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Eric Liu: Citizen soldiers? Need citizen citizens. Rescue democracy from the professionals. The Atlantic bit.ly/M3xXKs

The unknown citizen: poets.org/viewmedia.php/…

What makes countries rich or poor? Is it history, geography, institutions? Jared Diamond reviews Why Nations Fail j.mp/JnlATE

Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης: "O κάθε λαός είναι υπεύθυνος για την ιστορία του, υπεύθυνος και για την … wp.me/pPn6Y-dFh via WordPress.com

#uwajibikaji In an 'internet of things', is free will a casualty? cnet.com.au/in-an-internet…

The Crisis of European Democracy by Amartya Sen nyti.ms/Jc3Wmj

Veteran foreign correspondent Peter Heinlein detained in Ethiopia for covering a protest: bit.ly/JioYQg

.Yola Georgiadou Frankfurter Allgemeine gesamt:Noch’n Gedicht: Wo wäre Günter Grass ohne Griechenland? faz.net/-gr2-705q9 #faz

This *will* destroy America: researchers at MIT have developed facial recognition technology to identify fake smiles theverge.com/2012/5/26/3044…

"Once Amazon opened worlds to us; now it just sells them" - Grafton's essay in the Nation is a lament for cyberflanerie thenation.com/article/168122…

We have come a long way with location-based services and can now "get lost": bit.ly/MDdNsl SEMA Research

[ARTICLE] "Controlling the internet in China: The real story," by Fan Dong in Convergence ow.ly/bovYR

First-rate article on "Information Technology and Moral Values" added to Stanford encyclopedia of Philosophy. bit.ly/OqnN5l

"If you build it and they don't come, it's not a democratic platform" - Charlie DeTar is on Mastodon. @[email protected] reflects on online tools for consensus at #civicmedia2012

Participatory budgeting spreads in NYC and Chicago: eepurl.com/mNf15

"Seeing Like a Geek" - another superb post by @whimsley on the unintended consequences of naive embrace of open data crookedtimber.org/2012/06/25/see…