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		<title>fun with the 404</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently redesigning a site and building two others while looking for work in or around Chicago. I&#8217;m also working to maintain the sites of the company I&#8217;m contracted under. Related to this, my manager sent me this link.
Every site should have some handler for their 404 errors (those times pages just don&#8217;t match up). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>with apple goes the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, like most tech nerds or hipsters, I was engrossed in some pretty heavy auto-refresh watching. For others, WWDC&#8217;s keynote was covered on any number of tech blogs.
To summarize, Apple upgraded their Macbook Pro line, beefed up their iPhone (including video) and refreshed their flagship OS into a smaller, faster and more efficient wild feline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hire facilitators, not managers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in olden times (1984?) one needed to prove their corporate value by standing out. Think of a new product; save the company money; institute an &#8220;Air Jordan&#8221; day; being unique was the ticket to success.
Manager&#8217;s world:

Projects start top-down (CEO or client tells Manager)
&#8220;Brainstorming&#8221; sessions bring a few in for suggestions
Schedule, tasks and responsibilities are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;conversation&#8221;&#8230; overused but important</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2009/05/conversation-overused-but-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 17:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the social media &#8220;experts&#8221; there are dozens of overused words. &#8220;Expert&#8221; comes to mind. But probably &#8220;conversation&#8221; takes the cake. There&#8217;s a reason for that. We talk.
The word is irresistible to self-named experts because it&#8217;s vaguely ambiguous. Behind the times and desperate in this financial landscape, companies see it as a term they can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford&#8217;s concept&#8230; just&#8230; may&#8230; work?</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2009/04/fords-concept-just-may-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the month, Ford unfurled their campaign to boost awareness of their Fiesta. It&#8217;s too early to comment on if it&#8217;s working (obviously) but I think labeling it a &#8220;gamble&#8221; is a bit dramatic. If anything (like marketing the Fiesta now) it&#8217;s present-thinking, not forward-thinking.
Don&#8217;t take that wrong. I like the idea. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>open letter: tourism bureaus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a couple conversations this morning along these lines&#8230;

Dear Most of You,
There you are. You&#8217;re the be-all, end-all for your destination. You&#8217;re where people turn to book their trips, learn about your locale and plan their travel. Except for one thing: you&#8217;re not.
Don&#8217;t get me wrong, your sites are pretty, filled to brimming with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cattle clubs</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2008/12/cattle-clubs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people eat questionable meats processed by questionable means in factories of questionable cleanliness by underpaid (or illegal) workers with questionable hygiene practices. That&#8217;s not an issue if you can ignore bacteria in your spinach or poisonous tomatoes and milk. (Or, if you&#8217;re like me, you overcook everything to the texture of damp charcoal.)
But what [...]]]></description>
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