A BLOG FROM THE YEAR 2000 THAT USES A BLACKBOARD.
A BLOG FROM THE YEAR 2000 THAT USES A BLACKBOARD. Annalisa called my attention to an item on Reddit which led to this blog post about Alfred Sirleaf, a journalist in Monrovia, Liberia, who has been operating a daily blog/newspaper on blackboards and whiteboards since the year 2000. He gets most of his international news by cellphone from the BBC and other news services. Local news comes from volunteer reporters. The blackboards are at a hut where people can stop by to read. Sirleaf uses symbols to make it easier for those who don’t read well. He is estimated to have about 10,000 readers a day.