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	<title>Desert of My Real Life &#187; Making Meaning</title>
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		<title>Differences in Media</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/11/02/differences-in-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking lately about the differences between media types.  This thinking was inspired by the new movie Disgrace based on J. M. Coetzee&#8217;s novel of the same name.  I will definitely see this movie (if it is ever released throughout the US) but I&#8217;m worried about the choices that the filmmakers have made.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Sense of All Things Digital</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/10/25/making-sense-of-all-things-digital/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/10/25/making-sense-of-all-things-digital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few years, I have been volunteering my time at a local senior center, teaching computing skills.  One of the struggles is to explain the subtle cues that the computer provides to us as its users to let us know what we can do at that particular time.  What do I mean by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corpus Libris</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/10/11/corpus-libris/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/10/11/corpus-libris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting &#8220;ongoing photo essay on books and the bodies that love them&#8221; at Corpus Libris.  I like this photo a lot.
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		<title>The Ambassador of Semiotics</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/09/29/the-ambassador-of-semiotics/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/09/29/the-ambassador-of-semiotics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I heard Madeleine Albright this morning on Morning Edition, the fifth or sixth interview I&#8217;ve heard with her since Sunday morning.  Albright just released a new book and the ensuing media blitz has brought attention to the unusual tactics she used while pursuing her diplomatic duties in the Clinton administration.  In the new book, called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Pain</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/09/28/human-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/09/28/human-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching Battlestar Galatica on DVD.  One of the roles of science fiction, I think, is to raise controversial issues, to help us understand what it means to be human.  Although the original 1970&#8217;s miniseries was cheesy and not very interesting, a few changes to the original idea makes the recent TV show one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Decision Engine</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/06/28/the-decision-engine/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/06/28/the-decision-engine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a couple of commercials on TV for Microsoft&#8217;s newest product, Bing.  Microsoft claims that Bing is a &#8220;decision engine.&#8221;   What exactly is a &#8220;decision engine&#8221;?  According to a press release from Microsoft, a decision engine &#8220;goes beyond search to help customers deal with information overload.&#8221;  In other words, information is no longer power.  Products like Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NeMLA 2010</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/05/22/nemla2010/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/05/22/nemla2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 13:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There have been quite a few stories that have captured my attention in the nearly six month break that I&#8217;ve taken from writing entries in this blog.  I will be sharing several of those stories in the next few days.  In the meantime, I recently had a panel proposal accepted for the Northeast Modern Language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failed Predictions</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/12/31/failedpredictions/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/12/31/failedpredictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Predicting the future is a notoriously difficult endeavor and yet there is never a shortage of people willing to play the game, especially at the end of a year. 
Many of the predictions for 2009 seem to involve world politics.  For example, over at Psychic World, Craig and Jane Hamilton-Parker predict that an assassination attempt on [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></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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		<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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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
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		<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>A Lipshitz by Any Other Name</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/03/a-lipshitz-by-any-other-name/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/03/a-lipshitz-by-any-other-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is one of the most amazing stories about an unthinking reliance on technology that I&#8217;ve heard in a long time.  Verizon does not allow the setting up of accounts that have profanity in the name of the account.  This might sound reasonable on its face since you can imagine a young English major deciding it would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy of Jokes</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/24/philosophy-of-jokes/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/24/philosophy-of-jokes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Word of Mouth today on NHPR, I heard an interview with Jim Holt, the author of Stop Me if You&#8217;ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes.  His book is short, only 160 pages, for a history of jokes.  The fact that it contains history and philosophy makes me even more [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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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		<title>Game or Sport?</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/14/game-or-sport/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/14/game-or-sport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While we were in Barcelona, I picked up the European (Summer Journey Double Issue) edition of Time magazine because it&#8217;s about the games that people play around the world.  A number of the articles are fascinating, describing activities that I had never heard of.
For example, one article describes parkour like this: &#8220;It&#8217;s not quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wii Weaknesses</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/06/08/wii-weaknesses/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/06/08/wii-weaknesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent positive experience I had with the Wii exposes a couple of weaknesses in Wii Tennis.
Because they enjoyed playing with our Wii so much, Ann and Greg have purchased their very own Wii.  We went over to their house with our Wii remotes to play.  It was amazingly fun playing Wii Tennis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wii Fitness Age</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/08/wii-fitness-age/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/08/wii-fitness-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wii has a lot of features that you can use with the basic set up.  One of the most popular seems to be the fitness test that comes with Wii Sports.  Once a day, each Mii in the Wii can take the fitness test.  The Mii is presented with what appears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desktop Layouts</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/03/29/desktop-layouts/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/03/29/desktop-layouts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Ann (who, despite being one of the most astute critics of the technological life that I know (or maybe because of that fact&#8211;don&#8217;t you love the parenthetical to the parenthetical?), surprisingly does not have a web page or much of a web presence&#8211;otherwise I would put a link to her here) and I [...]]]></description>
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