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SEACOM Photos of the SEACOM cable landing station in Mombassa (tags: kenya africa mombassa cable infrastructure internet SEACOM) Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline pledges cheap medicine for… Read More »links for 2009-02-16

Kevin Kelly — The Technium Excellent Kevin Kelly piece makes clear that the Amish aren't Luddites, just extremely careful adopters of technology. They say no… Read More »links for 2009-02-12

Evan Osnos on African merchants living in China: Audio Slide Show: Multimedia: The New Yorker Impressive photo and audio slideshow about the African – primarily… Read More »links for 2009-02-10

Flow Map Layout Excellent CS paper on flow mapping, showing examples dealing with migration (tags: maps data visualization cartography mapping flow visualisation) Literature in Translation:… Read More »links for 2009-02-03

The Punch: Owls disrupt court proceedings, cause panic My new favorite example of why Nigerian newspapers are difficult for non-African readers to understand (tags: africa… Read More »links for 2009-01-31

Parsons Institute for Information Mapping > Development > Geospace and Media Tool Intriguing (though closed-source) tool that mashes multiple news feeds with geospatial data. Built… Read More »links for 2009-01-30