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		<title>Are you game?: How getting hit by a bus inspired Frogger-style online game</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/05/nick-vs-bus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 23:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[!Fuck Yeah!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creativity & content]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bus vs Nick]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foam Sword Friday]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nick Engmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Texas at Austin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who has been to university you will know now stressful the last few weeks of semester can be. Procrastinating and/or drinking may be one way to take your mind of it, but over at the University of Texas at Austin, the good people of the Architecture Student Council on campus organise a biannual end-of-semester event named Foam Sword Friday, in which students bearing foam swords do battle on the pedestrian crossing on Guadalupe Street at the West Mall entrance to the campus. When the lights turn red, the student hoard engage each other in swordplay in the middle of the street. At this year&#8217;s event an eager freshman was hit by a bus that ran the red light. As you can see&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>(RE)MIXED RESPONSES John Mayer plays Video Games</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/04/john-mayer-video-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Mayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Parker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lana Del Rey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Well who knows, maybe John Mayer does play video games? But the bluesy popster has recorded  two melancholic guitar covers of Lana Del Rey&#8216;s &#8216;Video Games.&#8217; &#8216;Sounds from Thursday afternoon&#8217; is more true to Mayer&#8217;s sound (and Del Rey and Justin Parker&#8217;s original composition for that matter). It is &#8216;Sounds from Thursday evening&#8217;, a more watery bluesy guitar version, that meanders off in some other direction around the 2 minute mark. But both tracks are totally worth a listen.]]></description>
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		<title>BIT ON THE SIDE Instagram Android app not ready for walkthrough but coming</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/03/instagram-android-app-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[!Bit on the Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desktops & devices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexia Tsotsis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instagram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instagram Android app]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Systrom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TechCruch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Talking at a SXSW Interactive fireside chat with TechCruch editor Alexia Tsotsis, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom said their Android app was nearly ready but was reluctant to do a full walkthrough. But he did say that “In some ways, it’s better than our iOS app.&#8221; Looking forward to a release date! He also talked about their number of users &#8211; some 27 million registered with a &#8220;Facebook-level of engagement&#8221; - and what their business model might look like into the future. ↷ Instagram Reaches 27 Million Registered Users And Says Its Android App Is Nearly Here Kim-Mai Cutler on TechCrunch, 12 March 2012. &#160; Not getting enough? Grab the Bit on the side RSS feed for a regular rendezvous.]]></description>
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		<title>Google combines entertainment services into Google Play</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/03/google-combines-entertainment-services-into-google-play/</link>
		<comments>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/03/google-combines-entertainment-services-into-google-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[!Rapid fire]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Android Market]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Rosenberg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING Before reading this, please be aware that Google Music and movie rentals through Google Play are still country restricted, so if you&#8217;re not in the United States (and don&#8217;t know how to get around that) this may make you sad! Just a heads up! Just hours ago Google launched Google Play, a combined user interface for your apps, books, movies and music, bringing together the content and purchase platforms that used to be the separate Android Market, Google Music and the Google Books eBookstore services (you&#8217;ll notice that market.android.com, music.google.com and books.google.com/ebooks all now redirect to their respective areas of Google Play). They&#8217;ve also launched the Google Play Store Android app as well as Play apps to use your books, movies and music. Most of Play&#8217;s features are really just&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>FUCK YEAH! Björk includes a tesla coil in her instruments for Biophilia!</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/03/bjork-plays-tesla-coil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Biophilia (2011)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love or hate Björk you cannot deny she&#8217;s an innovative performer. She has used all kinds of weird and wonderful objects as instruments in her songs over the years. Check out this video of her performing &#8216;Thunderbolt&#8217; from]]></description>
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		<title>New NAB index to track Australian sales online &#8211; early data shows it&#8217;s &#8220;booming&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/nab-online-retail-sales-index/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there have been numerous reports pointing to high Australian spend online, the inaugural NAB Online Retail Sales Index prepared by National Australia Bank in association with data analytics firm Quantium, indicates that online spending remains buoyant compared to the retail sector. &#8220;At $10.5 billion, online represented 4.9% of traditional retail spending in 2011 and is growing at a rate of 29% per annum,&#8221; the report notes, &#8220;compared with traditional retail sales growth of 2.5%.&#8221; NAB&#8217;s press release reads: National Australia Bank (NAB), in association with data analytics firm Quantium, today launched the inaugural NAB Online Retail Sales Index which provides a detailed analysis of trends in online spending by Australian consumers. The index recorded 29 per cent growth in online spending in 2011, valuing online sales in Australia at $10.5 billion&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The new &#8216;Brian Fitzgerald projects&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/prof-brian-fitzgerald-acu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright & intellectual property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to and use of Public Sector Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Catholic University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative commons australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government 2.0 Taskforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property: Knowledge Culture and Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law and Justice Research Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law for Creative Innovation program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Access to Knowledge Law Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opening Access to Australia's Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peer-to-Patent Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prof Brian Fitzgerald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queensland Law Reform Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queensland University of Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;ve know about this for awhile, the information is now public so I can tell you all about it. My former boss, Professor Brian Fitzgerald—specialist Research Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation, Co-Project Lead of Creative Commons Australia where I worked for 8 years, and more recently a Director of the corporation and member of the Board of Creative Commons—is taking up a new position as Executive Dean of  the new Faculty of Law at the Australian Catholic University from March this year. As most people who know me well can attest, I have nothing but admiration for Brian&#8217;s trailblazing leadership is so many of the areas I give a shit about. Before joining the Australia Council for the Arts I worked under Brian at&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Grindr mobile app to mobilise the gays globally</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/grindr-for-equality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joel Simkhai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nearby Buddy Finder LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proposition 8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Title 10 United States Code § 654]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The much talked about mobile geolocation social network for same-sex interested men, <a href="http://grindr.com" target="_blank">Grindr</a> has <a href="http://blog.grindr.com/2012/02/grindr-for-equality-needs-you" target="_blank">embarked on a new community project</a> to provide information and (hopefully) activate some of their 3 million+ users to LGBTI community activism campaigns. Called <a href="http://grindr4equality.com" target="_blank">Grindr for Equality</a>, the project aims to better coordinate Grindr's community efforts. Grindr cites their recent involvement in campaigns such as the the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_ask,_don't_tell#Repeal" target="_blank">repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" legislation</a>, overturning of Proposition 8 and the passage of marriage equality in New York State as the impetus for the project.]]></description>
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		<title>White House outlines a privacy blueprint including a Privacy Bill of Rights</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/white-house-privacy-blueprint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Privacy, censorship & surveillance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[information privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jasmin Melvin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[online privacy management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has released a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights to &#8220;guide efforts to give users more control over how their personal information is used on the Internet and to help businesses maintain consumer trust and grow in the rapidly changing digital environment.&#8221; The Privacy Bill of Rights—which is detailed in full in a report released by the White House entitled Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy—establishes a baseline for the protection for consumer data by outlining 7 rights consumers can expect in relation to their private data: &#160; Individual Control: Consumers have a right to exercise control over what personal data organizations collect from them and how they use it.&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Sportsgirl takes window shopping digitally at Chapel Street store, Melbourne</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/sportsgirl-virtual-store-chapel-street/</link>
		<comments>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/sportsgirl-virtual-store-chapel-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Desktops & devices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[onlnie shopping]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 27 February 2012, 12.51 PM My friend Anna Brennan from Button Empire kindly to a trip to Chapel Street to get me a few pics. Thanks Anna! Last week Woolworths&#8217; rolled up a &#8216;virtual&#8217; supermarket on the walls on Town Hall in Sydney. This week Sportsgirl turned the windows of their Chapel Street store in Melbourne into a &#8216;window store&#8217;. Like the point-and-purchase supermarket, the windows displays images of selected inventory for sale. Take a photo of the barcode (does anyone know if it&#8217;s a QR code?) QR code and you can purchase the item through Sportgirl&#8217;s online store. Just like Woolworths, I tip this is nothing more than a PR exercise. But hey, here I am talking about it when I never thought I would&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s getting clouded &#8211; space in the cloud environment</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/its-getting-clouded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[GIZMODO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just now I was writing about something else entirely on this blog when the GIZMODO extension I used with Chrome popped up with the headline, &#8220;Get 50GB Free Storage for Android.&#8221; Eyebrow raised, I impulsive clicked the link and followed the article&#8217;s instructions to get Box&#8216;s Android app &#8220;right now&#8221; to get 50GB of cloud storage for free forever. True to their word, I got my 50GB free. While this is a pretty sweet deal—and I do encourage any fellow Android user to take them up on their 30-day offer—as the app downloaded and I registered for another cyber locker service, I began to think, &#8216;Do I actually need this space? What will I use it for?&#8217; I asked myself this because I have so many cloud locker&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>New Latitude Leaderboard adds points to check-ins</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/google-latitude-leaderboard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When I checked in to work this morning as I usually do I was surprised to discover a new Leaderboard feature had been introduced with the latest update of Google Maps with Navigation for Android. With each Google Latitude check-in you make, you earn points which are tallied to give you a total score for the week. Your score is then compared to others in your Google+ circles. The person with the most points leads the leaderboard. It would seem most of my friends on Google+ don&#8217;t check in too often! Early reporting on the ninja release are likening it to Foursquare, which I suppose in some ways it is (points and leaders). Of course Foursquare has a much more sophisticated incentive structure&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>IN/OUTPUTS for 20 to 26 February</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/links-wb-20-feb-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arts participation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that&#8217;s passed through my feeds this week 4921.0 &#8211; Participation in Selected Cultural Activities, Australia, 2010-11 The ABS has released a dataset and analysis of levels of participation in the arts by Australians over the age of 15 drawn from survey respondents to the 2010–11 Multipurpose Household Survey (MPHS). Turns out over that period 27% (4.7 million people) participated in a cultural activity of some kind (although less than half participated more than once). Of that amount, &#8220;Women had a higher participation rate in cultural activities (31%) than men (23%),&#8221; the ABS press release states, &#8220;but when it came to being paid, 18% of men received a wage, salary or other payment for their participation in cultural activities&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Woolworths turns Town Hall into a (virtual) meat market</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/woolworths-virtual-store-town-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 20 February 2012 @ 11.58 AM I ducked up to Town Hall quickly to take a few shots for this blog entry. Woolworths launched a trial &#8216;virtual&#8217; supermarket on the walls on Town Hall near the subway entry to their store at the corner of Park and George Streets in Sydney. Basically, instead of going 25 more meters into the store and buying your goods you can use your mobile to itemise and pay for products which will be home delivered (for a fee). While customers have been able to browse, purchase and have their goods delivered on the Woolworths iOS app and the Android app, this lets them see a full-sized image of the goods. Goods on the racks of the virtual store&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Google Street View has depth</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/google-street-view-has-depth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Built & living environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akiyoshi-do limestone cavern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BLDGBLOG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoff Manaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Maps]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mashable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Okubo-mabu mine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has been taking Google Maps Street View off the beaten (foot)path for awhile now. While you&#8217;ve been able to see famous destinations, art galleries and UNESCO World Heritage sites as well as famous parks, ski slopes, university campuses and even inside some businesses in 360°, Google Japan has taken Street View to a depth it&#8217;s never been before (pun intended!) with the inclusion of a cave and a mine. A project I am sure will be of interest to Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG. Now you can see inside the Akiyoshi-do limestone cavern and the Okubo-mabu mine on Google Maps (embedded below respectively). Makes you wonder where is next for Street View? ↷ &#160; Google Street View Takes You Inside Ancient Japanese Caves [VIDEO] Sam Laird on Mashable, 15 February&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Deja sue as Apple starts new litigation against Samsung</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/apple-samsung-lawsuit-deja-vu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[camera unlock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mobile devices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little litigation déjà vu. It seems Apple will be keeping the lawyers on for a little bit longer, adding a new round of patent litigation against Samsung to the unsurprising appeal of last year&#8217;s case. In the United States Apple has filed new patent infringement claims, this time the focus is on the the Galaxy Nexus, the newest of the Nexus series and the Ice Cream Sandwich flagship phone. Filed in the District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday last week, Apple is seeking &#8220;a preliminary injunction regarding Samsung&#8217;s new Galaxy Nexus, which infringes multiple key Apple patents, is essential to prevent immediate and irreparable harm to Apple&#8221;. The patents in question are: United States Patent No 5,946,647 - dubbed the &#8216;data tapping&#8217; patent,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>IN/OUTPUTS for 13 to 19 February</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/links-wb-13-feb-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Battle of Tripoli (2011)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that&#8217;s passed through my feeds this week EU drive to protect drug firms puts fight against Aids at risk The European Union hopes to finalise a Free Trade Agreement with India at the 12th EU-India summit that will include a deal to slow production of low-price generic medicines for distribution to developing countries of India&#8217;s generic drug companies. While I can understand the economic incentive to control the development of generics by Western pharmaceuticals, there&#8217;s a human cost that is more important. Just look at generic HIV anti-viral medication for example: as the The Independent reports, &#8220;More than 80 per cent of those on HIV treatment in developing countries are on generic medicines made in India.&#8221; I hope&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>BIT ON THE SIDE Chrome for Android released</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/chrome-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all knew it was only a matter of time till Google released Chrome for Android. And that time is now. Google Chrome for Android was released in beta for Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich yesterday in the United States. Unfortunately my Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab 7.0 both aren&#8217;t running Android 4.0, but The Official Google Blog details some cool features. Most importantly, tabs open on your desktop Chrome application show up in Chrome on your phone or tablet. Bookmark syncing is a welcome addition too. Here&#8217;s the YouTube video announcing the release of Chrome for Android. &#160; ↷ Introducing Chrome for Android on The Official Google Blog, 7 February. &#160; Not getting enough? Grab the Bit on the side RSS feed for&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>BIT ON THE SIDE HBO invests $10m in Quickflix</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/hbo-quickflix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Creativity & content]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Game of Thrones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HBO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian DVD and online movie rental business Quickflix received a $10 million cash injection today as American cable network HBO secured a 15.7% interest in the business and a seat at the boardroom table. While they&#8217;ve done plenty of deals with other providers &#8211; including a deal with Quickflix itself only a few weeks ago which will bring popular series such as True Blood, Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire to the Australian service &#8211; it is not common for HBO to take a financial stake. The benefits to Quickflix are obvious. For HBO it positions their movies and series well in the Australian market ahead of speculation that other international players may be moving in soon. ↷ Quickflix wins $10 million investment from American television network HBO Patrick Stafford on&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Abandoned&#8217; iPhone portraits on display</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/irby-pace-unintended-consquences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cora Stafford Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irby Pace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orphan works]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the weekend while I was at Androidland I was just thinking about the amount of inadvertent content created on the tester phones at mobile stores. All those display phones with their exciting functionality to explore. Think about it, how many quick portraits are snapped in mobile stores each day? What happens to these spontaneous headshots? Do they stay on the tester phone&#8217;s harddrive? A secret testament to random consumers&#8217; existence until the device is wiped or disposed of? United States photographer Irby Pace spendt 2010 harvesting some of these snapshot portraits from Apple Stores. The digital collection of over 1000 &#8216;abandoned&#8217; portraits are being exhibited under the title Unintended Consequences as part of his Master of Fine Arts at the University of North Texas. Beyond the obvious socio-cultural intriguing such&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>BIT ON THE SIDE Beanhunter Android app announced</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/02/beanhunter-android-app-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The release of an Android OS version of the popular coffee discovery app Beanhunter has been announced on the release of it&#8217;s Android version &#8220;is imminent&#8221;! Not getting enough? Grab the Bit on the side RSS feed for a regular rendezvous.]]></description>
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		<title>(Re)mixed responses &#8211; Walk Off the Earth feat Sarah Blackwood cover Gotye</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/01/walk-off-the-earth-cover-gotye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Re)mixed responses - exploring il/legitimate appropriation from remix to sampling to blatant rip-off Good on Gotye! Yesterday his track &#8216;Somebody That I Used to Know&#8217; which he did with Kimbra came in as number one in yesterday&#8217;s Hottest 100 count down on Triple J. While I&#8217;d heard this cover before, it&#8217;s timely to post about it. Canadian band Walk Off the Earth used just one guitar between all the band members to record an very cute cover of the track ^_^ ↷ Watch Walk Off The Earth&#8217;s Adorable Cover Of Gotye&#8217;s &#8216;Somebody That I Used To Know&#8217; David Greenwald on MTV Buzzworthy Blog, 11 January 2012. Haven&#8217;t sampled enough? Grab the (Re)mixed responses RSS feed for random moments of il/legitimate appropriation.]]></description>
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		<title>BIT ON THE SIDE Emergency alert information now on Google Maps</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/01/emergency-info-google-maps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Google Crisis Response team at Google.org, Google&#8217;s philanthropic arm, has released a public alerts service that plots government emergency alerts information onto their Public Alerts website and onto Google Maps.The first release is showing weather, public safety and earthquake alerts from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States National Weather Service, and the United States Geological Survey (USGS). In light of the debacle around the dissemination of emergency information during the horrific fires in Victoria in 2009, it&#8217;s about time services such as this were being fed government information. Hopefully the new platform will eventually be integrated into google.com search results as well. And hopefully other government agencies around the world will start releasing data feeds to populate the platform. Gimmie more Google Public Alerts help, Google. ↷ Public Alerts now&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>IN/OUTPUTS for 23 to 29 January</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/01/links-wb-23-jan-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[community gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that&#8217;s passed through my feeds this week Magic Mushrooms Could Treat Depression What happens at the merge point of sustainability, waste management, re/upcycling, community gardening, whole foods/farmer&#8217;s markets, locavore consumption, slow food and alternative food distribution? Back to the Roots is what! It&#8217;s a farming operation in California that uses recycled coffee grounds to grow gourmet mushrooms. But the waste upcycle story doesn&#8217;t end there, Back to the Roots&#8217; own waste is given away to anyone who wants it. Turns out the mycelium, the mushroom root left over after harvest, is a composters wet dream! What started as two guys — Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez — growing mushrooms in an old paint tin in an UC Berkeley&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>United States House Judiciary Committee consideration of SOPA postponed</title>
		<link>http://elliottbledsoe.com/2012/01/sopa-postponed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliott bledsoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to Senator Reid&#8217;s announcement that the United States Senate vote on the PROTECT IP Act will be postponed, Representative Lamar Smith, who introduced the Bill, also announced yesterday that the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary will &#8220;&#8230; postpone consideration of the legislation until there is wider agreement on a solution.&#8221; Smith&#8217;s press release reads: &#160; Statement from Chairman Smith on Senate Delay of Vote on PROTECT IP Act Washington, D.C. — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today issued the following statement in response to the Senate decision to postpone consideration of legislation to help combat online piracy. Chairman Smith:  “I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy. It is clear that we need to&#8230;]]></description>
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