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Minister Pogisio

By mosh ⋅ December 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Good Lord! Who else watched Minister Pogisio on NTV last night? Apart from coming across as vindictive, arrogant, and petty, I found that his arguments made little sense and that beating about the bush, going round in circles.
I completely disagree with him and every MP who voted to gag the media. [...]

What is the Big Idea?

By mosh ⋅ October 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

What if someone in Garissa, or Mandera, or Turkana, or wherever else wanted to tell Kenya something? How can people in such remote areas have their voices heard? Well, they can write to a popular newspaper’s editor (but will they be published?); or they can get online and start a blog or submit something to Kikulacho (but can they get online?); or they can send Kikulacho a ‘letter to the editor’ (we won’t edit their letter, we’ll just publish it on this website. A while later they will see it in print, on paper).

What is Kikulacho?

By mosh ⋅ October 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

What if we could have a discussion about the issues that affect Kenya? What if we could make it possible for just about every Kenyan to take part in this discussion? What would you say if you had the opportunity to speak your mind, to everybody?

Crowdsourcing & Open Publishing

By mosh ⋅ October 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Open publishing assumes the reader is smart and creative and might want to be a writer and an editor and a distributor and even a software programmer. Open publishing assumes that the reader can tell a crappy story from a good one. That the reader can find what they’re after, and might help other readers looking for the same trail.

News as Links, Links as news

By mosh ⋅ October 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Ultimately, the addition of useful hyperlinking within an online news story reflects the strong reporting of its author. If a reporter does not know of online pages with extra information relating to the story, he or she cannot link to them. But if you have that information, why not share it with those readers who are eager for it?

Do you hate this too? The problem with Old Media

By mosh ⋅ October 3, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

………old media has given up the truth for a fake neutrality, like there are two equal sides for every issue. Take global warming, for example. The truth is, it’s not always found by splitting the difference. There earth is not flat, evolution is a fact….It’s like going to the doctor and they say, your brain tumor is still there, but your acne has cleared.