I just got back from Centro Comercial Monterrey where I had to pick up a DV Firewire cable in order to transfer some digital video from casette to hard drive. At the store I noticed they were selling iPhones so, out of curiosity, I asked the price.
“1,800,000 pesos.”
That’s about $900.
And so I said that I [...]

How did this all happen? How was it that just a few months ago I was sitting in a swanky Nairobi bar with Daudi Were, chatting about the good life, and brainstorming ideas for an African Bloggers Conference. And now … this?

That photograph was taken in Nakuru - a smallish city in Eastern Kenya, not [...]

All this blah-blah-blah about citizen media and the democratization of participatory communication … all the traveling and the workshops and the guides and conference panels … the true end-goal of it all … the dream … the mecca … was to get mentioned in a rap song.
And now that it’s happened, I’m trying to figure [...]

Voces Bolivianas, one of the first five recipients of a Rising Voices citizen media outreach award, was featured yesterday on the BBC program, The World. In the four minute feature Ruxandra Guidi interviews project facilitator Mario Duran and Voces Bolivianas participant and Aymara translator, Dora Romero.
Congratulations Voces Bolivianas for the much-deserved recognition! You can read [...]

I’ve got a billion things to do before giving a workshop on digital photography and Flickr this evening at the Biblioteca Publica Piloto (come by if you’re around!), but this is way too cool to not comment on.
So, Dunstan Orchard, an avid Faceballer originally from England, but now living in San Francisco and working at [...]

It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.
That’s what Apple CEO Steve Jobs had to say about [...]

Rising Voices proudly announces the first in a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership. The first guide, An Introduction to Citizen Media, offers context and case studies which show how everyday citizens across the world are increasingly using blogs, podcasts, online video, and digital photography to engage in an unmediated conversation which transcends borders, cultures, and differing languages.

It had already been a month. On land. No flights. Which, for the past half year or so, is something of a record.
Steve: Are you sure it leaves from the downtown airport and not Rio Negro?
Me: Yeah, of course. Positive.
Steve: You double-checked on the website?
Me (looking around the website, unable to find anything): Yeah, definitely.
Sunday [...]

Below is this week’s newsletter to the Rising Voices mailing list. I’m so happy with the progress that Rising Voices has made, however, that I want to share it here as well. I’ll be publishing photos from last night’s event soon.
I write today’s newsletter after what has been, without any doubt, the most satisfying week [...]

I’ve never been one for online video for the same reason I’ve never really been one for traditional TV: no matter how many times I click the mouse or click the remote control, nothing of interest is ever on. Sure, there were/are some exceptions. I try to never miss the Daily Show and the Bill [...]