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	<description>observations from the wide perspective. from shara karasic.</description>
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		<title>Designing Social Interfaces Book: Become a User Experience Superstar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very excited last week to receive my contributor&#8217;s copy of the new O&#8217;Reilly/Yahoo! Press book, Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience. The authors are my social design heroes Christian Crumlish, the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library, and Erin Malone, principal of Tangible UX and founding member [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://expertgeneralist.com/?p=501</link>
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		<title>Enchanted Island (Gili Trawangan, 1990)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The travel guidebook claimed it was a fine swim from one Gili island to the other, and I knew I was a strong swimmer.
Every day in Bali I plunged into the Java Sea, and swam far out from the black sand beach to where I could float. From the gently swaying water I would gaze [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://expertgeneralist.com/?p=493</link>
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		<title>FRONTLINE/WORLD iWitness Interview: BarCamp Swaziland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our FRONTLINE/WORLD iWitness interview about BarCamp Swaziland is now up: 

Swaziland: The King and the Web
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		<link>http://expertgeneralist.com/?p=482</link>
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		<title>Two Songs</title>
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Msimisi, a lanky, wide-eyed 12-year-old who lives with two brothers and his grandmother on a mud-baked compound, was assigned to help me document BarCamp Swaziland. Though he had managed to hook up a solar panel to the roof of his family&#8217;s hut in order to generate electricity to power their radio, he was mystified when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://expertgeneralist.com/?p=468</link>
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		<title>The Highest HIV Rate in the World: Beyond Statistics #2</title>
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BarCamp Swaziland had just ended, and now it was time for the annual Facebook Party at the &#8220;Afro-Shakepearean&#8221; amphitheatre-like venue called House on Fire. The house was on fire, orange lights flickering on the walls, and house music pounding through giant speakers. DJ&#8217;s spun records, and the dancing was beginning. Most party guests had found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://expertgeneralist.com/?p=434</link>
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		<title>Rural Youth at BarCamp Swaziland</title>
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Katrina Heppler of envisionGood.tv and I pose with the amazing young people from rural areas who helped with BarCamp Swaziland. They were sponsored by YouthAssets.org, who empowers youth in Southern Africa through technology, especially those heading households. YouthAssets sent this group airtime via SMS on their mobile phones, which they received in their villages and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://expertgeneralist.com/?p=404</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Gcina Dube on HIV/AIDS in Swaziland</title>
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&#8220;It was AIDS that killed her, not the witchcraft stuff they were talking about.&#8221;
We went to Hluti to visit Phindile, an 18-yr-old head-of-household who advises YouthAssets. As we were hanging out in front of the school, Gcina, a Swazi man in his twenties who works for YouthAssets and was accompanying us to the rural areas, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://expertgeneralist.com/?p=402</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: BarCamp Swaziland - Social Media Session</title>
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BarCamp Swaziland - Social Media Session from Shara Karasic on Vimeo.
Tibusiso Mbisi, an 18-year-old student whose single mother of five children read about BarCamp Swaziland in the newspaper and encouraged her to go, describes her favorite social network, Facebook, which is hot in Swaziland, and used to organize Facebook parties of hundreds of people and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://expertgeneralist.com/?p=398</link>
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		<title>The Highest HIV Rate in the World: Beyond Statistics #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Swaziland has the highest HIV rate in the world, with estimates of the adult prevalence rate ranging from 26%-38%. Before I left for BarCamp Swaziland, in between buying batteries and packing tripods and making sure I had enough DV tapes, I needed to try to wrap my mind around this reality. What did it really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://expertgeneralist.com/?p=382</link>
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		<title>Social Media in Swaziland: Swazis Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Swaziland. The last absolute monarchy in Africa, led by King Mswati III, famous for choosing new wives at the annual Umhlanga (Reed Dance) of bare-breasted virgins. Traditional healers, sangomas, who channel ancestral spirits and pound herbs into potions. A country with one of the highest rates of&#8230;mobile phone penetration in the world. Up to 90% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://expertgeneralist.com/?p=355</link>
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