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Augmented Social Network
	I was unable to attend this last weekend's Planetwork conference. But I can point you to the white paper by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster, entitled The Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next-Generation Internet. The ideas in it aren't necessarily groundbreaking, but they are put together very well. Posted: 6/9/03; 9:42:04 AM #

Spanish interest in Linux
	Juan Alberto Belloch is a Spanish politician who is campaigning for Linux. One of the things I found fascinating was how he described open source advocates as a "different kind of activist", people who are actually building things. Although frankly, I think most activists are building things. They are just less tangible. Posted: 6/9/03; 9:41:43 AM #

Spam is Not a Problem
	My news tends toward the big picture, but here is a very practical item. In Spam is Not a Problem, Mark Hurst documents just how little time spam takes him to handle. Makes me wonder how much our emotional response exaggerates our assessment of its impacts. Posted: 6/9/03; 9:41:24 AM #

Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
	One of the joys of the Internet is the proliferation of very specialised libraries, which are of great benefits to causes that are thinly spread. The Free Speech Movement Digital Archive is a great example of a resource that helps ground a cause in its history. Posted: 6/9/03; 9:40:37 AM #