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		<title>On Indulgence</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2011/04/20/on-indulgence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿﻿﻿The other day I read a blog sent to me by a romantic colleague. Described in the posts were dating successes and failures, along with &#8220;lessons learned&#8221; and &#8220;advice.&#8221; I laughed. We all laugh when we overhear things that most people are too bashful to admit. My initial reaction to the author was: I like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four More Points on Technical Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While working on our ACL2011 submission, I learned three more lessons about technical writing: Use the section headings: Readers &#8211; and especially reviewers readings quickly &#8211; use section headings to navigate. While everyone knows to save space by removing lines containing only a few words that dangle from the end of a paragraph, few use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Remarks on Technical Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 22:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past year I&#8217;ve been improving my writing. More specifically, I&#8217;ve been learning how to communicate technical information efficiently and with style. By &#8220;efficient&#8221; I mean that each word, paragraph, and sentence is contentful, and that thematic strings bind the story together in an accessible way. A reader can use the document as one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How People Once Wrote</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2010/01/09/how-people-once-wrote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While in Atlanta last week I was digging through the magazines that tend to wash up at my family&#8217;s house. We&#8217;ve lived there for 25 years, and my dad never seems to cancel subscriptions. In Sports Illustrated I found this historical article from 16 August 1954: The art of running the mile consists, in essence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is free speech free? For a moment consider this question independent of politics and economics and law. As a human being, are you free to express yourself absent some social cost? Of course not. And this certainty has inspired some reflection recently: I can&#8217;t mention success because I will look arrogant. I can&#8217;t admit failure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Do Better, AJC</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2009/09/18/you-can-do-better-ajc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Tucker&#8217;s opinion piece &#8220;Unhealthy tone to Obama opposition&#8221; (16 Sept.) was not helpful. It is clear to nearly everyone irrespective of political persuasion that President Obama&#8217;s election was a crucial moment in this country&#8217;s history. What saddens me is that Ms. Tucker sees Mr. Obama in much the same way as the &#8220;fervid right&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Noise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my comments yesterday on pianos and noise: The whole world has changed around us in ways we can only guess at. In an age when any stereo system can re-create the full range of tones audible to the human ear, is it any wonder that piano tuners are expected to make the instruments bright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book I Want to Write</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2009/06/29/the-book-i-want-to-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several years now I have wanted to write a book. What to say has been the problem. For one thing it is difficult to say something that has not been said, or that is not being said, amid the noise in the present world. Walking in Barnes and Noble is like watching a comedy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Status</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2008/12/30/notes-on-status/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have an attractive friend. A few days ago, she sent an email to me with a familiar post-script: &#8216;Sent from my iPhone&#8217;. To my surpise, the image of her clutching that sleek device made her all the more appealing. My reaction was instinctive and without premeditation. How does possession of a consumer good confer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California, Weird</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a few friends have cautioned me about moving to California: you will be offered drugs, you will spend $10 on a sandwich, a man will try to marry you. California&#8217;s ostensibly high tolerance for &#8220;experimentation&#8221; and otherwise callow ethics has become an idee fixe for these wags, and the origin of endless comedy. [...]]]></description>
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