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		<title>Devil&#8217;s Dictionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Devil’s Dictionary – 21st century edition In 1911, American writer Ambrose Bierce published &#8220;The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary.&#8221; Bierce claims it began it in 1881. It was made up of words reinterpreted by Bierce, &#8220;&#8230; lampooning cant and political doublespeak,&#8221; as Wikipedia puts it. Generally, I don’t like the trite negativism of things that are cynical. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Kurt Vonnegut defined social media:connection precedes communication*</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/26/how-kurt-vonnegut-defined-social-mediaconnection-precedes-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are loads of books and gazillions of web sites and blogs on social media. You could spend the rest of your life reading about it – the data, the theories, the what-have-you. But if you really want to understand social media you can cut to the chase and read just one guy: Kurt Vonnegut. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The yin and yang of communications</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/08/the-yin-and-yang-of-communications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communications is made up of two halves, something like yin and yang. I call them the positive side and the negative side. In using a word like “negative” we immediately think it is something bad. But it isn’t. Both sides can be done well or poorly so the positive side, done wrong, can be very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repetition is good so it’s good to repeat ourselves</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/01/repetition-is-good-so-it%e2%80%99s-good-to-repeat-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s good to repeat yourself. By default I think we believe to repeat ourselves is a bad thing. However, if we’re trying to communicate it’s through repetition that it gets across. The trick is to do this without becoming redundant  &#8212; in other words, knowing when enough is enough. The other trick is to repeat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media and passing fancies</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/01/27/social-media-and-passing-fancies-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began thinking today about social media and all the tools we see. There is something of a digital cornucopia of “stuff”: Facebook, Twitter, iPhone apps, Twitter apps, aggregators and on and on. New ones pop up everyday. Accompanying all of these is the hype. There is the marketing from the companies that bring them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday morning project &#8212; 2004</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/01/09/saturday-morning-project-2004/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve completed my Saturday morning project which was to go through my posts from 2004 and find the ones I most liked. They aren&#8217;t necessarily written as well as they should but such are the hazards of blogs. It was fascinating for a few reasons. First of all, I was interested to see how much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little something about experts</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/01/06/a-little-something-about-experts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a rather disturbing comment in the letters area of the local paper (Fredericton&#8217;s Daily Gleaner). It went thus: &#8220;The average New Brunswicker is not qualified to make the final decision concerning the sale of NB Power. We do not have access to those in the know and the massive amounts of information required [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My themes over the last year</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/01/01/my-themes-over-the-last-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been going through my posts from 2009 trying to identify the ones I think are the better ones. I suppose was making a kind of Top Ten list, despite my recurring griping about lists. It is not a “best of” list, however. It is a list of the ones I liked, though some may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you hear me now?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/10/10/can-you-hear-me-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This was originally posted October 23rd, 2005 on another one of my blogs, one that is on hiatus. I&#8217;ve edited slightly to make the terminology more current.) I came across a post about blogging and social media and know exactly what it’s talking about when the blogger asks, “Why do some write about every, little, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday people always entertaining</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/09/20/everyday-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve recently started a project that requires a certain amount of reclamation work. By that I mean my memory is pretty awful so I’m doing some work to reclaim my memory by going through my various blog archives. It’s been something of a revelation. I have three blogs: this one, another devoted to movies and [...]]]></description>
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