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	<title>Desert of My Real Life &#187; Society</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>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/10/13/arrested-for-poking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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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>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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=343</guid>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=337</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Playing With Swine Flu</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/18/playing-with-swine-flu/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/18/playing-with-swine-flu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone seems to be talking about and planning for the H1N1 virus these days.  My university, for example, sent out a memo to encourage us to plan for extended absences due to the virus as we plan our classes for the fall semester.   Now we can all participate in world-wide planning for the potential pandemic, thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognizing Patterns for NetFlix</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/02/recognizing-patterns-for-netflix/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/02/recognizing-patterns-for-netflix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology and Medicine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My area of research when I was in computer science was artificial intelligence.  AI is a broad field with many subfields, each of which has many applications.  Within AI, I was particularly interested in pattern recognition via machine learning techniques. When I left computer science, I turned my research attention to the topic of this blog and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>New Kindle Developments</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/07/18/new-kindle-developments/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/07/18/new-kindle-developments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to my dad tonight about the Kindle.  He&#8217;s a fan and wants one, but feels as though he doesn&#8217;t read enough to justify the expense.  I&#8217;ve written about the Kindle before and have said that I have a problem with Amazon&#8217;s high pricing of electronic books.  Now Amazon has screwed up in another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiments in Online Education</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/06/30/experiments-in-online-education/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/06/30/experiments-in-online-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ian Schreiber, co-author of Challenges for Game Designers, is undertaking an interesting experiment in online education this summer.  He is offering an online course called Game Design Concepts via Web 2.0 tools (a blog, a wiki, a discussion board, Twitter and so on).  None of this is revolutionary.  What makes this experiment interesting is that [...]]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=262</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Travesty of Justice</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/06/19/travesty-of-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/06/19/travesty-of-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court yesterday ruled in a case from Alaska that the state does not have to provide physical evidence (which the state still has) to a man who has been in prison for 16 years for the purposes of new DNA testing (which the man has agreed to pay for himself).  Ed Brayton provides an excellent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Medical Technology</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/06/04/changing-medical-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/06/04/changing-medical-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology and Medicine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading My Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming.  Howard Dully received a transorbital lobotomy (also known as an &#8220;ice-pick lobotomy&#8221;) when he was 12 years old.  The doctor who performed the lobotomy was the king of transorbital lobotomies, Walter Freeman.  The book chronicles Dully&#8217;s life as well as his search, more than 40 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recycling</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/05/30/recycling/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/05/30/recycling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 23:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re anything like me, you probably have a couple of old, unused computers lying around your house gathering dust.  In my house, we had six computers until recently, two very old desktops, two relatively old laptops and two new laptops.  We had accumulated these six computers in just 11 years since we had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security Theater</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/05/23/security-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/05/23/security-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 20:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing captures the public&#8217;s attention like a named killer.  Jack the Ripper.  The Boston Strangler.  Son of Sam.  Zodiac.  The Night Stalker.  The Green River Killer.   Last month, a new name was added to this list: The Craigslist Killer.  It turns out that Philip Markoff, the medical student who was arrested (and who has pled not [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=189</guid>
		<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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=170</guid>
		<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>Digital Rights Management</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/13/digital-rights-management/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/13/digital-rights-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=40</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the late 1980&#8217;s, I worked as a volunteer on a running race. Because I had a background in computer science, one of my tasks was to set up a database of all the race entrants and then to enter their finishing positions after the race so that we could publish the results in [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=77</guid>
		<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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></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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		<title>Technology, Sports and Cheating</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/18/sports-technology-and-cheating/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/18/sports-technology-and-cheating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology and Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the Olympics news coverage has focused on the fact that so many swimmers set world records in their events, partly because of advances in swimsuit technology.  Speedo&#8217;s LZR Racer, a full body swimsuit that reduces drag by using ultrasonic welding rather than stitching and by streamlining the 2% body fat of elite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Always Believe Your Eyes</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/13/you-cant-always-believe-your-eyes/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/13/you-cant-always-believe-your-eyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In yet another step toward hyperreality, it has been revealed that the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics were (partially) faked.  If you watched the spectacle on television, you were probably amazed by the fireworks display.  There was indeed a fireworks display during the ceremony but you weren&#8217;t watching it.  Instead you [...]]]></description>
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