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		<description>Comments by Francis D'Silva</description>
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<link>http://fdsilva.blogspot.com/2009/10/fridays-announcement-of-2009-nobel.html#IDComment38602673</link>
<description>Thanks for dropping by Ramona. I wish you and your countrymen all the courage, strength and wisdom to keep focus on the issues that you are battling and to make the choices that will set the agenda for the future -- yours and propably for others around the world.  I am remembered of the &amp;quot;Serenity prayer&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;God grant me the serenity  to accept the things I cannot change;  courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference&amp;quot;  It is no easy task -- and a whole world is watching and silently (and sometimes not so silently) cheering on. </description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<link>http://fdsilva.blogspot.com/2009/10/fridays-announcement-of-2009-nobel.html#IDComment38601325</link>
<description>Yeah, Adrian. I viewed (and still view) the event as an encouragement for the rest of the world. I agree the prize has taken away a lot of attention but the issues are still the same and need to be addressed. It strikes me that those who do not have their head down and working to face the challenges of the hard times and to make changes -- are the ones making the most noise.  </description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<link>http://fdsilva.blogspot.com/2009/10/fridays-announcement-of-2009-nobel.html#IDComment38599659</link>
<description>Sal, I believe Obama has the moral strength to make the decisions he has to make -- regardless of the peace prize. He comes across as if he is in it for the long haul and not just the here and now (term). The tough challenge for the American people is making the hard choices on the type of society they wish to create for themselves and their children. I&amp;#039;m shocked at how easily some arguments are brushed aside as being &amp;quot;socialist&amp;quot;  Re: resolving issues. We owe it to our children&amp;#039;s children that we make every effort to resolve differences peacefully. War only benefits the defence industry. </description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The FASTForward Blog : With Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Multiple Blogs, is There Any Reason to also use FriendFeed? </title>
<link>http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/04/12/with-facebook-twitter-linkedin-and-multiple-blogs-is-there-any-reason-to-also-use-friendfeed/#IDComment18659977</link>
<description>Hi Bill,  To help me sort out this jungle, I look at social media tools in broad functional categories. Microblogging for knowledge sharing, blogging for creating content, file sharing for collaborating, aggregation for searching are the broad categories. Microblogging (in the form of Twitter and Yammer) are the hottest areas and now there is this huge information source that rivals blogs (rich but compact). (Google eyeing Twitter is not surprising and since FB could not acquire Twitter they simply Twitter&amp;#039;ed their home page:-))   Friendfeed appears to fall into the aggregator category and I have not been good at using it. Besides finding it a bit clumsy, I am trying to work the other way round i.e. use a single tool to publish to the social media platforms I am on. Bascially, keeping my online presence consistently updated -- and enriching it. My latest experiment is with Ping.fm that covers many platforms -- and I managed to integrate Twitter on my blog.   So: LinkedIn for my professional network and FB for social. Twitter (and Yammer) for knowledge sharing, Blogspot for blogging, Flickr for pictures and Google Docs for co-creating. That&amp;#039;s quite a handful. </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Teknisk Ukeblad : Nettdebatten er samfunnsdebatten</title>
<link>http://www.tu.no/it/article204944.ece#IDComment18353799</link>
<description>Hei Anders  I lys av Twitterdugnaden som kom etter Hege Skjeies artikkel i DN og din kommentar p&amp;aring; en BT artikkel (&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/ckyptz)&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://tinyurl.com/ckyptz)&lt;/a&gt; tok jeg fram dine kvasimatematiske ligninger. Jeg synes de gode og meget interessante Nettdebatt = Samfunndebatt Samfunndebatt = Nettdebatt  Ligningene kan forenkles p&amp;aring; to m&amp;aring;ter -- begge er like kvasimatematiske og med en uh&amp;oslash;ytidelig bruk av algebra. So please bear with me  1. forenkling (Samfunndebatt - Nettdebatt) = 0  Dvs Samfunnsdebatten uten nettdebatten er ingen ting Her er det vanlig ligningsreduksjon i bruk  2. forenkling Samfunn = Nett  Dvs samfunnet v&amp;aring;rt beveger seg fra rene hierarkier (eller forvaltningniv&amp;aring;er) til ogs&amp;aring; inkludere nettverk. Denne ligningen krever litt forklaring: - Fra ligning 1) f&amp;aring;r man debatt*(Sammfunn - nett) = 0  - Her kan enten debatt = 0 (dvs ingen debatt) eller at (Samfunn - nett) = 0 og da f&amp;aring;r man Samfunn = nett PS! Nyansene i hierarki og nettverk f&amp;aring;r man med litt grafteori. Se her &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafteori&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafteori&lt;/a&gt;   Poenget mitt er at samfunn generelt vitner nettverkseffekten p&amp;aring; grasrota og vi ser starten av grasrotsaktivisme for &amp;aring; p&amp;aring;virke egne rammer eller &amp;quot;dyp demokrati&amp;quot; som jeg foretrekker &amp;aring; kalle det (imotsetning til overfladisk demokrati, slik vi har sett hittil).   Kan det hende at det som skremmer politikere er at &amp;quot;representasjon&amp;quot; (som i Stortingsrepresentant) vil forandres fullstendig -- fordi grasrota vil stille krav og forvente resultater nesten 24 x 7. Utfordrer dette teorier  innen statsvitenskap (og skremmer etablere statsvitere?). Det som er spennende (eller skremmede) er at b&amp;oslash;lgen av grasrotsaktivisme skjer ikke bare i Norge eller de industrialiserte land. Det skjer i &amp;oslash;kende tempo i utviklingsland -- som kanskje har mye mer &amp;aring; tjene p&amp;aring; &amp;quot;dyp demokratiet&amp;quot;. Og da er jeg er spent &amp;aring; se hvordan norsk utenrikspolitikken favner fenomenet av sosial medier.   P&amp;aring;skeferien kan brukes til mye rart :-)  God p&amp;aring;ske!  Francis  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitalsamfunn.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.digitalsamfunn.com&lt;/a&gt; </description>
<pubDate>Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The FASTForward Blog : The Future of Web Search</title>
<link>http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/04/05/the-future-of-web-search/#IDComment18273623</link>
<description>Wired carried an article with a good summary of current search efforts -- titled &amp;quot;Wikia Death Proves Google Is Search-Startup Killer&amp;quot; the article makes some good points on the future of search.  See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/wikipedia-found.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/wikipedia-...&lt;/a&gt;  PS! Twitter&amp;#039;s advanced search feature has some very useful features; I like the near: and within: options.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 Apr 2009 22:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/04/05/the-future-of-web-search/#IDComment18273623</guid>
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<title>NRKbeta: NRKs sandkasse for teknologi og nye medier : NRKs årsrapport for 2007 - hva synes du om NRKs tilbud i fjor?</title>
<link>http://nrkbeta.no/nrk-aarsrapport-2007/#IDComment16552327</link>
<description>Etter &amp;aring; ha sett Brennpunkt-microsite gleder jeg meg til &amp;aring; se 2008 rapporten. Noen tanker (som dere kanksje har allerede vurdert) - Som navigator vil jeg ha valgt matrisen p&amp;aring; siden &amp;quot;Kanaler&amp;quot;, hver celle i matrisen kan vise en videosnutt, seertall osv (p&amp;aring; sikt ogs&amp;aring; &amp;quot;viewer ratings&amp;quot;) - Cellene kan brukes som lenker til programguide </description>
<pubDate>Sun, 8 Mar 2009 08:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://nrkbeta.no/nrk-aarsrapport-2007/#IDComment16552327</guid>
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<title>NRKbeta: NRKs sandkasse for teknologi og nye medier : Brennpunkt i Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://nrkbeta.no/brennpunkt-i-afghanistan/#IDComment16437474</link>
<description>Dette er str&amp;aring;lende!! Tenk om bedrifter kunne presentere &amp;aring;rsrapportene sine p&amp;aring; en slik m&amp;aring;te. De ogs&amp;aring; har en historie &amp;aring; fortelle ... de fleste ihvertfall :-) </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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