It's no wonder Google plucked many of iHub's members, like Ory Okolloh of the crisis-mapping site Ushahidi, to join their African ranks.

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Several hundred miles away in Johannesburg, South Africa, Ory Okolloh was receiving reports from the scene verified by an NGO, and uploading them onto a public Web site.

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Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (CNN) -- Kenyan blogger Ory Okolloh has lit a fire under the African blogosphere with her posts about politics, human rights and other controversial issues.

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