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		<title>Is Ning Participatory ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Group work Originally uploaded by saralparker. There is celebration around Ning for many right reasons. They provide many of the building blocks necessary to build your own social network around events/activities that interest you. Once you go through multiple steps to create your own network, you get to add your own event calendar, discussion groups, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.localoaf.org/2009/03/10/is-ning-participatory/</link>
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		<title>delicious&#8217; &#8216;toread&#8217; word count</title>
		<description><![CDATA[del.icio.us bookmark wordcount Originally uploaded by kaysov. How long does an article have to be for people to bookmark it as &#8216;toread&#8217; ? Here is a graph that tries to answer that question. I have taken 1500 most recent bookmarks under the tag &#8216;toread&#8217; from delicious. I have then retrieved webpage for every single bookmark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.localoaf.org/2009/02/19/delicious-toread-word-count/</link>
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		<title>A virtual mountain for Berlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I chatted with Jakob Tigges, an architect who proposed building a 3000-feet mountain on the site of the airfield of the former city airport Tempelhof, which was closed down last fall. His proposal was a competition entry on what to do with the vast green space the size of Central Park. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.localoaf.org/2009/02/18/a-virtual-mountain-for-berlin/</link>
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		<title>Trapcall: Defeat ID Blockage or Easiest Wiretap Ever?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trapcall can unmask callers who have blocked caller ID. From Wired&#8217;s Kevin Poulsen: The service, called TrapCall, is offered by New Jersey&#8217;s TelTech systems, the company behind the controversial SpoofCard Caller ID spoofing service. The new service is likely to be even more controversial — and popular. &#8220;What’s really interesting is that they’ve totally taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.localoaf.org/2009/02/17/trapcall/</link>
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		<title>Yet another plan to save the newspapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kachingle&#8217;s Business Model Originally uploaded by kaysov. Financial crisis has been particularly harsh to newspapers and many people have written about how to save newspaper businesses. Walter Isaacson of Aspen Institute thinks an iTunes of newspaper articles will save the industry [1]. He proposes a pricing scheme to charge $.50 for an article, $1 for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.localoaf.org/2009/02/16/yet-another-plan-to-save-the-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Other customers who bought this book also went broke&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In credit scoring algorithms, payment history is a pretty solid proxy for future payment behavior. Past behavior is an effective predictor of future behavior, and all that. Although, it seems another part of American Express&#8217;s credit model apparently involves the places where you shop and the payment history of other patrons there (non-annoying, non-paged version). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.localoaf.org/2009/01/30/other-customers-who-bought-this-book-also-went-broke/</link>
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		<title>Camera click sound to be a legal requirement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Peter King [R, NY-3] has a new bill titled &#8216;Camera Phone Predator Alert Act&#8216;. The bill proposes mobile phones to make a click sound when a photograph is taken. It is hard to imagine how click sound is a viable solution in the first place.  It is super easy to muffle the click sound. Cameras [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.localoaf.org/2009/01/28/camera-click-sound-to-be-a-legal-requirement/</link>
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		<title>metric.</title>
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		<link>http://www.localoaf.org/2007/06/22/metric/</link>
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		<title>Not metric.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t find it on YouTube, but I&#8217;m reminded of the old SNL skit which proposed a metric alphabet &#8211; 10 letters to replace those unwieldy 26. LMNO would be one letter, so (the example goes) the word &#8216;mucus&#8217; would now be &#8216;LMNOucus&#8217;. Meh. Map via Core77.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.localoaf.org/2007/06/19/not-metric/</link>
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		<title>LOLTrek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because there isn&#8217;t enough lolsomething in our lives: The Trouble with Tribbles, in lolcat. Via supersocialist]]></description>
		<link>http://www.localoaf.org/2007/06/14/loltrek/</link>
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