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		<title>4 reasons to start using Gravatars right now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've said before that to truly participate in public life, we must do so as ourselves, with our identities revealed.  Online discussions are now a part of the public sphere, and when used well, can bring people together in ways that complement and enhance real-world community.
A related trend I'm appreciating is the increasing number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the President of the U.S. use e-mail?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Times has a nice little article today about why Barack Obama will probably have to give up the use of his Blackberry - and e-mail altogether - when he becomes President:
As his team prepares a final judgment on whether he can keep using e-mail, perhaps even in a read-only fashion, several authorities in presidential [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/can-the-president-of-the-us-use-e-mail.html</link>
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		<title>Links, and what I'm thinking about</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven't had the chance to blog lately, but here are some bits and pieces to chew on.  First, some links:

Friday's episode of On the Media was excellent as usual, but did an especially good job of covering the strange way the 11 PM Eastern network television calling of the election works, cognitive dissonance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/links-and-what-im-thinking-about.html</link>
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		<title>The Most Important Part</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most important words spoken last night, I think:
This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.
It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/the-most-important-part.html</link>
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		<title>Buy Local press conference - at the mall?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not April first yet, so I couldn't really stop my jaw from dropping to the ground on this one:  The Richmond-Wayne County Chamber of Commerce and the City of Richmond will be holding a press conference tomorrow afternoon to promote buying local - to be held at the  mall, which is predominantly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/buy-local-press-conference-at-the-mall.html</link>
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		<title>Flash Mobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flash mobs are large groups of people who assemble suddenly in a public place to perform an unexpected action, and then quickly disperse. For example, here's a mob hitting New York City:

Flash mobs are interesting to me for a few reasons:
They're usually groups of strangers who don't necessarily have anything else in common, coming together [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/flash-mobs.html</link>
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		<title>Undo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that I was playing around with the Twitter Tools plugin for Wordpress, and that it was generating these weekly digests of my Twitter posts on Fridays.  I'm not going to do that anymore, but you can always follow me on Twitter directly or with your favorite blog/RSS feed reader/twitter tool or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/10/undo.html</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-10-31</title>
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"I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try, but that was just a dream." #
Important lesson from the movie Atonement: always encrypt sensitive communications, especially love letters delivered by young children. #
Oh no, the U.S. military has realized that the Internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/10/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2008-10-31.html</link>
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		<title>Too many community builders in one town?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the recurring themes in my writing in speaking about how to make our communities more self-reliant is that we can't necessarily depend on entities and organizations that aren't locally rooted to address the issues that are of local concern.  The natural corollary to this is that, in addition to individual citizens taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/10/too-many-community-builders-in-one-town.html</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-10-24</title>
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If I survived that high ropes course today, surely I can wean these kittens off of their bottles. #
What a lovely day, full of those moments C.S. Lewis described: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." #
Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/10/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2008-10-24.html</link>
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