After a long and complaint-filled hiatus, Sparshles is back to hold up his end of the Sparshles and Oso podcast. Enjoy.

I’m about to head out to Miami for a week of We Media, which means even more blogging about blogging in the near future.
But first, Revaz and I tried to impress one another with some hidden musical gems. Here’s what we came up with. Enjoy.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Like many, like most I assume, Sundays are my favorite days. The eerie silence that first weighs on you with awkwardness and then picks you up, slowly, like a buoyant body ten feet below a salty sea.
The still silence of Sunday morning has the opposite effect of the distant roar of schoolyard playgrounds. The laughter, [...]

Following weeks of feverish media speculation, Sparky and Oso Productions, makers of the wildly successful Sparky and Oso Podcast, have made it known to high level investors that they are in the process of re-branding. The podcasting, dancing, shit-talking, and chess-playing duo will reincorporate as Sparshles and Oso Productions. Investors greeted the unofficial announcement enthusiastically. [...]

It’s Friday. You know what that means - less blabber more biting lips while bobbing the head.
Today’s podcast: a shoutout to all the fellow fellows (and ladies) who leave the ringer off.

Cities are made for sauntering and every saunter needs its appropriate soundtrack. Over the past three months I have walked the streets of Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Ubud, Nairobi, Kampala, Nakuru, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Toronto, D.C., and New York City.
According to my iPod, these are the tracks that most faithfully accompanied me. Enjoy.

In prompt response to Sparsh’s request for quote-unquote more music and less blabbering, I present you with the latest installment of the Sparky and Oso Podcast. If you don’t laugh at some point, you’re clinically depressed.

Wherein Revaz guest DJ’s, Sparsh mumbles apologies for our tardiness, and HP finally gets his track from the CPT.
Whoever guesses this episode’s theme first chooses next episode’s bonus truck. Due to Sparsh’s metadata fumbling, it shouldn’t be too hard. Track list to be posted on Monday. Have a good weekend, it’s summer time y’all.
Episode 5 [...]