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		<title>Positive Deviance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Frye Institute&#8217;s Alumni leadership workshop prior to Educause &#8216;08 last week. The best part of the session was the morning when a small group of about nine of us set off to explore open source, open content, and collaboration. The conversation quickly headed down the path of ways in which the trends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=promptu.wordpress.com&blog=468217&post=77&subd=promptu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Studs Terkel &#8212; Curiosity Put To Good Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marahancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studs Terkel, the great American Oral Historian, died yesterday. I was introduced to his work in high school when we read his book, Working, as part of a class. It made a huge impression on me. It was the first time I actually spent any time thinking about how people might feel about their work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=promptu.wordpress.com&blog=468217&post=74&subd=promptu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marilyn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marahancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sat next to an elderly lady on BART.  I was on my way to the Airport, and she was on her way to visit her cousin in Pacifica. We both had suitcases and she was concerned that she might not be on the right train.
I don’t normally talk to people on public transportation. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=promptu.wordpress.com&blog=468217&post=43&subd=promptu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go Backpacking – Forget Your Woes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marahancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early September I took three days of work to go backpacking in Yosemite with my friend Diane and partner, Tracy. One of those days, a Friday, I did all the food shopping and equipment gathering/packing. The next day we picked Diane up at 5 am and headed for Yosemite. By 10:30 am we had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=promptu.wordpress.com&blog=468217&post=35&subd=promptu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Personal responsibility on the Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marahancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about the personal responsibility and identity issues that reveal themselves on the web and in virtual environments. I haven’t done any research on this issue, although I am sure there is plenty. Mainly, my opinions are stemming from my personal experience with contributing to a number of different social networking tools [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=promptu.wordpress.com&blog=468217&post=34&subd=promptu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do Blue Herons and Starbucks have in common?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marahancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After being in Amsterdam for several days, it dawned on me that I had not seen any Starbucks stores. None. What a great feeling, to not feel inundated, stalked, smothered by the brands from my own culture. I can actually experience the essence of Dutchness without having to filter out the dominating American value as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=promptu.wordpress.com&blog=468217&post=23&subd=promptu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why run while visiting a new city?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marahancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because:

It makes you learn the lay of the land and gets you out of your hotel
It gets you out early, before the tourist onslaught
It takes you to places you might not normally go
It makes you feel like you live there

This morning I went running in Amsterdam&#8217;s Vondel Park. The birds were singing in the full [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=promptu.wordpress.com&blog=468217&post=20&subd=promptu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blended Living</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marahancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working and struggling for years on work/life balance. Have you? Well, I writing to say that I am now officially &#8220;over that.&#8221; You may think I have gone off the deep end, but I have determined that not only is it impossible, perhaps it is even undesirable. I am now playing with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=promptu.wordpress.com&blog=468217&post=12&subd=promptu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LibraryThang &#8212; I think I luv you!</title>
		<link>http://promptu.wordpress.com/2007/01/06/librarythang-i-think-i-luv-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marahancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sing it to the tune of Wild Thing!

I may be behind the times (as evidenced by my taste in music!) in discovering this sweet new tool, but the LibraryThing web app is new to me and, WOW, I like it. LibraryThing is a site that helps you catalog your books (your library) either by capturing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=promptu.wordpress.com&blog=468217&post=10&subd=promptu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curriculum Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marahancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday I attended the curriculum night at my son&#8217;s new high school. He is a sophomore this year and we moved him from the local public school, Berkeley High, to a very small private high school, Maybeck (named after the architect, Bernard Maybeck). The story is long, but it should suffice to say that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=promptu.wordpress.com&blog=468217&post=6&subd=promptu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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