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• Micro Persuasion: Page Rank is the Ultimate Measure of Online Influence
  After thinking about this a lot I have reached the conclusion that Google Page Rank is the ultimate way to measure online influence. It's far from perfect. However, several other metric candidates I addressed in February 2007 haven't panned out.

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I’m personally not an extremely big fan of unconferences. The reason for me is essentially this: I work very hard at understanding the topics that are significant to peer to peer, and the result is a structured narrative. Without the whole, it is difficult to just jump in with small details. Therefore, and I know this may sound paradoxical or contradictory for a peer to peer advocate, I appreciate the ex-cathedra format of the traditional lecture. When I give a lecture, I always ask the attendees: give me at least 20 minutes before you start intervening ….

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John L. Petersen reports on an intruiging experiment, The Map.

We’ll know by October 7, the predicted date for one unusual event, if one of the precognition tools is working, see below.

He explains:

“About three weeks ago, now, I received indications from four unrelated sources known personally to me suggesting that that some significant disruptive event was on our horizon. These sources were unconventional – that is, they are intuitives or channels and sense the future through approaches and methods that are largely not understood by mainstream science.