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		<title>Friction, Chaos and Good Governance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada&#8217;s constitution was founded on the primacy of law &#38; order. The federal government was imbued with sweeping powers to ensure the &#8220;peace, order and good governance&#8221; of the newly formed confederation.
The belief was then, as it is now for the most part, that stability and security were paramount for the survival of the realm.
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jeremyvernon.com/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Harris-Decima poll on net-neutrality is shameful bunk data.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Harris-Decima poll just recently reminded everyone why direct democracy is a profoundly dangerous concept to tinker with.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jrhYITWLPHiAVsXij2ybrXzou6mw
The poll had to do with Net Neutrality, particularly internet traffic control. 20 % of those surveyed had actually heard of it. The remaining 4 out of 5 got all their information from what I&#8217;m sure was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa Threatens Privacy Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the national media outlets have covered what I watched on CPAC today.  Rob Nicholson (Attorney General and Min. Justice) and Peter Van Loan (Min. Public Safety) tabled legislation which is allegedly meant to empower police with greater capacity to fight cyber-crime.
It&#8217;s hard not to feel fatalistic about this kind of legislation &#8211; it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jeremyvernon.com/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Our Most Valuable Minds Think In Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To some this may seem patently obvious but it&#8217;s worth repeating that, throughout history, those people we (in this case &#8220;Western Civilization&#8221;) hold in the greatest esteem are those that think in and about systems.
These days the best paid employees are CEOs, doctors, lawyers and software developers among many others. These people specialize in systems. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Systems Theories Matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Systems theories, that is, the mathematical models that account for various behaviours of interacting elements are noticeably absent from any discussion, particularly within the social sciences here at UofT.
Thomas Homer-Dixon was an innovator in introducing the concept of complex-adaptive systems to the discourse of young undergrads doing Peace and Conflict Studies. Anatol Rapaport before him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jeremyvernon.com/?p=140</link>
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		<title>The Web Changes What We Expect From Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Journalism was born out of intellectual curiosity and maintained by intellectual laziness.  When Johann Carolus gave us what we understand today as the first printed newspaper he did so to provide a way to disseminate knowledge rapidly, asynchronously and persistently. It allowed a small group of authors to rapidly distribute information they thought everyone should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jeremyvernon.com/?p=107</link>
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		<title>International Development, Contextualization and Open Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a variety of treatises about proposed frameworks of understanding international development &#8211; the standard, virtually canonical literature such as Collier, Easterly, Krugman etc.
I&#8217;ve also examined the primary texts of the Millenium Development Goals and corollary literature, as well as the standard charter documentation of the World Bank Group and others.
What they, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jeremyvernon.com/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Early Web 2.0 Startups &#8211; Where are they now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Feb 2006, a thoughtful Flickr contributor named Ludwig Gatzke, uploaded a graphic. It was basically a big collection of logos of Web 2.0 companies. I thought it would be interesting to see what happened to all these various start-ups in the last few years.
So I&#8217;ve edited the graphic by fading out those start-ups that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jeremyvernon.com/?p=138</link>
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		<title>Usability Spot-Fix #324094 &#8211; Bookmarks and Draggy Interfaces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An increasingly common technique, I think appropriated from PDF and other document viewers (Google Maps?), is the draggable interface. http://www.fichey.com/ is a site that implements this navigation method.
This kind of thing allows for innovative two dimensional navigation, especially if you use Flash to make the movement fluid. Fichey and others that use a Flash solution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we need a code.gc.ca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend David Eaves wrote an exciting post wherein he talked about his vision for StatsCan and how it should act like Google.
I think that StatsCan, on its own, could provide some compelling and valuable data for citizens of all stripes by implementing simple, cheap and scalable web services via conventional APIs. However I [...]]]></description>
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