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Open social networks: bring back Iran
Three years ago, we lost Iran from Internet community. I simplify somewhat, but forgivably. Many Iranian ISPs cut off access to blogs and social networking sites, on government order. At the time, Iran was one of the most active nations on Orkut; and Orkut was the network of choice, faster than the then-fading Friendster, but [...]
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Microblogs and the monolingual
Twitter-like microblogging seems a nice granularity for following thoughts expressed in languages you don’t speak.
In 1988 I passed my French language GCSE exam; it’s been downhill all the way since. A year ago in Argentina, I got to the stage where I could just about express myself in Spanish. But it’s been fading. Nevertheless I’m [...]
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find . -name danbri-\*.rdf -exec rapper –count {} \;
rapper: Parsing file ./facebook/danbri-fb.rdf
rapper: Parsing returned 2155 statements
rapper: Parsing file ./orkut/danbri-orkut.rdf
rapper: Parsing returned 848 statements
rapper: Parsing file ./dopplr/danbri-dopplr.rdf
rapper: Parsing returned 346 statements
rapper: Parsing file ./tribe.net/danbri-tribe.rdf
rapper: Parsing returned 71 statements
rapper: Parsing file ./my.opera.com/danbri-opera.rdf
rapper: Parsing returned 123 statements
rapper: Parsing file ./advogato/danbri-advogato.rdf
rapper: Parsing returned 18 statements
rapper: Parsing file ./livejournal/danbri-livejournal.rdf
rapper: Parsing [...]
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As snow through which the foot breaks
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Originally uploaded by danbri.
In our daily lives we all respond urgently to dangers that are much less likely than climate change to affect the future of our children. … Feb. 2 will be remembered as the date when uncertainty was removed as to whether humans had anything to do with climate change [...]
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Miguel de Icaza in Beirut
Miguel de Icaza in Beirut, on meeting Robert Fisk, and a visit to Sabra and Chatila camps.
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