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		<title>sync blackberry contacts with gmail: Problem Solved!</title>
		<link>http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/sync-blackberry-contacts-with-gmail-problem-solved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update (February 10, 2009): See Sync Google Calendar and Gmail Contacts with Your BlackBerry for a recent How To guide to the Google Sync for the BlackBerry solution. 
In just over fourteen months, one of my posts has received almost 19% of the views for my entire blog.
There is no other post that even comes close.

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		<title>Injury Time: Remembrance of Things Just Passed &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lumb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened?
I strained my lower back. Badly. It was the result of two careless acts: 


Lifting a heavy prop awkwardly at our annual Mardi Gras event. I felt a twinge of pain, and suspect that this predisposed my back towards injury.
Attempting to leave a leg-press machine before completely releasing the 220 lbs of weight that I, back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&blog=140687&post=249&subd=ianlumb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Blogging 2007: From Legitimizing Blogs to Wikipedia-Competitor Google Knol</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lumb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a recent, year-in-review entry by the Google blogging team.Not only does this entry highlight another wonderful year for Google, it also quantitatively places blogging in perspective. If you ever had any doubts as to the legitimacy of blogging, just read this post.Amongst the highlights I found the announcement of the Knol test project to be of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&blog=140687&post=240&subd=ianlumb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Tail&#8217;s Hidden Majority</title>
		<link>http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/the-long-tails-hidden-majority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lumb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I first ran across Chris Anderson&#8217;s The Long Tail last Summer while blogging on blogging as a writer&#8217;s tool.
I&#8217;ve finally gotten around to reading Anderson&#8217;s book.
Anderson ends his first chapter with the following paragraph:
When you can dramatically lower the costs of connecting supply and demand, it changes not just the numbers, but the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&blog=140687&post=169&subd=ianlumb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DICtabrain: &#8220;Voice Powered Ideas&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/dictabrain-voice-powered-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lumb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In a recent post, I blogged:
&#8230; Jott goes a lot farther than my low-tech solution:

     You call their toll-free number
     You leave a message &#8211; your reminder, to-do, idea, etc.
     Jott transcribes your message, and delivers the corresponding text to your  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&blog=140687&post=153&subd=ianlumb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Annotation Example: Snap Preview Anywhere on WordPress</title>
		<link>http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/12/30/annotation-example-snap-preview-anywhere-on-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lumb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress has just started a Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA) beta.
This is a cool widget in and of itself.
However, as I commented elsewhere, this is also a great example of a dynamic annotation.
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		<title>Automatic Code Generation</title>
		<link>http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/a-blog-to-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lumb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newbie blogger sargon writes:
One of the things I’m working on is generating my .NET business layer from a very basic schema xml file using Ruby, XPath, and erb as the templating language. I have a working prototype and I’ll be posting my results soon to this.
Given my interests, you can understand why I&#8217;m looking forward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&blog=140687&post=56&subd=ianlumb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging as a Writer&#8217;s Tool</title>
		<link>http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/07/25/blogging-as-a-writers-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lumb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had an article published in an online journal. The published version is a completely revised and expanded version of a blog entry. In fact, I used the blog entry to present the storyline to the editor of the online journal. Since publication, I have used my blog to discuss the article. Based on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&blog=140687&post=51&subd=ianlumb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The marketing value of blogs remains underrated</title>
		<link>http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/07/12/the-marketing-value-of-blogs-remains-underrated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lumb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The marketing value of blogs is underrated.
How many Web sites include blogs?
More importantly, since the topic is marketing, how many commercial Web sites include blogs?
As blog-marketing guru Robert Scoble writes:
Now, what is the Web these companies are gearing up for? Yes, you’d be right if you guessed a bloggy Web. A Web with real people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&blog=140687&post=45&subd=ianlumb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rediscovering the `net effect</title>
		<link>http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/06/28/rediscovering-the-net-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lumb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I&#8217;ve been on the `net long enough to recall when Gopher was cool, I must confess that blogging recently made me feel like an  Internet newbie all over again. Why? I once again become intoxicated by the `net effect.
It&#8217;s simple: I write a post and publish it. Within seconds, minutes, hours, days, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&blog=140687&post=42&subd=ianlumb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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