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		<title>WordPress Plugin Ajax Event Calendar Exceeds 31,000 Downloads</title>
		<link>http://innermonolog.com/2011/10/wordpress-plugin-ajax-event-calendar-exceeds-31000-downloads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ajax Event Calendar WordPress plugin surpasses 31,000 downloads in just four months since its release.  This easy-to-use visual community calendar allows authorized users to add, edit, move, copy, resize and delete entries into custom categories, and supports daily, weekly, monthly and yearly repeating events.  Designed, developed and supported by Product Development Professional Eran Miller, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ajax Event Calendar Plugin for WordPress</title>
		<link>http://innermonolog.com/2011/06/ajax-event-calendar-plugin-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce the recent release of the Ajax Event Calendar plugin for WordPress.  Efforts to create the AEC were launched a few months ago, when I was asked to setup an easy-to-use blog community calendar that supported multiple user contribution. Despite the many calendar plugins available, none were appropriate or easily modified to address all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Raving Fans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this quick read, co-authors Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles begin by establishing that &#8220;Satisfied customers just aren&#8217;t good enough,&#8221;  and the three principles to creating Raving Fans, as delivered by a Fairy Godmother named Charlie, are as follows: Develop an ideal vision of your service Without a goal it&#8217;s impossible to know when you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combat Information Overload with Crowd-sourcing</title>
		<link>http://innermonolog.com/2011/02/combat-information-overload-with-crowd-sourcing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Tools Aren&#8217;t Helping If you&#8217;re an information junkie like me, you have over 60 RSS feeds in Google Reader, and are tired of staying up late to keep up with the ever-growing mountain of new technology trends before they become irrelevant.  You have tried to reduce unwanted content from the more prolific feeds in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right Turns to Wrong Conclusions</title>
		<link>http://innermonolog.com/2011/01/right-turns-to-wrong-conclusions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider the following&#8230; You&#8217;re driving in an urban setting from Point A to Point B.  Assume reaching your destination requires turning both left and right at intersections, but you&#8217;re only permitted to make right turns. You might think that restriction wastes fuel &#8211; you would be wrong.  But we&#8217;ll get back to that in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missed Connections</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LinkedIn has released a nifty connection map visualization,  with the intent of providing greater insight into your professional network.  Unfortunately, how people input company name in their profile can create erroneous clustering and skew your results. For example, in my map, several connections have been labeled Orange &#8211; which corresponds to people formerly employed by CompanyA - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: How to Make Ideas Stick</title>
		<link>http://innermonolog.com/2011/01/book-review-how-to-make-ideas-stick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Jared Spool there are Five indispensable skills for a UX Mastery, among them are presenting and storytelling.  The book by Chip and Dan Heath, How to Make Ideas Stick, squarely focuses on optimizing these skills. Below are the Six Principles of SUCCESs that anyone can employ to make their ideas understandable, memorable, and effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Dark Side of Usability</title>
		<link>http://innermonolog.com/2011/01/on-the-dark-side-of-usability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a user interface &#8220;tries to offload as much &#8216;trivial&#8217; mechanical thinking as possible to the machine,&#8221; it can produce negative results&#8221;. This post sites a 2008 study by Christof van Nimwegen&#8217;s called The paradox of the guided user: assistance can be counter-effective, and while I don&#8217;t agree with the conclusions drawn from those results, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perception of Waiting</title>
		<link>http://innermonolog.com/2010/12/perception-waiting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A single checkout line distributed to multiple clerks experiences fewer delays, yet we perceive that when organized in parallel lines, checkout is faster. In less than 4 minutes, with the aid of low-budget yet engaging animation, Bill Hammack &#8211; from the Department of Chemical &#38; Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois &#8211; briefly explains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Shady Opt-Out</title>
		<link>http://innermonolog.com/2010/12/shady-optout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received an unexpected birthday greeting from my car dealership, unexpected because it&#8217;s not my birthday. I was prepared to dismiss it as a simple data entry error, but then the call concluded with another surprise, a dark pattern opt-out. To stop future robo-call announcements (like the one I was listening to), I was [...]]]></description>
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