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		<title>Vision blindness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was working a digital painting for my dad for the last month. Since I sent him revisions, I had the benefit of seeing the project at all stages. Here&#8217;s the first image I sent him, along with the &#8220;final&#8221; version. I realized, for the first time, that my initial sketch was absolutely terrible. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/11/vision-blindness/</link>
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		<title>SEO and why the term fails completely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I commented over on PR-Squared about SEO, that delightfully vague term that&#8217;s thrown around almost as much as &#8220;social media guru.&#8221; The post was on the future of public relations, and where PR was headed. One of the explored paths, a scorched wasteland of a future, was SEO. Since my opinion on SEO is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/09/seo-and-why-the-term-fails-completely/</link>
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		<title>PR quagmire: Oprah, Zach Anner, and the unpredictability of online polls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oprah cheated a handicapped man out of a deserved win. That&#8217;s the potential headline, anyway. After Oprah put up a show as the prize in a contest on her site, Reddit and other sites championed an unlikely candidate: A very funny guy with cerebral palsy named Zach Anner. Anner, whose contest video included the quote, &#8220;No [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/07/pr-quagmire-oprah-zach-anner-and-the-unpredictability-of-online-polls/</link>
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		<title>Building your web development team: Meet the warrior, rogue and mage.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In roleplaying games (RPGs), player classes can usually be boiled down to three basic roles: The warrior, the rogue, and the mage. In web development, we see the same three basic archetypes. The Warrior As the heavy hitter (he&#8217;s the guy with the big ax in the picture), the warrior ends up doing a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/05/warrior-rogue-mag/</link>
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		<title>Match Strike launches HootCourse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[StrikePad has been a bit quiet lately. If you&#8217;re wondering why, it&#8217;s because we just launched our new project, HootCourse, into a public beta about two weeks ago. We&#8217;ve been working at a fevered pace since then to get everything just right and deploy a few fixes. Now we&#8217;re looking for feedback and bugs. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/05/match-strike-launches-hootcourse/</link>
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		<title>Introducing the iPan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple just sent over their latest product, the iPan, and I&#8217;ve gotten to spend a couple of days with it now. Here are my impressions. It&#8217;s all about taste. Ramen noodles are the lifeblood of my small startup. Their ease of preparation and low, low price make them ideal for bootstrapping. I had perfected my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/04/introducing-the-ipan/</link>
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		<title>HTML5&#8242;s missing piece: The disclosure tag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a worst case blogging scenario: The FTC have pegged you as a violator of their disclosure guidelines. You now face $11,000 in fines per sponsored post. Or, worse yet&#8211; you don&#8217;t live in the states, but your country has recently implemented a policy that makes the FTC fines seem like parking tickets. Wouldn&#8217;t it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/03/html5s-missing-piece-the-disclosure-tag/</link>
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		<title>Rowfeeder might be the smartest tool yet for social media monitoring in public relations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a chance to meet up with the guys at Untitled Startup a few days ago. They were working on adding some cool stuff to their own site. What really caught my eye, though, was their app Rowfeeder. Rowfeeder is like a lot of apps. It tracks keyword mentions on Twitter. The difference, however, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/03/rowfeeder/</link>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s fountain of youth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is rolling out a new layout. If the story doesn&#8217;t sound familiar, it should. You can guess the rest. Some people got it early. It has mixed reviews. There&#8217;s a facebook group with thousands of people unhappy with the changes. And the latest step: People groaning that it&#8217;s already happening again. (The irony of including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/02/facebooks-fountain-of-youth/</link>
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		<title>How Apple hides the iPad&#8217;s dirty little secret with an optical illusion.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the iPad as you (probably) haven&#8217;t seen it before: Like many others, at one point I found myself asking, &#8220;Wait&#8230; it&#8217;s a 4:3 screen?&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t because I was disappointed in the new specs; this was hours after I had seen actual images of the device. &#8220;I could have sworn it was widescreen!&#8221; I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2010/01/how-apple-hides-the-ipads-dirty-little-secret-with-an-optical-illusion/</link>
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