<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-282294128971413374</id><updated>2011-04-21T22:44:13.471-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Oxfordshire Freecycle Cafe</title><subtitle type='html'>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OxfordshireFreecycleCafe</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oxfordshirefreecyclecafe.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/282294128971413374/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oxfordshirefreecyclecafe.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>andyswarbs</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12154386502436504497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-3bULfAJozU/SOKMovyMyhI/AAAAAAAAAFs/LeUEyMnwnAQ/S220/AndyInParisSmall.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-282294128971413374.post-672247248991596233</id><published>2008-12-13T08:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T08:54:02.302-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why this blog exists</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 212px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jon_anderson_1978.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Jon_anderson_1978.jpg/202px-Jon_anderson_1978.jpg" alt="Vocalist Jon Anderson performing in concert wi..." style="border: medium none ; display: block;" width="202" height="254" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zemanta-img-attribution"&gt;Image via &lt;a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jon_anderson_1978.jpg"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Well, strange as it may seem the full &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freecycle_Network" title="The Freecycle Network" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink"&gt;freecycle network&lt;/a&gt; actually does a disservice to its &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecycling" title="Freecycling" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink"&gt;freecycling&lt;/a&gt; groups in that it has no formal directory of them.  &lt;a href="http://www.yesworld.com/" title="Yes" rel="homepage" class="zem_slink"&gt;Yes&lt;/a&gt;, it lets people establish groups but it does nothing otherwise to help promote or foster them.  This is sensible in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense" title="Sense" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink"&gt;sense&lt;/a&gt; that freecycle thinks that it gains members easily.  However if that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_%28computing%29" title="Process (computing)" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink"&gt;process&lt;/a&gt; stops, for whatever &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason" title="Reason" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink"&gt;reason&lt;/a&gt;, then the freecycling &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=8481851701%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/8481851701%253FSubscriptionId=0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82" title="Cafes" rel="amazon" class="zem_slink"&gt;Cafes&lt;/a&gt; could be the lifeblood of how new members come to freecycle.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/6c595f17-8e68-4ee1-87ed-1a7953bc39e4/" title="Zemified by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=6c595f17-8e68-4ee1-87ed-1a7953bc39e4" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/282294128971413374-672247248991596233?l=oxfordshirefreecyclecafe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oxfordshirefreecyclecafe.blogspot.com/feeds/672247248991596233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://oxfordshirefreecyclecafe.blogspot.com/2008/12/why-this-blog-exists.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/282294128971413374/posts/default/672247248991596233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/282294128971413374/posts/default/672247248991596233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oxfordshirefreecyclecafe.blogspot.com/2008/12/why-this-blog-exists.html' title='Why this blog exists'/><author><name>andyswarbs</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12154386502436504497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-3bULfAJozU/SOKMovyMyhI/AAAAAAAAAFs/LeUEyMnwnAQ/S220/AndyInParisSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-282294128971413374.post-5475635736043809107</id><published>2008-12-12T08:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T08:51:11.011-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome to our blog</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; 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