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    <em>January 28, 2008</em><BR>
    
        <h5>Message Priority--You Aren't Gonna Need It</h5>
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<a href="http://udidahan.weblogs.us/2007/09/09/podcast-shared-subscriptions-between-autonomous-components/">Podcast: "Shared Subscriptions between Autonomous Components"</a><br>
<a href="http://udidahan.weblogs.us/2007/04/10/podcast-space-based-architectures-for-the-web/">Podcast: "Space-Based Architecture for the Web"</a><br>
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