Kenyan Pundit

…the Washington Post remixed, some neat African art, and when Google isn’t specific enough…”I want to….”

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So I have been working on coming up with alternative ways (i.e. non-”development aid) of solving some of the challenges facing Africa, I’m still hooked on the prize/competition idea as a way to spurn innovation, especially if combined with a mentoring element. I just came across Google’s Summer of Code page and thought it was such a great idea. I hope they will be running it again.

On an unrelated note, Kenya is in desperate need of something like this. The standards of journalism have truly gone down…even the weekend op-eds are crappy. Kinda strange that this is happening at a time when the press have more freedom than ever.

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- Harriet Miers has a blog. Hilarious. Hat tip Jeremy Blachman!
For those of you who are interested in all the punditing about the Miers Supreme Court nomination, check out this roundup
by Howard Kurtz.

- The Illuminated Continent: Google Earth teams up with National Geographic to bring you stunning images of Africa.

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Listen to how people around the world speak English at the International Dialects of English Archives.

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