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		<title>Is Craig Ferguson the heir apparent to Bill Hicks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the interesting things about Craig Ferguson is that, not only does he semi ad-lib his way through extremely funny monologues most nights, he also periodically injects his humor with life or history lessons. He did this one night when he started the Late Late Show by explaining, in a very succinct manner, why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jboitnott.com/2010/09/is-craig-ferguson-the-heir-apparent-to-bill-hicks/</link>
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		<title>The World at Large is Transitioning to the New Digg?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are active on Digg.com you receive a steady stream of email notifications telling you that people are now following your account, because they are &#8220;interested in what you are up to on Digg!&#8221; or some such. Well as if that steady stream of &#8220;fan following&#8221; wasn&#8217;t enough&#8230; it&#8217;s apparently started coming from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jboitnott.com/2010/08/the-world-at-large-is-transitioning-to-the-new-digg/</link>
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		<title>My 89-Year-Old Grandma Loves Playing Solitaire on iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So when my mother first bought an Apple IIc back in the day, one of the main things that we got it for, aside from me being able to play King&#8217;s Quest II or whatever, was that my Dad could learn how to use the mouse and keyboard better. My Dad had been a security [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jboitnott.com/2010/07/my-89-year-old-grandma-loves-playing-solitaire-on-ipad/</link>
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		<title>How to Start Your Publisher Profile on the New Digg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Diggers don&#8217;t die we multiply.&#8221; &#8211; Neal Rodriguez I&#8217;ve been getting a lot of requests from people on what they should do to get started with a publisher account on the new version of Digg. I&#8217;m really not interested in saying too much myself &#8211; since it can all be said relatively easily by my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jboitnott.com/2010/07/how-to-start-your-publisher-profile-on-the-new-digg/</link>
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		<title>Twitter140: They Drew a Cartoon of Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My trip to New York City to speak at the Twitter140 Conference in June, 2009 was one of the most fun experiences I have had in my years of working in social media. I had recently started my job at Village Voice Media at the time, and was sent to represent the company in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jboitnott.com/2010/07/twitter140-they-drew-a-cartoon-of-me/</link>
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		<title>Why Some of the Best Facebook Status Updates Don&#8217;t Even Include a Link</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People who operate company Facebook fan pages are always looking for ways to grow their communities and increase interaction with followers on the site. It&#8217;s plainly obvious, just by looking at analytics, that fan pages have become hubs for building interest in news organizations. It takes an arsenal of methods for growing that interest. Perhaps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jboitnott.com/2010/07/why-the-best-facebook-status-updates-dont-even-include-a-link/</link>
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		<title>Tweets that Don&#8217;t Suck: The Axiomatic Tweet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An axiom is a declarative statement about reality. Merriam Webster calls it a &#8220;an established rule or principle or a self-evident truth.&#8221; There&#8217;s something about these things that makes them among the best tweets. I guess I just enjoy reading insightful statements by people. Honestly, when I see someone write axiomatic tweets, that causes me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jboitnott.com/2010/07/tweets-that-dont-suck-the-axiomatic-tweet/</link>
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		<title>3 Bosses Who &#8220;Get&#8221; Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following post first appeared on the site Focus.com at this link. It&#8217;s a great site and I am going to be an ongoing contributor. In all the years I have been involved with news organizations, whether they be radio, TV or print, most of my bosses haven&#8217;t been very internet savvy. In recent years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jboitnott.com/2010/07/3-bosses-who-get-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Wow, they only have 42 of &#8216;em? (pic)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting at home fiddling around on teh internets, when suddenly, outta nowhere, I lose my internet connectivity. What the hell is van #42? Paranoia set in pretty quickly. Turns out there was a bad accident on the expressway in front of my house. 3 cars banged up bad. Van #42 was here as part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jboitnott.com/2010/07/wow-they-only-have-42-of-em-pic/</link>
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		<title>Live Diggnation! Oh How Meta.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My whole life is about META. I worked at TV stations so long that at times I felt more interested in TV station culture and life than I was with the actual delivering of the information. The latest gossip about where a reporter or news director had just gotten a new job always enthralled me. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jboitnott.com/2010/06/live-diggnation-oh-how-meta/</link>
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