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	<description>Open-Source Solutions for Proprietary Problems</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Ubiquity from Mozilla&#8217;s Labs Has New Take on Mash-Ups</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/ubiquity-from-mozillas-labs-has-new-take-on-mash-ups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/ubiquity-from-mozillas-labs-has-new-take-on-mash-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[New Ideas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[web 2.0]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Aza Raskin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[browser]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Map]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mozilla]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mozilla Labs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ubiquity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mozilla (of Firefox fame) released a VERY early draft of a new Firefox extension named Ubiquity, which can essentially mash-up the web for you in a very personal way. It&#8217;s almost impossible to describe, so hit the link for a video explaining it. Very cool stuff.


Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.


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		<title>All it Costs to Fix the World is 60 Million Dollars</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/all-it-costs-to-fix-the-world-is-60-million-dollars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/all-it-costs-to-fix-the-world-is-60-million-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[International Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[New Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First, let’s get clear about this: sixty million dollars is not a lot of money. Let’s think about a few things that cost in that price range.









The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution » How to fix the developing world for sixty million dollars via kwout

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		<title>Open-Source Hardware (via Product Hacking)</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/open-source-hardware-via-product-hacking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/open-source-hardware-via-product-hacking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source Hardware]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[product hacking]]></category>

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Product Hacking via kwout

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		<title>Richard Scoble on the State of Blogging, Commenting, the World, etc.</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/richard-scoble-on-the-state-of-blogging-commenting-the-world-etc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/richard-scoble-on-the-state-of-blogging-commenting-the-world-etc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Scoble]]></category>

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Normally I make it a personal mission to tune our Richard Scoble. He would fall under the classification of &#8220;celebrity blogger&#8221;, someone who&#8217;s influence over &#8220;what&#8217;s hot&#8221; in the tech community is disproportionate to the actual news he covers.

However, I found his most recent, candid, comments on the state of blogs these days to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education Week Article Makes Me a Prophet</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/education-week-article-makes-me-a-prophet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Open-Source Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[resources]]></category>

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The latest Education Week issue has a profile of teachers embracing &#8220;open resources&#8221;, those that are free to the public and easy to tweak for whatever your personal needs may be. I&#8217;m not claiming to have &#8220;invented&#8221; this idea; and it&#8217;s great to see it in more populated circles than my little blog.

Read the full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Software Services Ecology :: autonomo.us</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/an-open-software-services-ecology-autonomous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/an-open-software-services-ecology-autonomous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>

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One of the suggestions of the Franklin Street Declaration is for programmers to “[d]evelop software that can replace centralized services.” I’ve taken that suggestion to heart in creating the Laconica microblogging platform, which powers my site Identi.ca. I was using microblogging services a lot, and I wanted to have one that would preserve my autonomy; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Amazing Workshop Starts Tomorrow&#8211;Would Attend if not for Freakin Grad School Orientation</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/an-amazing-workshop-starts-tomorrow-would-attend-if-not-for-freakin-grad-school-orientation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/an-amazing-workshop-starts-tomorrow-would-attend-if-not-for-freakin-grad-school-orientation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[International Development]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[MIT]]></category>

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A hands-on approach to Third World aid - MIT News Office via kwout
I must say that it&#8217;s a bit comforting knowing that I live down the road from M.I.T. A lot of the reasons I came to Cambridge in the first place are playing out over at that campus.

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		<title>Oamos Opens Up Meta-Search for Embedding on Websites</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/oamos-opens-up-meta-search-for-embedding-on-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/oamos-opens-up-meta-search-for-embedding-on-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[meta]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oamos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Affected Clapping previewed the new Oamos meta-data search engine back in May, and it seems the developer has been busy. Registered users can now embed the search engine right into their own websites. Let&#8217;s give it a whirl! (my keywords for the search below were Open Source.) But first, a word from Oamos:

At Oamos, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excellent Article on the &#8220;Difficulty&#8221; of Learning Math</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/excellent-article-on-the-difficulty-of-learning-math/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/excellent-article-on-the-difficulty-of-learning-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[math]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OLPC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Marvin Minsky, a contributor to the One Laptop Per Child Organization.





What makes Mathematics hard to learn? - OLPC via kwout

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		<title>A Student&#8217;s Revealing Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/a-students-revealing-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/a-students-revealing-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[internships]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mentors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[real world experience]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[speeches]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[student]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago my school had a dinner for all the mentors, a celebratory affair thanking them for their hard work. Several students spoke. I asked to reprint one student&#8217;s speech, as I found it truly remarkable. (Names have been changed.)

Hello my name is Jenn. I am a junior at the XYZ High School. My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Ken Robinson Addresses a Group of Superintendents @ The Apple Education Leadership Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/sir-ken-robinson-addresses-a-group-of-superintendents-the-apple-education-leadership-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/sir-ken-robinson-addresses-a-group-of-superintendents-the-apple-education-leadership-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve seen Sir Ken Robinson&#8217;s speech at TED, this will seem very familiar. However, this time Robinson addressed a bunch of Superintendents from around the world at Apple&#8217;s Education Leadership Summit, also known as &#8220;Educators, Please Buy Macs!&#8221;.

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		<title>Social Media in Plain English</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/social-media-in-plain-english/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/social-media-in-plain-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Plain English]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<title>Open-Source Professional Development: Teachers Are Already Doing It!</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/open-source-professional-development-teachers-are-already-doing-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/open-source-professional-development-teachers-are-already-doing-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Collaboration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled on this post this morning, which led me to a Powerpoint presentation teaching educators how to use Google Docs, EDITED BY OVER 500 people!























Drape&#8217;s Takes: Catch the Fever: Viral Professional Development - Add Your Voice! via kwout
For those of you interested, the PowerPoint presentation can be found here, and is genuinely useful if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&#038;A With Google&#8217;s Open-Source Guru</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/qa-with-googles-open-source-guru/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/qa-with-googles-open-source-guru/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 21:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Open-Source Consortium]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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Q&#38;A: Google&#8217;s open-source balancing act &#124; Underexposed - CNET News.com via kwout

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		<title>Open-Source Sewing?</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/open-source-sewing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/open-source-sewing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 18:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[marketing sewing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yup, that&#8217;s right. Over at Burdastyle they&#8217;re doing what&#8217;s called Open-Source Sewing. Make your own design, &#8220;improve&#8221; on other people&#8217;s. Mix and match. It&#8217;s a loose application of the term &#8220;Open-Source&#8221;, but a good marketing angle at least.

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		<title>&#8220;Bronx 8th-graders boycott practice exam&#8221; (From NY Daily News)</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/bronx-8th-graders-boycott-practice-exam-from-ny-daily-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/bronx-8th-graders-boycott-practice-exam-from-ny-daily-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 20:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[standardized testing]]></category>

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A revealing article in the NY Daily News (who knew?) on Wednesday about 8th graders protesting &#8220;yet another&#8221; standardized test.

You can read the article here.
What&#8217;s more interesting are the comments readers made at the article&#8217;s online home. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s legal or not to re-post comments from another website, but since when has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seed Wiki! Free Wiki&#8217;s For Everybody!</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/seed-wiki-free-wikis-for-everybody/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/seed-wiki-free-wikis-for-everybody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 20:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Wiki]]></category>

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Seed Wiki via kwout

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		<title>Xoost Offers Real People (Shocking!) Helping You Search Online (revenue model to come later this year)</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/xoost-offers-real-people-shocking-helping-you-search-online-revenue-model-to-come-later-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/xoost-offers-real-people-shocking-helping-you-search-online-revenue-model-to-come-later-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 19:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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My name is Xoost and I&#8217;m here to show you a new way of searching the web.
This is the deal: with me you will search what you like, you will connect with other Xoosters who are searching the same thing and you will contribute to the search relevance optimization for everybody!

if (browser!="Safari") document.write("&#60;br&#62;");

Join me and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Students discover beauty through their cameras&#8221; (in Rwanda)</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/students-discover-beauty-through-their-cameras-in-rwanda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/students-discover-beauty-through-their-cameras-in-rwanda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 19:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
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From Global Venture

I found this article, published in Rwanda&#8217;s Sunday Times from Global Venture, via Paul Allison&#8217;s excellent blog, New Journalism. 
To know Rwanda is to know a country stained with sorrow. Kigali’s city streets may be kept immaculately clean, but no matter how hard the government tries, the horrors of the 1994 Genocide will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SourceForge: Open-Source Software Depository</title>
		<link>http://www.affectedclapping.net/sourceforge-open-source-software-depository/</link>
		<comments>http://www.affectedclapping.net/sourceforge-open-source-software-depository/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 17:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		
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