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	<title>meish dot org</title>
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	<link>http://meish.org</link>
	<description>a blog by Meg Pickard</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lovely idea</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/05/13/lovely-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t going to comment on the election of that &#8220;tallest-dwarf&#8221; smug-faced buffoon into public office while I was in the US, except that now the deed is done, I am roundly looking forward to him being exposed for the zero-content publicity-seeking toffo timewaster that he probably is, and all his bold initiatives being exposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things I might write about at some point, but not now</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/05/07/things-i-might-write-about-at-some-point-but-not-now/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/05/07/things-i-might-write-about-at-some-point-but-not-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Admin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being a list of things which I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about here or elsewhere, but haven&#8217;t had a moment.

New forms of storytelling
The rise of the renaissance journalist
Hotel life
Why I don&#8217;t write much about work here
Flickr video
Personality blogs and the cult of the meme (pron: Me! Me!)
On returning to Canada
Agile development - the business/product owner&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from over there</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/05/05/back-from-over-there/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/05/05/back-from-over-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from a whirlwind trip to Canada (speaking at HICKTech in Owen Sound, Ontario) and Washington DC (visiting the Guardian America office). 
Despite having flown into Washington Dulles airport and gone on to spend several days in Northern Virginia probably a dozen times or more over my tenure with AOL, I must confess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Life in Pictures</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/04/23/a-life-in-pictures/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/04/23/a-life-in-pictures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent news for photography lovers with access to central London: there&#8217;s an exhibition of photographs by Don McPhee on at the Guardian Newsroom in London (60 Farringdon Road, opposite The Guardian offices), running from last Friday, April 18th through to the end of June.
In case you don&#8217;t know who he was, Don McPhee was one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sound of silence</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/04/18/the-sound-of-silence/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/04/18/the-sound-of-silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry it&#8217;s been a bit quiet around here recently: I&#8217;ve been variously

in Istanbul, working
working working working working
in the Isle of Wight for Easter
being a rapporteuse at an Ofcom/OII social networking conference (must write up my notes on that)
in hospital being attacked internally with lasers
lying on the sofa feeling sorry for myself (oh alright, and playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here it goes again</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/04/10/here-it-goes-again/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/04/10/here-it-goes-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Media &amp; Advertising]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking, as we were not so long ago, about unreferenced advertising homages to internet viral creative endeavours&#8230;.here&#8217;s another one for the collection.
First, watch this new ad from Berocca.

People dancing on treadmills.
Strangely familiar? Indeed. OK Go did this to great viral effect not so long ago:

I know. Ad creatives in ripping off internet shocker.
&#60;rolls eyes&#62;
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		<title>As You Like It</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/04/03/as-you-like-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food &amp; Drink]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recipes]]></category>

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The other night, out for dinner with friends, we found ourselves discussing the perfect food. Not favourite food - that&#8217;s a different question - but perfect food, which works in a number of contexts and is flexible and suits all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nighthawks&#8221; at the Chippy?</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/03/30/nighthawks-at-the-chippy/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/03/30/nighthawks-at-the-chippy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
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	From the top of the bus the other day, while stuck in traffic, I took this (rather crappy) image of a fish &#038; chip shop on Gray&#8217;s Inn Road, and its Friday night clientÃ¨le.

Looking at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malapostrophication, crap marketing agencies, and why its they&#8217;re fault you&#8217;re business look&#8217;s dumb</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/03/12/malapostrophication-crap-marketing-agencies-and-why-its-theyre-fault-youre-business-looks-dumb/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/03/12/malapostrophication-crap-marketing-agencies-and-why-its-theyre-fault-youre-business-looks-dumb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you who keep up with my Flickr stream will be aware that one of the things which crops up with alarming regularity in my camphone snaps is the misuse of apostrophes.
I am an apostrophe dullard: it&#8217;s true. I can&#8217;t help spotting them when they&#8217;re misused, and let me tell you it nearly killed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Favour? Please?</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/03/10/favour-please/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/03/10/favour-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back, I attended a Flickr minimeet at the London Transport Museum and took a bunch of photos which you can see in this set on Flickr.
Now, the nice people from the LT Museum would very much like to feature a bunch of photos from the event on their site, and yet cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is a fix not a fix?</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/03/07/when-is-a-fix-not-a-fix/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/03/07/when-is-a-fix-not-a-fix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, my phone suddenly decided to stop sending text messages this morning. It seems to have forgotten the Orange Message Centre number.
So I pop over to the orange site to find the number, and attempt to use the &#8220;fixing basic problems&#8221; menu to resolve it.
It asks a series of questions, and after each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Jet Set</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/03/06/the-jet-set/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/03/06/the-jet-set/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been away for 48 hours in Istanbul, where I was invited to attend and speak at a conference for a global NGO. I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t have more time to spend in the city, but the tantalising glimpses of it I was able to snatch during cab rides and a trip into town for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Totally Unsolicited Advice from an Old Married Woman on the Occasion of Your Wedding</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/03/02/some-totally-unsolicited-advice-from-an-old-married-woman-on-the-occasion-of-your-wedding/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/03/02/some-totally-unsolicited-advice-from-an-old-married-woman-on-the-occasion-of-your-wedding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Cobbled together for the recent nuptials of some friends, and based on my experiences of weddings, as guest (multiple), participant (several) and hostess (single). Please add your own!)
On Wellbeing (Physical and Otherwise)

Everyone will tell you to relax. You wonâ€™t â€“ youâ€™ll have not enough sleep and too much to do, and the whole thing will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A milestone, of sorts</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/02/27/a-milestone-of-sorts/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/02/27/a-milestone-of-sorts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just noticed that this photo, taken last Saturday at Penzance Harbour in Cornwall, and looking out towards St Michael&#8217;s Mount across the bay:

&#8230;is photo number 5,555 in my Flickr stream.
That&#8217;s the equivalent of a photo a day for over 15 years, though I&#8217;ve actually managed to post them in a couple of months shy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Deadly Sins of Twitter</title>
		<link>http://meish.org/2008/02/27/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://meish.org/2008/02/27/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OR a list of social faux pas that are likely to get you removed from my follow list
(From my perspective: you may disagree. In fact, you probably will. Life&#8217;s rich tapestry and all that&#8230;)

Using Twitter instead of (or as well as) an RSS feed.
Most web publishing services these days have RSS built in as standard. [...]]]></description>
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