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	<title>Rick Martin</title>
	<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog</link>
	<description>A Canadian in Japan, by way of China</description>
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		<title>My Set-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always fun to see how other people use new tools to get their work done. Inspired by usethis.com&#8217;s series of interviews, Takaaki has written up a really neat piece about exactly what hardware and software he uses in his daily life. I would LOVE to read more of these because it gives you so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/my-setup/</link>
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		<title>On Aggregating in Drupal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that I like aggregating. But I&#8217;m not a fan of aggregating like a jackass.
With that thought in mind, I wrote up this post on aggregating local content responsibly with Drupal over on Journalism 2.0. This is my second guest post over there (thanks Mark!) and there are likely more in the works. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/on-aggregating-in-drupal/</link>
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		<title>My guest post on Journalism 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to point out a recent project I&#8217;ve been experimenting with. Some of you might have seen me tweeting some nonsense about programming a feed generator tool recently. Mark Briggs must have lost a bet or something, because he let me write about it over on his site, Journalism20.com.
Essentially this tool takes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/my-guest-post-on-journalism-2-0/</link>
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		<title>Brainstorming TokyoSocial on Google Wave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The discussion below is from Google Wave, and it&#8217;s mostly just me and some friends discussing a new Tokyo related project I&#8217;m thinking about (ok, it&#8217;s mostly just me and Alex). It follows along the lines of the kind of brainstorming that me, Alex and Chris have always done over email. Again, I like the idea of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/brainstorming-tokyosocial-on-google-wave/</link>
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		<title>Making a Chess Screencast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an overview of the presentation that I gave at Yokohama Barcamp. Me and my brother Steve went through making a chess video screencast &#8212; going through moves on a board, and commenting on them as we go along.  Before go any further, here is a list of the software I used:

Screenflow
Skype
Skype Call Recorder
Snapz [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/making-chess-screencast/</link>
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		<title>Christine Usyak on this Saturday&#8217;s Yokohama Barcamp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t do audio much, but leading up to this Saturday&#8217;s Yokohama Barcamp, I thought I&#8217;d help out by trying to spread the word a little about the event. So armed with only a walking bass track and my silky smooth NPR voice, I spoke with Christine Usyak about the Barcamp. If you are in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/christine-usyak-on-this-saturdays-yokohama-barcamp/</link>
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		<title>Tracking Twitter reponses to Obama&#8217;s Town Hall in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earilier today Barack Obama had one of his famous &#8216;Town Hall Meetings&#8217; in Shanghai, where he took questions from Chinese youth in attendance and from questions posed on the internet. Naturally, there were some interesting responses to all this on Twitter. As a sort of exercise in &#8216;Twitter coverage,&#8217; I tried experimenting with Chris&#8217; TwitBlog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/obama-twitter/</link>
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		<title>7 Tips for Building Local</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since working on a city-specific website with Chris and Alex, I&#8217;ve been occasionally wondering about the best way to create websites that showcase local content. Now that I&#8217;m here in Japan, it&#8217;s kind of natural to ponder what could be made here (in English).
Here are a few points that I think any good local (Tokyo? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/7-tips-for-building-local/</link>
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		<title>How Short Links Can Solve Ginormous Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My brother Mike is living in Vancouver, and besides being a pretty awesome graphic designer (he worked on Megedeth&#8217;s site!) he has also been helping to promote his friends&#8217; band, Magnus Rising. He&#8217;s perpetually working on their webpage, and is always considering new and interesting ways to promote their stuff. The other day we were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/marketing-url-shorteners/</link>
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		<title>Many Hands Make Light (Web) Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think my grandmother said that once (but the parentheses are mine of course). And if she had ever been into web design, I like to think that she might have made some cool sites by following this principle. I&#8217;ve made a bunch of websites over the past few years, but very few of them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/many-hands-make-light-web-work/</link>
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		<title>Getting Started with Drupal: The Non-Retarded Version</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The worst thing about all the documentation over on Drupal.org is that it&#8217;s just not very accessible to non-developers. But first I want to address the question,
Why even bother with Drupal?
Despite the headaches I&#8217;ve experienced with installation and administration, Drupal is super powerful. It&#8217;s really good at presenting content in interesting ways, and in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/getting-started-with-drupal/</link>
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		<title>Making the Shift to Online Journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t do stuff like this very often, but last night I had a chance to spill my guts to about 30 or 40 people on a topic that I&#8217;ve kinda been obsessing over for quite a while. I&#8217;ve met a lot of people who write for a living over the past few months, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/making-the-shift-to-online-journalism/</link>
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		<title>September 28 Seminar: Making the Shift to Online Journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so here&#8217;s the deal.  I&#8217;m giving this seminar thingy in cooperation with Media Tectonics. The purpose of the talk is to explain to people who write for a living how they might use a blogger&#8217;s web-tool arsenal to be more competitive in online publishing. (Update: Just to clarify, the talk will be in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/making-shift-to-online-journalism/</link>
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		<title>My Running Playlist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was searching around for some good tunes for running a few weeks back, and I couldn&#8217;t really find too much that I liked. Since then I&#8217;ve whipped up a pretty fun playlist on my iPod and I thought I&#8217;d share it here. It&#8217;s a pretty diverse mix, and the only rule I had when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/running-playlist/</link>
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		<title>In Defense of Blogging: Lifestreams are Lifeless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days back Om Malik published a blog post called &#8216;The Evolution of Blogging,&#8217; which (among other things) asserted that:
Blogging needs to be social. There are many reasons for this, but the most important one — in my mind — is the changing nature of content. “We will all be streaming life moments as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/evolution-blogging/</link>
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		<title>On Transparency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I received a China-related newsletter update. For the purposes of this post there&#8217;s no need to mention which company it came from. But I do want to point out one little detail that irked me just enough to make me unsubscribe. It&#8217;s not a mortal sin, but one that deserves attention I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/on-transparency/</link>
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		<title>Memetics &amp; Accessibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is the third update about my OldNewfoundland.com Project. Here are the others:

Do Something
Maps, Drupal, and OldNewfoundland.com

Drupal Modules installed this time: Content Construction Kit (cck) &#38; Embedded Media Field (emfield), Voting API &#38; Vote Up/Down, Views
Previously installed modules: Gmap, Location, Poormanscron
Also changed to White Jazz theme.

Memetics
The other day I met with @jcayzaq, @karamoon, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/memetics-accessibility/</link>
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		<title>Maps, Drupal, and OldNewfoundland.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This is the second update about my OldNewfoundland.com Project. Here are the others:

Do Something
Maps, Drupal, and OldNewfoundland.com
Memetics &#38; Accessibility

Modules installed this time: Gmap, Location
Previously installed modules: Poormanscron
I blogged a few months back about my collaborative Japan map experiment, which is essentially an open Google map of Japan that anyone can edit much like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/maps-drupal-newfoundland/</link>
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		<title>Are we rewarding good behavior, or just any behavior?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Chris for the link to this bokardo article, which by itself I wasn&#8217;t so interested in but rather the question at the end got my attention.
Are we rewarding good behavior, or just any behavior?
The internet is a strange place to be right now. Anyone can become a relatively well-known personality online just by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/rewarding-good-behavior-or-just-any/</link>
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		<title>Tracking the Urumqi Riots on Drop.io</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few days we&#8217;ve seen some pretty startling events go down in Urumqi. The riots there have left 156 people dead (both Han and Uighur) and more than 800 injured so far. Like any breaking event in China, the early hours are pretty critical in making sure that photos and videos that leak [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.1rick.com/blog/urumqi-riots/</link>
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