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		<outline text="Slate has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/id/2171430/&quot;&gt;great article about the origins of Christian Rock&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2007/07/a_brief_history_of_christian_r.html&quot;&gt;Rebecca Blood&lt;/a&gt;)" created="Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:18:38 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediainfluencer.net/media_influencer/2007/08/conferences-are.html&quot;&gt;Adriana Lukas&lt;/a&gt; has a post on why conferences are boring." created="Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:59:35 GMT"/>
		<outline text="If you are trying to 'Get Things Done' on Windows, switch to OS X or Ubuntu. If you can't do that, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2007/08/more-cool-ways-to-use-remember-milk.html&quot;&gt;try these&lt;/a&gt;. Launchy - the Quicksilver wannabe on Windows - can be used with Remember the Milk, as can Yahoo Widgets. Cool." created="Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:23:16 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://uktech.blognation.com/2007/08/01/dconstructing-the-brightoncisco-scene/&quot;&gt;Raj Anand&lt;/a&gt; has a review of the Brighton scene." created="Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:16:01 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Distraction generator 2.0" created="Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:45:57 GMT">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://skysong.eu/2007/07/johann-hari-is-a-big-daft-cock/&quot;&gt;Francis Sedgemore&lt;/a&gt; has all the links on how &lt;em&gt;Independent&lt;/em&gt; journalist and part-time &quot;cultural critic&quot; Johann Hari has threatened legal action against David T from &lt;a href=&quot;http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/&quot;&gt;Harry's Place&lt;/a&gt;. It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2007/07/30/nick_cohen_v_johann_hari.php&quot;&gt;quite worrying indeed&lt;/a&gt;, and proof again that the mainstream media feel threatened by the blogging tykes." created="Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:45:57 GMT"/>
			<outline text="It's all rather convenient actually. Certain people can point to blogs as a way of actually avoiding conversation. User-generated content as distraction from the workings of power. If, for instance, you have a major politician coming to speak, you ask everyone to keep their questions as non-critical as possible and use their blog to rant from." created="Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:45:57 GMT"/>
			<outline text="You stand up and preach about how &quot;user-generated&quot; or &quot;Web 2.0&quot; stuff is all fine and dandy and the future of everything, with cheese on top. But bloggers don't &lt;em&gt;get&lt;/em&gt; press passes. Bloggers are far easier to freeze out of &quot;the conversation&quot; than the mainstream media." created="Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:45:57 GMT"/>
			<outline text="And, if Mr. Hari had tried to use the lawyers from the &lt;em&gt;Indy&lt;/em&gt; to shut down mainstream media coverage, there would be howls of outrage." created="Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:45:57 GMT"/>
			<outline text="For more, here are &lt;a href=&quot;http://tailrank.com/2338955/Nick-Cohen-v-Johann-Hari&quot;&gt;links from TailRank&lt;/a&gt; to full coverage of the Hari affair." created="Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:45:57 GMT"/>
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