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	<title>the stavros messinis weblog</title>
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	<description>Stavros is a Tech Geek based in Athens - Greece</description>
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		<title>And what matters is:</title>
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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
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		<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 as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2009/03/30/citizens-filling-the-gap/</link>
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		<title>MediaCamp Athens &#8216;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 &#8216;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 you [...]]]></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 new platforms, new projects, perhaps [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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>
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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. [...]]]></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 entrepreneurs and [...]]]></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 great [...]]]></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) List tasks [...]]]></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 tabled [...]]]></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
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		<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)

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		<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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		<title>Coincidentally, Zografou City Council website finally live TODAY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I say coincidentally because, I went by their offices today and complained about their site not being available for the past year or so. I&#8217;ve recently moved to Zografou and have often needed to talk to someone at the council for various things. Naturally, being a geek, I would look to their website to provide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/05/coincidentally-zografou-city-council-website-finally-live-today/</link>
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		<title>OpenCoffee virgin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attended my first opencoffee event tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it. What a group of smart kids, some seniors, some money guys. A good crowd. One minor negative, nothing serious. I felt that 10min presentations aren&#8217;t enough for the motivational speakers &#8211; give them  more time. [Post edited]
Still, the event was great and I&#8217;ll make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/03/opencoffee-virgin/</link>
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		<title>too many tweets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Too many tweets again today. I&#8217;m beginning to realise the benefits of this platform. Twitter is fast becoming defacto goodness for all. Guys, it seems youcant handle the load more often than not. Either sell to Google who can handle the load or take the platform peer-to-peer and let everyone share the burden. 
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		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/30/too-many-tweets/</link>
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		<title>Apple is Listening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about this almost a year ago :
NY Times reports new iPhone Patents
ZDNET Reports on new iPhone:Will the sun power your future iPhone?
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		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/28/apple-is-listening/</link>
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		<title>Solar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
40 minutes of solar radiation has enough energy content to power the world for a whole year.
How do we store this energy. Storage is the problem. As photo-voltaic cells (PV&#8217;s) get more efficient, we need creative ways to store this energy. 
Here&#8217;s the cycle: during the day &#8211; use super efficient PV&#8217;s to collect energy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/22/solar/</link>
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		<title>On Speeches and Presentations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only two things about speeches and presentations matter. Your audience is subconsciously asking:
A. Whatâ€™s your point?
B. Why does it matter?
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		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/22/on-speeches-and-presentaions/</link>
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		<title>Google Feature Missing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the most used web app for me is probably my Gmail. I use GoogleDocs quite a bit as well. One thing that is missing is a full text search across a users GoogleDocs folder directly from the Gmail interface. Gmail search is brilliant but adding an option to add Docs search would be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/04/16/google-feature-missing/</link>
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