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	<title>Ben Collier</title>
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		<title>Here Comes Everybody</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It usually takes me a couple recommendations of a book before I finally pick it up, although to be honest if the title is catchy and the cover is pretty, sometimes all it takes is an Amazon recommendation.  In the case of Here Comes Everybody, I heard Clay Shirky give a keynote address at CSCW [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=253</link>
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		<title>You Are Not a Gadget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer I also read the book “You Are Not a Gadget” by Jaron Lanier, and I made a note to myself to write a blog entry about this one as well.   Jaron’s book (which I would say is terribly titled, and has little to do with the content of the book aside from some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=249</link>
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		<title>IT and the Aging Baby Boomers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While technology for the young and techno-savvy abound, our country is getting older.  The baby boomers are retiring, and will be the largest elderly class in history.  Technology that addresses very simply the needs of the elderly I imagine will make a killing in the coming years, but I haven’t seen it as a “hot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=244</link>
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		<title>Being Digital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve recently finished a classic book by the founder and Chairman of the MIT Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte called Being Digital.  What I love is that it is a visionary book about the future of technology and social interaction in a digital age, however, it was written 15 years ago so we can see a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=232</link>
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		<title>Irrationality&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to Dan Ariely&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Upside of Irrationality&#8221; while attempting to catch up on assorted chores around the house tonight.  The book is of course fantastic, much like its predecessor &#8220;Predictably Irrational.&#8221;  I have a short list of Psychology, Economics, Technology, or Business writers that I will pretty much read without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=223</link>
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		<title>KeePass:  Security and Sanity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of this post I have 110 different user names and passwords to log into various websites, servers, applications, as well as other non-computer services.  Once upon a time I simplified this by making as many of them the same password as possible.  I found I was accumulating login information in my Outlook notes, random [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=215</link>
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		<title>Interview with Dr. Mike Smith &#8211; Part IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am part of a student blog team in the OCIS division of Academy of Management.  I recently posted part four of an interview I conducted with Dr. Mike Smith here at Carnegie Mellon. Check out part four the interview with Dr. Smith here.]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=211</link>
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		<title>Interview with Dr. Mike Smith – Part III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am part of a student blog team in the OCIS division of Academy of Management.  I recently posted part three of an interview I conducted with Dr. Mike Smith here at Carnegie Mellon. Check out part three the interview with Dr. Smith here.]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=207</link>
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		<title>Interview with Dr. Mike Smith &#8211; Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am part of a student blog team in the OCIS division of Academy of Management.  I recently posted part two of an interview I conducted with Dr. Mike Smith here at Carnegie Mellon. Check out part two the interview with Dr. Smith here.]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=203</link>
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		<title>Interview with Dr. Mike Smith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am part of a student blog team in the OCIS division of Academy of Management.  I recently posted part one of an interview I conducted with Dr. Mike Smith here at Carnegie Mellon. Check out part one the interview with Dr. Smith here.]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=201</link>
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		<title>A glimpse into the not-to-distant future&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users&#8217; Ears]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=198</link>
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		<title>Leechblock:  Saving You from Yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you work in front of a computer you know the internet can be a distracting place, especially if you are working on something you really don&#8217;t want to be doing right now.  I&#8217;ve found myself trying to get a project done, and losing several chunks of time throughout the day to pay bills online, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=190</link>
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		<title>Top 10 In Free Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love free software, and for just about anything you need to do, there is usually someone somewhere who has written a free application to do it.  The problem is search costs.  There is so much (often poorly written) free software out there that it becomes difficult to find what you&#8217;re looking for.  In addition, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=188</link>
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		<title>Why I Hate Printers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always complained about printers, somehow in the last 15 years they really haven&#8217;t improved much.  They are cheaper, they now use USB instead of the parallel port, and they now have a bunch of features that also don&#8217;t work.  However, they are unreliable, contain expensive ink, and did I mention they are just unreliable? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Mac and (Perceived) Network Externalities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First let me give a brief description of what a &#8220;network externality&#8221; is from Economic Theory.  Many products benefit from having others use the same or compatible products.  For example, there is no benefit to being the only person in the world with a fax machine, the benefits of having a fax machine depend on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=160</link>
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		<title>Happy &#8220;Year We Make Contact&#8221;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every futuristic movie or book  that includes some kind of year in the title should receive some kind of acknowledgment when that year finally arrives.  In 2001, our predictions about an intelligent computer taking over the mission and having space exploration to distant planets did not quite arrive as in &#8220;2001:  A Space Odyssey.&#8221; This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=144</link>
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		<title>A Children&#8217;s Book for the Modern Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will soon be putting together a Windows Home Server from a spare computer and parts, and consolidating hard drives into that, in doing some reading on the new product I came across this ad gimmick from Microsoft, an entire children&#8217;s book explaining to children why there is a server in their home.  Apart from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=142</link>
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		<title>The End of Landlines?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason lately a reoccurring topic of conversation has been when and if the end of POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) will arrive? In talking with people who work in industry the feeling I got was that the end was a long ways away, mostly because land lines are everywhere, in every home, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Proud to be in Pittsburgh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Onion (yes, headquartered in my hometown of Madison, WI) recently posted an article about local Pittsburgh students being among some of the best in the nation at spelling &#8220;Roethlisberger&#8221; (the last name of the Steelers&#8217; quarterback). It&#8217;s a proud time to live in Pittsburgh.]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=130</link>
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		<title>Supercomputers and Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has an article [here] about the declining cost of supercomputers and what that means for &#8220;citizen scientists.&#8221;  From my (albeit limited) research experience it seems to me that very little research that would benefit from computing power is there is little research not being done because of lack of computing power.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Wikipedia on the Decline?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across an article in Time magazine stating that the fall of Wikipedia was inevitable, and cited how Wikipedia is not growing as fast as it once did.  I find it very fascinating that the commentary is that Wikipedia is becoming more and more bureaucratic, and in order to successfully contribute the barriers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=118</link>
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		<title>Kids in Doctoral Program:  The Challenges and Rewards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently added my two cents to a panel of students discussing the pros and cons of having children while in graduate school. The website is for doctoral student in Organizational Communications and Information Systems (OCIS) within the Academy of Management. See the posting here.]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=114</link>
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		<title>National Novel Writing Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife, and several friends are attempting to write a full novel in a month as part of an online group of writers all attempting the same thing called nanowrimo. I&#8217;m curious what papers or book chapters would look like if academics attempted this same thing, cranking out a few pages a day on an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=104</link>
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		<title>Pew Research on Online Social Networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this article the other day that is an interesting study of personal networks and computer use. Here&#8217;s an interesting come back for anyone receiving flack for spending to much time on Facebook/Twitter and not enough in the real world&#8230; This Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey finds that Americans are not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bencollier.org/?p=41</link>
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