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	<title>flow &#187; non-geeky</title>
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	<description>it&#039;s all about the pattern</description>
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		<title>facing the reality of collapse</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2009/05/11/id-74</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caterpillar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collapse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently asked me to read Carolyn Baker&#8217;s article When facing reality is not &#8216;negative thinking. This article has finally helped me nail down some thought&#8217;s I&#8217;ve been having about the way I&#8217;ve been often asked to look at the &#8220;collapse&#8221; of civilization and the idea that we need to &#8220;face reality.&#8221;
To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Jacobs: The Nature of Economies</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2009/03/29/id-73</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2009/03/29/id-73#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just 10 minutes ago finished Jane Jacobs, The Nature of Economies, and I just have to write about it.
I am totally stunned, and deeply sad that I never was able to meet her.  In this book she speaks directly to me from beyond the grave completely confirming the approach I have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Economy</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/11/04/id-70</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/11/04/id-70#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I gave a presentation on rethinking money at UMass Amherst for a course Julie Graham is teaching called Rethinking Economy. Julie does some very interesting work on community economies.
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		<title>econophysics and community currency</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/09/03/id-67</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/09/03/id-67#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[econophysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[os-earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been introduced to the field of econophysics and I&#8217;ve read an interesting the review paper on the field.  My thoughts on this paper is that it&#8217;s very good news for the community currency movement, if understood properly.Â For a long time when talking about cc, I&#8217;ve been using the little thought experiment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mexico</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/03/05/id-62</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/03/05/id-62#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in mexico, and it&#8217;s the start of the third day of theÂ open money intensive. Â This is an incredible experience of the expansion of the open money vision that&#8217;s been in gestation for so long and is now being Â birthed. Â More soon!
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		<title>wealth literacy</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/02/16/id-60</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/02/16/id-60#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>

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		<title>why i am working on open money</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/07/id-58</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/07/id-58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[collective intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve had opportunity to reflect on why I&#8217;m particularly dedicated to the open money path out of all the many different community currency paths. 
I offer it here not in the spirit of saying open money is better than other approaches, but rather just to share my understanding and what motivates me to work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on language and wealth acknowledgment</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/05/id-57</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/05/id-57#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a discussion today with Jean-FranÃ§ois about the content of my previous post, he described another very important way of thinking about the evolution of writing from pictographs to alphabets and ideograms.  Namely that the step taken was from a system in which representations could be created, to a system in which information can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the cost of lies</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/30/id-56</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/30/id-56#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today it occurs to me that one way of describing inflation is that it is a tax on falsehood.  Most of the taxes we pay are explicitly levied in some way or another.  Inflation is the implicit tax that we pay through the structure of the monetary system itself, because of the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language, Money and Wealth Acknowledgment</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Abram, in his book The Spell of the Sensuous, describes the history of written language and its evolution from pictographic directly representational symbolic system to an abstract phonemic system.  He describes the incredible intellectual leap taken by some scribe who realized that the symbol doesn&#8217;t actually need to have ANY visual resemblance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the &#8220;elevator-pitch&#8221; for community currencies</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 14:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open money]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a skype chat I&#8217;m on that discusses community currencies, that recently was trying to find &#8220;the ultimate elevator pitch&#8221; for community currencies.  This is a very reasonable request as all of us working in this area are frequently asked to describe what we are up to succinctly.  Here&#8217;s my post to that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics of Innocent Fraud, John Kenneth Galbraith, 2004</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/04/15/id-51</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/04/15/id-51#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Galbraith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can read this short book in an hour, but you&#8217;ll be thinking about it for much longer.  Galbraith, a man of impeccable credentials, points out some of the unspoken (by mainstream culture) truths of our times:

&#8220;The free-market system&#8221; is the meaningless replacement term for what capitalism has become, and what should truthfully be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Reading List</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/03/16/id-33</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/03/16/id-33#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I thought I would take on the discipline of posting a short essay on each book I read.  I haven&#8217;t done that, but here is a list of my recent reading, with one or two sentences for each.
Goatwalking, Jim Corbett: Astounding analysis of the relationship of people to society and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>confucianism, standards, and culture</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/02/14/id-47</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/02/14/id-47#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I talked about how there are two different kinds of trust, and how important that is to understanding what needs to happen in the currency world.  Here is a fantastic essay on confucianism technical standards and culture, which gets to the same essential pattern but in a different arena.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>proof is in the pudding</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/01/14/id-46</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/01/14/id-46#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fork]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The power behind the open source/creative commons movement lies in the value of letting go of ownership of your productive work and trusting that the value you could have charged for directly by not doing so, will instead be returned to you indirectly.
So, I did this for my paper on the process revolutuion and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of Bush McCarthyism?</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/01/09/id-45</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/01/09/id-45#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I listened with awe to Keith Olbermann &#8220;Sacrifice&#8221; speech.  I can only hope that this, appearing in a mainstream media outlet, will have the effect of ending our modern day McCarthyism: &#8220;the War on Terror.&#8221;
[tags]War on Terror,McCarthyism,Sacrifice, Iraq,war,Iraq war,George Bush[/tags]
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		<title>community currency and trust</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/12/12/id-40</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/12/12/id-40#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When ever I introduce people to the idea of community currencies, I have experienced that the question of trust comes up again and again. This is reasonable, but I&#8217;m quite convinced that the breadth and depth of what trust is, is very poorly understood.  Trust seems to be a word that, in the case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Creative Commons movement reall about the commons?</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/12/12/id-43</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/12/12/id-43#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been involved in the creative commons, open source, free software, or any of the many strands of thinking that are developing along these lines, then Copyright, Copy-Left, and the Creative Anti-Commons by Anna Nimus is a must read.  She provides a very provocative understanding of the fundamental idea of copy-right, from it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sousveillance and subvision</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/11/03/id-39</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/11/03/id-39#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[collective intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many very nice concepts that I learned about first in Jean FranÃ§ois Noubel&#8217;s work on collective intelligence is sousveillance which is the inverse of surveillance.  It was first coined by Steve Mann and then later picked up by Howard Rheingold.
Besides the concept itself and it&#8217;s obviously deep ramifications on political and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is it all coming to?</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/10/16/id-38</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/10/16/id-38#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Bruce Sterling, as usual, has an idea.  It seems to me that we are walking a knife edge, nay, a ceramic blade edge of incredible sharpness, on one side of which is evolved conciousness, and the other, dismal slavery.  That blade hurts my feet.
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