they load at all, and since a big part of my job has [...]
Those who follow me on Twitter or have spoken to me on the telephone during work hours in the past few weeks know only too well about my internet woes. I’ve been like a stuck record, complaining non-stop about the abysmal service I’ve been receiving since last November as a TSTT Wireless Broadband customer, the [...]
From an allAfrica.com article challenging the “tribe-centric” analysis of the current situation in Kenya (link via Ethan): “. . . many analysts have long argued that “tribe” is particularly pernicious in diverting attention from the structural and immediate causes of violence by attributing it to supposedly immutable and irrational divisions.” Just as the term “gang-related” [...]
I recently signed on as a member of an initiative called Semanal, where the goal is to produce 52 videos for the year (ie one per week), so it seems like I’m now sort of committed to this video thing. Which gave me the impetus to turn the footage I shot on that achingly gorgeous [...]
I’ve never been one for new year’s resolutions, but if there’s one goal I have for 2008 it’s to make peace with online video. Having spent a good part of my professional life working in television, I’ve got plenty of prejudices about quality etc. to rid myself of. In fact, I strongly believe that one [...]
