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		<title>This Saturday: The Internet as a Political Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'll be speaking this Saturday the 17th at a free event held at Morrisson-Reeves Library, on "The Internet as a Political Tool" - how the Internet continues to change the world of politics and what it means for local citizens.  The talk starts at 10 AM in the Bard Room.  If you're interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated Pal-Item website disappoints</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/05/updated-pal-item-website-disappoints.html</link>
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		<title>Links for the Week - April 28, 2008</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/links-for-the-week-april-28-2008.html</link>
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		<title>Mainstream media adopts the dehumanizing 'illegals' label</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/mainstream-media-adopts-the-dehumanizing-illegals-label.html</link>
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		<title>Using Stock Photos to Show You Care</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/using-stock-photos-to-show-you-care.html</link>
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		<title>On Doing It Myself</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/on-doing-it-myself.html</link>
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		<title>Links and Feeds for the Week - April 12, 2008</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/links-and-feeds-for-the-week-april-12-2008.html</link>
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		<title>April Fool's Day 2008, So Far</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/04/april-fools-day-2008-so-far.html</link>
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		<title>Links for the Week - March 26, 2008</title>
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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>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/03/links-for-the-week-march-26-2008.html</link>
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		<title>Bill Clinton Visits Richmond, Indiana</title>
		<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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