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In another article , it analyses that China has secretly set in motion a policy to divest itself from its US dollar holdings, so that it will no longer possess more than a 50% share of it, a reduction that would be sufficient to function as a hedging strategy (with any loss of the dollar being compensated with the rise of the other 50%). If true, and the article offers good documtation on this, then this would be extremely significant, because it is the effective end of the China-U.S. I’m realizing I’m on thin ice here, as I have no professional understanding of economics, but nevertheless, I want to relay a convincing scenario, that some of my p2p friends have been sending to my mailbox.

To give a flavor of how this is viewed in China, I heard a local comment about how great it was that the shanzhai could not only make an iPhone clone, they could improve it by giving the clone a user-replaceable battery. And like the flexible manufacturing networks in the Third Italy, Huang says , the density and economic diversity of the environment in which shanzhai enterprises function promotes flow and adaptability. …[T]he retail shop on the bottom floor in these electronic market districts of China enables goods to actually flow; your neighbor is selling parts to you, the

This is not, of course, a done deal, but  economic necessity will force us to look more closely at these issues. would argue that we are slowly but surely solving the puzzle - thanks, of course, to the network.  Nor is there any reason why we could not do that (assuming we reach reasonable scale) make money, and even give the service away free to entire regions where people were too poor to pay for it - parts of Africa, India, or China, for example.   Via Stephen Downe s, Judy Breck believes, and I agree, that the economic crunch will speed the advent of network learnin g.

Why-oh-why does everyone feel the need to come out with super-spiffy products that aim to compete with Google? reply Olavi - May 26th, 2008 at 1:56 am PDT Well, looks interesting but I’m not sure if it is able to compete with Google - too many scattered tools around. reply Christian L. - May 28th, 2008 at 2:59 am PDT I would of course use TextFlow

Posted by: Morgan | September 12, 2007 7:19 PM It might seem like the six degrees of separation dilutes the information about my "real/private" network but when I tag relations as "met through a friend" or "lived together" they obviously tend to rank higher than "worked together" or "took a course together". So, youve better not be against Hitler in 1943, against the Vietnam war in the 60:s, a free thinker in China or North Korea today, a squatter, against the war in Iraq, have a friend of a friend who is suspected of Al Quaida sympathies or redhaired or know someone who

This shift from material goods to self-expression and social capital is heartening, but the real story is not in the coffee shops in California, but in villages in India and small towns in China that are just beginning to get online. People in emerging economies already have real live social networks, of course, but social capital represents a much higher percentage of their net worth than for those who live in richer countries. x Username: Password:

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This of course works both ways – in a successful online community neither party should be anonymous to each other. This does not, of course, mean that I need to share with you my name, date of birth and address. Of course, there will always be exceptions to this rule, where the need to encourage contributions and discussions will supersede the benefit of building a community based on members knowing something about each other. Image by loungerie via Flickr Should people be allowed to leave anonymous comments in online communities and forums?