December 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Marc Mac (19) Animals as Leaders (14) Auxes (12) Van Hunt (8) 4hero (3)
Dec 30th
12 Predictions for Africa’s Tech Scene in 2012 |... →
It has been a banner year for the Africa technology scene as the world begins to turn to the continent – theEconomist Africa rising cover story article was for many, a big validation in the future…
Dec 30th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Africa Hitech (8) House of Reggae (3) José James (2) Motor City Drum Ensemble (1) Submotion Orchestra (1)
Dec 20th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Animals as Leaders (18) Culture (17) SBTRKT (15) Thundercat (13) House of Reggae (13)
Dec 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
City Soul (5) Animals As Leaders (3) Toy Selectah (1) Hudson Mohawke (1) The Matthew Herbert Big Band (1)
Dec 1st
November 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Animals As Leaders (25) Amp Fiddler (12) Andreya Triana (7) Dillinger (5) Boiler Room (3)
Nov 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Animals as Leaders (14) NPR (4) Mr. Vegas (2) carlinton feat drago (2) Munga (2)
Nov 1st
October 2011
2 posts
Simple Version Control for Designers - LayerVault →
Simple version control for designers Every file, every version, securely backed up while you and your team work.
Oct 15th
September 2011
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
TV on the Radio (6) Theo Parrish (5) Braille (2) Amerie (1) Lil’ Wayne (1)
Sep 26th
6 tags
Sep 5th
27 notes
WCTD 90s Dancehall →
Sep 2nd
August 2011
3 posts
Support For Sicko by Allison Vinyard - GoFundMe →
oh man, RIP Dan Sicko, #Detroit #techno evangelist/historian and author of “Techno Rebels”
Aug 29th
3 tags
Aug 20th
78 notes
3 tags
Aug 2nd
3 notes
July 2011
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →
Wugazi (27) Deftones (8) Africa Hitech (4) Boiler Room (2) Chicago Public Radio (2)
Jul 29th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-17) →
Boiler Room (7) dz (6) Chicago Public Radio (3) Redlight feat. Roses Gabor (2) BBC World Service (1)
Jul 23rd
4 notes
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-3) →
Boiler Room (4) BBC World Service (2) City Soul (2) dz (1) Redlight feat. Roses Gabor (1)
Jul 4th
6 tags
Wu Tang Clan v Fugazi
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan Instrument - Fugazi Another Wu Tang remix/mashup project, this time versus Fugazi. Done by the Doomtree collective, the full length is slated to come out on July 13.
Jul 4th
589 notes
Google launches first African voice recognition... →
RT @phat_controller: Google launches first African voice recognition technology: Zulu & Afrikaans #ict4d #tech #africa
Jul 3rd
June 2011
11 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-26) →
Boiler Room (5) dz (5) Rocco & C. Robert Walker (4) Donae’o (4) Braille (3)
Jun 29th
3 tags
Jun 24th
3 notes
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
Boiler Room (7) BBC World Service (4) Reggie Dokes (4) Adam Mansbach (4) City Soul (3)
Jun 24th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-12) →
Probe DMS (20) Stevie Wonder (6) Braille (6) City Soul (5) 2 Bad Mice (2)
Jun 23rd
3 tags
Jun 14th
26 notes
2 tags
Marketers, Agencies Eye Booming Africa for...
The world’s second-largest continent is no longer the “next big thing” — Africa has arrived. It’s a huge and compelling market, three times the size of China, home to six out of the world’s 10 fastest-growing economies, according to The Economist, and home to a billion people, 40% of who are under the age of 50, half of who have a mobile phone and 40%...
Jun 13th
Gene Smith — Yes! Just purchased my copy of The... →
Photo: Yes! Just purchased my copy of The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry. Has anyone seen…
Jun 9th
2 notes
5 tags
Jun 9th
Be Stigma Free →
ST2011 is a killer negative perception that infects those with low knowledge, making them so scared they discriminate against people who are different. Stigma is now targeting people living with HIV….
Jun 8th
1 note
AUTO (TUMBLR) MEME →
AUTO (TUMBLR) MEME
Jun 5th
Why Nairobi is exploding as the tech hub of East... →
RT @geoplace: TNW on why Nairobi is exploding as the tech hub of East Africa via @JessicaColaco
Jun 1st
May 2011
11 posts
1 tag
Reggie Watts Daytrotter Session! →
Looking forward to checking him out at this year’s Afro-punk festival! Who’s going?
May 27th
9 notes
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-22) →
Boiler Room (13) House of Reggae (6) BBC World Service (4) Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich (1) Cassius (1)
May 25th
Ad Age Creativity and Technology Conference, New... →
As dozens of new technology trends and methods touch marketing and advertising daily, CaT: Creativity and Technology stands out as a tightly-edited gathering of the best minds in the field for a…
May 21st
3 notes
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
Boiler Room (12) BBC World Service (5) Chicago Public Media (3) Stephen J. Dubner (2) T Power (2)
May 21st
Today The World Is →
Dynamic infographic charting daily mood of world via newspaper headlines.
May 14th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-8) →
Boiler Room (5) BBC World Service (5) Cassius (3) Maddslinky (3) House of Reggae (2)
May 12th
User interface design for iPhone apps | Tutorial |... →
Designing for iOS4 devices is totally different from designing for the web. Sarah Parmenter explains how to create the perfect user interface for your app
May 9th
Laker compendium – Designing digital publications... →
Unfortunate name….but, Laker is a compendium of files, frameworks, styles and tips for designing digital publications in HTML5.
May 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1) →
Maddslinky (6) Chicago Public Radio (3) BBC World Service (3) Boiler Room (2) Submotion Orchestra (2)
May 6th
Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and... →
Microjs.com helps you discover the most compact-but-powerful microframeworks, and makes it easy for you to pick one that’ll work for you.
May 5th
Duostack · Cloud Platform for Node and Ruby Apps →
Our world-class cloud platform keeps your app running at its best around the clock. Your app deserves the attention. You deserve the break.
May 2nd
4 notes
April 2011
16 posts
3 tech events in Ghana you shouldn’t miss |... →
RT @Ethnicsupplies: RT @africaontheblog 3 tech events in #Ghana you shouldn’t miss #Africa
Apr 23rd
Jasmine: BDD for your JavaScript →
Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing your JavaScript code. It does not depend on any other JavaScript frameworks. It does not require a DOM. And it has a clean, obvious…
Apr 21st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-17) →
DJ 2-Tone Jones (14) Boiler Room (13) Jessie Ware and Sampha (11) James Blake (10) Max Tannone (10)
Apr 21st
3 tags
Africa Programmers Survey Results
Interesting survey conducted by Afrinnovator on the programmer landscape in Africa. Great data, especially re: the types of languages and platforms used for developing web and mobile applications. That said, the survey also shows an unsettling problem — the lack of female programmers. Out of the 181 survey participants, only 9 were women. Read the survey results.
Apr 19th
Adapt.js - Adaptive CSS →
Adapt.js is a lightweight (947 bytes minified) JavaScript file that determines which CSS file to load before the browser renders a page. It is worth noting this is a proposed, not prescribed,…
Apr 16th
5 notes
Iris Couch →
Checking out Iris Couch — a hosting svc for #CouchDB. Is anyone else using it? Thoughts?
Apr 15th
3 notes
Pow: Zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X →
Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X. Have it serving your apps locally in under a minute.
Apr 15th
Africa needs more tech incubators but more... →
RT @MESTghana: Africa needs more tech incubators interesting post on startup incubators
Apr 14th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
Danger Mike (5) Animals as Leaders (5) BBC World Service (4) Andreya Triana (4) Chicago Public Radio (2)
Apr 13th