Quick hits
- Hash get’s his manifesto published (Yeah!).
- For those people who are thinking about doing projects in Africa and Kenya in particular, please read this report by MIT students who were recently working on several projects. Why? First, it shows that you can have your cake AND eat it (M’s post notwithstanding). Being overseas is not necessarily mutually exclusive with trying to make a difference at home in a non-remittance manner. Second, helping is not that easy…some of the challenges that the students faced are a classic case of us shooting ourselves in the foot as Kenyans et. al., from administrators who act like they are doing you a favor to ten thousand procedures before you can get anything done.
- Zookada an email tool for bloggers just launched, looks really neat and is especially useful for bloggers whose readers don’t have regular net access.
- Why I hate drug companies.
- Who says there’s no money in Kenya? Wonder what it would take to spur similar interest in V-C type funding.
- For the geeks: Share your OPML (share outlines, feeds, taxonomy) and Valleyschwag (just click on the link dammit).
- Now why didn’t this ever occur to me when I was searching for a paper topic in law school?
on May 12th, 2006 at 10:49
The last MIT project I witnessed was a nonsense initiative to teach college and universtity students javascript. I didn’t know whether to laugh or be annoyed at the ludicrousness.
This OpenWare initiative is much more beneficial
on June 4th, 2006 at 15:47
what kind of projects are you refering to? Substantiate please.