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		<title>The Healthy Writer</title>
		<link>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/05/16/the-healthy-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[~ Tangents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many writers, I spend a lot of time sitting still. Maybe even more than most. While I&#8217;ve always known activity is better than inactivity, like most writers I assumed I could balance the two in some fashion. Say, nine hours in front of the keyboard might be compensated for with thirty solid minutes of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-book Reader Update</title>
		<link>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/05/01/e-book-reader-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 04:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[~ Tangents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-reader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glowlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I still don&#8217;t own an e-book reader. Until a few days ago I hadn&#8217;t been particularly intrigued by any of the current models, but PC Magazine&#8217;s review of a new version of the Nook Simple Touch caught my attention: With E Ink screens, you need an external light source—that is, until now. The Barnes &#038; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Narcissism</title>
		<link>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/04/28/social-media-narcissism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[~ Tangents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Klouchebag.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Klout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Scott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ditchwalk.com/?p=807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Klouchebag.com developer Tom Scott: &#8220;Klout annoys me for the same reason that search engine optimization annoys me,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;It&#8217;s an enormous amount of effort designed to game an arbitrary and often-changing system. Imagine if all that time went into actually making interesting things, or caring about the people around you.&#8221; Better yet, skip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housecleaning</title>
		<link>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/04/25/housecleaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ditchwalk.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogroll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring cleaning]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ditchwalk.com/?p=805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I took a stroll through my blogroll today and pruned sites that are no longer updating or relevant to my evolving interests. It&#8217;s been a while since I surveyed the self-publishing ditch to see what may have sprouted, so my plan is to do more site seeing and replace sites that have gone to seed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Were We?</title>
		<link>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/04/11/where-were-we/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/04/11/where-were-we/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HarperCollins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macmillan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ditchwalk.com/?p=804</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, when the major publishing houses got together with Apple and conspired to fix e-book prices, they did so not because Apple was sexy and Steve Jobs was a benevolent god and the iPad was about to launch, but because Amazon was the devil. Somehow, in the intervening era of Apple-mania, that narrative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing is for Professionals</title>
		<link>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/04/11/publishing-is-for-professionals-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/04/11/publishing-is-for-professionals-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HarperCollins]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[professionals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite public acceptance of self-publishing as a viable means of expression, the traditional publishing industry continues to claim that it is the final arbiter of what&#8217;s good and right and culturally relevant. Today the U.S. Justice Department agreed that self-publishing authors pale in comparison with their industrial counterparts: The U.S. Department of Justice filed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demystifying Authorship</title>
		<link>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/04/07/demystifying-authorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[~ Tangents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[author]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ditchwalk.com/?p=800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up with a reverence for authors. If you made a movie, or wrote a play or directed a play or starred in a play, that was cool, but if you wrote a book (fiction, and to a lesser extent non-fiction, but to a greater extent philosophy) you were somebody. Authors weren&#8217;t just artists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networks and Self-Inficted Storytelling</title>
		<link>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/03/21/social-networks-and-self-inficted-storytelling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/03/21/social-networks-and-self-inficted-storytelling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[~ Tangents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storytelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ditchwalk.com/?p=791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no question that the internet has changed the world for the better. Individual voices now have as much reach as the dominant political and cultural voices had when every broadcast medium was controlled by gatekeepers. Aggregate enough individual voices and the power to dispute if not disrupt corporations or governments anywhere on the planet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Book Price Fixing</title>
		<link>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/03/08/e-book-price-fixing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/03/08/e-book-price-fixing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HarperCollins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macmillan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ditchwalk.com/?p=794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In March of 2010, in the face of growing downward price pressure from e-books and open competition on pricing from online retailers like Amazon and Apple, the publishing industry took control of the price of its own products. It did so by abruptly and collectively by abandoning the long-time industry-norm of wholesale pricing and adopting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pandora Internet Radio</title>
		<link>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/02/27/pandora-internet-radio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ditchwalk.com/2012/02/27/pandora-internet-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[~ Tangents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a love-hate relationship with radio. I love when a song comes on that I enjoy, whether it&#8217;s one I&#8217;m already familiar with or something new. I hate everything else, including songs in heavy rotation, announcers using compression mics, commercials commercials, commercials, and incessant announcements about many songs in a row a station will [...]]]></description>
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