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		<title>Racing Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty Pitkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telling your parents that you have become engaged can be a challenging announcement to word, even when they are forewarned by a very traditional fiancé approaching them for consent in advance. In my case, it was made more difficult by a rather unfortunate encounter involving Brownies and solvent-based glass paint a few hours earlier (“Hi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=custardblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1707037&amp;post=120&amp;subd=custardblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Half Thoughts and Twitter Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty Pitkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.custardether.co.uk/?p=102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At last month&#8217;s Amplified Individuals and Business Resilience event at NLab I tried an experiment: I took my notes using Twitter for the first half of the afternoon, and by hand on paper (gasp &#8211; yes, paper!) for the second half. I have previously blogged about the experience of writing blog posts as a form of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=custardblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1707037&amp;post=102&amp;subd=custardblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Digital Feet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty Pitkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How big is the digital footprint of your event?  Did it make it onto the trending topics list on Twitter?  How many people followed the keynotes via live streaming video?  How much of the conversation was captured? These are the kind of issues that crop up around &#8220;amplified&#8221; events.  I have been to several amplified [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=custardblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1707037&amp;post=101&amp;subd=custardblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Considering Amplification &amp; Resilience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty Pitkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last week&#8217;s NLab event at DMU&#8217;s IOCT the following video by the fascinating Andrea Saveri was launched&#8230; Amplifying Businesses and Communities for Resilience &#8211; Andrea Saveri One of the things I found most interesting about Saveri&#8217;s video was the idea of flexible, ad hoc communities/social structures.  We often think of communities as long term, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=custardblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1707037&amp;post=100&amp;subd=custardblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paper-Mediated Experiences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 09:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty Pitkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.custardether.co.uk/?p=98</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been grappling with a question:   Is it possible to have an authentic spiritual experience mediated by a computer? Several of the papers I have been reading raise this issue, particularly with reference to online rituals.  Aside from there being no sure way for social scientists to determine an authentic spiritual experience [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=custardblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1707037&amp;post=98&amp;subd=custardblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monetization Question</title>
		<link>http://custardblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/the-monetization-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty Pitkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eBooks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.custardether.co.uk/?p=97</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Cromarty, who neatly picked me up for avoiding the monetization issue in digital publishing in my previous post (thought I&#8217;d got away with that!). I think the danger is to think that there will be one solution to the great question of how to make money out of selling digital creative content &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=custardblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1707037&amp;post=97&amp;subd=custardblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Publishers as facilitators</title>
		<link>http://custardblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/publishers-as-facilitators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty Pitkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.custardether.co.uk/?p=96</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I have been mulling over recently (in admittedly quite a random way) is what various jobs might look like in the future as a result of the growth of digital technology.  I am well aware that I am not alone in this, although many of the realistic opinions and discussions I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=custardblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1707037&amp;post=96&amp;subd=custardblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being @bathcsc And Meeting The Geeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty Pitkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of months I have taken on an alternate identity in the name of experimentation and (hopefully!) corporate new media evangelism.  Now, that sounds glamorous&#8230; the reality is a little more prosaic: I have become @bathcsc &#8211; the resident Twitterer at Bath Bus Station&#8217;s Customer Services Department. As part of an experiment in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=custardblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1707037&amp;post=95&amp;subd=custardblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Church as a Web 2.0 Model</title>
		<link>http://custardblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/church-as-a-web-20-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty Pitkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.custardether.co.uk/?p=93</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning there was a thought&#8230;. &#8230;and the thought was thus: &#8220;Church is a community, not a physical place: the Internet is a community, not a physical place&#8221; Within my local church community the vicars have been fighting a battle to change the way we use language when referring to church &#8211; emphasising the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=custardblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1707037&amp;post=93&amp;subd=custardblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Habits</title>
		<link>http://custardblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/reading-habits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty Pitkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone application eReader has changed my life. Or at least, my consumption of literature at any rate. But, crucially, not in the ways that technophobic publishers and bibliophiles would have predicted&#8230; &#8230;Here&#8217;s the thing: I am still reading traditional, print-based books. The whole ink and paper malarky. Shocking, I know! What I am finding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=custardblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1707037&amp;post=87&amp;subd=custardblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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