October 2009
12 posts
TwitPicGrid →
Twitter Multiple Users and Accounts | TweetFunnel →
Social networks used in Africa →
Apart from Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace a multitude of other social networks are growing in popularity and have the potential to draw new users online. African social networks popular in africa…
Evan Williams on Twitter's vision for the future -... →
“We are in the middle of a series of experiments to try and figure out how to enable people to discover what they need to know without asking. Our whole goal is about telling people what is happening…
Comcast: Twitter Has Changed The Culture Of Our... →
“It has changed the culture of our company,” Roberts said. Comcast has for a while now been using Twitter to scan for complaints and engage with customers. The idea was not his, but rather rose…
Vidly →
Another “share videos on Twitter” thing to look at.
Trafigura: A few tweets and freedom of speech is... →
One of the quickest to reveal the full story was a 34-year old human rights activist, Richard Wilson. He was baking a banana cake in his kitchen in London when he first found out about the gag on the…
The print edition
">This post got me thinkingI'm about to //frontlineclub.com/blogs/frontline/2009/10/from-the-frontline-to-kigali.html
">start training 5-8 journalists here in Kigali, Rwanda in short 3
week bursts. At the end of the 3 weeks, they are supposed to have
produced an original feature - whether it be in print, online, audio,
photographic or video - and it is also supposed to be of good enough
quality to sell or at least publish somewhere. So, how about doing
that through the //
blog.newspaperclub.co.uk/">newspaperclub and arranging delivery to
Kigali? Or picking the printed editions up in London when I'm back for
work - probably every 2 or 3 months.I dunno if it'd work
financially, but I think it might work funnuncially - a lot of
fununcian, a good looking "product" and an inspiration. Something folk
can sit around with and talk about and maybe even read.I
think this might be a goer. Will look into it more.
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Joseph Sebarenzi on Rwandan history, the present...
Joseph Sebarenzi, former speaker of the Rwandan Parliament and author of God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation, gives a history lesson on Rwanda and some thoughts on the future in the Huffington Post,
“The four-year war that followed culminated in the horror of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Out of this chaos, Major General Paul Kagame, who led the Tutsi...
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BBC World Service on forgetting the genocide
Rwanda is hoping to build a future as a hi-tech economy. But it faces another struggle - to move on from the ethnic divisions which led to civil war and genocide in the 1990s - as Madeleine Morris found on a recent trip to the country to make a programme for the BBC’s World Service.
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Kabuga "not in Kenya"
Rwanda and the international community searching for Genocide fugitive, Felicien Kabuga, might have to look elsewhere because Rwanda’s genocide mastermind is not in Kenya, the east African nation’s Attorney General Amos Wako has said.
Wako, who was in Kigali to sign the extradition treaty between Kenya and Rwanda, told reporters that the search for Kabuga has only focused on Kenya...
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Now the wet season is here, Kigali braces for El...
Kigali City Council (KCC) has started preparing for possible El Nino rains by drawing contingency plans to contain the situation should heavy rains fall.
Rwanda is likely to receive heavy rains during the wet season that starts this month. The anticipated seasonal rains are driven by the presence of an evolving El Nino.
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September 2009
21 posts
Monitor pages, extract new information →
WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet.
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FDLR control mines in Eastern Democratic Republic...
Rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) control mines in the Ruvingi region of eastern DR Congo’s Nord-Kivu province, the UN military spokesman said Wednesday.
“The FDLR continue to remain present in the mining region of Ruvungi about 65 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Walikale,” Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Paul Dietrich of the UN mission in DRC...
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More than 300 Rwandan Hutus flee into Burundi from...
AFP reports more than 300 Rwandan Hutus flee into Burundi from southern Rwanda
Several hundred Rwandans have fled from the south of the country into neighbouring Burundi, Burundian local officials said Wednesday.
“More than 300 Rwandan Hutus have fled the southern province and have taken refuge in Bugabira and Ntega in Kirundo province,” said a local official who asked not to be...
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Social media count →
“Many of us who have been following social media since the early 90s are very sensitive to today’s exponential growth. Inspired by other cool real time counters, my own Rise of SM presentations,…
A shopkeeper waits for customers in the Nyamirambo
Great picture by Rebecca Blackwell’s of a shopkeeper waiting for customers in the Nyamirambo district of Kigali makes it into this week’s San Francisco Chronicle Day in Pictures section.
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Condoms, umbrellas and urban myths?
The Do you realize? blog has a sex education tale from rural Rwanda, but is it an urban myth. I’m guessing not…
“Another gem from Jean D’Arc, who has terrific stories about rural Rwandan culture and superstitions. She is somewhat unusual for Rwandan woman – she talks about sex. As a nurse, I suppose it comes with the territory.
As part of her job, Jean D’arc advises couples...
5 arrested over last week's Nyanza grenade attack
“Police in Ruhango is holding five suspects in connection to an attack that happened over the weekend, when an unidentified assailant lobbed a grenade into a crowded market in Nyanza District.
At least 5 people have been confirmed dead and over 52 seriously injured.
The attack happened on the evening of Friday 25 September around 4pm, according to eyewitnesses. The motive of the attack...
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Out with the 100 franc bank note
The Bradt travel Guide update tells us the the Rfr100 bank note is almost no more,
“The Rfr 100 note will only be in use till December 2009, presuming end of December. This is replaced by the Rfr 100 coin which is already in circulation. At least that gets rid of those grubby notes.”
From http://kigaliwire.com || Read more at http://bit.ly/1wlKgT
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Rwanda genocide suspect enters not guilty plea
CCTV video report of Gregoire Ndahimana, #Rwanda 1994 genocide suspect, as he enters plea
One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has charged Gre-goire Ndahimana with the deaths of about two-thousand Tutsis.
Most died when bulldozers knocked down a church where they...
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"Everything You Ever Needed to Know About the...
From possibly the best blog in East Africa:
Over at the NewYork Review of Books, Howard French captures the history of everything you need to know about contemporary Great Lakes politics in a review of recent books by heavyweight Central African scholars Gerard Prunier, Rene Lemarchard and Thomas Turner. French’s article, ‘Kagame’s Hidden War in the Congo,’ is, well, not so keen on the current...
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The World Cup comes to Kigali
The first leg of the tour draws to a close on December 3 in Cape Town, South Africa while the second leg will run from January to April.
The trophy which started its publicity in Egypt last Friday will take 46 days to arrive in Kigali. It will arrive in Kigali on November 9 and stay for a three days.
During the Kigali tour, fans will have a chance of enjoying a rare close-up view of the...
A Nonprofit's Introduction to Google's Online... →
In this article, we’ll show you how to select an online mapping project that meets your needs and fits within your budget, and provide a detailed overview of a range of Google mapping technologies…
social media monitoring tools directory →
“With so many social networking platforms, there are search engines to match. In fact, there are new tools and sites popping up every day that will help find, sort and learn from what people are…
8 Essential Free Social Media Monitoring Tools →
What it says on the tin…
nomee: What can nomee do? →
We know why you network in the first place – to follow people, not sites. With nomee, you can: * • Organize, monitor, follow and share over 100 social sites. * • Watch videos, pics and Tweets and…
Chirps →
Send sound to twitter
TweetReach: How Far Did Your Tweet Travel? →
@Twitter_Tips' (Tips, Tools, Status) most... →
MediaShift . Five Ways to Use Mind-Mapping Tools... →
Five possible applications for mind mapping tools in the newsroom
August 2009
3 posts
25 Twitter Projects for the College Classroom |... →
Much has been written about how Twitter is making its way into the halls of higher education. Go beyond the usual tips and strategies of using Twitter with these 25 projects that can be done in a…
Think Again: Twitter | Foreign Policy →
The groundbreaking microblogging service is great for sharing links and communicating with friends. It’s not so good at spreading democracy and overthrowing dictatorships.
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July 2009
23 posts
K Street Cafe » Blog Archive » Twitter Tips for... →
In the US alone, there are 26.5 million people on Twitter and among them are many, if not most of the most influential people in the country. These people are talking about all of the issues of the…
MarkMail →
MarkMail is a free service for searching mailing list archives, with huge advantages over traditional search engines. It is powered by MarkLogic Server: Each email is stored internally as an XML…
Filming in 360 degrees using a six lens camera →
“By using a Google Streetview-like camera, a system with six lenses, not as a photo but as a video camera, an all-encompassing picture is captured. […]
From the point where the images were recorded,…
Twitter 101 for Business — A Special Guide →
How Twitter works and why it’s useful. A guide to tweeting from Twitter.
Viralheat Emerges From Private Beta; Now Analyzes... →
Viralheat, the affordable social media measurement product that scours social video sites including YouTube, Hulu and Vimeo, and Twitter to deliver real-time results of consumer generated content on…
100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics | Best... →
Twitter’s popularity has soared recently, and for good reason. What started as a simple way to update friends about daily life has grown into a powerful tool for business, communication, and…
Socialseek Lets You Track The Social Goodness Of... →
Socialseek has released a desktop application that lets you search for a topic, item, brand or company across news sites, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and events. You can also track mentions of a…
PeopleBrowsr Tosses Its Hat In The... →
PeopleBrowsr, is entering beta with a free Adobe AIR-powered desktop app that integrates Twitter, Facebook and other social networks into one platform.
Tynt Tracer » Take Credit →
It is common online behaviour to copy and paste content off a website. Right or wrong, it happens, but now with Tracer, you can watch each instance and begin to learn what people are most interested…
Publish2 Blog →
This may useful for the newswire project in Rwanda.
10 Web Apps To Build The Next Big Thing Without... →
“Take a look through these ten solutions — which range from common, everyday type of Google Maps mashups to heavy-hitting, enterprise-level applications — and be amazed at how very little work can…
Audiofile Engineering →
Fire calls itself the “ultimate field recorder for the iPhone” Interesting to see how it compares to existing tools. Audioboo already does a pretty good job.
twitsay | Give your Twitter Account a Voice →
Voice message for Twitter… Useful? No idea. “Go to your Twitter page and listen to your voice message. All your followers can listen to it, too!”
Mobcasting The News: Crowdsourcing, Volunteers and... →
Updated version of my powerpoint presentation on the history of crowdsourcing in journalism and how it’s used at NPR. Adds a few extra slides and fixes the broken images that appeared in the original…