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		<title>Google Ad Algo: Still Dumb or Getting a Sense of Humor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A silly little find from someone who rarely uses the Gmail interface:  I was initially surprised to learn that the context-sensitive ads on my Gmail spam box included mostly canned-ham recipes like this one for &#8220;Spam Vegetable Strudel&#8221;:


After all, shouldn&#8217;t a smart Google algorithm differentiate uses of spam as canned ham from spam as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Dissonance Creates the Conditions for Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my exploration of &#8220;systematic creativity,&#8221; I was pleased to take up sociologist David Stark&#8217;s new book, The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life (2009). You might not get it from the title, but this book is about the conditions that lead to creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in organizations. According to Stark, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ Kindle Edition&#8217;s Bad Paperboy</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/news/wsj-kindle-editions-bad-paperboy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I suffered my first misdelivered Kindle newspaper yesterday. I&#8217;m not complaining, really &#8212; I&#8217;m the last person to expect 100% performance from a brand new distribution system. But I did briefly long for the days of paperboys when I saw this:

Clicking through, I read the following apology:
Dear Jonathan,
Thank you for subscribing to The Wall Street [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Solution: Insurance Company Says Peel Fresh Citrus</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/analysis/healthcare-solution-insurance-coompan-says-peel-fresh-citrus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.creativedistraction.com/analysis/healthcare-solution-insurance-coompan-says-peel-fresh-citrus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When a robot from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield (HBCBS) left my wife a message Monday, I was provoked first by the cheerful, familiar voice inflection in the greeting:

It&#8217;s the second call from the health insurance company in a week, so perhaps a familiar tone is warranted.  The virtual caller quickly defuses any suspicion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Systematic Creativity: Four Templates for New Product Ideation, Innovation and Invention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invention]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="/analysis/call-for-writers-to-renovate-the-web/"><img src="http://www.creativedistraction.com/wp-content/uploads/removal_template.gif" alt="The &#34;Removal&#34; Template" title="The &#34;Removal&#34; Template" width="150" height="100" class="right" /></a> Is brainstorming the best way to be creative? Doubt it.]]></description>
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		<title>Use Twitter Anonymously, and Be Someone&#8217;s Muse</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/news/use-twitter-anonymously-and-be-someones-muse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, my company launched a sweet little service that lets anyone post anonymously in the Twitterverse. This service has two flavors: the angelic, heavenly Tweet From Above; and the demonic, hell-raising Tweet From Below. Use either or both as necessary.

Of course, with the core Twitter community being a bunch of oft-tweeting, self-aggrandizing megalomaniacs, you might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Car Fuel Tank Shape: Actual vs. Deduced</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/whiteboard/car-fuel-tank-shape-actual-vs-deduced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Whiteboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Deduced shape based on long-term study of fuel gauge behavior.

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		<title>A Little Trick to Expose More User Data on LinkedIn</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/data/expose-more-user-data-on-linkedin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.creativedistraction.com/data/expose-more-user-data-on-linkedin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=86</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given the enthusiasm with which yesterday&#8217;s absurd Onion headline about Internet privacy was circulated, I decided to publish this slightly devious, slightly concerning, slightly useful little trick for circumventing the privacy constraints on LinkedIn&#8217;s search utility. In this post, I describe a technique that exposes additional user data about people outside your network whom you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data on Start-up Success Says: Start Businesses Early and Often</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/data/data-on-start-up-success-says-start-businesses-early-and-often/</link>
		<comments>http://www.creativedistraction.com/data/data-on-start-up-success-says-start-businesses-early-and-often/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the entrepreneurs who might be reading this, let me first extend my apologies ... to your spouses and families. The data I'm about to share suggests that the key to entrepreneurial success is how many times you try.]]></description>
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		<title>Finding: Job Elimination Is More Newsworthy than Job Growth</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/data/finding-job-elimination-is-more-newsworthy-than-job-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.creativedistraction.com/data/finding-job-elimination-is-more-newsworthy-than-job-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=60</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.creativedistraction.com/wp-content/uploads/coverage_vs_change_in_rate.gif" alt="Coverage vs. Change in Rate" title="Coverage vs. Change in Rate" width="150" height="100" class="right" />With so much change in <em>how</em> we work, we need new news sources on this beat.]]></description>
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