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		<title>Social Networks !== Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m seeing a lot of conflation between online social networks and social media.  Perhaps tellingly, I&#8217;m seeing this in the media &#8212; including social media.  Both are essential aspects of this crazy evolving thing called the interwebs but they are also fundamentally different creatures.
Social networks have always existed.  The web just supplements [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/12/11/social-networks-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Freecycle update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stuff has been occurring since my last post on freecycling and an update is somewhat overdue.
Firstly, the genius ethical-social-media guys at Dharmafly have put together OpenFreecycle at Yahoo&#8217;s OpenHackLondon to win the top two prizes.  This massive Yahoo! endorsement is great stuff and very encouraging for my own little project.
I&#8217;ve now open-sourced this hacky [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/08/11/freecycle-update/</link>
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		<title>Stealing the conversation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aggregators used to be pretty simple things.  Services like Tumblr made it easy to suck in your posts, photos, links, whatever and display it in a simple &#8216;lifestream&#8217; (mostly enabled by RSS).  Now things have moved on a notch as services like Facebook, Reader and FriendFeed are aiming to be the place where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/07/23/stealing-the-conversation/</link>
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		<title>Geeky Summer School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit of a while back, I went to the Technology Enhanced Learning Summer School (Tagged TELSS09 on Twitter, Flickr, SlideShare) in Slovakia.  In the long, dry period before getting my expenses reimbursed I&#8217;ll note a couple of memories of the week that lodged.
The talk by Erik Duval stuck out as particularly TED-ish.  He polished [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/07/20/telss09/</link>
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		<title>Evolving social interactions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last few years I&#8217;ve had a couple of topics constantly on my mind: social software and evolutionary computation.  Though equally geeky, it may not be obvious why they actually share roots.  Both of these are rather diverse fields, so I&#8217;ll outline exactly what part of each I&#8217;m thinking of &#8212; by which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/04/23/evolving-social-interactions/</link>
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		<title>Varifocus Tweeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It kind of came home to me over the last few days that there are only really a couple of reasons for following someone online.  Either because I have an established relationship with them or they post interesting stuff.  Sometimes I get lucky and get the joy of both  
Conversely, I&#8217;ve gotten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/04/10/varifocus-tweeting/</link>
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		<title>Context Free Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could easily sink a week of evenings playing around with Context Free Art.  It&#8217;s a system for producing abstract art from &#8216;grammars&#8217; &#8211; essentially simple recursive computer programs &#8211; and can produce some stunning images.
It reminds me a lot of the ImageBreeder project I started off a couple of years ago.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/03/28/context-free-art/</link>
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		<title>the social singularity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those posts that wakes you up to get written.  I meant to come back and &#8216;ground&#8217; it a little but after 6 weeks it hasn&#8217;t happened so I&#8217;m publishing it &#8216;as-is&#8217; to move things along.  Feel free let loose on it.
The singularity, if you hadn&#8217;t already heard, is a hypothesised point [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-social-singularity/</link>
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		<title>Google puts faces to contacts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dumped some holiday photos into PicasaWeb before work this morning and scanning through them at lunchtime I noticed it had added face recognition.  This seems to work really well, much easier than the manual tagging of Facebook.
Tightly integrated with my Google contacts it takes a big chunk out of that side of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/03/03/google-puts-faces-to-contacts/</link>
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		<title>The art of freecycling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I sprang a breadmaker from the loft of a friend.  I also let a neighbour have an old computer desk that I&#8217;d condemned to bulk refuse collection.  This all happened spontaneously without the aid of technology or even any organisation which suggests there&#8217;s clearly a lot of this stuff lying around ready for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/02/17/the-art-of-freecycling/</link>
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