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	<title>Chris Hardie's Weblog</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 02:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Updated Pal-Item website disappoints</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/05/updated-pal-item-website-disappoints.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 02:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Palladium-Item - Richmond's daily paper - launched an updated website.  Here's my initial review:
Good:

The site clearly continues the paper's commitment to encouraging conversations and interaction between people who track what's going on in the community.  As I did in 2006, I commend them for this.
The abuse reporting system in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links for the Week - April 28, 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/links-for-the-week-april-28-2008.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/links-for-the-week-april-28-2008.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The "pros and cons of a global distributed network" edition:

Do you depend on Gmail or Google Calendar?  Did you know they're not ready for production use yet?
The Rockridge Institute, a progressive think tank (THE progressive think tank for many) abruptly closes its doors because there wasn't enough money coming in.  But as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstream media adopts the dehumanizing 'illegals' label</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/mainstream-media-adopts-the-dehumanizing-illegals-label.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/mainstream-media-adopts-the-dehumanizing-illegals-label.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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<category>borders</category><category>cnn</category><category>culture</category><category>framing</category><category>immigration</category><category>language</category><category>laws</category><category>media</category><category>news</category><category>politics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was frustrating but not surprising to see today that CNN has joined the list of mainstream media outlets who have adopted the harmful framing offered up in the debate about the U.S. borders, by beginning to use the label of "illegals" in their reporting.  It may seem like a relatively small difference between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Stock Photos to Show You Care</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/using-stock-photos-to-show-you-care.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/using-stock-photos-to-show-you-care.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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<category>culture</category><category>humor</category><category>internet</category><category>photography</category><category>photos</category><category>stock photos</category><category>technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the funniest parts of browsing the Internets is when I come across the funny stock photos of professional people in various professional settings, used by site owners to put a "human face" on their web presence in the most generic way possible.   It began with using the headshot of the attentive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Doing It Myself</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/on-doing-it-myself.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/on-doing-it-myself.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[adventures]]></category>
<category>adventures</category><category>complexity</category><category>culture</category><category>education</category><category>food</category><category>freedom</category><category>independence</category><category>self reliance</category><category>skills</category><category>technology</category><category>tools</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think one of the more dangerous ideas prevalent in our culture is that "you can't do it yourself, so you always need to buy something or pay someone to do it for you."  As our society becomes more and more dependent on complex machines, systems and skill-sets that fewer and fewer people understand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links and Feeds for the Week - April 12, 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/links-and-feeds-for-the-week-april-12-2008.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/links-and-feeds-for-the-week-april-12-2008.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[website stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The feeds reminder and redux edition:

I've been updating my list of local blogs and bloggers in Richmond and Wayne County, Indiana.  Check out the new additions, and if you have any blogs to suggest or corrections to make, please let me know.
My page of custom RSS feeds doesn't have a whole lot going on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April Fool's Day 2008, So Far</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/april-fools-day-2008-so-far.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/april-fools-day-2008-so-far.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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<category>april fools day</category><category>blogs</category><category>forum</category><category>google</category><category>jim hair</category><category>jokes</category><category>news</category><category>palladium item</category><category>pranks</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, you know my criteria for good April Fool's Day jokes.  Here's what I've kept track of so far for the day:

I had a little fun with the users of the Palladium-Item forums who like to post anonymous rants.  It resulted in at least one phone call threatening legal action against me and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links for the Week - March 26, 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/03/links-for-the-week-march-26-2008.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/03/links-for-the-week-march-26-2008.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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<category>bloggers</category><category>blogs</category><category>community</category><category>feminism</category><category>links</category><category>nsa</category><category>onion</category><category>security</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
What kinds of information the NSA is collecting about your communications - it's not paranoia if they're really after you.  And they have really cool PDAs to do it with.
The Feminist Review - bloggers calling patriarchy as they see it
Geni - free Web 2.0 enabled online genealogy software
The Onion nails it again: You know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Clinton Visits Richmond, Indiana</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/03/bill-clinton-visits-richmond-indiana.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/03/bill-clinton-visits-richmond-indiana.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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<category>Bill Clinton</category><category>bloggers</category><category>community</category><category>media</category><category>news</category><category>palladium item</category><category>politics</category><category>president</category><category>public speaking</category><category>richmond</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time on this blog and elsewhere encouraging people to avoid ceding too much power over their lives to the individuals who would claim it for the wrong reasons (or in many cases, claim it at all), or to institutions and organizations that may not truly have our best interests in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right now I'm blogging about Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/03/right-now-im-blogging-about-twitter.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/03/right-now-im-blogging-about-twitter.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the office today, a few of us were discussing Twitter, the website that lets people broadcast mini-updates about their life, thoughts, whereabouts and other news in chunks of 140 characters or less, all the time.  People do it through their cell phones and desktop computers, and they do it from home, the car, [...]]]></description>
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