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		<title>BBC News Assessment</title>
		<link>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/08/bbc-news-assessment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s do a quick check on what&#8217;s news, and what&#8230; isn&#8217;t:

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		<title>Ten Usability Issues in One Dialog Box</title>
		<link>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/08/ten-usability-issues-in-one-dialog-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a feat, to get ten things wrong.

At least the software will never again tell me my &#8216;blacklist is corrupted&#8217; and slow my machine to a crawl.
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		<title>BBC Spending License Fee Well</title>
		<link>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/06/bbc-spending-license-fee-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/06/bbc-spending-license-fee-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the jolly ol&#8217; Beeb, serving up juicy pictures of firing squad executions so they can be most viewed by the ravenous public!
Remember, your license fee goes to good use.

Update: And now they&#8217;ve covered the tweet from the guy who gave the order to execute him. Classy!
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		<title>If you use the Internet, Google wins? Not quite.</title>
		<link>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/06/if-you-use-the-internet-google-wins-not-quite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/06/if-you-use-the-internet-google-wins-not-quite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh Google with your heart so kind,
Save us from this nasty bind!
Apple locks us down so hard,
You&#8217;re free for all, a great trump card!
Well, actually, no.
Google makes great products, and is taking Apple&#8217;s iPhone head-on with Android, Google&#8217;s operating system for mobile devices. People love that Google doesn&#8217;t restrict how you develop for Android, people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bucking the trend</title>
		<link>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/05/bucking-the-trend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/05/bucking-the-trend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 04:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merlin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a great fan of trite one-line insights and witticisms about life.
They only have relevance when they&#8217;re ready to have relevance. They seem to mean more to the person giving them than to anyone reading them. And you can pass over any one of them with an indignant &#8216;pfuh&#8217;, only to return to it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those rascals are at it again</title>
		<link>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/05/those-rascals-are-at-it-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/05/those-rascals-are-at-it-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 20:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bbc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proofread]]></category>

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Does the BBC even proofread their stories? Geez, guys. Does the BBC even proofread their stories?
EDIT: Twelve hours later and it&#8217;s still there, so it&#8217;s not like it was an upload error or anything. It&#8217;s as if no one actually looked at the page. Pushes my buttons!
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		<title>How to make your mobile interface look great</title>
		<link>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/05/how-to-make-your-mobile-interface-look-great/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 18:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1. Review the &#8216;release candidate&#8217; Windows Phone 7 screenshots on Paul Thurrott&#8217;s SuperSite.
2. Make sure your interface looks nothing like those screenshots.
I mean, honestly:

Ouch.
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		<title>This media tactic annoys me (and will annoy you too)</title>
		<link>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/05/this-media-tactic-annoys-me-and-will-annoy-you-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/05/this-media-tactic-annoys-me-and-will-annoy-you-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 17:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[websites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years there has been a sharp increase in media sources explicitly telling me how to feel. And I&#8217;m not happy.
It&#8217;s a classic marketing technique to assert how you want someone to respond: &#8220;You&#8217;ll love how we do this&#8221;, &#8220;You&#8217;ll wonder how you did without this&#8221;, and so forth.
However, it&#8217;s now (a) more common, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tired, Link-Bait Journalism: Round 2</title>
		<link>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/04/tired-link-bait-journalism-round-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/04/tired-link-bait-journalism-round-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC &#8220;news&#8221; story:

Luckily the picture caption wasn&#8217;t so meaningless. Oh, wait. It was.

What&#8217;s that? Why yes, thank you for asking, I do think this story is a pile of shit.
The BBC News website was the last man standing in my mini-war against consuming mainstream media. (Incidentally, I&#8217;m using plastic soldiers.) I&#8217;m tired of my life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The information merry-go-round</title>
		<link>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/04/the-information-merry-go-round/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexmetcalf.com/2010/04/the-information-merry-go-round/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News:

See also: &#8216;Rehashing headline-seeking, link-bait research eclipses investigative journalism&#8217; among UK news outlets
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