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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 Wren</dc:creator>
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		<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>Joni and Bob; poets and thieves</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/02/joni-and-bob-poets-and-thieves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 15:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Why am I always the one who must be the thief?” – Bob Dylan – A recent internet dust-up about Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan provided a certain amount of insight into people, the web and art, but the insights aren’t what many people believe. The insights were two and neither terribly remarkable: 1) most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What we see dictates how we see it</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/22/what-we-see-dictates-how-we-see-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How we interpret the world is affected by our perspective. Sport provides numerous examples. Is a play legal or illegal? The referee makes a call. Video replay is examined. Why? Simply because the referee’s perspective is very specific. He or she was in a particular place in time and space and made their call based [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2071</guid>
		<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>Give me crap or give me death</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/12/05/give-me-crap-or-give-me-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I’m being hyperbolic in my title. Given the choice between rubbish and life I’ll take life every time. But I like what is often considered to be “crap.” There are only two things about it that I object to: excess and exclusivity. I object to the way, when something has some degree of success, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who are we not hearing from?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/09/02/who-are-we-not-hearing-from/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really am tired of the repetitive and now long-redundant either/or debate around traditional and social media. Apart from being well worn, it risks obfuscating other issues. A good example of what gets lost lies in the Michael Valpy essay, Is this the end of social cohesion? and David Eaves’ response, Dear Valpy: social media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About this business of politics</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/08/18/about-this-business-of-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=1615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago I had a subscription to The Nation. Online, they pop up in Google with this description: &#8220;Weekly journal of opinion, featuring analysis on politics and culture. Founded in 1865.&#8221; I must have subscribed sometime in the very early 80s because I know it was around the time Ronald Reagan was President of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The morality of free: ‘Let them eat cake!&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/07/05/the-morality-of-free-%e2%80%98let-them-eat-cake%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re only in it for the money &#8211; Frank Zappa Chris Anderson has a new book out July 7th and that appears to have resuscitated the question of &#8220;free&#8221; as it applies to digital stuff, like news and other content (what use to be known as literature, pop culture, art, music and so on). The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrities and tsunamis, scale and scope</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2004/12/29/celebrities-and-tsunamis-scale-and-scope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a great dislike for the knee-jerk cynic. I have one residing in me and it&#8217;s often a tussle keeping him bound and gagged. But sometimes I let him have his say if only because he makes interesting observations (though not always for the right reasons). An aspect of the tsunami tragedy in South [...]]]></description>
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