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Guardian column from Jeff about transparency:

"In the company of nudists, no one is naked and there is nowhere to hide. In this space and on my blog, I have been arguing that with the internet, we are entering an age of publicness when we need to live, do business and govern in the open. So I was left with little choice when I learned I had prostate cancer. I had to blog it."

Great Prezi presentation on business models for news, from Jeff Jarvis and the CUNY people.

"Layar, an Android-based mobile phone browser that lets you explore your physical surroundings, call up geotagged information from the web and superimpose it on your viewfinder, is expanding worldwide and may soon come to the iPhone 3GS, according to its creator, Amsterdam-based SPRXMobile.'

"I am not trying to be arrogant here, but the simple fact is this: If Zopa were to have a material effect on bank lending, and its competitive differentiation is price, it will not win. It does not have pockets deep enough to win a price war with a major bank, let along the whole market. This much is simple market forces at play. The only reason this isn't happening now is that, as Martin says, Zopa is not having a material effect on the market at present.

"But this, of course, reveals the long term flaw in Zopa strategy: entering an unwinnable battle which brings defeat just at the moment of success."

30-page assessment of social software by the DOD.

Alfie Dennen's latest genius project: ""Bus.Tops provides the canvas that allows London to tell its stories. These can be small, intimate stories of a neighbourhood or citywide adventures that draw us into a London we never imagined; or simply moments of beauty, wonder, questioning, critique, comment and exploration. These stories unfold on a canvas made up of networked panels of programmable LEDs situated on the roofs of bus stops across London.""

Anti-defence as a strategy in networks… "Trying to block the formation of networks is like trying to stop a tsunami with a spork and a Superman outfit. You're going to get bulldozed. The only solution is to challenge, dilute, and redefine the incentives that cause networks to coalesce in the first place. "

"The 10-Digit Rule means that as our electronic gadgets grow chattier, and databases swell, we must accept that in most walks of life, we'll soon be wearing our names on our foreheads."

"This howto describes a web service that generates OPML Subscription Lists for Twitter users in a form that can be imported into a feed reader such as River2 or Google Reader."