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		<title>Digital In Action recap</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/11/11/digital-in-action-recap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/11/11/digital-in-action-recap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
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Wow! What an interesting week it has been. At Burson-Marsteller (B-M), we just completed the first Digital In Action program at our offices here in NYC. Just to provide a bit of context, Digital In Action is an intense, 2 day seminar aimed at helping B-M employees from disciplines across the company to be able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers break up with Advertisers</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/11/05/consumers-break-up-with-advertisers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/11/05/consumers-break-up-with-advertisers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
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The Break UpUploaded by geertdesager
Wow! It&#8217;s been quite a while since I&#8217;ve blogged! And the perfect first thing to get me blogging again is this video (I stumbled upon it on David Armanios&#8217; blog, Logic + Emotion), where a couple is breaking up over dinner. More specifically, the woman (who represents &#8220;consumers&#8221;) is breaking up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look out David Letterman!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/06/24/look-out-david-letterman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
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I saw this on the Mashable blog earlier today and instantly was hooked. OnMyList allows you to create your own top 10 (or whatever the number) lists that you can share with others and allow them to vote or comment on. 
Here are my top 5 lists for vacation destinations and favorite sports teams. 
More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You web/print guys have it sooooo easy&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/05/27/you-webprint-guys-have-it-sooooo-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/05/27/you-webprint-guys-have-it-sooooo-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 01:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, the creative director at my company who is my counterpart on the print design side overheard a discussion between me and our digital senior art director and blurted out &#8220;You web guys have it sooooo easy!&#8221;
When we asked him why, he replied &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to spend so much time dealing with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeping with the Enemy or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Joined the AIGA</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/05/24/sleeping-with-the-enemy-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-joined-the-aiga/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/05/24/sleeping-with-the-enemy-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-joined-the-aiga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 01:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After openly criticizing the AIGA in both these, and other forums, as well as my blog, this past week I became a member of the AIGA.
OK, part of it was because I have not been a member of one of our industry&#8217;s major organizations and felt it was time that changed. But of course there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The other &#8220;White Space&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/05/21/the-other-white-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 02:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
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I just read this article that was linked to from the AIGA Diversity Initiative web site, originally published in Step Inside magazine, called &#8220;White Space&#8220;. Now for most designers, the term &#8220;white space&#8221; takes on a very clear meaning, dealing with the amount and proportion of white space allocated within a design. But in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crashing the Dinner Party</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/04/24/crashing-the-dinner-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/04/24/crashing-the-dinner-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever been to a dinner party where everyone knows each other, shares common interests and the group is engaged in a conversation where everyone is involved and allowed to participate? Now imagine that how you would have felt if someone you did not know had entered the party, occupied one of the seats and interrupted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 8 types of bad creative critics</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/03/04/the-8-types-of-bad-creative-critics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/03/04/the-8-types-of-bad-creative-critics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Misc.]]></category>

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This is a very clever cartoon I found on Tina Roth Eisenberg&#8217;s blog. I think most creatives have met at least a few of these types of critics at one time or another.  
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		<title>Say What Again</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/02/23/say-what-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/02/23/say-what-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
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Excellent motion graphics/typography excercise by SCAD student and motion graphics designer Jarratt Moody.  The students had to take a piece of audio from a film, answering machine message, etc., and add motion graphics typography to it. Jarratt chose one of my favorite films of all time, Pulp Fiction. Play the video but definitely put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Web 2.0 explanation</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/02/19/interesting-web-20-explanation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2007/02/19/interesting-web-20-explanation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
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This is a 5 minute video I found on another blog. It&#8217;s an interesting summary of the basics of Web 2.0 called The Machine is Us/ing Us, by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.
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		<title>Gizmo saved the podcasts</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/12/08/gizmo-saved-the-podcasts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/12/08/gizmo-saved-the-podcasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Water Cooler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I know I promised that podcasts would resume a little while ago and I even recorded a podcast around the time I said I would. Problem is that apparently the new version of Skype on the Mac is terrible with regards to echo cancellation. I recorded a podcast that is completely unusable because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALA: &#8220;In Defense of Difficult Clients&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/28/ala-in-defense-of-difficult-clients/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/28/ala-in-defense-of-difficult-clients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Thinking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the last agency I used to work for, there was a large poster that hung in one of the common areas that read &#8220;Next life, I&#8217;m coming back as a client!&#8221;
We&#8217;ve all had our share of experiences with difficult clients &#8212; which may or may not be the same thing as bad clients. Bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Design Community: talking to ourselves?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/16/the-design-community-talking-to-ourselves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/16/the-design-community-talking-to-ourselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Thinking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Rohde, of the Rohdesign Weblog, was good enough to forward a wonderful article to me this morning. The article, The Thin PMS 185 Line, is an excellent critique of the graphic design industry written by Andy Rutledge.
I&#8217;ve not read Andy&#8217;s writings before but something tells me I will in the future.  Andy, apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next week, podcasts resume!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/10/next-week-podcasts-resume/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/10/next-week-podcasts-resume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Podcasts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next week we&#8217;ll resume with the The Prepared Mind Podcasts! Thanks to all of you who have listened in the past and hopefully the latest podcast, #14 by now, will be heard by a few new listeners as well.
We&#8217;ve got some really interesting guests lined up and I&#8217;m going to try and do them once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designing Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/07/designing-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/07/designing-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
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It&#8217;s Election Day here in the U.S. and Americans across the country must decide between U.S. Senators, Representatives, state and local officials and numerous ballot measures. What&#8217;s interesting is that almost immediately, early this morning after voting began, reports about malfunctions with respect to voting machines began to come in from all over the country.
Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Doesn&#8217;t strategy count?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/06/doesnt-strategy-count/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/06/doesnt-strategy-count/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During our time with the ReBrand jury, an interesting concept arose during judging. Niti Bhan, one of the ReBrand judges and design thinker extraordinaire, had made the case for one of the entries that had not made it into our finalists from the day before. It was the feeling of most of the judges that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ReThink, ReVise, ReConsider, Re-Vote, ReDuce&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/03/rethink-revise-reconsider-re-vote-reduce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/03/rethink-revise-reconsider-re-vote-reduce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What a fantastic experience it was in helping to judge the next crop of ReBrand 100 winners for 2007!

Anyone who is familiar with Malcom Gladwell's excellent book "Blink" is familiar with the way humans employ "rapid cognition" in order to process information in the blink of an eye. Essentially, the art of making the types of snap judgements that in some cases can help us to return a tennis serve coming at us in under a second or in other cases may prevent us from walking down the dark alley where the 3 seedy-looking guys are standing.

One could argue that in the case of branding, this type of rapid cognition is on text-book display, as we make snap judgements while walking down the grocery store aisle, interacting with a bank teller or dropping into our favorite coffee spot for a cup o' joe.]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Day of Judging</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/02/the-final-day-of-judging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/02/the-final-day-of-judging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By now I&#8217;m back in NYC. Yesterday we spent the entire day narrowing down the field of 100 to the dozen or two dozen finalists we&#8217;d choose from today. Today, after much deliberation, we picked the &#8220;best of&#8221; finalists as well as the other entries we felt deserved to earn a &#8220;distinction&#8221;.
If you think you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Day of Judging</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/02/the-first-day-of-judging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/02/the-first-day-of-judging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(I actually wrote this late last night but server problems at the hotel prevented me from posting it.) 

Wow! What a long and hard day of judging! We began around 9:30 AM and our task was simple enough. 10 judges. 100 entries. A bag full of marbles (each judge had their own color). Read through each of the 100 rebrand case studies and decide which ones we liked the most.

In honesty, our task today was easier than our task will be tomorrow morning. Today we weeded out the ones that most of us judges did not feel strongly enough to reward with a marble. Tomorrow we must shorten the field down to the 5 that we, via consensus, agree represent this year's best rebrands.

Tough stuff. I predict some fur will fly!

10 judges. 10 strong opinions. Let's see what happens!

Until then! Below are photos of some of the judges in action. ]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging the Rebrand experience</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/01/blogging-the-rebrand-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/11/01/blogging-the-rebrand-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll I&#8217;m here in Rhode Island for Rebrand 2007! Despite a bit of traffic getting out of NYC, the drive to Providence wasn&#8217;t so bad. Upon arriving to our hotel &#8212; the beautiful Westin Hotel in downtown Providence &#8212; we were met by Rebrand founder Anaezi Modu, who escorted us to the home of RISD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge, jury and&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/10/27/judge-jury-and/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/10/27/judge-jury-and/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.rebrand.com/page154.html"><img src="http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/wp-images/rebrand_motto.gif" class="pic1" alt="ReBrand blurb" /></a>

Next week (November 1st and 2nd) Niti and I -- along with 8 other very distinguished panelists -- will be jurying the <a href="http://www.rebrand.com/page154.html">ReBrand 100 2007</a>. Not only is it a thrill and an honor to have been selected as a juror for this distinguished panel (what were these guys smoking?) but it's also a personal thrill to have the opportunity to meet Niti in person. 

I'll be bringing my trusty laptop with me to Providence and will blog my experience there. Maybe I'll even be able to squeeze in a short podcast or two? ;-) ]]></description>
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		<title>Spicing Up Design Communication with Video Chat</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/10/27/spicing-up-design-communication-with-video-chat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/10/27/spicing-up-design-communication-with-video-chat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Globalism &#038; Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/wp-images/ichat_photo.jpg" class="pic2" alt="Apple iChat photo" /></a>

This past September, when my wife was in Germany visiting her family, we really used videoconferencing for the first time in any real fashion. She and I had both just recently upgraded to a Macbook and Macbook pro, respectively, and both our laptops now have built-in iSight.

Since she was taking her laptop to Germany with her, we figured, why spend all that money on long distance calls when we could now see each other while chatting? WE LOVED IT!!!!]]></description>
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		<title>Design + Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/05/10/design-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/05/10/design-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 01:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re still alive! It&#8217;s been a long, long break and to be honest, I have been incredibly busy and perhaps a bit burned out. I missed blogging but can&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t enjoy/need a bit of a break. 
Typically I get inspired to blog about something by something that happens in my everyday life, whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News and updates</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/03/22/news-and-updates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/03/22/news-and-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niti Bhan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been quiet here of late, so I thought I&#8217;d add a little note to excuse my tardiness here -
I&#8217;ve been busy, as some of you know, with the Core77/BusinessWeek Design Directory website. Just launched it officially yesterday. 
The Monday Morning Must Read is a newsletter for those whose responsibility includes sourcing and selecting design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding clients in a Blink</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/02/01/understanding-clients-in-a-blink/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/02/01/understanding-clients-in-a-blink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve been reading &#8220;Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking&#8221; by Malcolm Gladwell. What a fascinating book! It&#8217;s not a design book and contrary to the way the title sounds, it&#8217;s not a &#8220;how-to&#8221; book. What it does is help us to understand how/why humans make snap judgements in the blink of an eye. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prepared Minds #2</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/01/27/prepared-minds-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/01/27/prepared-minds-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 03:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Prepared Minds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve grown addicted to the swissmiss blog, run by &#8220;Swiss designer gone NYC&#8221; Tina Roth Eisenberg. Her blog is a little different than this one in that she&#8217;s not nearly as verbose &#8212; OK, long-winded! LOL! &#8212; but every day she adds lots of great links to great design products and resources.
I typically start my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to hear your voice on future podcasts?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/01/24/want-to-hear-your-voice-on-future-podcasts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/01/24/want-to-hear-your-voice-on-future-podcasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Water Cooler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just registered for a channel on Odeo, so those of you who are on Odeo, feel free to leave me a message with some listener feedback. For those of you who are not familiar with Odeo, it is a web-based service that allows users to record voice messages via their own computer as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome new visitors!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/01/24/welcome-new-visitors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/01/24/welcome-new-visitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Water Cooler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! The HOW magazine email newsletter went out yesterday afternoon and the hit stats are through the roof! Thanks again to the folks at HOW and welcome to any new visitors to the blog. Take off your shoes and get comfortable! There&#8217;s cold beer in the fridge.  
.chris{}
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		<title>My Customized Nikes!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/01/21/my-customized-nikes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/01/21/my-customized-nikes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Innovation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well hot off the presses, the shoes I ordered from the Nike iD system have finally arrived! Here are the photos, as promised!!!!

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		<title>Podcast #13: The Haunted Podcast, Design Customization &#038; Innovation as Habit</title>
		<link>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/01/12/podcast-13-the-haunted-podcast-design-customization-innovation-as-habit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/index.php/2006/01/12/podcast-13-the-haunted-podcast-design-customization-innovation-as-habit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Podcasts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I'm convinced this podcast was haunted, or at least jinxed! Technical difficulties made for a surprise guest during this podcast.]]></description>
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		<itunes:summary>I'm convinced this podcast was haunted, or at least jinxed! Technical difficulties made for a surprise guest during this podcast.




	0:00:00 The haunted podcast prevented our original guest, Peter Flaschner, from being able to be recorded
	0:01:00 The surprise guest for this podcast
	0:03:00 Please fill out the listener survey so that we can learn more about you, our audience
	0:04:10 Design customization: engaging design clients/buyers and allowing more customization
	0:12:50 How do we use dynamic technology to create a greater connection from the client to the designs we sell them?
	0:24:06 Design, innovation and why the iPod is still on top. Newsweek article
	0:37:23 The need to incorporate more innovation into our design practices and thinking

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