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      <title>The Microsoft campaign about nothing.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I can just imagine what those guys at Microsoft headquarters up in Redmond were thinking. "It's so like totally unfair" While Apple is a media darling and gets all this great press the only time anyone ever talks about us when they are complaining about its shortcomings. True the folks down in Cupertino seems to have been on a roll lately churning out improved versions of both their coveted iPhone and its predecessor the iPod which virtually owns the digital player market...]]></description>
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      <title>IE is tarnished, Chrome sparkles</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today Google is making its’ Chrome shine. Launched in 43 languages and in 122 countries simultaneously as a beta for PC (Mac and Linux version soon to follow) the web world holds its breath as it takes Chrome for a test ride. Before anything else it is necessary to define what Chrome is exactly. Chrome is a browser… What is a web browser you wonder? It is the interface you use every time you surf the worldwide web. Nothing more nothing less, even though Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla will tell you a browser is much more than that, it really is simply the interface, a complex interface of course, you use to hop skip and jump from one...]]></description>
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      <title>An App a Day</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dear coders, you know the idea that's been marinating in the back of your mind for the last year or so? That thingy you think is so innovative that no one will be able to resist. The one which if only you could get in front of the right people would free you from the purgatory of your cubicle, let you finally tell your boss exactly where he can go stick his crappy IT job and make you the kind of money allows for regular vacations in Tahiti? Well now's the time to go for it. If this sounds like a pitch for some get rich quick scheme, it is in a way. The latest trend for programmers with champagne wishes and caviar dreams is coming up with hot new applications for smart phones...]]></description>
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      <title>Much ado about Facebook&apos;s yard, sale. </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Secrets don't exist in Silicon Valley. News travels along the grape vine at broadband speeds, the latest tech gossip being parlayed from local rag The Mercury News; to online journal Silicon Alley Insider; to investment bible Venture Beat until it ends up at the local geek watering holes where it is talked about over a cold beer after a hard day and night of coding. Whether the topic du jour is the birth...]]></description>
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      <title>A Cuil new search engine.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An old PR quote states that any publicity is good publicity. The idea is that no news is a fate worse than bad news when it comes to promoting a product. It's this school of thought that made sex tapes and stints in rehab de rigeur for any D list celebrity looking to move into A list territory. An opposing adage states, nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Essentially meaning too much attention on your product can set unrealistic expectations.  Take the 1998 remake of Godzilla which was overhyped and fell flat...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:28:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>The Retailer vs. the Renter: Amazon thinks outside Unbox.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I watch an average of seven movies a week and before you comment let me say I'm fully aware that this is well above the norm and I need to consider some form of rehab. It is not my fault entirely; there are a number of enablers who conspire to help me feed this shameful celluloid addiction. I implicate the local multiplex theater as a culprit but the two drug dealers that bear the most guilt are Amazon and Netflix. I purchase DVD's from the former and have a long running...]]></description>
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      <title>The Writings on the Web: Creating a bold new online model for Hollywood</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If there is one word that has become all too familiar in Hollywood it is strike. Currently the entertainment community is crossing its fingers hoping to avoid a possible actor's walkout. It seems like only yesterday that Hollywood's scribes exchanged their pens for placards and decamped to the streets of Burbank and Culver City picketing outside the Disney, Warner and Sony studios. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) walkout lasted 100 days and cost the Los Angeles economy roughly $3 billion ($772 million in lost wages for writers and...]]></description>
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      <title>3G or not 3G: WWDC 08 answers the question</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Early summer in San Francisco has a lot to offer a visitor; there are the famous landmarks, music festivals, stellar restaurants and endless outdoor activities. But for one group of out-of-towners June in the bay area means only one thing, the Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). This week long event calls the Apple faithful to the Mecca that is San Francisco's Moscone Center where the conference has been hosted since 2006. The WWDC is the smaller, nerdy brother...]]></description>
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      <title>Moving Pictures: Movies, mobiles and the new auteurs.Moving Pictures: Movies, mobiles and the new auteurs.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Filmmaking is about the most expensive creative expression one can have. The cost to produce an independent film starts in the thousand dollar range for a short and just escalates to ridiculous levels. Say you coerce your friends into being actors and crew on your production for free; you still have to rent the camera, purchase 35mm film stock which costs about $80 a minute to shoot-you'll need...]]></description>
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      <title>Oscars: Hollywood threw a party and forgot to invite the audience</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hollywood's most powerful citizen has more people fawning over him than a studio boss or a marquee movie star. A nod from him can bump a movie's earnings into the stratosphere as effectively as anything the marketing team at Warner could dream up. He gets obscure actors more roles than super agent Mike Ovitz could in his heyday and his...]]></description>
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      <title>What a Microsoft Yahoo! merger adds up to</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When you think about online shopping the thing that usually comes to mind is whipping out your credit card and browsing sites like Amazon or eBay for hot deals. But if you are Microsoft when you go internet shopping you buy a portal. This week the software giant flexed its financial...]]></description>
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      <title>Five Who Thrived: The success stories of 2007</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[2007 has been less than easy for many. It started promisingly enough with Nancy Pelosi becoming the first female Speaker of the House and ended on a sad note with the assassination of another female politician, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Between those two bookends, we saw a credit crunch; Paris paralyzed not once but twice by major strikes and Malibu caught on fire proving that...]]></description>
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      <title>Still out of ink! - The WGA Strike 2007 </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I left work early today, tired from my trip. The writers strike complicates things; productions are stopped running out of material to shoot. If nothing is written then there is no direction to follow, nowhere to go, everything grinds to a halt. It is hard to determine which side is right, especially knowing both sides of the argument and having friends, associates in both camps...]]></description>
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      <title>An A for Effort: Microsoft&apos;s Annual Report Card 2007</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If tech companies were school students, Apple would be that cool guy who's the center of attention, dates the head cheerleader, drives the fancy sports car and is invited to the hottest parties. The one who talks big and even though he doesn't always live up to his promise we forgive him for it. Teachers favor him because they can't resist his eloquence and good looks. So if Apple is the popular kid where does that leave Microsoft? That's an easy one, he would be the committed student...]]></description>
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      <title>Barbarians at the gates: The MPAA vs. the Pirates</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This summer Hollywood raked in well over $4 billion in US box office alone. An impressive financial achievement defying claims by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), that the industry is being gutted. The MPAA is obsessed with pirates and not the rum drinking, treasure hunting, charming anti-hero Captain Jack Sparrow, that Johnny Depp made famous. Though with the $2.7 billion that the " Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise reaped from its three movies...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>The day the ink ran out:  The WGA Strike 2007</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Monday November 5th 2007 movie and TV scribes from the palm lined shores of LA to the concrete jungle of Manhattan put down their pens. It was not writers block, or laziness because they loved their job. Creating characters that viewers felt they knew as well as their own family. Orchestrating plot twists that were discussed around water coolers. Coining catch phrases and one-liners that were repeated ad nauseam in school yards until they became imbedded in pop culture. Though they may not be household names like movie or TV stars...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:48:28 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>What&apos;s in a name: How fresh is Joost and what on earth is IPTV?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The IPTV service Joost seems to have a lot going for it. First off it has a funky, fresh sounding name pronounced "juiced" and not like the Dutch name it resembles, despite the fact that the company has its roots in Amsterdam. Second it boasts quite a pedigree- it was founded by Nicklas Zennström and Janus Friis the masterminds behind Kazaa and Skype, two other disruptive and innovative concepts. And just like Skype shook up the international long distance market, Joost wants to reinvent your television watching experience...]]></description>
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      <title>Vudu&apos;s black magic</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here is a quick episode recap…On the last installment I was lamenting the fact that my carefully catalogued film library was facing the same fate as those cassette tapes that are stashed away in a dusty box at the back of my garage. The DVD was being made obsolete by new technology that allowed for denser data storage on a disk of the same size. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD developed by Sony and Toshiba respectively were locked in a fight to the death over standards in which the loser would perish or at best be marginalized like Beta whose superior...]]></description>
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      <title>The brief, brilliant history of the DVD</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I confess to having a penchant for purchasing movies that borders on an addiction. While some people collect first edition leather bound classics by Dickens or Dumas and others hunt down $3 500 antique Chinese snuff bottles, I collect movies, a considerably cheaper indulgence if cost was a concern and unlike Faberge eggs they are much easier to come by. I feed my habit from all sources, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Blockbuster, the Virgin Megastore and the now defunct Tower Records not to mention all the ones I get from business associates...]]></description>
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      <title>Caution contents may be cold:  Starbucks rocks music but fails to heat up the movies.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you popped into your local Starbucks this week you may have gotten a song to go with your " iced decaf triple grande four pump soy no whip Mocha". In about 600 Starbucks locations in New York and Seattle the "Now Playing" service, an exclusive venture between Apple and the coffee maker was quietly rolled out. U sing the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store you could instantly preview, buy, and download the music currently being played in the store. It also allowed you to see what had recently been played and offered an exclusive Starbucks section on the iTunes website. Despite some...]]></description>
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      <title>Green Screen: Why being eco-friendly is hot in Hollywood</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The last two decades have been littered with doomsday criers foretelling the imminent repercussions of our insatiable urge for carbon based fuel, our destruction of oxygen producing forests and our indiscriminate dumping of industrial waste into the ocean. The 90's were awash with horror stories of holes in the ozone layer, acid rain, melting icecaps and the greenhouse effect. There was even a popular animated cartoon "Captain Planet" where the villains were big bad polluters. While the Democrats paid lip service...]]></description>
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      <title>“You’ve come a long way baby”</title>
      <link>http://www.lexink.com/Editorial/clinton.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton, presidential hopeful, is advancing her bid for the Democratic nomination in leaps and bounds. The past two weeks have given her increased exposure and favorable press. It all started on September 17th when she unveiled her revised universal health-care plan to generally favorable reaction despite it being immediately dubbed “hillarycare 2.0”...]]></description>
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      <title>Be all you can Buy: Selling the American Dream</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”, this is the call of Lady Liberty. She is the manifestation of the hopes and dreams that all immigrants carry with them as they wave goodbye to their native soil and make for these shores. But this famous tribute to freedom has unfortunately become a lightening rod for vitriol from individuals who view America as a bully intent on beating the rest of the world into submission...]]></description>
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      <title>Surreality: When is seeing not always believing?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Being a student in Florida is dangerous. Well at least it is if you are attending a university sponsored John Kerry speech and are attempting to get him to answer a question while trigger-happy, Taser toting campus police are hovering within striking distance. By now almost everyone has heard something about the incident at the University of Florida where twenty-one year old Andrew Meyer was stunned...]]></description>
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      <title>The Good the Bad and the Ugly: YouTube reveals what should be concealed. </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I’ve followed Google’s meteoric rise from quirky startup to global search leader while rooting for its success at every step. It showed that it could remain creative and cool even while playing with and eventually becoming one of the grownups. It was a verb; it had innovative applications and was making a difference. Google promised to save us all from a world dominated by grey uncaring multinationals...]]></description>
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      <title>The Channel Surfing Mouse: TV comes to the web - “I don’t watch TV!”</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chances are you’ve been at a social gathering or on a date and heard someone use that putdown in response to a comment on the plot twists of Lost or some other TV show. Maybe their condescending tone made you choke on your Veuve Clicquot in your rush to disassociate yourself from those “TV watching” cretins. While movies and theater are deemed perfectly acceptable, even culturally enriching...]]></description>
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      <title>Good Apple or Bad Apple: Is there a worm in Cupertino?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Apple seems to have something in common with Lindsay Lohan. Lately both have become ubiquitous with their exploits receiving through coverage in the media. Just as the fallen starlet has paparazzi dogging her in and out of rehab, Apple is facing similar scrutiny, its every move being dissected by tech blogs, business gurus and financial pundits while the info hungry public laps it all up. This has the Cupertino based company’s marketing and PR departments working overtime doing promos or damage control to ensure their brand retains its cachet.]]></description>
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      <title>Reflections on an Election - Mirror, mirror on the wall, who deserves to lead them all?</title>
      <link>http://www.lexink.com/Editorial/election.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[With President Bush’s approval ratings hovering in the 20s for a majority of states and in the 30s only in southern states the end of the Republican era seems a given. Even though the general election is still over a year away public discourse is already focusing on the next President, with a plethora of candidates for the electorate to study and choose from...]]></description>
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      <title>Flivor: Live Less Ordinary</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Flivor www.flivor.com is the latest of the pack and its name is not the only notable thing about the newcomer. Unlike the others its slick landing page looks more like a multimedia desktop application than your standard issue web 2.0 social networking sites.]]></description>
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      <title>The French stay right with Nicolas Sarkozy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As of yesterday  with a near-record voter turnout of 84% France has a new President: Nicolas Sarkozy. Faced with security concerns, economic woes and a growing Europe, French voters had to choose between a liberal woman and a conservative male. Running on a platform promising to renew leadership, combat economic decline...]]></description>
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      <title>When the news does reality TV: MSNBC kicks off “Models NYC”</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Classified as a “Documentary” the series will have, according to an MSNBC press release, " cameras catch everything from the castings to photo shoots to the split-second decisions that drive the industry and can make or break a model's career" as the series follows the professional and private lives of a dozen models and their agents: basically a reality TV show.]]></description>
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      <title>Chewing our Media Cud</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ever notice how everything is getting shorter, faster and more portable? Constantly connected to everything work-related and always available to our friends and family (no not AT&T but arrgh to cell-phones)? There is hope on the horizon – not an electro-magnetic pulse that would wipe everything electronic out but rather all forms of media adjusting to our new lifestyles...]]></description>
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      <title>Politics online: democracy or fallacy?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Have a MySpace or YouTube account? Now you can use them to find out more about the candidates for Election 2008. In an effort to build voter awareness and to appear ‘hip’ political candidates are creating MySpace pages and YouTube channels. Reminiscent of MTV’s ‘Rock the Vote’ this effort to appear up close and personal with the voters Presidential candidates (or their office intern) are online and looking for friends…]]></description>
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      <title>Microsoft&apos;s Valentine to IBM</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The latest salvo in the on-going battle of words between supporters of Microsoft's Open XML and supporters of OpenOffice.org's Open Document file (ODF) format comes from Microsoft. On February 14th, Microsoft officially published a little love note to IBM. Their love-hate relationship is well known and this time the offensive was signed by Tom Robertson (General Manager Interoperability & Standards Microsoft) and by Jean Paoli (General Manager Interoperability & XML Architecture).]]></description>
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      <title>The high cost of Star Gazing – and the rewards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With the Oscar's coming soon, many people are already watching the stars to see who will be chosen by the Academy for an Oscar. But, there are many people who are watching other stars. Most of them here in the U.S. are working for NASA and have had a hand in developing or operating the space-based observatories already in orbit around the earth, or the land-based observatories scattered around the world.]]></description>
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      <title>Apple iPhone - The must have phone</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Chinese call this the Year of the Pig, but 2007 will be the Year of the Apple. With his MacWorld Keynote announcement of iPhone Steve Jobs appears to have hit a home run. Slated to be in stores mid 2007, it"s already causing waves in both tech and consumer circles...]]></description>
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