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	<title>Mer's Bites of Bytes</title>
	
	<link>http://www.merlyna.org/blog</link>
	<description>not an academic blog. not a journalism blog. not a thoughtful blog. just a blog. that is. written without thinking much.</description>
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		<title>Of different Malays: The problem of boundaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[update: Published in Jakarta Post, on September 4th, 2009
I sent this one to the JP yesterday, but I am not sure it&#8217;ll be published. So I&#8217;ll just publish here for the time being. For those who  are unaware, in the last several years there have been some conflicts between Indonesia and Malaysia where Indonesians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Nationalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merlyna.org/blog/?p=600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recycled my former blog post and sent it to the Jakarta Post. Apparently they liked it and it&#8217;s published on the 64th Indonesian Independence Day. 
Here is the published version.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/08/18/understanding-nationalism-arranged-marriage.html
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		<title>Capturing the moments 0.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[art & architecture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sketch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merlyna.org/blog/?p=590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have so many ideas for this blog, but between laziness, messiness, and too-many-things-to-be-done, nothing got executed here. So I decided to just put some ready-to-use materials for some next entries.
Through these entries I&#8217;ll invite you to travel to some places through some images and little stories I captured during my trip in Europe. 
About my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling, be back, and more (twisted fb) status</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[globetrotting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merlyna.org/blog/?p=581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello there,
I know I know, my bad&#8230;. don&#8217;t remind me that it&#8217;s been ages since my last entry. Oh well, my last three months have been quite a journey &#8212; literally! Yes, 58 days out of town (out of country), traveling in more than 20 cities, mostly in Europe, and then came back to Tempe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Publication] On blogosphere — Mosaics of Global-Local Discourses</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/merlyna/~3/Ga0_z6zdl6g/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merlyna.org/blog/index.php/2009/publication-on-blogosphere-mosaics-of-global-local-discourses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 09:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[research & teaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blogosphere]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merlyna.org/blog/?p=573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two new articles coming out recently. One is from my relatively new blogosphere research where I compared Iranian and Indonesian blogosphere and the other is an article that I finished long time ago and it&#8217;s been delayed at the publisher/editor, even though my article was fully accepted with zero revision. The second article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To be found</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[research & teaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[existence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[network]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merlyna.org/blog/?p=553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To be found is not always a great experience, especially when you&#8217;re trying to hide:) But well, being found isn&#8217;t the same like being caught. Unlike when I was found by my mom eating a box of peanut in bed, most of my recent to-be-found experiences are pleasantly surprising, flattering and exciting.
Oh well, I know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[absent-minded professor]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[two]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merlyna.org/blog/?p=548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[disclaimer: If you think this is a kind of &#8216;random stuff&#8217; that has been circulated in cyberspace (where someone has to tag 5 or whatever other bloggers to write on the same stuff), you&#8217;re wrong. This is not &#8216;it&#8217; and I tag nobody, so nobody should feel obliged to write this kind of thing, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASU Complaint Choir: ‘coz to complain is healthy</title>
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		<comments>http://www.merlyna.org/blog/index.php/2009/asu-complaint-choir-coz-to-complain-is-healthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[phoenix]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[tempe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merlyna.org/blog/?p=544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you think living in Phoenix Metropolitan is perfect? Hell no…. Don’t you have many complaints about your life? Do you feel like to complain?
Why not cry out rather than swallow what worries us Phoenix Metropolitan-dwellers? Why not contribute your frustration with professors, students, administrators, legislators, traffic jam, taxes etc. towards a powerful and pleasurable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[More Quotes] On work, busy, and love etc</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merlyna.org/blog/?p=537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bad me, I haven&#8217;t really spent much time and energy to really blog. So what I&#8217;ve been doing so far is writing/creating some quotes (as my FB status)&#8230;. I can imagine some people get it, some don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s OK, these are not &#8216;mainstream&#8217; quotes. Just remember those who laugh last usually don&#8217;t really get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Facebook quote</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merlyna.org/blog/?p=531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of some lines I used in my Global Minds Speaker Series&#8217; talk yesterday evening &#8212; it&#8217;s about cyberactivism etc&#8230;. 
&#8220;I found Facebook very educational. Once a friend turns it on, I go to the other room and read a book.&#8221; (Lim, 2009, hehehe).*
* inspired by Marx.
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