We got this Trackback from from the mawazo na mahaidha blog on the Blogging is Dead ‘mashup’
Help translate it please.
alianza kwa kusema Hip Hop is Dead kisha wanablogu wa Afrika Kusini wakamnukuu kwa undani sana na Blogging is dead sasa kati ya watu wote wale mwandishi Paul Graham – yule aliyetufunza mengi kuhusu barua taka na
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That trackback is from Maitha, is a prominent Kenyan blogger who blogs in Swahili (the comment is in Swahili) about the internet, music and other stuff.
It says:
“There are two heavily debated episodes that have come about recently about the state of ‘open software development’ that are being debated heavily. You can read about them at”
then gives the links to the Jem Report and David Wheeler’s site
Second paragraph
“NAS is the one who began by saying Hip Hop is Dead then South African bloggers have taken up this theme with the idea that “Blogging is dead” with Paul Graham, who taught us tons about “trash letters” ( not sure what this means, maybe spam?) picking up the theme by then telling us that Microsoft is Dead.
The vagaries of language mean that my (poor) translation is not as interesting to read as the original Swahili.
A really cool and complimentary post all in all.
NAS began by saying “hip hop” is dead, and bloggers from South Africa followed up by saying Blogging is dead, and Paul Graham whom we learnt a lot from took that idea and concluded, by saying Microsoft is dead in his essay…
u welcome rafiq ! afwan!
I just think it’s really positive that we are seeing so many non-English blogs popping up! l10n++
Wow, this is amazing. TYFYC Charl, Yasser, Ntwiga