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	<title>Tynan on Tech</title>
	
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		<title>Death, taxes, and the RIAA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan tynan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Your tax dollars are not only saving billionaire bankers from their own bad habits, they're also helping to bail out the recording industry. Does the RIAA really truly need our help? To quote Amy Winhouse, "no no no."]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon behaving badly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan tynan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Net's number one store has come under fire lately -- for weird listings, rude service, and censorship, among other crimes. Is it time to shop for a new online retailer?]]></description>
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		<title>Politics 2.0</title>
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		<comments>http://www.dantynan.com/2008/11/18/politics-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan tynan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Da Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet has changed presidential politics forever &#8211; and mostly for the better
 
As I write this column, the U.S. presidential race is still tighter than a pair of $2 shoes. But this time around, it might not be hanging chads or hockey moms that determine who wins. It might just be the Internet.
[Note: I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s CTO: Just do what, exactly?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.dantynan.com/2008/11/18/obamas-cto-just-do-what-exactly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan tynan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a lousy job, but somebody&#8217;s got to do it. Once we find someone who&#8217;s crazy&#8211;err, patriotic enough to take the position as our nation&#8217;s first CTO, what should he or she do?
 It might possibly be the worst job in the world, outside of replacing Jerry Yang as Yahoo&#8217;s CEO. Yet people seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Once and Future Geek King</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TynanOnTechnologybeta/~3/456090343/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dantynan.com/2008/11/17/the-once-and-future-geek-king/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan tynan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama has yet to fill the position of the nation's CTO, despite plenty of help from Cringesters. Here are a few more suggestions from the land of the geeks.]]></description>
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		<title>Today’s forecast: Gloom followed by increasing doom?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.dantynan.com/2008/11/15/todays-forecast-gloom-followed-by-increasing-doom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan tynan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dantynan.com/2008/11/15/todays-forecast-gloom-followed-by-increasing-doom/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are we heading toward total economic collapse, riots, and a return to the Great Depression? Yes, if you believe folks like Gerald Celente and Fox News.
Don&#8217;t look now, but the sky is falling.
At least it is if you believe Gerald Celente, who&#8217;s making headlines today across the blogosphere with some real downer predictions. By 2012, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geek Week: Microsoft wants friends, Verizon+Google ends?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TynanOnTechnologybeta/~3/452962616/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dantynan.com/2008/11/14/geek-week-microsoft-wants-friends-verizongoogle-ends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan tynan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Verizon dumping Google? Can Microsoft compete face to face with Facebook? If we can put a man on the moon, why not Joe the Plumber? Cringely has answers to all these silly questions.]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7: It’s not you, it’s us. Really.</title>
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		<comments>http://www.dantynan.com/2008/11/12/windows-7-its-not-you-its-us-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan tynan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Are journalists to blame for Vista's failure to catch on? Will Windows 7 suffer a similar fate? Cringely tosses more gasoline on the OS fire.]]></description>
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		<title>Emru Townsend</title>
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		<comments>http://www.dantynan.com/2008/11/12/emru-townsend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan tynan</dc:creator>
		
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It is one of the great regrets of my life that it took me so long to get to know Emru Townsend, and that I will never have the opportunity to know him better.
I&#8217;d known about Emru for years. He was part of PC World&#8217;s extended family of misfits and misanthropes, otherwise known as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who will be king of the Geeks?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.dantynan.com/2008/11/10/who-will-be-king-of-the-geeks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan tynan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Very soon the nation will have its first chief technology officer. Whom should Obama appoint? Cringely shares some ideas.]]></description>
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