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Slides are available on Slideshare: http://tr.im/eotw_open

Workers unhitched the cars, lifted them, one by one, ten feet high with giant jacks, and replaced the wide-gauge Russian undercarriages with narrower ones for the Chinese tracks. Russian gauges, still in use throughout the former Soviet Union, are wider than the world standard. The idea was to the prevent invaders from entering Russia by train. The changeover took hours.

Low hills closed in on either side as the train eventually crawled on to high, tabletop grasslands creased with snow. Birds flew at window level. I could see lakes of an unreal cobalt blue to the north. The train pulled into a sprawling rail yard: the Kazakh side of the Kazakhstan-China border.

http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/09/the-continuing-on-slaught-known-as-open-is-the-new-black

http://theopenbrand.resource.com/

atomic, transparent, rhizomatic, organic, evolutionary

http://barcamp.org/BarCampSydney

http://citizenspace.us

Really good quote, chris. I can see the relation to the scenario we face today on the social web.