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Reviving Main Street: A Call for Public Banks
by Neal Gorenflo 16 May '11

16 May '11

Dear colleagues, The Public Banking Institute has just contributed an inspiring and useful article on public banking in the US to Shareable. Please share with your communities. And it would be great if you added non-US examples in comments. *Reviving Main Street: A Call for Public Banks *http://www.shareable.net/blog/reviving-main-street-a-call-for-public-banks Thank you, Neal -- Neal Gorenflo | Publisher, http://Shareable.net | 415.867.0429

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Fwd: [singularity] Social Graph Transformation Algorithm (SGTA) project update
by Michel Bauwens 16 May '11

16 May '11

(via Dante Monson) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joshua Date: Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:46 PM Subject: [singularity] Social Graph Transformation Algorithm (SGTA) project update To: singularity <singularity(a)listbox.com> The Open Mesh Project (http://www.openmeshproject.org/) seeks to democratize the Internet on the hardware level, with nodes automatically connecting to physically nearby nodes. The SGTA project seeks to lubricate and democratize content distribution -- to mediate a broad, deep, continuous, global conversation, with nodes automatically connecting to physically and semantically nearby nodes. *Externalizing/sharing our imaginations* We seem to be undergoing a transition into a more flexible, more visual, mode of communication -- an accelerating externalization and conglomeration of our individual imaginations. The inventions of drawing and writing thousands of years ago could be considered early stages in this transition. Today, computer/Internet technology seems to be playing a key role in our psycho-techno-social-linguistic evolution. As of May 2011, we seem primed for the creation and widespread adoption of algorithms that will express/subsume/automate/sublimate the previous "linear," "verbal" modes of communication, folding knowledge from our various linguistic legacies into an intuitive, online, graphical communication/programming environment. We have always drawn upon shared knowledge bases, shared complexes of linguistic structures, in order to speak to each other. We continuously encounter linguistic structures, witness the associations to other structures they evoke in our imaginations, and choose which of these structures we will pay immediate attention to. Now that large portions of our species' knowledge bases have been put online, it seems appropriate to expect a similar associative-imaginative process to play out on our computer screens, relieving our brains of substantial cognitive burdens and turning web browsing into an experience of navigating through continuously self-transforming, uncannily intelligent-seeming, images. *Feedback loops by which SGTAs may aid in the transition from textual to graphical internet interfaces* Algorithms that automatically transform our social graphs could conceivably be plugged into interfaces to social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc., as they currently exist, without any immediate change to the look and feel of the interfaces. The only apparent difference at first would be the occasional, unbidden appearance of updates from new friends, and the occasional disappearance of others. Then, as our social graphs grow more complex, more subtly reflective of our actual interests and concerns, we will find it increasingly convenient to use our social media interfaces as our primary interfaces, or portals, to the entire Internet. We tend to think of social graphs as methods of filtering the streams of data flowing onto our screen. But they may also soon be seen as equally powerful modes of expression. We will potentially want to include in our social graphs anything we become particularly interested in, since that will cause information related to those interests to appear on our screens and will help keep us abreast of the latest developments about those interests. Your SGTAs will include in your graphs new nodes likely to be of interest based on your previous graphs and on your input actions. As more of our work goes online, as more of our online life becomes attached to social media, and as social media filter our datastreams in more sophisticated/dynamic ways, we will be able to express more complex ideas via patterns of URLs in our social graphs. We will naturally be interested in ways of maximizing the feedback we can receive in response to anything we say and do, and also conversely, in ways of maximizing the amount of our own feedback, our own reactions, that we can provide to whatever information we are exposed to. Using the social graph as a kind of central organizing metaphor would seem appropriate given the assumption that almost everything we do on our computers will soon be online. Your social graph, continuously evolving, will factor into the second-to-second choices your interface makes about which data to present to you. It will also provide everyone else on the Internet with up-to-the-second data about what's going on with you. Since your social graph will keep getting updated in response to your input anyway, why not use it as The Last Text-Based Data Format We'll Ever Need, allowing all other data formats, codes, etc., to be expressed "in terms of" the social graph? In other words, some data format similar to what has become known as a social media user's "social graph" (a filter for determining which datastreams will appear on our screens) appears both necessary for future Internet interfaces and, if it evolves automatically in response to our input, sufficient as a meta-format for expressing whatever we may want to express online. "What we want to say" can merge with "what we want to see." With so much (increasingly salient) data available, the process of reading and writing linear text will become a major constraint on the speed with which we can navigate. Out of concern both for efficiency and for aesthetics, we will seek wherever possible to communicate through images. As we see already beginning to happen in our social media feeds, which feature an avatar next to each update and expandable thumbnail photos of last night's parties, images will gain a foothold wherever possible, colonize whatever territory they can, and declare as Benjamin Netanyahu did today: "let nobody be mistaken, we are determined to defend our borders and sovereignty." There will be no going back once a particular area of knowledge has been visualized online; our interfaces will automatically search out and serve up rotating arrays of images potentially relevant to what we're doing, and we'll obviously tend to prefer dealing with images rather than text, when the choice is there. Anything with a URL attached to it can be included in a social graph, so Wikipedia articles, Semantic Web objects, Google Images, YouTube videos, etc. will easily be assimilated into this new environment. For instance, images and videos of the Deepwater Horizon explosion will automatically appear when your interface detects that you have been hanging out around nodes that correlate strongly with that incident based on the links in your social graph and on second-order links (links in the social graphs to which your graph links), third-order links, etc. If someone on the other side of the planet is researching the same incident at the same time as you, then in a scenario of continuously transforming social graphs having become our primary tools of expression and discovery, that person's avatar might very well appear on your screen and vice versa. The more you interact with the incident, the more frequently your avatar and other images associated with you will appear on the screens of subsequent Deepwater buffs. In such ways, the browsing activity of millions of people will build up increasingly comprehensive associations between images. Eventually we will have built up ultra-efficient all-graphical routes by which we can quickly navigate to images representing just about any idea we could want to express -- from programming concepts like "if-then" relationships to something like "the grade school years of Frederic Chopin." *The mathematics of conversation (/imagination/intelligence)* Say you're having a conversation with one or more other people. You think of something to say, but you don't say it yet. Maybe you hold your thought for a fraction of a second before saying it, maybe longer, or maybe you don't say it at all. How do you decide whether and when to say it? We might list some very general considerations that would tend to push you toward or away from delivering your line. Anything you might say would tend to express something true about where you're coming from, turning your private experiences into public information. On the other hand, anything you say will interrupt the previously established flow of the conversation, potentially disrupting some delicately balanced equilibrium. Sometimes something so clever occurs to you that you say it almost unhesitatingly, anticipating (probably correctly) that it will contribute significantly to the quality or complexity of the discussion. Other times, you may speak less out of a sense of the salience of your words than out of a sense of the value of saying either anything at all or anything that meets certain conditions. Could the decision of when, or whether, or to what extent to potentiate/perpetuate/actuate/deliver a given verbalization be expressed as some sort of product of a) the value/salience of the message content, and b) the value of maintaining the channel/medium/relationship through which the message is sent? Factors a) and b) could each potentially take both positive and negative values. Then, how would we quantify these two factors, as well as the process of potentiation/perpetuation/etc. in terms of social graphs? I don't have the math worked out quite yet (except for an "alpha version" of an algorithm joshmaurice.livejournal.com/19048.html ), and I have probably gotten kind of messianic and ahead of myself about this at times, but I still have a very strong suspicion that something like this is coming soon and will contribute significantly to extreme accelerations of communications efficiency, which will help solve economic/political/social crises, which in turn will help smooth the road toward the development of Singularity-type technologies. *Feedback & Fundraising* I would of course be interested in everyone's impressions of all this. Delusion, brilliance, neither, both? Any ideas for the SGTA beta version? The SGTA Project could currently use a few hundred bucks to avoid eviction, etc. Our phone number is 214-587-0196 and we live at 2707 SE 16th Ave. #2, Portland, OR 97202. Kickstarter.com lets you receive donations for creative projects online, but requires a credit card and bank account. Perhaps someone who has these nice things would like to register the project there? Josh Maurice josh.maurice(a)gmail.com http://jmmsynch.blogspot.com http://joshmaurice.livejournal.com http://twitter.com/joshmaurice *singularity* | Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now> <http://www.listbox.com> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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rebel phones in lybia
by Michel Bauwens 15 May '11

15 May '11

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/20114233530919767.html hi sepp, thanks for looking if this is interesting for us, Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit
by Michel Bauwens 14 May '11

14 May '11

Trebor Scholz <http://www.facebook.com/rtscholz> May 15 at 3:22am Reply<http://www.facebook.com/ajax/messaging/composer.php?thread=2040639696596&ms…> • Report<http://www.facebook.com/ajax/report.php?content_type=9&cid=2040639696596&ri…> Please distribute widely. = MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit Call for Workshops, Demonstrations, Panel Discussions and Short Talks DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS JULY 1, 2011 11:59pm (EST) MobilityShifts When: October 10-16, 2011 Where: The New School, New York City http://mobilityshifts.org/ MOBILITYSHIFTS IS: provocative conversations, original ideas, engaging performances, workshops and art projects about digital learning. Where, when, how, and even what we are learning is changing. Digital learning is not only taking place online or in the university classroom but is also situated in museums, after school programs, living rooms, public libraries and peer-to-peer universities. The future of learning will not be solely determined by digital culture but by the re-organization of power relationships and institutional protocols. MobilityShifts will bring together leading scholars, artists, web developers, technologists, teachers, librarians, policy makers, critical legal scholars and learning activists to discuss how digital media can play a positive role in this process of transformation. Comprised of a conference, exhibition, workshops, project demos and a theater performance, this summit will add an international layer to the existing debate about digital fluencies for a mobile world and learning outside the bounds of traditional institutions of higher education. Drawing on New York City’s strengths as a global hub for learning, innovation and design, the summit will showcase theories, people and projects making unexpected connections between self-learning, mobile platforms and the Open Web. Learn, discuss, laugh, write mini-manifestos, record videos, conduct interviews and meet future collaborators. APPLICATION GUIDELINES MobilityShifts is now accepting applications in the following formats: 1) Hands-on Workshops and Demonstrations (They will take place October 10-13.) Workshops and Demonstrations should provide an opportunity for hands-on exploration. They will be scheduled for two hours and should invite audience participation. 2) Panel Discussions and Short Talks (October 13-16) Panel Discussions should bring together four panelists to include a mix of individuals working in diverse areas of research, theory and practice. Short Talks of up to ten minutes should focus on presenting work or research on a particular subject relevant to one of the three subthemes of the Summit. MOBILITYSHIFTS SUBTHEMES: DIGITAL FLUENCIES FOR A MOBILE WORLD - New pedagogical approaches for learning with mobile platforms; - Mobile media for the creation of rich social contexts around learning activities; - Revisiting the myth of the digital native; - Histories of media literacy, the book, reading, and writing; - Teaching user rights; - Limitations of the “digital literacies" paradigm; - Remix and responsibility; the ethics of database culture; - Using locative media to expand learning beyond the classroom; - Ubiquitous computing inside the traditional classroom; - Collaborative learning as a fundamental model of pedagogy; - Texts, tweets, and chats as new modes of writing; - Smartphone video capture and the art of witnessing; - Flash-mobbing, spontaneous gathering, and collective learning in a mobile world; - Nostalgia for pre-mobile learning spaces DO IT YOURSELF UNIVERSITIES: LEARNING WITHOUT A SCHOOL? - The future of peer-to-peer learning networks, learning without walls/blended learning, sustainability, methods and social practices; - Insertions, rearrangements and revamping within existing institutional frameworks: the Twenty-first Century University as global learning network; - Failure of self-learning projects, barriers to the success of DIY U; - Technical systems that facilitate relationships between non-monetary or reputation economies and DIY U (OpenBadges project); - Challenges of selective and non-selective models of admission; - Producing, locating and using openly accessible resources for learning such as public digital libraries, building educational digital infrastructures; - Reframing knowledge, the educational turn in art; - Histories of DIY learning; - For-profit and non-profit education: certification for self-learning, mass customization of education, open access as business model; - Models of peer-grading, updated visions of peer review, and peer-produced curriculum; - Student occupations: Struggle as DIY learning INNOVATIVE DIGITAL LEARNING PROJECTS WORLDWIDE - Expand the definition of digital learning informed by projects from outside the United States; - Examples of practitioners in countries outside of North America and Europe serving as digital innovators; - Reshape our curricula and pedagogical practices for a transnational digital fluency; - The Twenty-first Century University as global learning network PROPOSAL FORMAT PROPOSALS FOR WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS SHOULD INCLUDE: 1) Names of key presenters or panelists 2) Institutional affiliations 3) 150 word biography for Workshop/Panel Chair 4) Identification of conference subtheme to be covered (Digital Fluencies for a Mobile World, DIY U: Learning Without a School?, or Digital Learning Projects Globally) 5) Narrative describing topical orientation, format (e.g., panel discussion, presentation followed by group activity and discussion), as well as how the session addresses the overall conference focus and/or one of the three conference subthemes. Narrative should be 500 words or less. 6) MobilityShifts explores the summit as a site of production. What will be the outcome of your contribution (e.g., mini-manifestos, sprint publications, video interviews and other documents)? 7) Submissions will be accepted in Word document format (.doc or .docx) ONLY. 8) Submit to digitalculture [at] newschool.edu with the chosen subtheme in the subject line PROPOSAL FOR SHORT TALKS SHOULD INCLUDE: 1) Name of key presenter 2) Institutional affiliations 3) 150 word biography for key presenter 4) Identification of conference subtheme to be covered (Digital Fluencies for a Mobile World, DIY U: Learning Without a School?, or Digital Learning Projects Globally) 5) Narrative describing theme, format (e.g., panel discussion, presentation followed by interactivity and discussion), as well as how the session addresses the overall conference focus and/or one of the three conference subthemes. The narrative should be 250 words or less. 6) Submissions will be accepted in Word document format ONLY (.doc or .docx) . 7) Submit to digitalculture [at] newschool.edu with the chosen subtheme in the subject heading. (Ex.: Digital Fluencies for a Mobile World Proposal) 8) Each individual will be limited to participation on no more than two panels at the Summit. Participants will be expected to fund their own travel and accommodation. The registration fee will not be waived. APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JULY 1, 2011, 11:59pm (EST). AUGUST 15 - PROPOSAL NOTIFICATIONS WILL BE SENT. ------------------------ Chair: Trebor Scholz Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Losh, Edward Keller, David Theo Goldberg, Matthew K. Gold, Sean Dockray Steering Committee: Arien Mack, Katie Salen, McKenzie Wark Producer: Jennifer Conley Darling Sponsors: The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, The New School, Parsons The New School for Design, The New School for General Studies, The New School for Social Research, and the Mozilla Foundation MobilityShifts is part of The New School’s Politics of Digital Culture conference series. The summit builds on two previous events: The Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona (2010) and Digital Media and Learning 2011 in Los Angeles. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Gathering 11 in melbourne
by Michel Bauwens 14 May '11

14 May '11

http://gathering11.net/ hi chris, can you republish this on our blog, mentioning that I'll participate? thanks for your help!! -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Best_Practice_Guide_042811_10.pdf (application/pdf Object)
by Michel Bauwens 14 May '11

14 May '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rob Peters <rob.peters(a)standardoftrust.com> Date: Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:40 AM Subject: Best_Practice_Guide_042811_10.pdf (application/pdf Object) To: Rob Peters <rob.peters(a)standardoftrust.com> Excellent Facebook Marketing Best Practices Guide for your knowledge: http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/FacebookAds/Best_Practice_Guide_042811_10.pdf -Rob Rob Peters Founder & CEO Standard of Trust 2500 West Talcott Rd Unit 208 Park Ridge, IL 60068 (O) 847-698-3614 (M) 708-819-8360 Skype: RPeters59 rob.peters(a)standardoftrust.com www.StandardofTrust.com -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: NEAT article : The napster of banking
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 14 May '11

14 May '11

http://falkvinge.net/2011/05/11/with-the-napster-of-banking-round-the-corne… ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Date: Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:44 PM Subject: [Ripple] NEAT article : The napster of banking To: rippleusers(a)googlegroups.com "Bring out your popcorn" http://falkvinge.net/2011/05/11/with-the-napster-of-banking-round-the-corne… -jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ripple Project" group. To post to this group, send email to rippleusers(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rippleusers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rippleusers?hl=en.

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OKCon 2011: preliminary programme + list of speakers
by Daniel Dietrich 14 May '11

14 May '11

Dear all, I am happy to announce the preliminary Programme of the Open Knowledge Conference - OKCon 2011 http://okcon.org/2011/programme It already includes a great variety of interesting talks and sessions. Final version will be published around June, 1st. I am delighted to share with you a sneak preview list of speakers already confirmed their coming. http://okcon.org/2011/speakers You are invited to also join the pro-OKCon workshops and a screen scraping day - kind of hackathon, see more: http://okcon.org/blog All in all we are exited and looking forward to a great Conference with all of you! Please note: There are only 15 days left to get your early bird ticket. http://okcon2011.eventbrite.com/ All the best Daniel PS: sorry for cross-posting -- Daniel Dietrich The Open Knowledge Foundation Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age www.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org Mail: daniel.dietrich(a)okfn.org Mobil: +49 171 780 870 3 Twitter: @ddie

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Fwd: Immigrants For Sale - 2 min video
by Michel Bauwens 13 May '11

13 May '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante(a)ecobytes.net> Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:13 PM Subject: Immigrants For Sale - 2 min video To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com, hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com, sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com Immigrants For Sale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuGE1VxVsYo Uploaded by bravenewfoundation<http://www.youtube.com/user/bravenewfoundation> on May 12, 2011 Find out more: http://immigrantsforsale.org Discuss: http://facebook.com/cuentame En Español: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pIy06BN4hk Immigrants are for sale in this country. Sold to private prison corporations who are locking them up for obscene profits! Here are the top 3 things YOU need to know about the Private Prison money scheme: The victims: Private prisons don't care about who they lock up. At a rate of $200 per immigrant a night at their prisons, this is a money making scheme that destroys families and lives. The players: CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), The Geo Group and Management and Training corporations—combined these private prisons currently profit more than $5 billion a year. The money: These private prisons have spent over $20 million lobbying state legislators to make sure they get state anti-immigrant laws approved and ensure access to more immigrant inmates. Be a part of the movement to follow the players, the money and the victims of this money making scheme @ immigrantsforsale.org -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: [c&f] Parution du livre "Libres Savoirs : les biens communs de la connaissance"
by Michel Bauwens 13 May '11

13 May '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hervé Le Crosnier <herve(a)cfeditions.com> Date: 2011/5/11 Subject: [c&f] Parution du livre "Libres Savoirs : les biens communs de la connaissance" To: cetf(a)cfeditions.com Bonjour, C&F éditions a le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du livre "Libres Savoirs, les biens communs de la connaissance". Ce livre coordonné par l'association Vecam veut offrir un panorama des biens communs de l'immatériel, depuis les usages numériques jusqu'aux savoirs et connaissances scientifiques ou traditionnelles. Cette approche par les communs permet d'interroger les modèles politiques et les activités des mouvements sociaux. Réunissant trente auteurs, venus de tous les continents, ce livre constitue une référence sur la théorie des biens communs, embrassant tout le spectre de ces nouveaux communs de l'immatériel. Et soulevant des questions nouvelles pour le 21ème siècle. On trouvera toute l'information sur ce livre sur le site de C&F éditions : http://cfeditions.com Sommaire et spécimen avec les deux articles introductifs de Valérie Peugeot et Frédéric Sultan sont disponibles à cette adresse. On peut évidemment commander le livre en ligne (paiement sécurisé) et faire circuler l'information. Sincèrement, Hervé Le Crosnier PS : Valérie Peugeot dédicacera le livre "Libres Savoirs" le samedi 14 mai après-midi sur le Salon du Livre de Caen. Au plaisir de vous y rencontrer. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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