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These images are taken by Kenyan bloggers and photojournalists in the country over the past three weeks.

The RSS feed is coming from Kenya Post-Election Pictures 2008, a Flickr group.

Google ads may seem like an easy way to make a little money off your blog or your site, but those webcrawlers cannot always put two and two together. This is a shot of the Monitor website today. Given what is going on in Kenya at the moment, now may not be the best time to advertise a study abroad program in that country.

Keep that in mind.

A little bit of context: It's not that this guy has anything against Canadian designers. It is just that he was speaking to some people from Design Africa, a trade development initiative of the Trade Facilitation Office Canada and its African and Canadian partners.

Jay Smooth lays into CNN, and reminds us all that questioning media is not just healthy, it is essential.

And you're over ten, and watch CNN and believe everything
you're in too deep
Damian Marley, lyrics on In 2 Deep on Welcome to Jamrock.

You should by now know that parts of Kenya are on the brink of full-blown violence following the announcement that Mwai Kibaki has won the hotly disputed Kenyan elections. The Economist has posted an analysis of Kenya's unsound election.

Much thanks to DEMOSH who posted images of the Kenyan elections on Flickr.

This past summer I was in Toronto for a couple of days, and saw an artist working on a chalk drawing on the sidewalk. His work was impressive, so i guess it was a matter of time before someone approached him for a marketing gig.

The web is full of great little apps that demonstrate innovative information architectures and designs. I was having a conversation with Silumesii from Pencilcase Studios about web designs and he showed me this neat little web app by the folks at marumushi.com in Tokyo. They developed a flash newsmap that presents the changing contents of the Google News news aggregator in something that looks like a tag cloud.