It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.

The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.