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		<title>How Facebook (and Dara Ó Briain) made my Mom redundant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years go (not that many, maybe 3 or 4) my mother said to me &#8220;do you know who I met down the town? Dara O Briain&#8217;s mother. Apparently this comedy thing is working out really well for him&#8221; This after Mock the Week. Hmmm, really? &#8220;Mam, Dara O Briain is really famous now. <a href='http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/09/10/how-facebook-and-dara-o-briain-made-my-mom-redundant/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Simple, powerful idea makes Twitter exciting again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that I ever really got bored of Twitter, but I really love this: Shuu.sh It takes your Twitter feed and displays it so that the tweets of infrequent tweeters are larger than those of people who tweet all day long. The user experience still needs a lot of work, but the basic idea is <a href='http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/07/17/simple-powerful-idea-makes-twitter-exciting-again/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook is to image as Twitter is to reputation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was having a look at bolt the other day, for a piece of research I&#8217;m doing. The story of bolt is worth reading as an object lesson in how not to manage an online community. As I meandered around the site it came to me that there is a big difference between creating an <a href='http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/02/18/image-does-not-equal-reputation/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/02/18/image-does-not-equal-reputation/</link>
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		<title>The Best of Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the BBC&#8217;s founding principles was that it would &#8220;bring the best of everything to the greatest number of homes&#8221;. It started life as a broadcast monopoly dedicated to improving and educating the population. In The Master Switch, Tim Wu likens attempts by the forces of closed media &#8211; a combination of Apple, Hollywood <a href='http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/02/10/the-best-of-everything/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Filling in the blanks with video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through Deirdre Straughan I became aware of a 2008 blog post by Derek Powazek called Meaning-Making Machines. It&#8217;s about how when we interact with people using computers there are gaps in our knowledge of the situation caused by a lack of social cues that are present in face-to-face human interactions. We fill in these gaps <a href='http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/01/30/filling-in-the-blanks-with-video/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/01/30/filling-in-the-blanks-with-video/</link>
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		<title>In defence of reinventing the wheel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often in meetings about new ideas, which happens fairly regularly in my professional life, someone will say something about how we shouldn&#8217;t reinvent the wheel. It&#8217;s a truism. Everybody nods sagely and on we go with our discussion, having at least that agreed between us. And yet, I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s such a no-brainer. Is <a href='http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/01/26/in-defence-of-reinventing-the-wheel/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/01/26/in-defence-of-reinventing-the-wheel/</link>
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		<title>I am broadcaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading The Master Switch by Tim Wu. It&#8217;s really great, well worth a read. In one of the early chapters he talks about the early days of radio and how amateur radio enthusiasts came up with the idea of broadcasting &#8211; metaphorically casting the seed of their message broadly. How did people come to <a href='http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/01/13/i-am-broadcaster/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2011/01/13/i-am-broadcaster/</link>
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		<title>Busy doing nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[87 people (including me) retweeted this aphorism from @alaindebotton: What gets called &#8216;laziness&#8217; is usually a pull towards another conflicting kind of work rather than a desire to do nothing. Only a few of that 87 said things like &#8220;yeah, right&#8221;. I&#8217;m not sure I entirely agree with the proposition though, because I think there <a href='http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2010/10/14/busy-doing-nothing/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not a growth industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doug Rushkoff wrote a really interesting, damning article about the publishing industry called Why I Left My Publisher in Order to Publish a Book. It&#8217;s well worth a read (and he&#8217;s a pacy writer so you&#8217;ll read it and take it in in about 2 seconds flat). This bit, almost an aside, grabbed me though: <a href='http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2010/10/08/375/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2010/10/08/375/</link>
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		<title>The dynamic dream of the future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still making my way through the dConstruct podcasts. John Gruber&#8217;s talk, the Auteur Theory of Design was an interesting counterpoint to Hannah Donovan&#8217;s wonderful Jam Session: what improvisation can teach us about design. Donovan&#8217;s arguments really appealed to me, because I&#8217;m fascinated by collaboration and the processes you can employ for productive group work, what <a href='http://www.deeharvey.com/blog/2010/09/30/the-dynamic-dream-of-the-future/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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