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		<title>Torch: Best BlackBerry ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past few years, the smartphone market has basically been divided into two camps: iPhones and everything else. RIM&#8217;s dominance in the smartphone sector was primarily in the corporate world, where businesses appreciate the BlackBerry&#8217;s ability to seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Exchange. In the corporate world, BlackBerrys have been handed out for years. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asciidan.com/2010/08/torch-best-blackberry-ever/</link>
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		<title>What the Apple Genius Bar taught me about customer service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I admit it: I&#8217;m addicted to my iPod Touch. I love having a tiny computer in my pocket. I love having the ability to check baseball scores, surf the net, watch YouTube videos, monitor my e-mail, plus listen to music and watch video any time I want. If I&#8217;m bored, I can fire up a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asciidan.com/2010/07/what-the-apple-genius-bar-taught-me-about-customer-service/</link>
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		<title>Drive-by traffic (the blog post SEO guys don&#8217;t want you to read)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In real estate, location is everything, right? Put your business on the right street and you could make a killing. Put it in a dumpy neighborhood and you could be closed in six months. The Internet&#8217;s not all that much different. I&#8217;ve been in the Internet business a long time. Longer than Facebook. Longer even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asciidan.com/2010/05/drive-by-traffic-the-blog-post-seo-guys-dont-want-you-to-read/</link>
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		<title>Why you should delete your Facebook account (and why I wish I could delete mine)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It may be piling on, but I can&#8217;t be quiet about Facebook anymore. I don&#8217;t want to be there and if I could, I&#8217;d have been gone ages ago. But if you can get out, I suggest you do so now&#8230;before it&#8217;s too late. Let&#8217;s break it down: Back in the beginning, Facebook seemed so&#8230;friendly. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asciidan.com/2010/05/why-you-should-delete-your-facebook-account-and-why-i-wish-i-could-delete-mine/</link>
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		<title>How Adobe should have responded to Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adobe has finally come out with its official response to Apple CEO Steve Jobs&#8217; now-famous Thoughts on Flash blog post. In reading it, one gets the sense the Adobe is very angry, but fears defending itself. Instead of the milquetoast response, Adobe should have gone point by point to counterattack Jobs&#8217; claims. Since Adobe won&#8217;t, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asciidan.com/2010/05/how-adobe-should-have-responded-to-apple/</link>
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		<title>Journalists must write for people &#8212; not search engines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you need any more evidence that today&#8217;s journalism is a rudderless ship drifting about aimlessly, look no further than the reaction surrounding the recent decision to change the AP style for &#8220;Web site&#8221; to &#8220;website.&#8221; It amazed me to see the phrase &#8220;AP Stylebook&#8221; on Twitter&#8217;s trending topics, and as a former journalist who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asciidan.com/2010/04/journalists-must-write-for-people-not-search-engines/</link>
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		<title>Why Old Media loves the iPad (and why you shouldn&#8217;t)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the big Apple iPad launch came a flood of reviews across the media. David Pogue loves the device. So does Walt Mossberg. Old Media are throwing themselves at the iPad as if it&#8217;s the promised savior. For the New York Times and Popular Science, Conde Nast and the host of Old Media producers building [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asciidan.com/2010/04/why-old-media-loves-the-ipad-and-why-you-shouldnt/</link>
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		<title>The real zombie uprising is online (or, How you can get more out of Twitter)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By the time you read this, I&#8217;m hoping to have fewer Twitter followers. A couple of weeks ago I pointed you over to Atomic Tango, and Freddy&#8217;s wonderful tongue-in-cheek post about scoring more Twitter followers. If you haven&#8217;t read it yet, do so. It&#8217;s one of the truest, funniest and most interesting things I&#8217;ve ever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asciidan.com/2010/04/the-real-zombie-uprising-is-online-or-how-you-can-get-more-out-of-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Chat Roulette: Proof that people suck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t visit Chat Roulette. Let&#8217;s just get that out of the way right now. I don&#8217;t go there. The mere thought terrifies me. It shouldn&#8217;t &#8212; after all, I&#8217;m a grown man. But there are some things I&#8217;d just rather not see. Chat Roulette is a pretty brilliant idea, actually. It&#8217;s one of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asciidan.com/2010/04/chatroulette-proof-that-people-suck/</link>
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		<title>How I fought Viacom, and won</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Viacom vs. Google court battle is getting downright nasty. Viacom has dug up a bunch of e-mails and instant messages they claim show YouTube&#8217;s founders were purposely leaving copyrighted material online during YouTube&#8217;s early days &#8212; damning evidence against Google. But more interesting are Google&#8217;s claims that many of those copyright-infringing videos came from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asciidan.com/2010/03/how-i-fought-viacom-and-won/</link>
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