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What a cool conference! Picnic08 (for “media entrepreneurs, thinkers and creators”) is über-trendy and fun, but also very useful. I went just for one day, in order to interview Clay Shirky about his book “Here Comes Everybody” (I have written about it earlier).

“I feel good when I do these things.” One of my favorite stories on AfriGadget has been of Philip Isohe and his hobby of making very detailed (and working) model airplanes and buses made from scratch. Earlier this year, the ArtBots Show contacted me to get Philip to create one for them that they could show at their annual show in Dublin, Ireland that is happening this weekend.

I'm beginning my school year with a study on current societies. This means globalization and global trends such as urbanization and the development of nations. This is quite abstract for kids who are barely into grade seven and eight so I've spent a few days searching for resources I can use to bridge this gap to make this more real for students.

A couple weeks ago, on a trip to Cambridge (US), Clark Boyd of The World sat down with me to do a quick interview and to grab some pictures from my most recent trip to Kenya for a slideshow. Here are the results (you can definitely tell a pro is behind this production): [Direct slideshow link

In downtown Bamako, Mali an entrepreneurial bookshop owner, Mamadou Coulibaly, has been attracting an ever-increasing number of clients and curious onlookers since the owner set up an odd-looking computer.

AfriGadget is a blog dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity and spreading the word about just how much our continent can achieve with very little. Run by a team of bloggers, the site was founded by Erik Hersman and makes a point of including visual contributions from readers.

Joining the AfriGadget community with Zoopy’s video community Over the past two years AfriGadget videos have been hosted haphazardly by our team on YouTube and Brightcove. We’re very happy to announce that we’re partnering with one of Africa’s premier video and image hosting sites, Zoopy, for all of our videos from now on.

Morris Mbetsa, an 18 year old self-taught inventor with no formal electronics training from the coastal tourist town of Mombasa on the Indian Ocean in Kenya has invented the “Block & Track”, a mobile phone-based anti-theft device and vehicle tracking system.

One of the things that many Afro-optimists share is an excitement about the way that technology is providing new opportunities for the passion, energy, and talent that’s so apparent in young people across the continent.

Popular African innovation blog AfriGadget was profiled as part of Time Magazine’s “50 Best Sites for 2008″. Congrats to the group!