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		<title>KPLU Radio: Technology Leads the Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From NPR and KPLU Radio: Are we headed for a double-dip recession? Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson doesn&#8217;t think so. He tells KPLU&#8217;s Dave Meyer that the technology sector is moving forward while the rest of the economy lags behind. Listen Here]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/08/kplu-radio-technology-leads-the-economy/</link>
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		<title>Frustrated with Telecoms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This a copy of a Comment I put on a Baseline Scenario blog today where James Kwak describes his trials and tribulations with Verizon when trying to move his phone and DSL service from one house to another.  http://baselinescenario.com/2010/08/18/more-telecom-hell You should consider yourself lucky that you don’t have to deal with Orange and France Telecom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/08/frustrated-with-telecoms/</link>
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		<title>The Finer Points of Global Economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: This issue is based on the transcript of an interview of Mark Anderson, CEO of SNS, by Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief of strategy+business, which took place at the SNS Future in Review conference at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California, on May 13, 2010. Restructured by strategy+business for publication as a front-page “Thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/08/the-finer-points-of-global-economics/</link>
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		<title>GOP Chaos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have written several times that I would like to pull out the &#8220;I Like Ike&#8221; pin my dad and I got at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago when I was about eight, and got to shake the President&#8217;s hand in the lobby; and wear it today.  Eisenhower may have played a lot of golf, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/gop-chaos/</link>
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		<title>The Untold Story of Google in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great deal is being made of Google&#8217;s just-received renewal of its Chinese internet content license, which allows the company to continue to operate (until further notice) without censoring its searches, if I understand properly and am being given accurate information by Google, by offering a &#8220;choice&#8221; splash page at the Chinese Google homepage.  Chinese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/the-untold-story-of-google-in-china/</link>
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		<title>How to Fix Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the KPLU title, &#8220;Is Microsoft in Trouble?&#8221; I thought some of our more astute readers might find an interview I did with Dave Meyer today of interest.  I prefer to use the title: &#8220;How to Fix Microsoft,&#8221; since almost all of the piece, and all of the thinking beforehand, was focused on this question. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/how-to-fix-microsoft/</link>
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		<title>KPLU Radio: CTO Challenge: Global Warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From NPR and KPLU Radio: Strategic News Service publisher and KPLU commentator Mark Anderson recently held his annual Future in Review conference in Southern California. He takes some of the brightest minds in the high-tech world and turns them loose on solving major problems. This year, they tackled global warming. Mark spoke with KPLU&#8217;s Dave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/kplu-radio-cto-challenge-global-warming/</link>
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		<title>Van Rompuy Proposes Single Bond, and is Rebuffed by Germany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Herman van Rompuy last week proposed a single European bond to finance ministers, according to FT Deutschland, but said the response had unenthusiastic, citing Christine Lagarde. The paper said Germany vehemently opposed such a bond on the grounds that it would increase domestic borrowing costs. Likewise, van Rompuy said Germany’s proposals for an orderly bankruptcy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/van-rompuy-proposes-single-bond-and-is-rebuffed-by-germany/</link>
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		<title>FiRe 2010 Apres Feu Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year, on the night FiRe ends, FiRe staff and assorted remaining guests gather for our annual &#8220;Apres Feu&#8221; fete to celebrate a week full of groundbreaking thinkers and envelope-pushing conversations among the extended FiRe family. This year was no different. Wonderful people, stimulating conversation, delicious fare in a breathtaking location. Thanks to the Rodel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/fire-2010-apres-feu-party/</link>
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		<title>Thanks for a Great FiRe 2010!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone for another world changing Future in Review, from the entire team at FiRe 2010.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/1009/</link>
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