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		<title>As close the the core as possible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being at the hub of things means you get to touch, influence and be influenced by the most important spokes. See my earlier post on People Hubbing. With CoLab, Spiros and I are attempting to be as close to the centre as possible. I haven&#8217;t blogged in a while (last blog entry is Oct2010) That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2011/12/06/as-close-the-the-core-as-possible/</link>
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		<title>ReplayTweet.com &#8211; My latest pet project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a new pet project I&#8217;m working on: After listening to Guy Kawasaki during the Influencer Project conference say that one sure way to increase your influence via twitter is to repost your tweets multiple times during the day, I thought :&#8221;That can&#8217;t be too difficult a service to build&#8221; So our service watches your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2010/10/06/replaytweet-com-my-latest-pet-project/</link>
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		<title>Positive Scaffolds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Times are tough. The experts say they&#8217;re going to get tougher. I&#8217;m encouraged by the fact that in many conversations I&#8217;m hearing people offer eachother the phrase &#8220;How can I be supportive?&#8221;. It comes early in the conversation, probably the second question asked. Right after &#8220;What are you working on currently?&#8221; Most respond with an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2010/09/03/positive-scaffolds/</link>
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		<title>On being a hub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Organisations that fail to realise the importance of being a hub will simply fail. Call it what you like, a marketplace, a center of excellence, an agora whatever, it&#8217;s a hub. You don&#8217;t have to be an expert in the subject you&#8217;re hosting but you need to have the skills to get people to share [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2010/05/24/on-being-a-hub/</link>
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		<title>Importance of siesta&#8217;s without clocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just woken up. It happens so often that I wake up during sleep and wished I&#8217;d had a notebook by the bedside to jot down what I, at that specific point in time, think is an incredible idea. I don&#8217;t have a notebook and naturally, overcome by the desire to nap for a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2010/05/22/importance-of-siestas-without-clocks/</link>
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		<title>Be professional but be a little amateur too &#8211; Don&#8217;t lose the love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a tough couple of weeks and we have been at the mercy of some cold, hard balled professionals and the impact has been devastating but we will overcome. I wanted to make a point regarding professionalism vs amateurism and how one without the other will most likely lead to failure of some sort. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2010/04/02/be-professional-but-be-a-little-amateur-too-dont-lose-the-love/</link>
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		<title>Forces in play during Football Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our firstborn had his third football practice today. He&#8217;s enjoying it. The second one was easy but the first was a nightmare for both parent and child. Now during round three, having overcome the anxiety of the first ever practice, where Panos was &#8220;expected&#8221; to join in, accepting orders from another adult, in a team [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2009/10/12/forces-in-play-during-football-practice/</link>
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		<title>And what matters is:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My (slightly modified) view on what matters is: * An alternative culture, a brighter light * A tight relationship with stakeholders, partners and the wider community that all give us permission to talk with them * Doing business in a remarkable way that&#8217;s worth talking about * A story that spreads, a tale that sticks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2009/08/03/and-what-matters-is/</link>
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		<title>Twitter &amp; Google search greasemonkey addin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I use twitter&#8217;s web interface more than anything and I hate the fact that I have to scroll down the page to go to search.twitter.com to do a search on a hashtag or on a user or even myself. I&#8217;ve seen the experimental twitter search box on other accounts but it&#8217;s not appearing for mine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2009/04/04/twitter-google-search-greasemonkey-addin/</link>
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		<title>dooped !!</title>
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		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2009/04/01/dooped/</link>
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		<title>Citizens filling the gap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of example cases are growing, Faliron, Goudi, Villa Zographou and more. Cases of ordinary citizens taking matters into their own hands when local government has failed them. The latest of these has been the Info Cafe campaign running at Gardenia Square in Zographou where ordinary citizens took back a large space once used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2009/03/30/citizens-filling-the-gap/</link>
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		<title>MediaCamp Athens &#8217;09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[credit to peter michel heilmann It&#8217;s been 2 months since I lasted blogged and I apologise for that. Tonight has been special in that I have had the privilege of attending MediaCamp Athens &#8217;09. I took a lot of photo&#8217;s, some quite good, others not too good. They&#8217;re on Flickr so take a look if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2009/03/16/mediacamp-athens-09/</link>
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		<title>3 words for 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My three keywords for objectives for 2009 are: WRITE, LEARN, SCAFFOLD Write: I&#8217;m blogging less, Twittering more. 2009 should be the year I blog more, twitter less. 2009 &#8211; objective 1 Learn: In 2009 I need to use that precious commodity we have called time to learn more stuff. Scaffold: Support structures as bases to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2009/01/01/3-words-for-2009/</link>
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		<title>Athens Startup Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Athens Startup Weekend &#8211; What an amazing experience. We presented our hastily hacked together solution, the most coherent part being the coding done by Jim and Nick who took the bull by the horns and delivered on time. I remember the last half hour where we badgered each other constantly :&#8221;Where&#8217;s my button, where&#8217;s my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/11/24/athens-startup-weekend-2/</link>
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		<title>Athens Startup Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew from StartupWeekend is currently in Athens and we&#8217;re all located in the Microsoft Innovation Center on Vas. Sohias str hacking away at our new baby &#8220;BlogNudge&#8221;. An idea pitched by Patrick Malone of Microsoft Hellas that he has kindly let us take forward. BlogNudge&#8217;s tagline is &#8220;Motivating Lazy Bloggers&#8221; and the motivation / incentivization [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/11/23/athens-startup-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Supporting WikiPedia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. — Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia I use wikipedia a lot. Today, I donated a small sum in support of this great service. If you use this service, please join me. Click on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/11/05/supporting-wikipedia/</link>
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		<title>On Meeting Tim O&#8217;Reilly and Dan Gillmor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a great couple of weeks for Athens, technology wise that is. We&#8217;ve had a great group of visitors come and visit our city. Besides Jason Calacanis, Tim O&#8217;Reilly has been in Greece attending Stream08 and holidaying. We had the chance to meet and chat to him last week and he shared a bunch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/10/21/meeting-tim-oreilly/</link>
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		<title>OpenCoffee Athens featuring Jason Calacanis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[George and his crowd scored a real hit with the latest OpenCoffee. I witnessed one of the most inspiring talks ever. Direct, to the point. Jason was superb. In summary: Entrepeneurship is like going into battle. It&#8217;s tough and not everyone is cut out for it. There are two types of people, those that are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/10/16/opencoffee-athens-featuring-jason-calacanis/</link>
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		<title>Mygazines is a real winner and a game changer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The perception we have regarding cost of magazines is that the cover price is the cost of the content within the magazine. The truth is that the cover price of a magazine these days reflects little more than the cost of printing and distribution. Few magazines actually make money from the cover price, they make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/09/11/mygazines-is-a-real-winner-and-a-game-changer/</link>
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		<title>Scratching your own itch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently reading Getting Real from 37 Signals and wanted to share some phrases from it. Here&#8217;s a first &#8220;Build software for yourself A great way to build software is to start out by solving your own problems. You&#8217;ll be the target audience and you&#8217;ll know what&#8217;s important and what&#8217;s not. That gives you a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/08/05/239/</link>
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		<title>Never again will they &#8220;Just not get it&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have resolved to never again say that someone &#8220;Just doesn&#8217;t get it&#8221;. Saying someone &#8220;doesn&#8217;t get it&#8221; implies that you&#8217;ve decided that you won&#8217;t take the time (or any more time) to convince them of the merits of your position and thereby proving that it&#8217;s the superior one. If your take on things is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/08/04/never-again-will-they-just-not-get-it/</link>
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		<title>Crowd-Trusting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crowd trust is the trust I place in the crowd that has gone before me and not been burned. For example: EULAs. I never read them fully, I trust someone before me has already read it and if there was something there that was so wrong the crowd would make a fuss and get it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/22/crowd-trusting/</link>
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		<title>The new way &#8211; cut and skydive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some colleagues will recognise the concepts listed below. Taking a pragmatic approach, one can see where it&#8217;s going and why it&#8217;s going there. The aim is efficiency, to be more targeted and achieve more where it matters most. 1) Clarify: &#8211; Identify objectives to do and Identify objectives to stop doing. Now execute both. 2) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/14/the-new-way-stop-doing/</link>
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		<title>L. Take a lesson in this image and let us get on with it.</title>
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		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/14/l-take-a-lesson-in-this-image-and-let-us-get-on-with-it/</link>
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		<title>Goudi Park, OLPC at the Athens Anti-Racism Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Athens anti-racism festival is happening right now and it&#8217;s being held in Goudi park, right across the street from where we live. Some of you may already know I&#8217;m involved in campaigning against commercial developments in Goudi Park and as such we were offered a booth and projection screen at the festival. First off, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/05/goudi-park-olpc-at-the-athens-anti-racism-festival/</link>
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		<title>More Direct Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thereâ€™s no doubt that the internet and the social networks it helped create have done two things: brought people closer and brought about much more democracy. A new political party in Australia called Senator Online is taking this to new extremes, it will allow each member to vote on each and every bill that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/01/more-direct-democracy/</link>
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		<title>Psst &#8230; Something wonderful is happening &#8230; pass it on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take 4 minutes to view this great video. Now if that has whet your appetite, take a look at this: Charles Leadbeater at TED talks]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/22/something-wonderful-is-happening/</link>
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		<title>Teach the machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great video about Web 2.0, the social / semantic web (4 minutes)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/20/teach-the-machine/</link>
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		<title>What is twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently started using twitter as a microblogging service and for status updates. One really cool feature is the free sms feature for those following you. Can you imagine the creative ways this can be used? Think updating a family member about how late you&#8217;ll be or getting a direct message to bring home some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/16/what-is-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Children and the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet generation is here and many children from as young as about three years are spending more and more time online. This holds both risks and benefits and so needs to be carefully managed so that children are protected from the risks while still being permitted to enjoy the benefits of the internet. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/14/children-and-the-internet/</link>
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