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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; John Naughton</title>
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		<title>Apple has a secret weapon in iOS7, iPhone5s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Steve Jobs was still with us, many commentators &#8212; yours truly included &#8212; used to complain about the &#8220;reality distortion field&#8221; that surrounded Apple&#8217;s charismatic leader. Those in attendance when Jobs launched the devices and services (iPod, iTunes, OS X, iMac, MacBook, iPhone and iPad) that blew such huge holes in the business models [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is China after our inventions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things never change. For as long as I can remember, people in the west have been paranoid about the Orient &#8212; and about China in particular. I grew up in an ultra-devout Catholic household in rural Ireland and I remember my mother being terrified by what people then called &#8220;the yellow peril,&#8221; by which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Snowden leaks, why trust a U.S. cloud?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s an ill bird,&#8221; runs the adage, &#8220;that fouls its own nest.&#8221; Cue the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), which, we now know, has been busily doing this for quite a while. As the revelations by Edward Snowden tumbled out, the scale of the fouling slowly began to dawn on us. Outside of the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coase idea explains Internet economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the news broke last week that Ronald Coase, the economist and Nobel laureate, had died at the age of 102, what came immediately to mind was Keynes&#8217; observation that &#8220;practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.&#8221; Most of the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web giants pumping us for data</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Should you be looking for an example of hucksterish cynicism, then the mantra that &#8220;data is the new oil&#8221; is as good as they come. Although its first recorded uttering goes as far back as 2006, in recent times it has achieved the status of an approved corporate cliche, though nowadays &#8220;data&#8221; is generally qualified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banish trolls but the Net needs anonymity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the proprietor of the Huffington Post has decided to ban anonymous commenting from the site, starting in mid-September. Speaking to reporters after a conference in Boston, Massachusetts, Arianna Huffington said: &#8220;Trolls are just getting more and more aggressive and uglier and I just came from London where there are rape and death threats. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s new &#8216;smart meters&#8217; not so clever</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make credulous. In the case of technology, especially technology involving computers, that&#8217;s pretty easy to do. Quite why people are so overawed by computers when they are blasé about, say, truly miraculous technologies such as high-speed trains, is a mystery that we will have to leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manning case tests computer fraud laws&#8217; credibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you think that, as a society, the United States has become a basket case? Well, join the club. I&#8217;m not just thinking of the country&#8217;s dysfunctional Congress, pathological infatuation with firearms, addiction to litigation, crazy healthcare arrangements, engorged prison system, chronic inequality, 50-year-old military-industrial complex and out-of-control security services. There is also its strange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Snowden, the days of the global Internet are numbered</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Repeat after me: Edward Snowden is not the story. The story is what he has revealed about the hidden wiring of our networked world. This insight seems to have escaped most of the world&#8217;s mainstream media, for reasons that escape me but would not have surprised Evelyn Waugh, whose contempt for journalists was one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Microsoft spent a decade asleep on the job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, a young man named Bill had a vision. He saw &#8220;a PC on every desk, and every machine running Microsoft software.&#8221; And lo, it came to pass, and the company Bill cofounded became a gigantic machine for making money, and Bill became the richest man on Earth. This agreeable outcome was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different metaphor for China&#8217;s firewall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, when it was discovered that a U.S. intelligence agency was pouring millions of dollars into a research project on &#8220;metaphor,&#8221; some people thought it was a delayed April Fool&#8217;s joke. This columnist begged to differ, on the grounds that metaphors are the way that most of us make sense of the world, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are the sum of our metadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past two weeks, I have lost count of the number of officials and government ministers who, when challenged about Internet surveillance by Britain&#8217;s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States, try to reassure their citizens by saying that the spooks are &#8220;only&#8221; collecting metadata, not &#8220;content.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porn: Do we really want ISPs to censor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearly beloved: our subject this morning is online pornography and what to do about it. The fact that there is a good deal of erotic material on the Internet is beyond dispute, though the precise amount is unclear. Let us assume that X percent of websites contain porn, where X is a number between five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware: NSA knows the power of your metadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To be remembered after we are dead,&#8221; wrote William Hazlitt, &#8220;is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.&#8221; Cue U.S. President &#8220;George W&#8221; Obama in the matter of telephone surveillance by his National Security Agency. The fact that for the past seven years the agency has, without a warrant, been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NSA has us all trapped</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[internet privacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching British Foreign Secretary William Hague doing his avuncular routine in the Commons on June 10, I was reminded of the way establishment figures in the 1950s used to reassure hoi polloi that they had nothing to worry about. Everything was in order. The Right Chaps were in charge. Citizens who had done nothing wrong, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re not a customer, you&#8217;re just a user</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/06/12/digital/youre-not-a-customer-youre-just-a-user/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=youre-not-a-customer-youre-just-a-user</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader writes: &#8220;Dear John Naughton, As you write about the Internet, I wondered if you knew how long it takes Yahoo to get back to people. I have an iPad, but went to the library to print a document (attached to an email). Yahoo knew I wasn&#8217;t on my iPad and asked me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do self-driving cars need to cost so much?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The best is the enemy of the good,&#8221; said the 18th-century French writer Voltaire. It&#8217;s a maxim that has a particular resonance for tech designers, because it highlights the intrinsic tension between ambition and pragmatism that haunts them. Many perfectly viable products have never made it beyond the prototype stage because their designers felt they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online titans to profit from nostalgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed the hullabaloo last week over the news that Yahoo!, a weighty Internet giant, had paid &#036;1.1 billion to acquire Tumblr, a blogging platform allegedly popular with the yoof of today. What you may not have noticed is the declaration by Marissa Mayer, Yahoo&#8217;s reformist CEO, about her latest trophy acquisition. &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is computing speed set to make a quantum leap?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/05/22/digital/is-computing-speed-set-to-make-a-quantum-leap/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-computing-speed-set-to-make-a-quantum-leap</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[quantum mechanics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our imagination is stretched to the utmost,&#8221; wrote Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of his day, &#8220;not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things that are there.&#8221; Which is another way of saying that physics is weird. And particle physics &#8212; or quantum mechanics, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s big hitters&#8217; most ambitious predictions yet</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/19/books/googles-big-hitters-most-ambitious-predictions-yet/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=googles-big-hitters-most-ambitious-predictions-yet</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[connectivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When, in early 2011, Eric Schmidt stepped aside from his position as Google&#8217;s CEO to become the company&#8217;s executive chairman, some of us were reminded of Dean Acheson&#8217;s famous gibe about postwar Britain &#8212; which had &#8220;lost an empire but not yet found a role.&#8221; What would Dr. Schmidt&#8217;s new role be, and when would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crude 3-D print tech will make a big bang</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/05/15/digital/crude-3-d-print-tech-will-make-a-big-bang/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=crude-3-d-print-tech-will-make-a-big-bang</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3-D printing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The news that a few jokers in Texas calling themselves Defense Distributed have succeeded in creating a working handgun using 3-D printing technology has thrown the cat into the pigeon coop. The reaction from legislators in the United States has been hyperactive. Democratic Congressman Steve Israel from New York was first out of the starting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Glass, half full or half empty?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese name their years after animals &#8212; the year of the goat, the rat and so on. In the tech world, we name years after devices. Thus, 2007 was the year of the iPhone and 2010 was the year of the iPad. It&#8217;s beginning to look as though 2013 will be the year of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fragile systems make twits of us all</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, April 23, a tweet from Associated Press (AP) revealed startling news. There had been explosions in the White House and Obama had been injured. The tweet was a hoax &#8212; the AP Twitter account had been hacked via a clever phishing exploit &#8212; but it briefly caused havoc. The Dow Jones Industrial Average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why big IT projects go wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1975, a computer scientist named Fred Brooks published one of the seminal texts in the literature of computing. It had the intriguing title of &#8220;The Mythical Man-Month&#8221; and it consisted simply of a set of essays on the art of managing large software projects. Between its covers is distilled more wisdom about computing than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook spreads like a virus with no cure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Infectious diseases, says the World Health Organization, &#8220;are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi; the diseases can be spread, directly or indirectly, from one person to another.&#8221; Quite so. Just like Facebook addiction, which also spreads from person to person and has now reached pandemic proportions, with more than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bitcoin has financial powers nervous</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Among the many unpleasant discoveries made by those who stashed their cash in Cypriot banks is that the island&#8217;s government could stop them moving their money elsewhere. Capital controls are supposed to be a thing of the past, a figment of the pre-globalized world. But it turns out that when banks are threatened, the gloves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moleskines are shaping virtual notebooks</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/04/03/digital/moleskines-are-shaping-virtual-notebooks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=moleskines-are-shaping-virtual-notebooks</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[iPad apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moleskine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australian author Bruce Chatwin has a lot to answer for. Specifically, he's responsible for a forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) on the Italian stock market. It all goes back to something he wrote in his 1986 book "The Songlines." ]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook, Google spreading &#8216;their&#8217; Net</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 18, amid great hoopla, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering was awarded to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin and Marc Andreessen. The 15-person selection panel said the five men had all contributed to the recent revolution in communications that has taken place in recent decades. Which is manifestly true. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online, some are more equal than others</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman published a bestselling book with the title &#8220;The World is Flat.&#8221; In it he used the concept of &#8220;flatness&#8221; to describe &#8220;how more people can plug, play, compete, connect and collaborate with more equal power than ever before — which is what is happening in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not even Google will be around forever</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/06/digital/not-even-google-will-be-around-forever/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=not-even-google-will-be-around-forever</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, when the Google Books project, which aims to digitize all of the world&#8217;s printed books, was getting under way, the two cofounders of Google were having a meeting with the librarian of one of the universities that had signed up for the plan. At one point in the conversation, the Google boys [...]]]></description>
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