A Programmer's Picture Diary   

Blogs are getting rapidly out of fashion. Blogs are too long and too slow. We no longer blog, we twitter. 140 characters seems to be more than enough.

IFFR programmer Gertjan Zuilhof used to be a seasoned blog writer. He did not see the point of sending short messages from Addis Ababa or Beijing and kept his powder dry.

Zuilhof travelled extensively in Asia and Africa for the festival and met old friends and made new ones. He collected enough to show and enough to talk about.

For the Signals: Hidden Histories programme he went and went back to China and was a guest of the house arrested Ai Weiwei and he introduced himself in the less travelled parts of Africa like the just divided Sudan.

Instead of making his message shorter he made it longer. He wrote one blog-diary for the whole year (about 20.000 characters) and he even dares to present it as a picture diary. The form is that of a Facebook photo album.