With a population of around one million inhabitants, Kibera is widely known as Africa's largest slum and counted among the biggest on earth. Despite the fact that many organizations have collected data on various aspects of Kibera, it has yet to be aggregated and shared as a public resource. As a result, the area remains a blank spot on Kenyan maps and knowledge of traffic patterns, housing layouts, health, water and community resources are largely unknown both to outsiders and the residents themselves.

I now have a Lenovo X200s. Another 12.1" screen machine that is really light and works great. Why did I switch my supplier? Honestly, because I wanted a machine that had a little better structural build quality (my Darter was a MSI barebones and started having structural issues near its 3rd year of life) and the X200s is just a little “better” (lighter and higher resolution).

One of the major areas that the Open Educational Resources (OER) community could greatly improve upon is the area of remixing; taking the openly licensed materials and using them, adding new material, and creating something original. This is why Open.Michigan provides to the public the ppt files along with the pdfs of the presentations created through the OER program.

With almost 2 billion downloads, add-ons have proven to be a huge part of Firefox's growth and popularity over the last 5 years. As Firefox continues to be adopted by non-technical, mainstream users, the security and consumer experience of installing third party add-ons becomes increasingly more important.

A little over four years ago I created my first Firefox add-on. Things were different back then: there were only around 2,000 extensions (we didn't call them add-ons), addons.mozilla.org was update.mozilla.org, and add-on developers always seemed to respect their users' privacy and choices without the need for Mozilla to get involved in telling developers what they can and can't do. Times have changed.

Just a few hours ago we launched a new website for Firefox add-ons to help folks looking to customize their browser discover new add-ons they might like. Whether you're just starting to try out add-ons or have been using them for years, Rock Your Firefox will feature several top add-on reviews each week to help you find your next favorite.

Did you observe The National Day of Unplugging? It was a nondenominational, apolitical, and free holiday. Sorry, I missed it. I found out about the Digital Day Off from the YouTube (video embedded below) two days too late.

The US Food and Drug Administration has recommended that administration of the Rotarix vaccine, which protects against rotavirus infection, be suspended. This action comes after an independent research group found that the vaccine contains DNA of porcine circovirus type 1. Rotaviruses are the single leading cause of diarrhea in infants and young children. Each year rotavirus gastroenteritis causes over 1,250,000 episodes of diarrhea and 527,000 deaths, mainly in developing countries.

For years makers of many kinds of goods and services have provided means for them to monitor how things are going. Now they need to include us in on the action, for the simple reason that we can do it better than they can.

The release of the iPad in a few short weeks is going to be a BIG deal for literacy, communication, and digitally powered learning-- not only because it will offer an amazing experience in media consumption, but because the iPad will herald the tipping point of a new era of literacy.

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