PICNIC08 – Surprising Africa
Some impressions of the daylong Surprising Africa event at PICNIC08: – Binyavanga Wainaina, an extraordinary Kenyan writer, talked about the problem of naming, figuring out… Read More »PICNIC08 – Surprising Africa
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Inspiration: Francis Kéré
I sat next to Francis Kéré for two hours at the PICNIC Surprising Africa conference before I learned that I was sitting next to one… Read More »Inspiration: Francis Kéré
More talking, less writing at PICNIC08
I’d forgotten the difficulty of speaking at and covering a conference at the same time. It’s too easy to assume that speaking just means getting… Read More »More talking, less writing at PICNIC08
My afternoon at PICNIC08
Talk one of four at PICNIC was a small seminar for the European Journalism Center. Their part of the PICNIC experience was hosted in a… Read More »My afternoon at PICNIC08
Picnic08: Connected rabbits, running shoes and cable providers…
Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital converses with – grill, perhaps – Mike Fries of Liberty Global, the world’s second largest… Read More »Picnic08: Connected rabbits, running shoes and cable providers…
Picnic08 – Genevieve Bell on secrets and lies.
Genevieve Bell is probably lying to us. That’s okay. We lie all the time. And, as Genevieve says, she’s trying to provoke us. Lies are… Read More »Picnic08 – Genevieve Bell on secrets and lies.