With many of us sitting at our computers browsing Google News, Reddit, or the Huffington Post for today’s election coverage (and hopefully getting out to a freaking voting booth) we thought it would be nice to revisit what may be the world’s only analog blog, The Daily Talk.

Every day in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, Alfred J. Sirleaf gathers a handful of top news stories and writes up them up on a chalk board. Since 2000, in the midst of the country’s second civil war, he has provided information for Liberian citizens without access to the news. Today, crowds gather around his “blog” each morning for their information breakfast.

While he was initially motivated by the need to educate the public about the war, now that warring factions no longer maintain a stranglehold on information, he uses his service to inform those who cannot afford to pick up a newspaper – and because he loves telling people what’s going on.

Last year, Motherboard met Sirleaf and watched his lo-fi DIY publishing platform in action.

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