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	<title>Thus Prate the Pundit</title>
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	<description>Ideas and the Internet, Josh Chalifour Minding the Current</description>
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		<title>First Take on the Public Domain Manifesto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communia published its Public Domain Manifesto. The manifesto identifies the public domain concept with respect to historical development and more urgently, its relevance to culture today.
I think it makes an important statement, in terms of offering a level, common understanding that could be used widely across society, government, and business. Early in the manifesto, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/record/first-take-on-the-public-domain-manifesto/</link>
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		<title>Start the Wave: Disintermediating Social</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ad hoc social networks: right now that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m calling the disruption Google Wave will wreak. I&#8217;m looking forward to it leaving the invite-only preview. It&#8217;ll be like kudzu sprouting everywhere, from its quiet persistance in the nooks and crannies of the Web, right on through to the most popular gathering spots.
Google Wave, or maybe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/product/start-the-wave-disintermediating-social/</link>
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		<title>Response to Canadian Copyright Consultation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright, canadian copyright consultation, copyright law, culture]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/analysis/response-to-canadian-copyright-consultation/</link>
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		<title>Search Pad is Coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update 9 July &#8216;09: I tried it&#8230; nice additional feature but not a game-changer. Actually I believe I&#8217;m very underwhelmed.
Actually, reader, I&#8217;m a little tired of all these search posts. But new things keep happening and this one is compelling enough to note. I really miss Google&#8217;s notebook feature (actually a lot of people do). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/article/search-pad-is-coming/</link>
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		<title>Done Waiting for Bing Wow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve tried Bing, on-and-off since its launch. It hasn&#8217;t convinced me that it&#8217;s much of a decision or knowledge engine. Bing has some nice search features but as far as I can tell nothing particularly game changing. 
Its preview side categories, recent searches, etc. have been done before by other search engines including Yahoo, Ask, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/general/done-waiting-for-bing-wow/</link>
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		<title>CASAA Birthing &#8211; New Decision and Knowledge Engines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been talking about computer-assisted shallow atom assembly (CASAA) in my posts thinking about how we acquire knowledge in life with the pervasive Internet. Yesterday I read about Microsoft&#8217;s new search engine, Bing, which they&#8217;re actually calling a &#8220;decision engine.&#8221; From what I&#8217;ve read they&#8217;re making a clear effort to push search in the CASAA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/analysis/casaa-birthing-knowledge-decision-engines/</link>
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		<title>The Nervous System&#8217;s Emerging Stream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post, Nova Spivack considers &#8220;the stream&#8221; as the Internet&#8217;s next evolutionary stage. I think he makes a lot of compelling points and I&#8217;m clearly partial to stream terminology (like it says above, I&#8217;m trying to mind the current). It builds on McLuhan&#8217;s notion of the nervous system, which is neat. Spivack&#8217;s conceptualization [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/analysis/the-nervous-systems-emerging-stream/</link>
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		<title>AOL/Time Warner Missed Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the opportunity of the AOL/Time Warner merger that kicked off in 2000 and seems to now be undoing itself never really developed in the first place. Time Warner is doing the opposite of what I would have expected&#8211;they seem to be divesting themselves of their delivery medium. 
I&#8217;ve often argued in the past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/analysis/aoltime-warner-missed-opportunity/</link>
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		<title>Acquiring Knowledge: Computer-Assisted Shallow Atom Assembly (2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I said that search engines essentially accomplished their jobs but created a big problem.
Search engines initially answered our question of &#8220;How or where can I find the information I want?&#8221; but in indexing the content of the Internet and providing access, they created a much more troubling problem. That question tends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/article/acquiring-knowledge-computer-assisted-shallow-atom-assembly-2/</link>
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		<title>Acquiring Knowledge: A Great Shallow Breadth Over Depth (1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has our approach to acquiring knowledge moved from the deep end of a continuum to the broad but shallow end? The Internet medium and associated technologies used to develop, contribute, and distribute knowledge with it, call out for knowledge acquisition through breadth. I think, in general, we&#8217;re using it to acquire knowledge via a great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/article/acquiring-knowledge-a-great-shallow-breadth-over-depth-1/</link>
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		<title>Rip Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just saw the film, Rip, last weekend. The movie explores most of the present day struggles with copyright and notions of ownership of &#8220;intellectual property.&#8221; I thought it was interesting in how it presented a US government decision in the 90s (through interviews with those responsible) to definitively shift its economy from a manufacturing oriented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/ip-pretension/rip-movie/</link>
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		<title>Dell Mini &amp; Ubuntu Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Near the end of December I bought a Dell Mini 9. If there is such thing as a Mini closet, I&#8217;m coming out right now and professing my love to this computer. It is my favourite among all that I&#8217;ve owned. That has nothing to do with processor power or that sort of stuff. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/article/dell-mini-ubuntu-love/</link>
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		<title>Ephemera and the National Memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I continue to be concerned with what I once called digital cultural amnesia. Though in reflecting on the word &#8220;amnesia&#8221; I no longer think it&#8217;s the best way to express the problem. Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library, writes about the phenomenon in The Observer.
Too many of us suffer from a condition that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/record/ephemera-and-the-national-memory/</link>
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		<title>Coalition! I Was Wrong about Being Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I said that I was wrong about Dion&#8217;s political strategy in the last election. It turns out that while I wasn&#8217;t exactly right, I also wasn&#8217;t wrong. I&#8217;d imagined a scenario in which the conservatives were unable to win a majority, thus putting us back in the same, unworkable situation in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/general/coalition-i-was-wrong-about-being-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Polishing Up the Political Remains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like I was wrong about Dion&#8217;s political strategy. Even if I was right, it didn&#8217;t turn out as I thought. I waited until today to proclaim my wrongness because I thought the last likely possibility it could unravel as I theorized would be with the speech from the throne. Today the NDP, Liberals, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/general/polishing-up-the-political-remains/</link>
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		<title>Vote Swapping Breaks Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always thought the concept of vote-swapping was problematic. Not only is it flawed in its own right but treating it as an acceptable strategy is like snuggling up to the idea that one party can function as a spoiler and that somehow, certain parties are entitled to votes. This is endemic to thinking of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/indulgence/vote-swapping-breaks-democracy/</link>
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		<title>Unravelling Dion&#8217;s Political Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Puzzling over the parties' bizarre responses to letting/not letting Elizabeth May into the televised debates lead me to consider their histories and theorize that Harper's Conservatives may stand little chance of forming the next government, while the Liberals could be the most likely to form the next government.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/analysis/unravelling-dions-political-strategy/</link>
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		<title>Simulated TurtleSpice ERP Selection Serial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How about practicing your big enterprise software selection project before you actually do it? Here&#8217;s a chance to participate in one, through a series of blog posts.
We were brainstorming article topics, some research projects, etc. at TEC the other day, when my colleague, David Clark, came up with the bright idea of guiding a fictional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/general/simulated-turtlespice-erp-selection-serial/</link>
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		<title>Continuing the Bullying of Analysts Issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I read a SageCircle post about threatening analysts by cancelling business, which seems like a variety of bullying and certainly an abuse. I discussed analyst abuse previously, a situation that involved bullying an analyst. I looked at the situation as one that hampered both the analyst/vendor relationship and quality of communications. SageCircle offers the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/analysis/continuing-the-bullying-of-analysts-issue/</link>
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		<title>What Would Happen if You De-occupy the Cognitive Surplus?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;West&#8221; is known for its consumers. Much of the rest of the world is trying its best to head in that direction too. Reading Clay Shirky&#8217;s recent blog post, Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, got me thinking about the stance of the passive consumer. I&#8217;m wondering if the new consumer will be a producer&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/article/what-would-happen-if-you-de-occupy-the-cognitive-surplus/</link>
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		<title>Bullying Analysts isn&#8217;t the Best Way to Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve enjoyed reading Robin Bloor&#8217;s series of posts on How to Deal with Analysts. The title of one called attention to analyst abuse, which set some thoughts meandering. Robin made a point under the heading of scruples, and related to briefings.
&#8220;The fundamental balancing act lies in the interaction between analyst and vendor. The vendors are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/analysis/bullying-analysts-isnt-the-best-way-to-deal/</link>
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		<title>Some Notes on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy Draft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading the draft consultation version of the Canadian Digital Information Strategy. The strategy proposes strengthening content, ensuring its preservation, and maximizing its access and use. These are important for many reasons the report addresses regarding culture; the report also has some anchors in industry, stating that &#8220;nations that nurture their digital information assets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/analysis/some-notes-on-the-canadian-digital-information-strategy-draft/</link>
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		<title>Personal Wikiesque Note Taking Mind Mappish Killer KDE App: BasKet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve found one of my favourite applications ever. It&#8217;s called BasKet Note Pads. Here&#8217;s my problem, I&#8217;m always typing up little notes to myself and saving them as text files, all over my desktop, all over my hard drive. Sometimes I try to organize them, sometimes I send myself reminder e-mails, or I create calendar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/indulgence/personal-wikiesque-note-taking-mind-mappish-killer-kde-app-basket/</link>
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		<title>Copyright Reform and the Stats Can Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Geist posted about the politics in the debate on copyright reform. The point stems from dissonance between the recent Statistics Canada report and a reform-oriented bill expected to introduce more restrictive copyright policy. The report showed some nice Canadian recording industry profits where similar industries in other parts of the world seemed to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pundit.ca/ip-pretension/copyright-reform-and-the-stats-can-report/</link>
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