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		<title>En vacances? Not really</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I came upon some writing I did quite a while ago. By "a while" I mean fifteen to twenty years ago. Amid all that writing I found a series of stories I wrote. I had put them together under a tentative title, Rather Short Stories for Rather Small People. Other than being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our misinformation age</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/08/18/our-misinformation-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In our digital age we have buckets of information and much of it is easily accessible. I can go online and with a bit of hunting find out all kinds of things about my neighbours, friends, strangers and you. Many of us have written essays, published books, lectured and made careers out of simply talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double digit nothing</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/08/12/double-digit-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few weeks have been characterized by lots to do, a good deal of frustration and, most significantly and surprisingly, reassessment. In other words, I'm over-extended and not in a good way. I probably have twelve posts on twelve different topics that I have started over the last few weeks, none of which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small business: up to speed on domain hosting?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/08/03/small-business-up-to-speed-on-domain-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve encountered a number of clients who have been paying for domain registration and hosting with no idea of what a competitive price would be. As a result, many of them have been paying twice as much as they should. To make things worse, they were receiving less than half of what they should have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appearances to the contrary</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/29/appearances-to-the-contrary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would appear this blog is in abeyance but au contraire ... I've actually written quite a few posts. Unfortunately, well-intended as they may have been, they kind of sucked. So they remain offline in the half-baked stage. I had one, however, that wasn't too bad but I decided that instead of a long, windy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Respect customers and yourself</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/24/respect-customers-and-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(This was first posted Sept. 18, 2004.) In the various blogs I visit, and in other sources, I continually come across discussions about customers and their experience of businesses, large and small. One of the themes that pops up frequently is respect, as in Seth Godin's recent posting, Trust and Respect, Courage and Leadership. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is what I have been doing</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/20/post-about-not-posting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems wrong to say I haven't posted anything this week because I've been busy -- it's Tuesday! But in many ways this is more like Thursday to me since I spent the weekend working. And a lot of that work is in the half-baked stage. But some isn't ... Creative energy I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/16/efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“All life we work but work is a bore. If life’s for living, what’s living for?” - The Kinks - On a whim, I did a quick Google search for, “What is living for?” It didn’t have an answer. (It did, however, provide me a link to Wikipedia and an entry on sustainable living.) I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in The Shallows</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/14/lost-in-the-shallows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“According to an extensive 2009 study conducted by Ball State University’s Center for Media Design, most Americans, no matter what their age, spend at least eight and a half hours a day looking at a television, a computer monitor, or the screen of their mobile phone. Frequently, they use two or even three of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to the silence and pay attention</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/12/listen-to-the-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noise is a common complaint about social media. We often say there is too much worthless chatter. When we say this, we’re complaining about content. It’s of no value to us; it’s all noise. For people like myself who work in social media, we’re usually referring to the tsunami of tweets and posts and updates [...]]]></description>
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