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Stephen Johnson's talk The Urban Web was quite interesting.

While I find that his product, outside.in is quite good, I did feel that much of the talk sounded like a sales pitch.

Let's hope the rest of the day focuses more on new developments /  technologies in the social media industry.

Apart from that one niggle, the conference is going quite well - even though I mistook a delegate for one of the Madgex team.

Check back for more after the next talk.

Ushahidi, which means ''testimony'' in Swahili, is a website that was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Ushahidi's roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis.

The core engine is built on the premise that gathering crisis information from the general public provides new insights into events happening in near real-time. It is being developed by a group of volunteer developers and designers, hailing primarily from Africa. So far there are representatives from Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Ghana, Netherlands and the US.

Ushahidi plans to make the Ushahidi mapping tool available globally for free. After initial testing with NGO's the tool will be distributed to interested parties and organizations, and the Ushahidi team will provide technical customizations and support as needed.

Here are 2 of the current deployments of the system:

My girlfriend had her horse, Vasco, shipped over from Stuttgart, Germany to London, England at the beginning of this year.

Due to back problems she's decided to part with him.

If anyone knows about avid horse lovers in London, please point them to Vasco's website.

This is a very sad sale because he's such a lovable horse.

Thanks in advance guys.

For the past day, I've been looking for a T-shirt supplier / digital print company in Cape Town, South Africa.

Instead of trawling dozens of websites with shoddy design and content, trying to asses whether they can meet my needs, I dropped a message onto Twitter and Facebook.

I was amazed at the amount (and quality) of responses I received.

I'm hoping to contact these companies over the course of the day to get quotes for a T-Shirt campaign I plan on running to raise money for community projects in Cape Town.

In the meantime, I'm selling one design on my Cafepress store with all profits going to charity.

The T-Shirt says: SOUWF EFRIKA ARE WHERE THE HEART'S AT

It's written in the English dialect of a first language Afrikaans speaker and means, "South Africa is where the heart's at".

Have a listen to this radio show to hear what I mean.

I found 2 more pics I took ages ago...

I was just messing about with my shitty little point-and-shoot Canon Powershot A530.