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		<title>Conversation, Inspiration, and Vacation</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/10/conversation-inspiration-and-vacation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night during a <a href="http://www.thenewcommunicators.com" target="_blank">New Communicators</a> event idea discussion group,  I had a conversation with <a href="http://twitter.com/jerryketel" target="_blank">Jerry Ketel</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/tyeshasnow" target="_blank">Tyesha Snow</a> about the power of inspiration and the idea that all creative companies should subsidize – in some way — inspirational experiences for employees. Wouldn't it be great if your employer gave you two paid weeks off specifically to seek out inspiration that you can bring back to your work and career]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Followers: Quantity or Quality?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/04/twitter-followers-quantity-or-quality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building a community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Ashton Kutcher has challenged CNN to see who could reach 1 million followers first and won, people are wondering all about Twitter. CNN&#8217;s Quick Poll today shows that only 6% of people are using Twitter (as of April 17), which begs the question &#8220;Who cares?&#8221; So Kutcher got a million followers, so he&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The tax man cometh</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/04/the-tax-man-cometh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Doing business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tax day is a tough one for small business owners. It&#8217;s the day we&#8217;re reminded of all the tax breaks large corporations get, of the self-employment tax some of us pay for the privilege of entrepreneurship, and of the high cost of individual health insurance.
Today, we&#8217;re reminded that the American dream is no longer one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Battlestar Galactica matters; or, Mythology FTW!</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/08/why-battlestar-galactica-matters-or-mythology-ftw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[archetypes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember in high school when you had to read Homer’s Odyssey? Your teacher probably bored you with discussions of archetypes, heroes, and a whole lot of crazy Greek gods, goddesses, and weird offspring and creatures like Charybdis. Maybe if you had a really cool teacher and you got to watch Star Wars as a treat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenwashing, Energy, and the Rhetoric of Disingenuity</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/07/greenwashing-energy-and-the-rhetoric-of-disingenuity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas & Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving the world]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I think of coal used for energy, I think of China, filthy air, dire situations, under-developed nations, the iron-grip of Communism. Coal is the fuel of Tolstoy and World War I and the Eastern Block, a phantom from the early 20th century, a black spot on our environmental history. Coal is up there with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-evaluating True Cost of Ownership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting around]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gas, as we know, is becoming ridiculously expensive. Add that to what we now know about global warming and we see many people clamoring to ditch their old cars to buy new hybids. I know I sure did it, trading my Mazda 3 hatchback in for a Prius last year when my Mazda lease ran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refueling a nation?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/06/refueling-a-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are trying times. The economy is in a downturn, the war in Iraq lingers on, gas costs over $4 a gallon, and large businesses in America are losing money. At times like this, I think back to WWII and the efforts of the government and businesses to bolster the economy, how they encouraged thrift, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Things First, Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/03/first-things-first-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas & Theories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1999, Emigre reprinted Ken Garland&#8217;s 1964 First Things First Manifesto in issue 49. It was a call to arms for designers to stop whoring ourselves and start waking up to the social, environmental, and financial responsibilities we face in our work. Then came First Things First 2000 in issue 51, with a simultaneous printing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Mallott&#039;s Five Principles of Good Design</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2007/06/five-more-design-principles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been asked to explain how your design skills are better than those of a high school kid with some HTML skills and Photoshop? Or maybe you had a client who wasn&#8217;t willing to pay you a fair market rate for your expertise because &#8220;anyone&#8221; can design a web site? How do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joshua Porter&#039;s Five Principles to Design By</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2007/06/joshua-porters-five-principles-to-design-by/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2007/06/joshua-porters-five-principles-to-design-by/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t count the number of times I&#8217;ve gotten in to an argument with fellow designers about &#8220;design&#8221; versus &#8220;art&#8221; and how they are/aren&#8217;t the same thing. My stance is pretty clear: Design is not art. Design can be visually appealing, attractive, interesting, exciting, controversial, but it is not art. The goal of design is [...]]]></description>
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