10 days to go before TEDGlobal kicks off and the anticipation is building like crazy. I’ll say this about these TED guys, they look like they sure know how to organise a conference. Well that’s easy to say 10 days before everything begins but if their organisation on the day is as good as it has been thus far then things will be great.
This conference is unlike any I have ever been to before in that I have no idea, absolutely NO IDEA, what kind of conference to expect. There is a wealth of information on the conference but it just highlights that I should expect the unexpected.
One thing I do know for sure is that I will be rooming with one crazy dude called Hash a.k.a White African. Now really it does not get any crazier than that. I wonder what TEDGlobal Program Director Emeka Okafor will do once he realises that he has put two techie and blogging members of the Front Row Union in the same room. (Hash, I hope you play tight head because, bruv, I’m a loose head!) If we don’t blow up something while trying to plug in all our gear into the one wall socket in the room, we’ll probably be busy forcing encouraging all kind of interesting people to talk to us. I notice that Yvonne Chaka Chaka has stopped organising her calendar to take in my conference dates instead Youssou N’Dour will be doing his thing.
Other KBWers who are representing are:
Any others out there (I’m sure they’ll be a couple attending chini ya maji a.k.a undercover)
I’ll post some more details on the proposed Madaraka Day (June 1st) KBW, Tedsters, Skunkworkers, techies, wanainchi, anybody, everybody meet up over the weekend. Come one, come all.
(Isn’t it interesting how many of the people who branded us traitors/sell outs/neo-colonial appeasists for going to the Digital Indaba in South Africa in September last year because it was “white” are happily gobbling up all that TEDGlobal can throw at them with not even a little sense of irony? Hmm the contradictions, the contradictions 
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Damn! I wish I was attending the conference.
NB. I’m tired of reading Morphological Confetti negroid posts. Can you stop the KBW feed from aggregating old posts? Contact him and find the problem.
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I’ll check out the aggregator. that thing has a mind of its own sometimes! what do you think of the new layout?
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The lay-out is timamu. The only thing is that I can’t read it on my PDA. I see the titles and pictures only.
Keep it up.
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Just a note to say as one of the “critics” of the Indaba, I am not on this TED bandwagon either – but I guess you know that already:)
On another note, I am still not able to get the KU feed. I left a message on the website but still no response.
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“Morphological Confetti negroid” Are you all talking about me? I mean, I know I’m a black man, but “negroid?”
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