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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</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>Lost in The Shallows</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/14/lost-in-the-shallows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“According to an extensive 2009 study conducted by Ball State University’s Center for Media Design, most Americans, no matter what their age, spend at least eight and a half hours a day looking at a television, a computer monitor, or the screen of their mobile phone. Frequently, they use two or even three of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazed by how much more there is to know</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/05/small-header-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel better now &#8212; and at least for now. I finally changed something that has been bothering me for a long time. My header use to say Writelife and below it, &#8220;Musings on the craft of writing, technology, social media and whatever else comes along.&#8221; Apart from being a bit pretentious with words like [...]]]></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</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>The only reason I have a job</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/09/the-only-reason-i-have-a-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know a bit about a lot of things but I can&#8217;t really claim to be an expert on any level except in the area of stringing words together. Although I have had positions that involved technical work (audio engineer, radio ad producer, a degree of coding for web sites), I&#8217;ve only managed to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy, clarity and informed consent</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/16/privacy-clarity-and-informed-consent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 15:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For as long as the Internet has been around, two things have always been true: Everything is public Hardly anyone treats it that way We add encryption and passwords and all manner of security tools and processes, but still mistakes happen, sites get hacked, email intercepted, “Reply All” mistakenly hit. When it comes to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seduction and the security of diversification</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/26/seduction-and-the-security-of-diversification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a crazed and almost bipolar relationship with very big technology companies. We hate them as we love them; love them as we hate them. They seduce us, we know we’re being seduced, but we love the seduction even as we think, “Oh, this is going to end very badly.” Only human beings could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seth Godin&#8217;s clarion call: a review of Linchpin</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/05/seth-godins-clarion-call-a-review-of-linchpin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have finally finished Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?, Seth Godin’s most recent book, and I liked it a lot. How could I not? It got my brain working overtime thinking about this and that and everything in between. I recommend it to others for several reasons: 1) to see the work you do in a [...]]]></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</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>People want to be with other people</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/16/people-want-to-be-with-other-people/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/03/16/people-want-to-be-with-other-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two old expressions come to mind when I think of the Internet and social media. They are, 1) “Any publicity is good publicity,” and, 2) “Location, location, location.” With the first about publicity, I can’t help thinking the guys at Toyota might have a thing or two to say about that. It simply isn’t true [...]]]></description>
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