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		<title>Redefining &quot;Crowdsourcing&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/09/redefining-crowdsourcing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s become a dirty world in the creative community. &#8220;Crowdsourcing&#8221; often means a business has chosen to ask all-comers to submit responses to the businesses request – be it a logo, web site design, or engineering design for NASA&#8217;s next space shuttle – with no guarantee of pay or selection of their submitted work. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Pride Parades still matter</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/06/why-pride-parades-still-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been a fan of parades. For one, I&#8217;m only 5&#8242;2&#8243; and can never see the floats and marching groups from behind that Really Tall Guy Who Always Stands In Front Of Me. Plus I don&#8217;t care for large crowds. But every year I make an exception for the gay pride parade, because it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show &amp; Tell PDX: Homebrewing!</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/05/show-tell-pdx-homebrewing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I had the excellent opportunity to talk to interactive industry colleagues about something near and dear to my liver heart – homebrewing. I served five kinds of homebrew to warm up the crowd, then dropped an amazing 17 minutes of blabbing about beer on their unwitting ears. People were kind enough to laugh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Sea and Salt and Sand</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/05/of-sea-and-salt-and-sand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up on the Puget Sound, with sea water in view and the sound of gulls in my ears each day. Mine is a coastal folk, whether from Scotland or Ireland or Sweden, always near the water if not on it. The ocean delineates the boundaries of all I know, a comforting velvet rope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portland and the Angry Inch</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/12/portland-and-the-angry-inch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a snow town. We&#8217;re more a rainy and cold sort of folk, and when the &#8220;white stuff&#8221; hits PDX we all panic a bit. Now, I&#8217;m a native lowlands northwester and never learned to drive in the snow, so I&#8217;m not sure what excuse all you transplants from the midwest and east coast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes. We. Can.</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/11/yes-we-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mine is a pretty cynical generation. Most of us in our 30s have spent the majority of our lives in a recession, in a war over oil, facing climate change, and enduring political parties that fail to inspire much less to lead us to a better tomorrow. We&#8217;ve lacked hope that things will get better, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to recharge</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/10/time-to-recharge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the wonderful things about running a creative agency is that on the rare 70 degree mid-October day you can play hookey and enjoy the sun. You can&#8217;t take a gift like this and stay inside in the Pacific Northwest. No! It&#8217;s an imperative to get outside, recharge, enjoy the weather and get some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no &quot;I&quot; in team; true in softball and life</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/09/there-is-no-i-in-team-true-in-softball-and-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/09/there-is-no-i-in-team-true-in-softball-and-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve played team sports since I was 5, but I love me a team. Not watching teams, but being part of one. I love the cameraderie, the friendly competition, the way the whole transcends the sum of its parts to become something new, better, more awesome. Nothing brings this home for me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The day the music died?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/08/the-day-the-music-died/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/08/the-day-the-music-died/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Listening to music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[discovery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muxtape]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just as I was about ready to post my long-overdue August monthly mux, I found out that the RIAA had shut down Muxtape. Whaaaa? Yeah, I heard the needle scratch on the record as the tunes came to a halt, too. And then disappointment in the RIAA set in. Is their goal to stop people [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/08/why-battlestar-galactica-matters-or-mythology-ftw/#comments</comments>
		<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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