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		<title>Same as it ever was</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great post over on Brain Pickings about what&#8217;s wrong with media today &#8212; based on an editorial from 1923! The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager, by Maria Popova, looks at today&#8217;s media issues such as SOPA, copyright, and content farms through the lens of an article titled &#8220;Our Changing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Any doc, any place?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the combination of responsive web design, modern content tools such as Madcap Flare, and the proliferation of mobile internet devices for viewing content, it has become so much easier for technical communicators to design and create documentation that meets the need of their audience when — and where — they users need it. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Globe gets responsive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m impressed so far with the redesign of the Boston Globe website. The new layout is clean and easy to use, but best of all it now features responsive design so that the page display adapts to whatever device you view it on. I have only casually browsed the site so far, but I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I think I&#8217;m done here</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always hoped that if I was going to be replaced by a robot, it would look something like the one in the Terminator movies. Instead, thanks to Narrative Science, I&#8217;m going to be replaced by a lowly piece of software. Narrative Science, a software company based in Evanston, Illinois, has developed technology that &#8220;transforms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP accepts &#8220;website&#8221; as one word</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is old news (in more ways than one), but the AP Stylebook now officially endorses &#8220;website&#8221; as the one-word term for, you know, websites. The Wired Epicenter blog has a nice write-up: Of course, the cool kids have been tossing around “website” for at least a decade. But that’s the way it is with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1001 content strategy links</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via content strat doyenne Kristina Halvorson &#8212; check out Firehead&#8217;s page with &#8220;1001&#8243; content strategy links. I just fell &#8216;way behind in my reading!]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook vs Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 11:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Twitter adds a feature they say, &#8220;Now you can&#8230;&#8221;. When Facebook adds a feature they say, &#8220;Now you do&#8230;&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Apple iPad kill Farmville?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t play Facebook games on the iPad. The much anticipate Apple iPad everything-killer is coming, due to arrive in consumers&#8217; hands this Saturday. Previews and reviews abound, and while there seems to be a lot to love about the iPad there are also a few complaints. One of the biggest gripes is the device&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eBook production in 2 minutes</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2010/03/17/ebook-production-in-2-minutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aptara, a publishing technology and process company, has released a nifty little video about publishing eBooks. The 2-minute video highlights the five things every publisher must do to successfully produce eBooks for readers such as the iPad, Kindle, and smart phones like the Android and iPhone. (via The Content Wrangler)]]></description>
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		<title>Is augmented reality the future of technical &#8220;documentation&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2010/02/18/is-augmented-reality-the-future-of-technical-documentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is cool. Researchers at Columbia University have developed an augmented reality device that can provide live, hands-on guidance for maintenance and repair tasks on military or other equipment. The ARMAR system combines sensors and a head-mounted display to guide technicians through repair and maintenance procedures while they perform the procedure. This eliminates the need [...]]]></description>
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