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		<title>By: Must read</title>
		<link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/29/global-voices-and-collective-decisionmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1420038</link>
		<dc:creator>Must read</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Global Voices and collective decisionmaking [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Let the majority rule? &#124; Antony Loewenstein</title>
		<link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/29/global-voices-and-collective-decisionmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1264464</link>
		<dc:creator>Let the majority rule? &#124; Antony Loewenstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Easy. They use an opinion spectrometer. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Must read &#124; Lorand R. Minyo</title>
		<link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/29/global-voices-and-collective-decisionmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1148887</link>
		<dc:creator>Must read &#124; Lorand R. Minyo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Global Voices and collective decisionmaking [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Global Voices Summit 2008: Photos and Thanks &#171; Jose Murilo&#8217;s Weblog</title>
		<link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/29/global-voices-and-collective-decisionmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1109965</link>
		<dc:creator>Global Voices Summit 2008: Photos and Thanks &#171; Jose Murilo&#8217;s Weblog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Global Voices and collective decisionmaking &#124; &#8230;My heart&#8217;s in Accra How do 70 opinionated people from around the world make up their collective minds? Easy. They use an opinion spectrometer. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Global Voices and collective decisionmaking | &#8230;My heart&#8217;s in Accra How do 70 opinionated people from around the world make up their collective minds? Easy. They use an opinion spectrometer. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Ljubisa Bojic</title>
		<link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/29/global-voices-and-collective-decisionmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1082437</link>
		<dc:creator>Ljubisa Bojic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank to you guys and Allen Gun for this great idea and its implementation on our Summit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank to you guys and Allen Gun for this great idea and its implementation on our Summit.</p>
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		<title>By: Global Voices Summit 08 Budapest &#171; Digital Sketches</title>
		<link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/29/global-voices-and-collective-decisionmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1081561</link>
		<dc:creator>Global Voices Summit 08 Budapest &#171; Digital Sketches</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] just want to name the blogs of the father and mother of Global Voices Online; Ethan Zuckerman about collective decision making, the day after the summit, and Rebecca MacKinnon on ideas related to global participatory [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] just want to name the blogs of the father and mother of Global Voices Online; Ethan Zuckerman about collective decision making, the day after the summit, and Rebecca MacKinnon on ideas related to global participatory [...]</p>
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		<title>By: A Week after GV Summit &#171; back from the world</title>
		<link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/29/global-voices-and-collective-decisionmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1077661</link>
		<dc:creator>A Week after GV Summit &#171; back from the world</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] have collected and written so many comprehensive and detailed stories, such as Rezwan, Rebecca, Ethan, David, just to name a few. We also have fantastic photographers like Neha, Luis Carlos, Paula, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] have collected and written so many comprehensive and detailed stories, such as Rezwan, Rebecca, Ethan, David, just to name a few. We also have fantastic photographers like Neha, Luis Carlos, Paula, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Babineaux</title>
		<link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/29/global-voices-and-collective-decisionmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1075690</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Babineaux</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The whole idea that any sort of organization is equal with it&#039;s reports it produces is a little off. I completely agree with hearing unbiased information, but who&#039;s information is not biased. People with an agenda will try to convince others by getting their feelings validated.

What&#039;s to stop a system like this to block any valuable opinions because someone has associated it as extreme. It is all people&#039;s perception of what is right or wrong. 

I take global warming for example. Scientific evedence has basically proven we are at least a little off in the way we are living. Certain organizations, with interest in keeping people dependent on oil, have raised enough doubt to cast a shadow in the publics head to ignore the possibility we are possibly messing up here.

The people (in public) that choose to ignore it are afraid of what will happen to their convenient  lifestyle so they will not ever accept we have stepped down the wrong road until we cannot go outside anymore.

Who is right here, the people that hear global warming as extreme opinion, or the people that see it as a fact of life. What happens to valid, DIFFERENT, ideas that are not acceptable to people&#039;s emotional, reactive, non logical thinking, simple minded lifestyle.

One could say this last sentence is very strongly opinionated, but when you look into it more, you may see it is reality for alot of people in the world.

It is my opinion that we should take responsibility for our own lives and not try to repress anyone else&#039;s thought and ideas. If we educate ourself and not rely on other&#039;s for a how we feel, when we hear very opinionated ideas we could distinguish from if it could hold merit or just another person trying to get their feelings validated!!

Thanks for reading this long comment!
Mark Babineaux
http://www.progressyourlife.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The whole idea that any sort of organization is equal with it&#8217;s reports it produces is a little off. I completely agree with hearing unbiased information, but who&#8217;s information is not biased. People with an agenda will try to convince others by getting their feelings validated.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s to stop a system like this to block any valuable opinions because someone has associated it as extreme. It is all people&#8217;s perception of what is right or wrong. </p>
<p>I take global warming for example. Scientific evedence has basically proven we are at least a little off in the way we are living. Certain organizations, with interest in keeping people dependent on oil, have raised enough doubt to cast a shadow in the publics head to ignore the possibility we are possibly messing up here.</p>
<p>The people (in public) that choose to ignore it are afraid of what will happen to their convenient  lifestyle so they will not ever accept we have stepped down the wrong road until we cannot go outside anymore.</p>
<p>Who is right here, the people that hear global warming as extreme opinion, or the people that see it as a fact of life. What happens to valid, DIFFERENT, ideas that are not acceptable to people&#8217;s emotional, reactive, non logical thinking, simple minded lifestyle.</p>
<p>One could say this last sentence is very strongly opinionated, but when you look into it more, you may see it is reality for alot of people in the world.</p>
<p>It is my opinion that we should take responsibility for our own lives and not try to repress anyone else&#8217;s thought and ideas. If we educate ourself and not rely on other&#8217;s for a how we feel, when we hear very opinionated ideas we could distinguish from if it could hold merit or just another person trying to get their feelings validated!!</p>
<p>Thanks for reading this long comment!<br />
Mark Babineaux<br />
<a href="http://www.progressyourlife.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.progressyourlife.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jillian C. York</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jillian C. York</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] &#8212;- Many other GVers have blogged on this topic. A sampling: Rebecca MacKinnon Ljubisa Bojic Cristina Quisbert Ethan Zuckerman [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Dan</title>
		<link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/29/global-voices-and-collective-decisionmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1066807</link>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That makes sense. I wished I had seen this and learned before !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That makes sense. I wished I had seen this and learned before !</p>
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