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		<title>Iain M. Banks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Per suggestions from my friend Rufus Blooter (and others), I&#8217;ve started to dig into Banksy&#8217;s &#8230; I mean Banks&#8217;s work. The Player of Games was Rufus&#8217; initial suggestion. I enjoyed it and loved the idea of The Culture, but found the characters flat and the prose uninspiring. Now I&#8217;m working through Use of Weapons, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://technopop.org/2010/02/11/iain-m-banks/</link>
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		<title>The Cloud -v- the Paradise of Infinite Storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In other words, what&#8217;s the value of the cloud when the cost of storage is declining precipitously? Or, conversely, what&#8217;s the point in buying lots of storage &#8212; however cheap it is &#8212; when we all have access to the cloud pretty much whenever and wherever we want?) Last year, my pal Sandy Pearlman and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://technopop.org/2010/01/07/the-cloud-v-the-paradise-of-infinite-storage/</link>
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		<title>R.I.Fucking.P.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Luther Dickinson died a few months ago. How did I miss this? The man was a genius, and now I&#8217;ll never get to interview him.
Seriously &#8212; the man who turned two Alex Chilton records * into masterpieces died, and I didn&#8217;t even know.
&#8220;Everybody goes as far as they can, they don&#8217;t just care/
You&#8217;re a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://technopop.org/2009/11/29/r-i-fucking-p/</link>
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		<title>A crap biography&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; of Bowie, but I read on nonetheless. It&#8217;s factually flawed (Spitz calls this the &#8220;Event Harmonizer&#8221;???), occasionally infuriatingly written (dozens of unclear pronoun antecedents), and highly self-indulgent (the interstitial chapters are about Spitz not-meeting Bowie). But the arc&#8217;s compelling, as is the subject.
Someday, Bowie will write his own or authorize a good one. Until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://technopop.org/2009/11/17/a-crap-biography/</link>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Worst Blogger Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six weeks? I am crap, aren&#8217;t I? Not even ambitious-but-crap. Just crap.
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		<link>http://technopop.org/2009/11/17/worlds-worst-blogger-award/</link>
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		<title>The trouble with &#8220;trends&#8221; journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Atrios gets at the underlying problem with assigning journalists to &#8220;trends&#8221; beats: We aren&#8217;t typical consumers of culture; nor do our friends tend to be. 
At NPR, when I was (briefly) assigned as &#8220;cultural trends correspondent&#8221;, the Assistant Managing Editor who supervised my desk kept pushing me to do two stories, one on women in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://technopop.org/2009/10/01/the-trouble-with-trends-journalism/</link>
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		<title>Christ, woman &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; get over yourself!
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		<link>http://technopop.org/2009/08/27/christ-woman/</link>
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		<title>Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Clark rules my world every shabbos. He&#8217;s my rebbe, for real.
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		<link>http://technopop.org/2009/08/22/church/</link>
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		<title>Dear MTA:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve added recorded announcements along the L line, regularly updating passengers about how long it&#8217;ll be until the next train in each directions arrives. That&#8217;s great. 
But at the terminus at Eighth Avenue? They&#8217;re irritating. Because, according to the announcement, a;; trains arrive &#8220;on the Eighth Avenue-bound track&#8221;.
i don&#8217;t know what that means. I&#8217;m already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://technopop.org/2009/08/22/dear-mta/</link>
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		<title>The end of Top Gear?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If some of the speculation is true, I may actually be happy. The penultimate show in the most recent series was terrible &#8212; so bad that I didn&#8217;t even finish watching, which I haven&#8217;t done since the &#8220;new&#8221; show made its debut with not-Capt.-Slow. The final episode seemed slipshod and enervated. The only good race [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://technopop.org/2009/08/03/the-end-of-top-gear/</link>
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