Mobile Message

The past five or so months have been a non-stop whirlwind of activity. Between ongoing renovations on our house, freelance commercial production work, and consulting gigs with Ushahidi and FrontlineSMS, this is the first chance I've had to catch my breath. Which is fitting cuz it's (rather perversely) my favorite day of the year: the day after the Winter Solstice, the first in a long succession of days that will be just a little bit lighter than the last.

Of the various projects, I'm most proud to share the "Mobile Message", a guest series that FrontlineSMS is contributing to the National Geographic blog. I'm supervising the project as part of my role as a communications advisor for FrontlineSMS. It feels like a circle completed as I first discovered FrontlineSMS while researching a documentary series I wanted to produce about the impact of mobile phones in the developing world. It's really exciting to be reaching a wide audience through the National Geographic website with inspiring posts like this one that evolved from an email interview that I conducted with one of the founders of Kubatana in Zimbabwe:

"Mobile Technology Gives Zimbabweans a Voice"

I'm also thrilled about the progress we've made with the house but that's more a personal triumph that I'll celebrate privately.



Meanwhile, today is also the tailend of one of the most remarkable rainstorms in my memory. Here in the San Bernardino Mountains the "Pacific Plume" brought unrelenting rain day after day in tropical profusion. 18" in 7 days. Our creek turned from trickle to flood...