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		<title>Dueling social networks: Google+ and Facebook</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/07/22/dueling-social-networks-google-and-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;m using Google+ I know absolutely nothing about it. And I&#8217;ve yet to find the time to really explore it. The comforting thing is knowing that no one else knows anything about it. Everything is speculation. People using it now are early adopters &#8212; and that is worrisome. Early adopters tend to be more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing is secure; no one is anonymous</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/06/18/nothing-is-secure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter how sophisticated technology is, it always has one big hurtle it can&#8217;t overcome: us. How we use something &#8212; how we behave &#8212; will always condition technology, either by how it is designed or how it is used. Not five minutes after talking with some friends about security on the Internet, a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curation the first trend of 2011</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/01/07/curation-the-first-trend-of-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are only a week into the new year and already it has its Internet trend: curation. I’m particularly struck by this trend for both positive and negative reasons. I’ll get the negative one out of the way first. It’s a personal thing, the negative reason, because there is a certain irony in it. I [...]]]></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 Wren</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>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 Wren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[exuberance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3045</guid>
		<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 Wren</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>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/06/07/authenticity-and-free-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</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>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/05/02/joni-and-bob-poets-and-thieves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 15:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</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 Wren</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 Wren</dc:creator>
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		<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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