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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