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	<title>Desert of My Real Life &#187; FaceBook</title>
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	<description>Technology, Society and Me</description>
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		<title>Arrested for Poking</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/10/13/arrested-for-poking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tennessee woman was arrested after poking another woman on FaceBook.  What&#8217;s interesting to me about this story is that ABC News decided it was newsworthy.  It just doesn&#8217;t seem like it is to me.  The woman who was poked had a protective order against the poker.  A protective order means no contact.  Poking is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick Swayze</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/09/14/patrick-swayze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 8:05 tonight, the AP announced that Patrick Swayze had died.  By 8:25, my Aunt Ava had posted a FB status update that he had died of pancreatic cancer.   Within minutes of that, several more of my FB friends had notified me that he had died.  Information truly is instantaneous.  How would I have found out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Play</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/13/summer-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I&#8217;m chairing a panel at NeMLA in April about using Web 2.0 technologies to play.  Because of this panel, I&#8217;ve spent much of my summer playing and thinking about playing online.  Yes, I recognize that I have a great job!
The game that has captured my online attention this summer is Scrabble [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FaceBook: A Hotel California?</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/12/27/facebook-a-hotel-california/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/12/27/facebook-a-hotel-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin forwarded an article called How Sticky Is Membership on FaceBook?  Just Try Breaking Free from the New York Times.  Of course, because I&#8217;m completely addicted to FaceBook, my first thought was &#8220;Why would anyone ever want to leave?&#8221;  But I can see that there may be reasons that someone might want to leave.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mob Wars</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/12/09/mob-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/12/09/mob-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been playing Mob Wars on FB.  I started because Ann and Liz both invited me to be part of their mobs.  I nearly stopped playing after Thanksgiving but Scott begged me not to uninstall the application because he wanted me to stay in the mob.  As a result of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parking Wars</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/21/parking-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/21/parking-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I was out for drinks with colleagues. Most of us are friends on FaceBook as well as in real life. A new colleague, Marylena, mentioned that one of her favorite things to do on FaceBook is play Parking Wars.  Her sheepish description of the game was not particularly intriguing but because [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>We ARE Telling Stories</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/07/we-are-telling-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/07/we-are-telling-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I suggested in a previous post I don&#8217;t understand why FaceBook calls each status update a story.  I said that if we were to consider each update a plot point in a longer story, then I could understand the use of the word story.  Clive Thompson, in a New York Times article, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Hamlet (The FaceBook News Feed Edition)</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/01/hamlet-the-facebook-news-feed-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/01/hamlet-the-facebook-news-feed-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[FaceBook is changing how we view and think about many aspects of our lives, including literature.  As an example (from McSweeney&#8217;s), here is Sarah Schmelling&#8217;s version of Hamlet, written in the sound bite style of a FaceBook News Feed.

HAMLET
(FACEBOOK NEWS
FEED EDITION)
BY SARAH SCHMELLING

- &#8211; - -
Horatio thinks he saw a ghost. 
Hamlet thinks it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>FaceBook Revisited</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/10/facebook-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/10/facebook-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the recent release of the remake of Brideshead Revisited, I thought it might be interesting to revisit FaceBook.  I&#8217;ve been using FaceBook for nearly a month now and my feelings about it have evolved just as Charles Ryder&#8217;s feelings about Brideshead evolved.  (Don&#8217;t think too much about the analogy between Brideshead and FaceBook&#8211;it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>We&#8217;re Not Telling Stories</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/05/were-nt-telling-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/05/were-nt-telling-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the aspects of game analysis that my students struggle with has to do with the dramatic elements of a game.  According to the text that I use in my Creating Games class (Game Design Workshop by Tracy Fullerton, Chris Swain and Steven Hoffman), dramatic elements are those elements of the game that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-FaceBook Friends, Beware</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/21/non-facebook-friends-beware/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/21/non-facebook-friends-beware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pat sent me this article from the New York Times. So if you&#8217;re a non-FaceBook friend of mine and I don&#8217;t return your phone call, I hope you&#8217;ll understand why.
Hey, Friend, Do I Know You?
By DAVID CARR
Published: July 21, 2008
Not that long ago, I needed some advice on the book business and thought to ask [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Adventures in Time or Why I&#8217;m Freaked Out by FaceBook</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/16/adventures-in-time-or-why-im-freaked-out-by-facebook/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/16/adventures-in-time-or-why-im-freaked-out-by-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because so many of my friends are completely addicted to FaceBook (and threatening not to be friends with me anymore), I decided to join two days ago (less than 36 hours ago). In keeping with the entire Web 2.0 movement, I feel that I should share my impressions of FaceBook immediately, before I&#8217;ve had too [...]]]></description>
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