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		<title>Breadth, depth and brains</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/15/breadth-depth-and-brains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve always liked Nicholas Carr for his skepticism. Unlike contrarians, who take opposing views for their own sake, Carr as a skeptic asks questions, the kinds that challenge assumptions. Challenging assumptions is good for the brain. I’ve just picked up his latest book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains and I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Emotions are contagious’</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/08/emotions-are-contagious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a review of a book I’m currently rereading, Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison. (You’ll find it over at Thoughtwrestling.) This morning, I was looking over a chapter titled “Throwing up rockets,” a phrase from P.T. Barnum and it started me thinking about a few other things, like school murals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authenticity and free speech</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/07/authenticity-and-free-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2995</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Jonathan Fields had an interesting post titled, &#8220;Is social media killing authenticity?&#8221; I found the question intriguing partly because I think the answer is likely yes, at least in the sense Fields is talking about it (as in, people reporting words heard taken out of context). I had asked a similar question in [...]]]></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</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2755</guid>
		<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>Metaphors and similes like bling for words</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/20/metaphors-and-similes-like-bling-for-words/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/04/20/metaphors-and-similes-like-bling-for-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We use metaphors and similes every day. The web is built on them. The web itself is a metaphor. Well, it began as a metaphor. Given the meanings of web, I suppose it is an actual web. So I guess it isn’t a metaphor. As you can see, thinking about metaphors and similes can muddle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes are signage</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/09/quotes-are-signage/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/04/09/quotes-are-signage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet is full of epigrams, aphorisms and quotes. I used a few in my post yesterday. You see them every day in tweets and status updates. They’re all over the place. Why is that? What are they for? They’re signage. That’s the simple answer. They&#8217;re wayfinding information. As with anything, excess turns them into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content is not content</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/25/content-is-not-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In business and especially marketing, we continually see references to content. Does anyone know what that is? I don’t think so. It’s spoken of as if it’s a tangible quantity, something measureable, a thing you can stock the shelves with. In the case of the Internet, it would be shelves on the web and social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A world of absolutes</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/19/a-world-of-absolutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve noticed, as you may have too, that we love absolutes, especially online. On Wednesday there was an opinion piece on the Globe and Mail site that said bloggers are male. Women who blog must have struggled with their sexual identity upon learning this. With trackable regularity, claims are made about this or that being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When do you post and why?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/25/when-do-you-post-and-why/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/02/25/when-do-you-post-and-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick little post that is primarily questions. For instance, if you schedule your blog posts, when do you schedule them for? I ask this because I&#8217;m in the Atlantic time zone. Many people are in the Eastern time zone and many in the other zones all the way to the Pacific. Of [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/01/27/social-media-and-passing-fancies-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</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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