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For years I've been trying to teach online communication skills in Africa. What I know very well, is that time spent online here is slow, expensive, and beyond providing a new venue for Africa to beg in, it does not provide any obvious financial return. In many ways, the ourwwworld game is yet another attempt, on my part, to try and crack that nut. Is there a way that participating on the internet can be made to happen sustainably - through online income generating mechanisms - for the African participants in my wwworld? (I've been working on this puzzle for about 7 years from various angles, so bear with me. ) The basic object of the ourwwworld game is to create blog posts that include terms listed in the google hot trends , and submit the posts to digg.com to get dugg by other readers. The players with the most diggs at the end of the month win cash prizes. An important component of the ourwwworld game is revenue sharing - in addition to a chance at prizes, each player g...