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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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3977</guid>
		<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>In praise of disinformation</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/04/22/in-praise-of-disinformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Worries about storing data and what corporations and governments know or can learn about us have been alive a long time in the world of digital devices. Currently, it&#8217;s a concern about smartphones, location tracking and, most recently, what Apple is doing. The response tends to be to consider government involvement (laws etc.) and, perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media is gossip (that&#8217;s why it works)</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/26/social-media-is-gossip/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/11/26/social-media-is-gossip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[andrew stanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[findability]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a repost of something I wrote about a year and a half ago, April 2009. I&#8217;m putting it up again partly because I like this one but also because I recently saw remarks made by Andrew Stanton of PIXAR vaguely touching on the same idea, including his comment &#8220;Storytelling is joke telling.&#8221; It [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3266</guid>
		<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>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/07/05/small-header-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3192</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/06/15/breadth-depth-and-brains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</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>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/06/09/the-only-reason-i-have-a-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3012</guid>
		<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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