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		<title>You need poetry in your posts</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/08/24/your-need-poetry-in-your-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the world really needs is poetry in posts. Seriously. Keep in mind, when we use the word poetry we usually mean it in one of two ways. There is the very technical use when we are talking about something like a Shakespearean sonnet. But there is also the much more common use, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google makes social media interesting again</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/07/26/google-makes-social-media-interesting-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself wondering if Google might be the first company to actually get social media by focusing on the word social and realizing something was lacking in a big way in the world of social networks and technology generally. This was after having watched Andrew Keen’s interview about Google+ with Vic Gundotra (Google’s VP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My most popular posts in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a look at my analytics to see what posts were the most popular here during the year. And I made a list of them. I find it interesting looking back at the past year to see that my focus on social media drooped a bit somewhere during the summer as my focus was [...]]]></description>
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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 Wren</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 Wren</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 Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2085</guid>
		<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 Wren</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 Wren</dc:creator>
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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 Wren</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 Wren</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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