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		<title>fun with the 404</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2010/03/fun-with-the-404/</link>
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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>free your employees, reap the benefits</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2009/06/free-your-employees-reap-the-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a post earlier this month about allowing your employees to work from home. An article in PC World highlights Cisco doing just that. Take head, small business.
Fully realizing the instinct to be over the shoulder, it&#8217;s still unproductive and wasteful. If you read the article (and I encourage you to do just that) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>personal hubs and advertising&#8217;s future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, while baking under an unreasonable sun, I was one of the three hundred watching Steve Borsch and Tim Brunelle present a Social Media Breakfast MSP. Here&#8217;s Borsch&#8217;s presentation and here&#8217;s the rundown of Brunelle&#8217;s.
The presentations were great, the bacon was delicious (grilled&#8230; who knew?) and the heat was relentless. As always, it was enjoyable. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>death of IE6?</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2009/06/death-of-ie6/</link>
		<comments>http://upthedrain.com/2009/06/death-of-ie6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet Explorer 6 is the bane of many a web designer&#8217;s existence. It supports CSS more in theory than practice and lingers like a herpes sore on the market (that&#8217;s not graphic enough).
Microsoft, (maybe listening?) with the release of IE8 seems to have addressed some core issues, some that were still within IE7. As a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>with apple goes the world</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2009/06/with-apple-goes-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://upthedrain.com/?p=316</guid>
		<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>autoreply: out of office, indefinitely</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2009/06/autoreply-out-of-office-indefinitely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phrase &#8220;you should do that on your own time&#8221; confuses me. Who allotted time and determined ownership? What part of my day is not &#8220;my time&#8221;? For many, this idea is archaic.
Before I get ahead of myself, there are many fields that require scheduled hours. Mechanics, dentists, teachers, etc. rely on person-person or person-machine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>business, usually</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2009/05/business-usually/</link>
		<comments>http://upthedrain.com/2009/05/business-usually/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 15:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newspapers are crumbling! In-store retail is floundering! Non-digital music is in its last throes! We&#8217;re all going to die! Maybe not but everything is changing. Why hasn&#8217;t business as usual?
If that&#8217;s all overblown hype, and it is: what&#8217;s changing? Access.
Access has ballooned and established media are falling into a fetal position in a corner and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>notes from a digital native</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2009/05/notes-from-a-digital-native/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 18:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://upthedrain.com/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Use of the internet is an intracohort shift. Reliance on the internet is an intercohort shift. Thus, articles like this one are written to try and help those in power understand those that will eventually replace them.
In honor of the observed-habits-of-a-generation-I-don&#8217;t-get trend, I thought I&#8217;d create my own list. I don&#8217;t speak for my generation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hire facilitators, not managers</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2009/05/hire-facilitators-not-managers/</link>
		<comments>http://upthedrain.com/2009/05/hire-facilitators-not-managers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://upthedrain.com/?p=244</guid>
		<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>advertising&#8217;s dead and growing</title>
		<link>http://upthedrain.com/2009/05/advertisings-dead-and-growing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After attending the last CATFOA of the season, &#8220;Living in a Post-Advertising World.&#8221; The talk was solid and the discussion interesting. I had some time to inner-think on the bus. Was advertising ever &#8220;alive&#8221;?
Advertising is, by nature, unwelcome and its success (if you can call it that) is based on forced captive audiences. That&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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