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Via Svend, I see I made a list of top 50 Muslim blogs. As he says, it seems to be a content farm, so I’m linking to his post, he deserves the link love. I’m number #49, he’s #2. No justice in the world. 🙂 Akram’s Razor – Reflections on Islam, Muslims & America: Interesting list of Muslim blogs. At the risk of unseemly self-promotion and despite my abhorence for sites of this ignoble nature–which are basically ruining the Internet by filling it up with low-quality articles designed to attract search engine traffic, making useful, unique content near-invisible to the…

Connected Citizens: The Power, Potential and Peril of Networks – Knight Foundation. Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. New networks are emerging everywhere. It’s exciting—and frightening. What is this new network-centric world? What does it mean for community change?