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		<title>did you really want that glass house?</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/10/did-you-really-want-that-glass-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, things not to do with your organization&#8217;s incursion into social media.

People find out that you&#8217;re not very interesting. Or even worse, people tend to make judgments based on the content appearing in your social media profile.
Bonus points: hashtag spam on selected high value keywords. Dear god. Please stop. Now.

Once you establish that beachhead into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tablogging</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/09/tablogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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It’s frightfully hard to write a blog without feeling that it must do something: even the most humble blogger is encouraged to create a unique selling point, target a ‘laser-focussed niche’, embrace social media, spawn viral content, track stats, and have a dedicated marketing drive; they must teach and inspire, build ‘authority’, start a ‘conversation’, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wikipedia: corrupted by the system?</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/06/wikipedia-corrupted-by-the-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it started out, Wikipedia was a poster child for everything that mainstream media outlets wasn&#8217;t &#8211; decentralized control and editing abilities (&#8220;anyone can edit anything!&#8221;) and filled with obscure yet fascinating pieces of information. Is it the same today? Yes, yes it is but the limits under which Wikipedia (like most other organizations) must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>online activism</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/06/online-activism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like a made-for-a-VC-presentation fairytale &#8211; an oppressed people rise up, converge online and overthrow the comedic villain that everyone loves to hate. It could even be the next &#8220;You Got Mail&#8221; (You Can Haz Tweets?). On the face of it, I should be all over this &#8211; power to the people, information should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what&#8217;s in your wallet?</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/05/whats-in-your-wallet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 04:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For pretty much as far back as I can remember; whenever something wasn&#8217;t going too well with the country &#8211; someone would always pipe up and say &#8220;but look, there is a war on. We can&#8217;t be expected to fight an insurgency and do things that make economic sense at the same time&#8221;. And this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/05/471/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 08:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blood is the price of victory
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		<title>the things you can&#8217;t say</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/11/the-things-you-cant-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In any social encounter of significance, there are always things that I really shouldn&#8217;t say. No matter how pithy or accurate those observations may be, opening my cakehole inevitably leads to recriminations, raised eyebrows and the descent of an uneasy silence on the conversation (also see: dropping a clanger, putting your foot in it, open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a rantfest to end them all</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/11/a-rantfest-to-end-them-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another act in the umpteenth rehashing of &#8220;Yes, I&#8217;m a [random nationality]. My opinions &#8211; they are like a single falling leaf in autumn&#8221; kicked off recently. I&#8217;m slightly nonplussed why people actually think this is worth nattering on about any longer. Is this the same sort of misplaced optimism that has a website [...]]]></description>
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		<title>and this is how it will work in future, citizen</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/11/and-this-is-how-it-will-work-in-future-citizen/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/11/and-this-is-how-it-will-work-in-future-citizen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the early 80s when television was in its infancy where I grew up, the entire family used to huddle around the box watching sitcoms like The Jeffersons and The Cosby Show. Yes, the stories in each episode had variations; but you somehow knew that the familial unit would win out. There would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>special cases</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/07/special-cases/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/07/special-cases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last HP post. I promise. No, I mean it. No matter how amusing subsequent events are; I&#8217;ll restrain myself from posting. You know, people look upon my reading of Harry Potter with a mixture of disdain, despair and amusement. At my age? Reading a children&#8217;s book? The horror, etc. This is the ideal time for [...]]]></description>
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