DjNeonLeon said yes for friday!
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From: DjNeon Leon <nlrock21167(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: FOR LEON urgent URGENT H E L L A I M P O R T A N T
To: johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com>
hey just got home hell yes i wanta play for the s-room ..
Just book the dammm thing and we take later tonight .. :-)
about the de-tells..
i will try to call u in 20mins ..
Much love L.. :-)
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> TELL LEON:
>
>
> YOU ARE SCHEDULED TO DJ AT SUDOROOM FRI EVE / SAT AM
> i
> f you get in touch soon, you will be the featured DJ
> YOU WILL.
> WONT YOU? if you cannot make it of course you are not scheduled,
> CALL ASAP
> DANCE & DRINK & PRIZES RAFFLED & COSTUMES
>
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*Be seeing you.*
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Hi Troy :)
Please write us a short (5-10 paragraphs?) report
about your trip to the Alameda ham club,
http://www.arcaham.org/
for the purpose of trying to secure some free radio expert assistance
for Sudoroom's FCC LPFM transmitter application.
--
How did you get informed about the need to go?
How did you get there?
When did you arrive?
What was going on?
Who did you meet?
Did you make an announcement to the group?
Did you get any advice?
Did you get any free stuff? From whom? What?
Have …
[View More]you invited anyone to come to Sudoroom? When?
What follow up will be done with anyone from ARCAham?
What follow up was or will be done with Sudoroom. Public presentation?
Etc?!
Thanks!
:)
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http://www.ww6or.com/
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From: "giovanni_re" <john_re(a)fastmail.us>
To: pryankster(a)gmail.com, "noisebridge-discuss"
<noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net>
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Tonight 7PM - Fwd: [ARCA] Fwd: Re:
Alameda Coummunity Low Power FM Radio - Fwd: Alameda Amateur Radio
Monthly Meeting Agenda August 23 2013 Friday
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:44:41 -0700
Norman, & everyone:
Everyone welcome.
You going?
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You want better content for you on FM radio?…
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Be there 7PM.
:)
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l meetings are held at 431 Stardust Pl. @ W. Midway Ave. next to the Red
Cross Building in Alameda, CA. To get there from the corner of Webster
St. and Atlantic Ave., go west on Atlantic to Main St., and turn right.
Turn left on Midway Ave., then left again on Norfolk Rd., immediately
right on Stardust Pl., and right again into the first parking lot.
www.arcaham.org/club-info
ARCA Monthly Meetings
ARCA meets on the fourth Friday of the month at 7:00 pm in Building 522
at Alameda Point (the old Naval Air Station) which is located at the
Alameda Fire Department Training Center, 431 Stardust Place. Anyone is
invited to stop by one of our meetings.
www.arcaham.org/meetings
---- Original message -----
From: Norman Bradley <pryankster(a)gmail.com>
To: noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net
Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Alameda Coummunity Low Power FM Radio
- Fwd: Alameda Amateur Radio Monthly Meeting Agenda August 23 2013
Friday
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:53:27 -0700
On 8/21/2013 10:46 PM, giovanni_re wrote:
> ---- Original message -----
> From: ARCA secretary <secretary(a)arcaham.org>
>
> Greetings - this Friday will be our monthly meeting, and an interesting
> one
> too.
>
> This month we will have a talk entitled Alameda Coummunity Radio by
> Peter
> Franck
>
> Peter will be updating us on the topic of the new Low Power FM Radio
> Station
> that is coming to Alameda!
>
> This is part of an FCC initiative in support of non-profit community
> organizations.
>
> As usual this will be the opening event of the evening!
>
> Welcome to all.
>
> Please join us beginning at 7:00 pm at 431 Stardust Place Alameda.
>
> 73
> David, KI6AWR
> ARCA secretary
>
>
>
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I tried to generate some interest in starting a station at Noisebridge
but the only interest I got was what to call it. If anybody is
interested in working on Noisebridge Radio please contact me. The filing
dates are 2 months away which is not as long as you think.
Some of the basics are that the frequency used can't interfere with any
existing station, max. power is 1000 watts, and preference is given to
stations that will be on the air at least 20 hours a week. The usual FCC
regulations apply, no swearing, nothing that promotes any illegal
activity, etc. There are no restrictions about remote access so people
could transmit via network access from somewhere else. At that power
level we should be able to cover the Mission and perhaps leak out to the
Downtown/Tenderloin area.
The transmitters run in the $2500 - $3500 range and you can't build your
own. It must be a "type accepted" transmitter. Lower power transmitters
cost less. Everything else we can build ourselves.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are NOT entitled to your own facts.
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Alameda amateur radio club talk about a group in Alameda applying for a
broadcast license.
----- Original message -----
From: "giovanni_re" <john_re(a)fastmail.us>
To: cq(a)lists.noisebridge.net, "noisebridge-discuss"
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Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Alameda Coummunity Low Power FM Radio -
Fwd: Alameda Amateur Radio Monthly Meeting Agenda August 23 2013 Friday
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:46:27 -0700
---- Original message -----
From: ARCA …
[View More]secretary <secretary(a)arcaham.org>
Greetings - this Friday will be our monthly meeting, and an interesting
one
too.
This month we will have a talk entitled Alameda Coummunity Radio by
Peter
Franck
Peter will be updating us on the topic of the new Low Power FM Radio
Station
that is coming to Alameda!
This is part of an FCC initiative in support of non-profit community
organizations.
As usual this will be the opening event of the evening!
Welcome to all.
Please join us beginning at 7:00 pm at 431 Stardust Place Alameda.
73
David, KI6AWR
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https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-August/03893…
Read these important links below:
http://otherwords.org/get-radio-active/
The Prometheus Radio Project, "Freeing the airwaves from corporate
control":
http://www.prometheusradio.org/
More information from Prometheus:
http://www.prometheusradio.org/FCC_Update_June2013
----- Original message -----
From: Norman Bradley <pryankster(a)gmail.com>
To: noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net
Subject: […
[View More]Noisebridge-discuss] The Radio gauntlet is not tossed.
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 18:22:40 -0700
A while back people were talking about getting a part of the Radio
Spectrum for Noisebridge. Well here it is. I can work out the technical
parts but somebody else needs to take care of the filings. The window of
opportunity is October 15-29, 2013 and for the first time urban stations
will be allowed. The license holder must have been in the community for
at least 2 years.
The range is about 10 miles although given our location at the bottom of
a valley I wouldn't bet on it. With this power it is line-of-sight. We
should be able to hit Dolores Park and most of the Market Street area
from the Civic Center North. Bayview and Hunter's Point? Forget it there
is a hill in the way. These are just guesses.
We need to prove that we won't interfere with existing stations. That
starts with just walking around the Mission and listening to your FM
Radio. The more technical details I will work out with some modeling
software later.
The FCC is giving extra points to stations that will be on the air at
least 20 hours a day and is "publicly accessible". A good time to reach
out to our neighbors. I am assuming that some of that can be
pre-recorded or streamed in from the net. If it is coming over the net
we will need to be very careful about who has access. There's that whole
no profanity rule.
So let us get K - - - on the air. KNOS, NBRG, KNOI are all taken and it
must start with a K, West of the Mississippi and all.
So here are some of the relevant web sites:
The original article from John Hightower:
http://otherwords.org/get-radio-active/
The Prometheus Radio Project, "Freeing the airwaves from corporate
control": http://www.prometheusradio.org/
More information from Prometheus:
http://www.prometheusradio.org/FCC_Update_June2013
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My message to NB about the FCC LPFM project.
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From: "giovanni_re" <john_re(a)fastmail.us>
To: "noisebridge-discuss" <noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net>
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] low ppwer fm. FCC
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:49:08 -0800
http://slingshot.tao.ca/issue.html?0112007
LPFM Alive Despite Legislation
By DJ Rubble
On November 30, 2012. the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
announced implementation of the bipartisan …
[View More]Local Community Radio Act of
2010. The legislation instructs the FCC to license more small, local Low
Power FM (LPFM) stations. These stations broadcast on up to 100-watt
transmitters, usually with a 3-4 mile signal range. The legislation
replaces a 2000 ruling first recognizing LPFM. The 2000 legislation was
hailed a groundbreaking victory for unlicensed radio, which had seized
the airwaves and refused to be removed. However, the radio industry
through inside deals from powerful lobbying arm the National Association
of Broadcasters (NAB) with the FCC and Congress quickly maneuvered to
strategically undermine the process to eliminate even the smallest level
of competition for the profiteers.
Over a twelve year period the net result is about 800 small, non-profit
corporate LPFM stations nationally. Virtually none have been licensed in
major urban areas, including none in the Bay area. The majority are
rural stations owned by a well-funded national religious network, most
others by schools and emergency responders. The result is a corporate
jukebox of songs from the top ten record labels, AP wire service briefs,
and government-funded propaganda from NPR.
The current LPFM legislation is again hailed as ground breaking by the
media and radio activist organizations that worked hard for passage. It
should provide a few more good quality, local stations. But will it help
or actually hurt LPFM in the context of the overall goals of the
original movement, which started out as "pirate radio"?
...
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My message that created the idea of Noisebridge Hackrspace radio.
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From: "giovanni_re" <john_re(a)fastmail.us>
To: noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net, cq(a)lists.noisebridge.net
Subject: [CQ] K-Noisebridge - NB should start an FM radio station. "The
Bridge"
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:37:45 -0800
Community outreach.
Y'know how radiostations call themselves by word names nowdays, instead
of call signs? Like Alice, The Bone, The Revolution.?
We …
[View More]should call it. "The Bridge".
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Fwd. Was:
[CQ] Invitation: East Bay Amateur Radio Club meeting this Friday at
7:30pm - RADIO SAUSALITO
Jack k6jeb at yahoo.com Tue Sep 11 19:52:03 UTC 2012
------
I'd like to invite you to the East Bay Amateur Radio Club September
meeting this Friday, September 14th at 7:30pm. We meet at the El
Sobrante Public Library 4191 Appian Way El Sobrante. Since this month's
topic isn't specifically about ham radio, why not invite your non-ham
friends/family/colleagues? Come join the fun this Friday!!!!
This month's presentation:
"Radio Sausalito"
Jonathan Westerling, founder and president of Radio Sausalito will share
with us what happens behind the scenes to keep the Bay Area's smallest
radio station on the air 11 years after its first broadcast. We'll learn
about the strict technical requirements that limit legal transmission on
180 meters (the am radio band) and the unique technology that that
allows listeners to tune in jazz on 1610 AM. Jonathan will also offer up
his 20 years of expertise in broadcasting to answer your questions about
broadcast radio and its future.
Bio:
Jonathan Westerling, 36, grew up in the small rural town of Harvard,
Massachusetts, a town with literally a single traffic light and more
apple orchards than any other town in New England. At the age of 7 he
started his first radio station called "WXYZ" using a Mr. Microphone.
>From this bucolic upbringing, Jonathan journeyed to Cleveland where he
earned a Bachelor’s in Musical Performance from the Cleveland Institute
of Music and a Bachelors in Audio Engineering from Case Western Reserve
University. After graduating he became president of Tech Efficiency, an
on-location computer consulting firm and at the same time served as
bassoonist and contrabassoonist for the Canton, Ohio Symphony Orchestra.
Jonathan came to Sausalito in 1999 and spent five years with the
Branding/Marketing firm Landor Associates rising to the level of
Worldwide Technology Coordinator. For the past eight years he has been
Manager of Mackenzie & Albritton LLP, a telecommunications law firm in
San Francisco. He has served with the Sausalito Arts Commission, the
Marin Office of Emergency Services Communications Volunteers and the
Sausalito Police Volunteers
73, Jack Burris, K6JEB Program Chair, East Bay Amateur Radio Club
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Hi all - short intro here.
Sudoroom has the opportunity to join a great project to get all world
haackerspaces FM radio broadcast stations,
by hackers, for hackers & everyone.
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/US_Hackerspace_Radio
Broadcast show topics on:
News, education, public affairs, Music & arts.
The benefits to Sudoroom are that
1) you increase awareness of SR in the Oakland community by being on the
FM broadcast air,
2) you thus might increase membership & participation & …
[View More]fundraising for
SR,&
3) you inform, educate, & uplift hackers & everyone, including potential
hackers, in the local community.
:)
--
Norman Bradley & I started this project at Noisebridge
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
--
I'm the person working to alert hackerspaces worldwide to this
opportunity.
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/US_Hackerspace_Radio
The key USA date is the FCC Nov 14 application deadline.
--
I announced this global project at the Oct 23 wed SR weekly meeting.
In attendance were about 6 SR regulars, & 6 first timers.
(I also announced this briefly to the biohackers last Friday, about 12
ppl.)
--
Matt Senate is wants to get SR to apply for a license, & to have a
broadcast station.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Low_Power_FM_Radio
I pulled up & bookmarked about 16 links re this,
& Matt put them onto the sr wiki.
That page needs cosmetic clean up.
If you are interested in helping this project,
one easy simple contribution would be to clean that page up
cosmetically.
Then _read_ through those pages!
--
I'll send you more info about this as my very limited time permits.
Please read the emails i'll send in a minute,
& read the pages they link to,
if this radio project sounds interesting to you,
& you want to help SR, & hackers in Oakland, & everywhere.
:)
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Need's to happen be a SR regular, if SR is serious about getting a
successful fcc ap in.
I won't, thus, call it, cause i ain't been a sr member.
but i'll proly attend the mtg, if someone calls for it.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Low_Power_FM_Radio
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A Sudo Board nominee received an anonymous threatening message yesterday.
This kind of thing is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated. It is harassment that is pathetic and cowardly. It is also in clear violation of our safe space policy and subject to the consequences in the relevant parts of the dispute resolution process in our by-laws.
There is enough identifying information to figure out where it came from - the phone number was 650-272-1589. If anyone has information on who …
[View More]is associated with that number, please let me know off-list.
This kind of behavior is not welcome in any Sudo space, whether physical or virtual.
I will also add my intense personal frustration at people like you.
Stop giving anonymity a bad name.
sent from eddan.com
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Hey all,
I made a deposit today from the donation bin with $260 dollars, bringing
our bank account total to ~$1020.
Our invoice from the landlords is $1,661.50
We need to raise ~$650 to pay rent PLUS another $500 to maintain our bank
account minimum and not be charged for being below the minimum.
*How can we raise up to $1,150 by say, Monday?*
Some ideas I'm throwing out there and discussing with folks in the space at
the moment:
- Ask folks to pay their dues! Encourage your friends.
…
[View More] - Throw a fund-raiser this Saturday (take donations, give beverages,
performances)
- Reach out to different groups that use the space.
// Matt
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Soooo we kickstarted a non existent product.
Results for the first
East Bay version of
Hack A Film In A Day held at Sudoroom Hackerspace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJQLhQHivFk
Enjoy!
Want to contribute in anyway PLEASE DO!
Any comments or stories for the next one please let me know
If you have costumes,props, hard drives, mobile phones, etc, anything will
be appreciated!
Liberty-
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Date: Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:05 PM
Subject: [OpenOakland Brigade] FW: Online Engagement Coordinator position
posted; applications due on Tuesday, November 5th at 12 noon
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*Subject:* Online Engagement Coordinator position …
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a City Administrator Analyst position).****
Applications are due on Tuesday, November 5 at 12 noon.****
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Here’s the link to apply on line:****
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For those who have not been following the Airbnb legal troubles, this story has been called "Airbnb vs. New York City: The Defining Fight of the Sharing Economy" (http://skift.com/2013/10/13/airbnb-vs-new-york-city-the-defining-fight-of-t…; w/ links). I would rather call this version of peer production - collaborative consumption, but do think that the way this goes will be a key turning point. It's not just the hospitality political lobbies that are the problem, it's also the landlords' lobby. …
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>
>
>
>
> Dear Eddan,
>
> I'm writing to ask you to help save Airbnb in New York.
>
> As a guest who has stayed with a Host, you know how unique and local an experience that is. And you also know the majority of our hosts are just regular people making ends meet by renting out their own homes.
>
> Now, that experience is under threat.
>
> The New York Attorney General has subpoenaed the records of almost all of our New York hosts. We are fighting the subpoena with all we've got, but poorly written laws make for even worse enforcement. Unless you help to stop it once and for all, the laws may never get better and the threat to our New York community will continue.
>
> A petition to change New York law already has over 88,000 signatures, and an Airbnb host, Mishelle, has pledged to personally deliver it to the New York Senate. Our new goal is 100,000 signatures. We hope as many people as possible will encourage New York to change the law.
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> Sign Mishelle's petition to change the NY law and Save Airbnb.
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> Thank you for standing with our New York hosts. We can create a new world where people can feel at home, anywhere. Let's create that world together.
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Hi,
Who's the current guru on running the 3D printer? Is it possible to get
together and learn how to work it? Are there any 3D printing events or
classes planned?
--
-steve
I tentatively accept nomination. I'd also like to nominate Rhodey for
board.
LOOOK HERE!!!!--> I started a thread* announcing that I will be attending a
free legal cafe put on by the Sustainable Economies Law Center on Weds.,
Nov. 6th, 4:30-7:30p @LOL hackerspace (1234 23rd Ave.) with questions
related to incorporation. Please respond to that thread if you're
interested or have some questions you'd like to transmit through me.
*[Board/Incorporation] Free Legal Cafe w/SELC Weds. Nov 6 @ LOL
Ooo, interesting, no?
// Matt
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Subject: [friday@ischool] Friday Afternoon Seminar: Nov 1: Elisa Oreglia: ICT in rural China.
Date: Wed, Oct 30, 2013 11:17
FRIDAY AFTERNOON SEMINAR ON INFORMATION ACCESS.
South Hall 107, Fridays 3-5
pm.
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interested is welcome!
Friday, Nov 1: Elisa OREGLIA: Dissertation
Talk:
From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT
between Urban and Rural China.
In the mid-2000s, China began a set of policies to "informatize"
the countryside,
i.e. to bring Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to
rural residents in order to
improve their economic conditions. These policies posit the
countryside as a world of "less",
compared to urban areas, and portray people who are at the margins
of China's modernization
(migrant workers, rural residents, older people, and farmers) as in
need of ICT to access more
and better information, and, as a consequence, more and better
opportunities. In contrast to
this widespread view of marginalized users as passive recipients of
technologies, I look at the
diffusion and appropriation of ICT such as mobile phones and
computers among rural residents
and migrant workers in their own terms: not as foils for elite views
of why they would/should
go online, but rather as people who discover the opportunities
offered by ICT that are of
interest to them, and try to use these opportunities as best as they
can. By retracing the
paths through which ICT travel in urban and rural China and the
social relations that are
maintained, renewed, and reinvented along the way, I show how people
at the margins "invent"
themselves as users, find a connection between their lives and
technology, and participate
from afar to China's rapid modernization.
A presentation of this work was was named the best graduate
student paper
on China and inner Asia at the 2013 annual meeting of the
Association for Asian Studies by
the AAS' China and Inner Asia Council.
Elisa Oreglia is completing her PhD in the School of
Information. More at
http://ercolino.eu/eo/.
FORTHCOMING
Friday, Nov 8: Niels W. LUND, Univ. of Tromso, Norway: Which
discipline does Document Theory
belong to? Wrapping up 25 years of work in progress.
In the design of information services (libraries, archives, data
sets,
websites, etc.), you deal with documents in relation to their
material
nature (paper, software, hardware etc. etc.), their social status
(legal
issues with access etc., impact), and their mental/cognitive aspects
(How are they been understood?). But in the world of higher
education,
you still have a relatively sharp division between humanities,
social
sciences, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics),
so what can you do when you feel you belong to all three academic
worlds?
Niels Windfeld Lund will soon retire as Professor, University of
Tromso, Norway, where he was the founding director of the program in
Documentation Studies. He has twice been a visiting scholar here.
More at Bio
card.
Friday, Nov 15: Nick MERRILL: Alternative Visions of Internet
Connectivity.
Clifford LYNCH: The Failure of Stewardship Organizations.
(Continued).
Friday, Nov 22: Michael BUCKLAND: Support for scholarly editing.
Friday, Nov 29: Thanksgiving: No seminar meeting.
Friday, Dec 6: Nick MERRILL: Alternative Visions of Internet
Connectivity. Karen SMITH-YOSHIMURA: Registering Researchers in
Authority Files.
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Michael Buckland, School of Information,
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600
(510) 642 3159 buckland(a)ischool.berkeley.edu
http://www.berkeley.edu/~buckland
Co-Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
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