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The Monrovian Analog Blogger
An anonymous reader writes "Motherboard.TV reports, 'In Monrovia, Liberia, there’s a guy taking the matter of a lopsided, state-run media and reshaping it into a free-of-charge, independent news-aggregator—all accomplished with dry-erase board and couple markers. (Sorry, internet!) Each morning, at 10:45 AM, Alfred Sirleaf wakes up and heads down to his bulletin board to post the day’s news, culling together a slate of stories his countrymen might otherwise never see. Grateful readers line up in droves, on foot and in cars, to read these updates, in what has been described as the country's — and probably the world's — only analog blog.'"
wait til gnaa hears about this.
it's a blog analogue! ...
Thanks, I'll be here all night.
He could take a picture of the board and then duplicate it onto paper. News, on pieces of paper! That way they can take the news with them to read it at home, on the train...they can share it with their family and friends. Avoid the crowds of people standing around all trying to read the same board.
Some people might like to receive the news on pieces of paper at their home for convenience's sake. He could offer a pricing model whereby they commit to a certain number of months- and it could be called a subscription.
Of course, eventually, someone will point out that he could communicate the news faster and cheaper to his subscribers if he did it electronically. He'll probably have to wait until the technology matures, though.
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Hear that? That's the sound of a joke, going right over your head.
Please help metamoderate.
Each morning, at 10:45 AM, Alfred Sirleaf wakes up
That's the kind of job I want.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I'm not fond of the term "analogue blog" for these reasons. I prefer to call it legacy blogging.
Well, if you watch the video and actually try and read some of what is on the blackboard, you'll see it's just somebodies opinionated, baseless and highly speculative interpretation of the news filled with misinformation and twisting of facts. So yeah, it IS just like a blog. Then again, calling it "Fox" would have been more accurate.
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
You mean printed blogs?
I mean really posting news isn't even blogging, because blog is short for weblog, not webnewscaster.
I agreed. The obvious name for what he is doing is Analog Twitter.
(ok, that made me hate myself)
sic transit gloria mundi
I don't think that Microsoft is worried about the "too-poor-to-buy-a-newspaper" market segment.
He uses this thing that he wipes across the board to store it in compressed
format; out here we normally call it an "eraser". I don't know if he has a
drawer to keep them, and I think (like most so-called 'sysadmins') he keeps
using the same one over and over.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Check it out. There's a dude in the crowd ... in LIBERIA ... reading a CHALK BOARD BLOG ... and wearing a t-shirt clearly sporting TUX, the Linux penguin.
Our thing is mainstream now, I guess?
No, That would be Tourette Syndrome...
I am very sucseptible to "let's have another drink"