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	<title>Desert of My Real Life</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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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>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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>

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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>Patrick Swayze</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/09/14/patrick-swayze/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/09/14/patrick-swayze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>

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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>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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=329</guid>
		<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>Summer Play</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/13/summer-play/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/13/summer-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Play]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=316</guid>
		<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>Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Radical Medical Technology</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/11/eunice-kennedy-shriver/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/11/eunice-kennedy-shriver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology and Medicine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you have been on an island somewhere lately, you probably know that Eunice Kennedy Shriver has been hospitalized for the past few days and died this morning at age 88.  The achievement she is most well-known for, of course, is founding the Special Olympics.  She often cited her sister Rosemary as the inspiration for [...]]]></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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		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=284</guid>
		<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>Board Games &#8216;R Us</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/07/17/board-games-r-us/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/07/17/board-games-r-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/?p=282</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently posted a list of board games that she had as a kid (and wished she had never gotten rid of).  She had quite an interesting list.  So I decided to go check out the site that she linked to and discovered a game that I think I&#8217;m going to have [...]]]></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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		<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>

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		<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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