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	<title type="text">Mathew Lowry's Tagsmanian Devil</title>
	<subtitle type="text">The European online public space, online communications, communities and the EU, semantic technologies plus whatever else catches my eye.</subtitle>

	<updated>2010-03-05T17:33:47Z</updated>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Groups in EU social media: not so ridiculously easy]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-05T17:32:12Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-05T17:32:12Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A while back I and a number of others were blogging about how a very light, bottom-up usage of Web2-style tools and techniques (bloggingportal, delicious, tagging, google alerts, etc.) could help build links between national and EU online discussions and develop the slowly emerging European public space.
The importance of this was brought home to me [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[First Citizens Initiative - one year too early?]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-02-18T21:38:34Z</updated>
		<published>2010-02-18T21:38:34Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Last week MEP Martin Kastler (EPP-CSU) launched the first European Citizen&#8217;s Initiative (ECI). Is this a slow-motion train wreck, or the dawn of a new era of democracy?
Two things immediately caught my eye when I checked out &#8220;Mum and dad belong to us on Sunday&#8221; (via @Kosmopolit via @andrewjburgess. Update: Kosmopolito blogged on this just [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[That Edelman Trust result - implications for EU communications?]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-02-15T18:25:37Z</updated>
		<published>2010-02-15T18:25:37Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[More than one social media observer has taken their time to react to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer&#8217;s statistic that &#8220;people like me&#8221; has taken a tumble. What does it mean for EU communications?
For those confused by the first sentence, let me explain that for many people involved in the early days of social media, [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Lisbon and the Euroblogosphere: my first use of the &#8220;c&#8221;-word]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-01-27T12:47:33Z</updated>
		<published>2010-01-27T12:47:33Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right - curation. Now officially Web2.0-buzzword-of-the-month (not quite sure which one). 
And here was me thinking that curation was something knowledge workers have been doing ever since there was knowledge to work with.
So stand by for a totally gratuitous use of the c-word later on in this post. Maybe even two. But first, here [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[When is a blog not a blog?]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-01-22T14:42:32Z</updated>
		<published>2010-01-22T14:42:32Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Answer: when the blogger doesn&#8217;t publish comments or trackbacks. But why are so many of these Charade Blogs supposedly &#8216;blogs on European communications&#8217;? Are there too many freshly minted &#8217;social media experts&#8217; in Brussels?

I&#8217;ve found that Eurosceptic-oriented blogs are generally very open environments - I had a comment blocked once on Devil&#8217;s Kitchen, but otherwise [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Rebutting EuroCr*p in social media]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-01-18T22:42:05Z</updated>
		<published>2010-01-18T22:42:05Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I recently joined Tibo&#8217;s conversation on the Parliament&#8217;s Writing for (y)EU - see Not the 8 o’clock news -  but my latest comment grew so long I decided to put it here instead. And then, typically, it grew &#8230;
In Tibo&#8217;s original post and subsequent comments, he explored how far EP officials can go in &#8220;engaging [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Old media, new media and Mr Bean]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-01-13T21:14:21Z</updated>
		<published>2010-01-13T21:14:21Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The story of the Mr Bean &#8220;hack&#8221; of the Spanish Presidency website got me thinking.
Not the story itself, which is just an amusing diversion. But Joe Litobarski&#8217;s excellent analysis led me to compare the way the story was covered by the mainstream media and by bloggers such as himself and Julien Frisch, who first brought [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[More cool visualisation tools]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-12-07T20:34:33Z</updated>
		<published>2009-12-07T20:34:33Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Every now and then I see a neat new ways for displaying complex information simply and my inner child comes out. It really delights me that there are software and design geniuses out there, working together to provide visualisation tools for mere plebs like me to use. If I ever get the time.
So, following on [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[No dazzling projects required]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-12-06T18:09:27Z</updated>
		<published>2009-12-06T18:09:27Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[So Joe has a good summary of the euroblog meet-up (&#8221;Herding Cats&#8220;), with a more detailed followup on the way.
There are a lot of competing ideas, which is exactly what we need - the main point is that this discussion is finally underway, with ideas flowing across Europe via blogs, Google Wave, Twitter and email. [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How many eurobloggers can dance on the head of a pin?]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-12-03T07:51:18Z</updated>
		<published>2009-12-03T07:51:18Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[So the debate about the Euroblogosphere, or the Eurosphere, or the European Public Sphere, or web2eu, or the European online public space, of whatever-we-call-it-next-week, has sparked again into life, like a Frankensteinian monster with dodgy spark plugs screwed into the base of its neck.
The latest incarnation is over on the blog of Joe Litobarski, who&#8217;s [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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