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	<title>www.brendonwilson.com</title>
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		<title>Twitter Hacked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hmph, how do you tell the world when Twitter is down?
Oh right, when a broadcast-style system fails, the single-point-of-failure brings everything down.
Well.
Good-night then!
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		<link>http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2009/12/17/twitter-hacked/</link>
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		<title>Device That Reads Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Intel reminded us this week that we are, by 1960&#8217;s issues of Popular Mechanics standards, living in The Future. Check out the little device above&#8230;know what it does? It reads book&#8230;from photos. You snap a photo of a page of text, and this device reads the text to you out loud. That, my friend, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2009/11/12/device-that-reads-books/</link>
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		<title>Response to the Georgia Straight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find it intriguing that the Straight found it appropriate to print two responses disagreeing with my comment on the &#8220;Vancouver&#8217;s Homeless Demand Solutions&#8221; story, yet didn&#8217;t see fit to print my original comment itself. As I recall, quoting responses without context is poor journalist form. Nevertheless, despite that oversight, I think it worthwhile to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2009/10/24/response-to-the-georgia-straight/</link>
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		<title>BookCamp Vancouver 2009 Wrapup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The atmosphere at this weekend&#8217;s excellent BookCamp Vancouver 2009 was quite different than other unconferences I&#8217;ve attended in the past. For one thing, people there were taking notes using pencil and paper. And unlike other unconferences, there was an absence of laptops, cameras, and ubiquitous social media coverage; even the #bcvan09 hashtag traffic on Twitter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2009/10/19/bookcamp-vancouver-2009-wrapup/</link>
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		<title>Treehugging: You&#8217;re Doing It Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this faucet in a local mall in Vancouver, and it took me a moment to realize it wasn&#8217;t a joke. Your eyes aren&#8217;t deceiving you: What you&#8217;re seeing is a solar-powered electronic faucet, complete with a handy informative plaque:
By installing this electronic faucet, this facility is demonstrating its commitment to water conservation and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2009/10/17/treehugging-youre-doing-it-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Open Letter to Yuk Yuk&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: This is the second time an entertainment establishment in Vancouver has made dramatic alterations without any acknowledgment to their customers of the changes. Last time, my wife and I went to see Spinal Tap, only to discover TicketMaster had decided to move us from the orchestra to the last row of the balcony section. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2009/09/26/open-letter-to-yuk-yuks/</link>
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		<title>Ask Yourself: Should I Build This?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I heard Guy Kawasaki talk about how the thing that defined Silicon Valley was its &#8220;what the hell, let&#8217;s build it&#8221; attitude. It took me a while to get it, but I came round to understanding his point: get moving, build something, figure out who cares about what you&#8217;ve built, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2009/09/22/ask-yourself-should-i-build-this/</link>
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		<title>The How and Why of Barcamp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re on our final approach to next month&#8217;s Barcamp Vancouver which is shaping up nicely due to the contributions of many volunteers and a list of wonderful sponsors. But one thing bothers me &#8211; any time I mention Barcamp to most people I get one of two perplexing responses:

&#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221;
&#8220;Why would I want to participate?&#8221;

This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2009/09/10/the-how-and-why-of-barcamp/</link>
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		<title>Signing Amazon Web Service Requests in ActionScript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com announced a change to its Product Advertising API requiring all requests after August 15, 2009 to be signed. I&#8217;d been meaning to update one of the Scannerfly example applications and the Shelfari Scanner to sign Amazon requests, but was hoping someone else would figure it out before me. As near as I can tell, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2009/07/31/signing-amazon-web-service-requests-in-actionscript/</link>
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		<title>Bad User Experience: Country-Specific Media Embeds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More and more, there appear to be cracks appearing in the unified facade of media on the Internet &#8211; and this is not a good thing. The example which irks me the most is when traditional media hamfistedly attempts to put content online, and then erects artificial barriers to viewing that content based on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2009/07/26/bad-user-experience-country-specific-media-embeds/</link>
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