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		<title>The Haitian Scramble</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2010/01/13/the-haitian-scramble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2010/01/13/the-haitian-scramble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Less than 24 hours after the announcement of a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Haiti, the global fundraising machine has begun turning it's wheels.&#160; Those companies and NGO's in the business of disaster are licking their chops to make Haiti the next massive disaster-relief Ponzi scheme for the rich.&#160;Haiti's democratic revolution, inspired the by ideals of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reprap Machine Podcast Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/13/reprap-machine-podcast-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/13/reprap-machine-podcast-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSAT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you've been eagerly awaiting the publication of part II of the Reprap machine podcast, it's been published here.&#160; So, what are you waiting for, go listen. &#160;
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		<title>New OSAT Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/07/new-osat-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/07/new-osat-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agroinnovations-Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Agroinnovations has published a new OSAT poll via the podcast page.  Here it is:


What will push Open Source Appropriate Technology forward most quickly:




More and better online documentation

Deeper engagement with local communities

Getting a reprap machine in as many hands as possible

More open licensing from tech developers

Take your pick, and go vote.  You can vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-replicating Machines in a Podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/05/self-replicating-machines-in-a-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/05/self-replicating-machines-in-a-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reprap]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Agroinnovations Podcast has recently published the first part of an interview with Andrew Bowyer, the founder and lead researcher on the Reprap Project.&#160; The OSAT revolution continues, and it's just about moving faster than we can keep track of.&#160; To learn more about reprap, listen to the podcast available here.&#160; Part II will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSAT: Mass produced or distributed?</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/30/osat-mass-produced-or-distributed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/30/osat-mass-produced-or-distributed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mass-production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSAT]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The argument of mass production versus distributed production at this stage of the game, in my opinion, is a false dichotomy.&#160; Personally, and ideologically, I lean towards distributed production, but I do not think that this has to be at the expense of mass production models of manufacturing.&#160; Mass production will always have a place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Replicating Machines and the Edge of the Sword: A Distillation</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/19/self-replicating-machines-and-the-edge-of-the-sword-a-distillation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/19/self-replicating-machines-and-the-edge-of-the-sword-a-distillation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reprap]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading what Lucas has been brilliantly putting out over the past 48 hours or so, the picture becomes clearer...we're getting closer.&#160; If anyone needs a quick catch-up, the real edge of the sword is the reprap machine.&#160; As per this website:&#160;RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is [a] practical self-copying 3D printer... - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Need a Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/18/we-need-a-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/18/we-need-a-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fab-Lab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSAT]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If it's true that what we are doing, while it may help many of us mitigate the chain reaction effects of collapse, might be too little, too late, then we need to really think hard about what will change that circumstance.&#160;Lucas has been addressing this over at the Global Swadeshi Network, and I take many [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>OSAT Emerging&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/17/osat-emerging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/17/osat-emerging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
As a movement, we have arrived.&#160; When I first started writing about this topic, the idea was a nascent one, and the movement nearly non-existent.&#160; Now, within less than 24 hours, my last post &#34;Too Little, Too Late&#34; has generated a buzz within our community.&#160;&#160; Here are some of the exchanges.
Vinay wrote:Another way of thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too little, too late?</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/16/too-little-too-late/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/16/too-little-too-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Since 2005 I have been a strong advocate for the development of open source appropriate technology (OSAT).&#160; Since then much has happened on this front.&#160; It was an idea that I can hardly take credit for, as this was something fermenting in the minds of innovators all around the world.&#160; Chris Watkins of Appropedia has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Real Transition</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/11/25/a-real-transition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/11/25/a-real-transition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An earnest attempt to encourage the inevitable transition of our economies would place small business at the center of the strategy.&#160; Now personally, because of my libertarian leanings, I am not one to put much faith in government programs and massive intervention, but seeing as we are already spending upwards of 7 trillion dollars on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source AT: What&#8217;s Next?</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/18/open-source-at-whats-next/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/18/open-source-at-whats-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free-software]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/18/open-source-at-whats-next/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
    It has been almost two years since I first began advocating for adapting an Open Source model to the development of Appropriate Technology.  Naturally, my ideas did not develop in a vacuum, and a number of other groups were already working on the same concept, thinking the same thoughts, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source as Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/17/open-source-as-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/17/open-source-as-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libertarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron-Paul]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/17/open-source-as-politics/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
    Is Open Source a political statement?  Many would argue yes, and just as many would argue no.  Linux Torvalds, with his pragmatic and non-ideological approach to kernel development, stands in stark contrast to the uncompromising idealist Richard Stallman.   Yet Linus, despite his pragmatism, is as much a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source in Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/11/09/open-source-in-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/11/09/open-source-in-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    A lot of attention has been given to electronic voting machines, with concerns on the part of democracy activists that private corporations have no business owning and managing the software and hardware responsible for registering and tallying our votes.  I am sympathetic to their concerns.  I see no reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New @ Agroinnovations</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/05/new-agroinnovations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/05/new-agroinnovations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural-innovations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Agricultural Innovations has several new content items available that might of interest to readers of this blog.&#160; First, in the spirit of Open Source applied to all the projects at agroinnovations.com, the group has published a document that focuses on the transfer of appropriate technology within a social
and cultural context.&#160; The document proposes the application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Devil&#8217;s Advocate</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/03/07/playing-devils-advocate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/03/07/playing-devils-advocate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GNU/Linux]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    Open Sourcing through the mechanism of online communities is not a viable strategy for anything outside of software.  Even with the best license and a well-designed strategy, trying to apply the same community model to areas outside of software development is a lost cause. 

     
 [...]]]></description>
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