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		<description>Links from Michal Migurski's notebook, listening post, and soapbox.</description>
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		<dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
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            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm</link>
            <title>Ant mega-colony takes over world</title>
            <dc:date>2009-07-02T08:39:22-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["But whenever ants from the main European and Californian super-colonies and those from the largest colony in Japan came into contact, they acted as if they were old friends.
These ants rubbed antennae with one another and never became aggressive or tried to avoid one another.
In short, they acted as if they all belonged to the same colony, despite living on different continents separated by vast oceans."]]>
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            <title>Help me make your map better</title>
            <dc:date>2009-07-02T07:54:16-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Steve Coast:
"I'm trying an experiment with walking-papers. Get all my non-mapping friends to print out a map of their area, write on the print out the errors, house numbers etc and then I will do the rest.
...
You can too. Get your friends, family, even enemies involved. Re-tweet or facebook status update with that, or ask them to send you the paper yourself."
]]>
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            <item rdf:about="http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/06/30/oakland-mappers-improve-the-downtown-map/">
            <link>http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/06/30/oakland-mappers-improve-the-downtown-map/</link>
            <title>Oakland mappers improve the downtown map</title>
            <dc:date>2009-07-01T00:09:42-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Manley:
"This past weekend's Oakland Mapping Party showed what a difference a weekend of mapping can make!

On June 27th and 28th, OSM experts and newbies joined together at the Rock, Paper, Scissors Art Collective, to work together to improve the Oakland map. Mappers concentrated on adding details to the downtown map, showcasing where restaurants, galleries, bike parking are located, as well as many other amenities."]]>
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            <link>http://www.everyblock.com/code/</link>
            <title>The EveryBlock source code</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-30T19:03:30-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["EveryBlock.com is an experimental news Web site that provides information at a "microlocal" level %u2014 by neighborhood or city block. It was funded by a grant from Knight Foundation, which requires the site's backend code to be open-sourced. Here is the code."]]>
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            <item rdf:about="http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog/about/walls_come_tumbling_down_presentation_slides_and_transcript/">
            <link>http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog/about/walls_come_tumbling_down_presentation_slides_and_transcript/</link>
            <title>Walls Come Tumbling Down</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-28T21:27:00-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Andy Clarke on recessions and efficiency and web design:
"Letting go of the notion that we should spend hours of remedial development time in an impossible quest for cross-browser, pixel-perfection allows more time for the details in a design. It allows us time to design the different experiences that people using different software will always have, by designing around browser differences rather than attempting to hack around them."]]>
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            <item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence">
            <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence</link>
            <title>Path Dependence</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-28T11:06:16-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[As distinct from skeuomorphism: 
Path dependence explains how the set of decisions one faces for any given circumstance is limited by the decisions one has made in the past, even though past circumstances may no longer be relevant.
The phrase is regularly used to mean one of two things (Pierson 2004):
1) Some authors use path dependence to mean simply "history matters" - a broad concept;
2) Others use it to mean that institutions are self reinforcing - a narrow concept.]]>
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            <title>Gentrification</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-28T10:24:06-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["The middle of the market is a paradox because of the inherent contradiction between the ease of reaching the nerds and the geeks and the need to reach the middle. The solution, if there is one, is to enter a market to the enthusiastic cheers of those in search of the new, but to build a product/service that appeals to those in the middle. After the initial wave of enthusiasm, you hunker down and ignore those that first embraced you, obsessing instead on the needs and networks of the middle. It's a difficult balancing act, but it's the only one that works.

Ultimately, you end up disappointing the hard core that first found you, but because of their initial enthusiasm (and more important, because you designed your work for the masses in the first place), your product crosses the chasm and reaches a larger group."]]>
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            <title>&quot;... and when the groove is dead and gone...&quot;</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-27T22:30:18-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["'Billie Jean' is not only one of the best singles ever recorded, it is one of the greatest art works of the twentieth century, a multi-levelled sound sculpture whose slinky, synthetic-panther sheen still yields up previously unnoticed details and nuance nearly thirty years on.
...
Listening is like stepping onto a conveyor belt. And that's what it sounds like, as the implacable, undulating sinous cakewalk of the synthetic bass takes over the massive space opened up by the crunching snares Jones and Jackson insouciantly hijacked from hiphop. Check, if you can manage to keep focused as the track crawls up your spine and down to your feet, embodying the very compulsion the lyric warns against... check the way that the first sounds you hear from Jackson are not words but inhuman asignifying hiccups and yelps, as if he is gasping for air, or learning to speak English again after some aphasic episode."]]>
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            <title>100 Hours</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-27T14:08:37-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["Here's my challenge. Right now, put aside 100 hours over this summer. Do it right now, in your head. Put that time aside. 100 hours. 8 hours a week for the next 12 weeks. One hour a day, or one working day a week. It's one summer out of your entire life, it's nothing. Okay, you've got that 100 hours?

...

I guarantee that everyone in this room can produce something or has some special skill, and maybe they're not even aware of it.

...

Because when you contribute, when you participate in culture, when you're no longer solving problems, but inventing culture itself, that is when life starts getting interesting."]]>
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            <link>http://www.w3.org/Talks/9510_Bush/Talk.html</link>
            <title>Berners-Lee: Talk at Bush Symposium</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-27T08:04:11-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[October 1995, the month I learned HTML:
"One of the reasons that the web spread was that the hypertext model does not constrain the information it represents. This has allowed people to represent topologies they need. We have found that people love to use trees, but like to have more than one, sometimes overlapping. We have found they need structure and involvement at all scales."]]>
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            <title>On The Sudden Passing Of Michael Jackson</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-26T16:05:22-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Raymond Q. Smuckles, (President, Prime Time Records):
"When I got the Celebrity Death Beep on my Blackberry, I blew it off as a dumb rumor. That service is good, but I can see it makin' mistakes. A false headline at, like, The Onion coulda triggered it.
...
Michael had more talent in his little finger than any act today has among four men. Try wakin' up tomorrow and writin' We Are The World. See what you come up with. See if you can get Stevie and Tina to come down to the studio, along with Bruce and Billy and twenty other people who cost a whole hell of a lotta money at the time."]]>
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            <title>data / maps / narrative / adventure</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-25T11:23:45-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Russell Davies:
"...while points mean location, lines mean adventure..."]]>
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            <item rdf:about="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/twitter_creator_on_iran_i">
            <link>http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/twitter_creator_on_iran_i</link>
            <title>Never Intended To Be Useful</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-25T11:18:49-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Twitter's Jack Dorsey:
"Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant, self-absorbed egotists to share their most banal and idiotic thoughts with anyone pathetic enough to read them. When I heard how Iranians were using my beloved creation for their own means - such as organizing a political movement and informing the outside world of the actions of a repressive regime - I couldn't believe they'd ruined something so beautiful, simple, and absolutely pointless."]]>
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            <item rdf:about="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/06/tank-man-and-tank-commander.html">
            <link>http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/06/tank-man-and-tank-commander.html</link>
            <title>Tank Man and Tank Commander</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-25T00:15:12-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["The thing is, Tank Commander is far more dangerous than Tank Man. Tank Man can simply be shot; most seem to believe that Tank Man was later executed, far out of sight of the international media. The regime survives if Tank Man dies, even if the death of Tank Man isn't the optimal outcome. The regime dies, however, if Tank Commander refuses to run over Tank Man. ... While there's some mystery as to the fate of Tank Man, I don't doubt that the CCP found Tank Commander and put a bullet in the back of his head at the first opportunity."]]>
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            <item rdf:about="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/george-f-will-admits-public-option-will.html">
            <link>http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/george-f-will-admits-public-option-will.html</link>
            <title>Nate Silver On Health Care</title>
            <dc:date>2009-06-24T18:36:03-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["What Will's position reflects instead is ideology: who cares that the federal government could build a better mousetrap? They're the government and that's bad. His argument is really no more sophisticated than that. If a libertarian conservative wants to make this argument, more power to them, but they absolutely should not be turning around and suggesting that a public option would raise health care costs. They're saying, rather, that they're morally opposed to the cost savings that would ensue."]]>
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