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	<title>Serendipitous altruism</title>
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	<description>Pseudo-random experience capitalization by Jean-Marc Liotier, just in case...</description>
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		<title>Should office teams be managed like World of Warcraft guilds ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon an article published last June by Knowledge@Wharton mentioning &#8220;The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion&#8221; by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison. Somehow I had missed this book that offers intriguing alternatives to organizations mired in their own structures. To learn about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/09/02/should-office-teams-be-managed-like-world-of-warcraft-guilds</link>
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		<title>Google Latitude Brightkite check-in script updated to keep up with altered Brightkite API</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty two days ago, my periodically running script ceased to produce any check-ins on Brightkite. A quick look at the output showed that the format of the returned place object had changed. Had I used proper XML parsing, that would not have been a problem &#8211; but I&#8217;m using homely grep, sed and awk&#8230; Not [...]


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<li><a href='http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/02/10/no-openmicroblogging-in-google-buzz-and-no-twitter-api-but-plenty-of-other-protocols-including-salmon' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: No OpenMicroBlogging in Google Buzz and no Twitter API, but plenty of other protocols including Salmon'>No OpenMicroBlogging in Google Buzz and no Twitter API, but plenty of other protocols including Salmon</a></li>
<li><a href='http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2009/10/30/inertial-navigation-as-a-cellid-sanity-check' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Inertial navigation as a CellID sanity check'>Inertial navigation as a CellID sanity check</a></li>
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		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/09/01/google-latitude-brightkite-check-in-script-updated-to-keep-up-with-altered-brightkite-api</link>
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		<title>Manufacturing job losses and the economy of fluid knowledge : patent trolls are already dead but they just don&#8217;t know it yet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guillaume Esquelisse tipped me about an interesting discussion arising from Andy Grove&#8217;s article on the need for US job creation and industrial policy, which highlights the relationship between  innovation,manufacturing and trade. Rajiv Sethi summarized its central point : &#8220;An economy that innovates prolifically but consistently exports its jobs  to lower cost overseas locations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/07/08/manufacturing-job-losses-and-the-economy-of-fluid-knowledge-patent-trolls-are-already-dead-but-they-just-dont-know-it-yet</link>
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		<title>We are the people of Europe &#8211; the crisis is our opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard that the Chinese word for &#8220;crisis&#8221; is composed of two characters representing &#8220;danger&#8221; and &#8220;opportunity&#8221;. Well&#8230; Forget that &#8211; it is wishful folk etymology. And next time you hear a fluffy motivational speech using this handy rhetorical device, expose the scam !
Anyway, I would love to believe that the current crisis [...]


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		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/05/28/we-are-the-people-of-euro-the-crisis-is-our-opportunity</link>
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		<title>Roller skates ball bearing maintainance tip of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday night, as I was lacing my skates before leaving the office, I was chatting with a colleague about roller-skate ball bearing maintenance and joking about riding my ball bearings to death. Actually, this is not a joke &#8211; I do ride them to death, as this photograph taken twenty minutes later attests.
When your ball [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/04/15/roller-skates-ball-bearing-maintainance-tip-of-the-day</link>
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		<title>Just when you thought incumbent telcos had understood the Internet&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stéphane Richard, chief executive at France Telecom, argued recently : “There is something totally not normal and contrary to economic logic to let Google use our network without paying the price”. I could barely control my hilarity.
But wait, there&#8217;s more :
Telefonica chairman Cesar Alierta said Google should share some of its online advertising revenue with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/04/14/just-when-you-thought-incumbent-telcos-had-understood-the-internet</link>
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		<title>Consensus on acceptable response times for man-machine interfaces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A colleague asked me about acceptable response times for the graphical user interface of a web application. I was surprised to find that both the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines and the Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines provide exactly the same values and even the same text for the most part&#8230; One of them must [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/04/14/consensus-on-acceptable-response-times-for-man-machine-interfaces</link>
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		<title>From L1 to disk : memory access timings hierarchy &#8211; and why you don&#8217;t want to hit the disk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following a link from @Bortzmeyer, I was leafing through Felix von Leitner&#8217;s &#8220;Source Code Optimization&#8221; &#8211; a presentation demonstrating how unreadable code is rarely worth the hassle considering how good at optimizing compilers have become nowadays. I have never written a single line of C or Assembler in my whole life &#8211; but I like [...]


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		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/04/13/from-l1-to-disk-memory-access-timings-hierarchy-and-why-you-dont-want-to-hit-the-disk</link>
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		<title>OneSocialWeb : free, open and decentralized XMPP-based social networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week-end I noticed Juick, an XMPP-based microblogging system with some nice original features. But Juick is not free and its author does not seem interested in freedom. So who&#8217;s gonna save XMPP-based microblogging ?
Enter OneSocialWeb, a free, open and decentralized XMPP-based social networking platform with all the federated goodness one might expect from an [...]


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<li><a href='http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/02/09/will-google-support-openmicroblogging' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Will Google support OpenMicroBlogging ?'>Will Google support OpenMicroBlogging ?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/02/10/no-openmicroblogging-in-google-buzz-and-no-twitter-api-but-plenty-of-other-protocols-including-salmon' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: No OpenMicroBlogging in Google Buzz and no Twitter API, but plenty of other protocols including Salmon'>No OpenMicroBlogging in Google Buzz and no Twitter API, but plenty of other protocols including Salmon</a></li>
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		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/04/12/onesocialweb-free-open-and-decentralized-xmpp-based-social-networking</link>
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		<title>Managing data vs. producing data on digital artifacts &#8211; or how content vs. pipes was moot from the start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Ordnance Survey&#8217;s liberation of the UK&#8217;s geographical information, I just had an interesting conversation with Glyn Moody about the relationship between free digital publishing and the sale of same data on physical substrate.
If computer reading is cheaper and more convenient, can free digital publishing lead to sale of same data [...]


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		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/04/11/managing-data-vs-producing-data-on-digital-artifacts-or-how-content-vs-pipes-was-moot-from-the-start</link>
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		<title>Juick.com &#8211; the other way to microblog using XMPP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t quite remember how I stumbled upon this page on Nicolas Verite&#8217;s French-language blog about instant messaging and open standards, but this is how I found a microblogging system called Juick. Its claim to fame is that it is entirely XMPP based. I had written about Identichat is a Jabber/XMPP interface to Laconi.caStatus.net &#8211; [...]


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<li><a href='http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/04/12/onesocialweb-free-open-and-decentralized-xmpp-based-social-networking' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: OneSocialWeb : free, open and decentralized XMPP-based social networking'>OneSocialWeb : free, open and decentralized XMPP-based social networking</a></li>
<li><a href='http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/02/09/will-google-support-openmicroblogging' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Will Google support OpenMicroBlogging ?'>Will Google support OpenMicroBlogging ?</a></li>
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		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/04/09/juick-com-the-other-way-to-microblog-using-xmpp</link>
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		<title>Tags, labels, folders&#8230; To the end user, the difference is merely technical and should be abstracted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the digital world, the folder metaphor has perpetuated the single dimensional limitations of the physical world : each message is present in one and only one folder. The problem of adding more dimensions to the classification has been solved ages ago &#8211; whether you want to go hardcore with a full thesaurus or just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/04/09/tags-labels-folders-to-the-end-user-the-difference-is-merely-technical-and-should-be-abstracted</link>
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