And off we go.

It was really cool that the first person to write in about this site was someone with whom I shared the very begining of the internet in Zimbabwe. Our first communications were about freedom from censorship, with me essentially calling him a fascist bastard. Gosh those were fun days...

Thanks, James, glad to hear from you!


And, now, so, here we are today. Ho Hum. Another bump in the footpath. Sigh.

SNAFU.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

I'd like a million dollars (US!) for every thime I've said this. And it is proven day after day, year after year. The current jump to the always on model, to the sushi beanfest is almost impossible to consider in most of Africa. Perhaps cellphones will do it.

In the meantime, players of politics, like most of humanity, are broken into two camps, those in the world who believe the internet changes everything. And those who don't.

Over the next few years, those who don't get it, who aren't with the program will be cropped like blackjacks under Roundup. They who believe in ivory towers; who use information as power; who put profit above responsibility will find the flood is out and running hard.

There's an ironic undertow in the relationship between China and Zimbabwe and censorship and the internet. Africa and Asia share more than the understanding that knowledge is freedom and freedom is knowledge and ineffecient political power is eventually worthless and that its the poor that always pay.

I once said jokingly that I wanted to be around when the Shona and the Chinese started doing business. Careful what you wish for, Eugene.

Enough, just wanted to start this blog, in case anyone happened to stumble in. The sites been up nearly four hours now :-)

So, just a quick mailshot to 300 of my closest and dearest friends and then I'm set for some more changes tommorrow.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave an email, a comment or at the least a vote!

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