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Having a blast in Afghanistan
Meanwhile the U.S. government continues to perceive Afganistan as the site of the First World's final military victory over the Second, as if the failed Soviet invasion of that country were the only context worth caring about. Wanna know what's really going on over there? I can't think of a more committed source than the Sloan family. A surprising number of pages in Google lookups on Afganistan lead Sam Sloan's many ishipress pages — an accumulation of Sam's weblogorrhea, without benefit of a weblog. Near as I can tell in what little time I have to look, Sam is a chess master, taxi cab driver, agrieved father of a lost daughter, authority on the Starr Report and various presidential blowjobs, and acquaintance of Osama Bin Laden. Actually, the last item seems to belong to Ismael Sloan, who may also be Mohammad Ismael Sloan, who wrote A Brief History of the War in Afghanistan. I'm having trouble finding the track here. I also note that Mr. Sloan has his detractors. In any case, I haven't visited a more passionate and absorbing site in a long time. Maybe some of you can help me sort it all out. Meanwhile, let's keep the context here. It isn't about politics or religion. It's about kids being killed for the sake of both. Here's where to help. Potlatch is a gift economy. Is there such a thing as a grift economy? Just starting to get into Potlatch.net, which is a weblog. Here's the draft of a Potlatch protocol. Is bullshit peerful? Nice to read Jamie Lewis on IM, XML and Jabber. Looking around for peerful stuff, I discovered that FirstPeer also uses Jabber protocols. At least that's what I gather that from this piece at Markets & Exchanges, which seems a lot clearer than FirstPeer about what FirstPeer does. Compare and contrast. Here's FirstPeer, from it's home page:
FirstPeer's solutions enable marketplaces to function without the overhead, expenses and scalability issues that plague traditional centralized server oriented solutions presently used. The peer-to-peer marketplace revolution is not just technological, but economic, and social. A solution that molds to the marketplace, instead of forcing a marketplace to mold technology. And here is M&E:
GnuMarket is a marketplace built on a P2P architecture that enables potentially tens of thousands of markets to exist, interact and execute transactions. In a nutshell, FirstPeer have designed a technology named "Personal Servant." Specifically designed to work with P2P programs, Personal Servant provides the user with a First Peer dynamic DNS update. With this, the user can establish their own peer network, communicating via instant messaging using jabber protocol (which does not pass through a central server), with the provision of a java version of online notification that lets you know who is on or offline. The GnuMarket client will also be able to interface to groups on the Gnutella network, providing reach into an extensive and established market network. Bruce Fryer has three questions he likes to ask the folks who write the kind of blather FirstPeer smears on its home page:
FirstPeer answers none of those questions. It speaks in the language of Yada. Man, if I were a programmer, I'd love to create a Babblefish-like translation page that would turn marketing blather into the Yada it actually speaks. So — FirstPeer's solutions enable marketplaces to function without the overhead, expenses and scalability issues that plague traditional centralized server oriented solutions presently used. The peer-to-peer marketplace revolution is not just technological, but economic, and social. A solution that molds to the marketplace, instead of forcing a marketplace to mold technology. would become — FirstPeer's yada yadas yada yada yadas to yada without the yada, yada and yada yada that yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada. The yada-yada yada yada is not just yada, but yada and yada yada. A yad that yadas to the yada, instead of yadaying a yada to yada yada.
Maybe what we need is something that goes a step further and Jesusifies a bullfull site with a combination of Yada translation and Bullshit stamps over the pure stuff. I'm wondering... why all the stealthy secrecy about something that has Gnu in the name? Opposition doesn't add up From letters to the Cluetrain site: I feel the synergy of the moment is due to the collapse of the weaker gears of the machinery of online collaborative partnerships. We can shake hands globally but can't mobilize the masses to institute a cohesive element of cross-platform goodwill. Let's all become First worlds and forget the lexicon of the past. Peace Out.
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Same thing. A good Yada translation would just let you grease your eye over meaningless blather and get straight to the outright lies. The link to the 
