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Alfred Sirleaf is an analog blogger. He take runs the "Daily News", a news hut by the side of a major road in the middle of Monrovia. He started it a number of years ago, stating that he wanted to get news into the hands of those who couldn't afford newspapers, in the language that they could understand.

Alfred serves as a reminder to the rest of us, that simple is often better, just because it works. The lack of electricity never throws him off. The lack of funding means he's creative in ways that he recruits people from around the city and country to report news to him. He uses his cell phone as the major point of connection between him and the 10,000 (he says) that read his blackboard daily.

Liberia's Blackboard Blogger from WhiteAfrican on Vimeo.

Not all Liberians who read his news are literate, so he makes use of symbols. Whether it's a UN or military helmet, a poster of a soccer player or a bottle of colored water to denote gas prices, he is determined to get the message out in any way that he can.

Advertising works here too. It's $5 to be on the bottom level, $10 to be on the sideboard and $25 on the main section. He doesn't get a lot of advertising, and but he manages to scrape by.

His plans for the future include decentralizing his work, this means opening up identical locations in other parts of Monrovia, and in a few of the larger cities around the country. I don't put it past Alfred either, he's a scrappy entrepreneur on a mission to bring information and news to ordinary Liberians. He's succeeded thus far, and I would put my money on him growing it even further.

(Also, read the NYT piece on him from 3 years ago)

( note: title for this post stolen shamelessly from Rebecca's Pocket)

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Emerging theme wall

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time lapse of the first day Emerging Themes Wall at the 2013 IA Summit

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Leaflet - an open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Leaflet is a modern, lightweight open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.

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Modest Maps is a small, extensible, and free library for designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. It provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package with plenty of hooks for additional functionality.

It doesn't try to include every possible map control or layer type. It's designed to be a simple platform to build upon. The code is well-designed, tested and deployed widely - thousands of maps already use the toolkit. And while we aim for the highest performance and compatibility with new technology, it is tested against older browsers, including Internet Explorer.

var template = 'http://c.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/examples.map-szwdot65/{Z}/{X}/{Y}.png';
var provider = new MM.TemplatedLayer(template);
var map = new MM.Map('map', provider);
map.setZoom(10).setCenter({ lat: 51.55, lon: 0.1 });

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Modest Maps is a small, extensible, and free library for designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. It provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package with plenty of hooks for additional functionality. It doesn't try to include every possible map control or layer type.

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London's Coolest Independent Shopping Areas

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A guide to London's coolest shopping areas and hidden shopping streets.

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Åbäke, a collective of graphic designers who came up with the look and identity of the finished publication, alongside a team from the British Council ventured out to Milan to establish a temporary production studio for The Incidental, while BERG provided remote support from the UK and the technology to harvest the Twitter updates, blog mentions and Flickr photos to be included in the edition, overlaid on the map to be produced overnight.