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	<title>Population Statistic &#187; Bloggin&#8217;</title>
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		<title>MY YAHOO PUBLISHER PAYOUT: $5.85</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/03/my-yahoo-publisher-payout-5-85/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/03/my-yahoo-publisher-payout-5-85/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received my first-ever payment check from Yahoo! Publisher Network. It&#8217;s also my last-ever check from them, as Y! shuttered its answer to Google AdSense not long ago.
My grand total? Five dollars, eighty-five cents.
That&#8217;s four years after signing up to be a Network partner. But my tenure was short-lived: I swapped in the YPN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUMPING TO STAND STILL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/01/jumping-to-stand-still/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/01/jumping-to-stand-still/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As much as we&#8217;re accustomed to consuming online content in decentralized, permalinked chunks, it sometimes pays to take in something in its &#8220;true&#8221; synchronized state. To wit:
Liz at Bobulate follows up a post about the virtues of standing still with one about the joys of jumping. Both dealing with the wholly literal versions of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROBERTO LUONGO&#8217;S HALF-BRED COMPOSITION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/25/roberto-luongos-half-bred-composition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/25/roberto-luongos-half-bred-composition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 03:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

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This is apropos of absolutely nothing currently going on, but it&#8217;s occasionally rattled through my mind ever since I first read it a couple of months ago, and has yet to fail to make me smile. From Puck Daddy&#8217;s coverage of this past Winter Olympics:
Puck Buddy Comment of the Day: Jerk Store responding to Wysh&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONLINE REPPIN&#8217;: ENDORSE, NOT REVIEW</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/28/online-reppin-endorse-not-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/28/online-reppin-endorse-not-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why it comes as any surprise to anyone that online product review sites are routinely gamed by PR firms and/or their clients:
Dozens of companies, with names like BzzAgent, Brickfish and Ammo Marketing, offer to help shape the online conversation. The Zocalo Group, in Chicago, categorizes commenters as &#8220;hear-MEs,&#8221; &#8220;reputation terrorists&#8221; or &#8220;competitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RETWEETING COMES TO POPSTAT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/22/retweeting-comes-to-popstat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/22/retweeting-comes-to-popstat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>

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Just a blog-housekeeping note, for my own records: As of today, I&#8217;ve installed the Topsy Retweet Button for WordPress plugin.
Thus have I added a true one-click social media widget to this blog. I previously installed CommenTwitter, and it remains in place, but it&#8217;s fallen well short of my hopes in spreading this blog&#8217;s permalinks. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A ONE-WAY TWITTERVERSE?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/10/a-one-way-twitterverse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/10/a-one-way-twitterverse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>

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If the idea behind Twitter is to encourage constant bite-sized chatter, the majority of the online flock ain&#8217;t chirping:
It seems that Twitter is becoming more of news feed than a social network, said Paul Judge, author of the report and chief research officer at Barracuda Networks. And that raises questions about its growth potential, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNOWED-OUT BLOGGING STREAK</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/28/snowed-out-blogging-streak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/28/snowed-out-blogging-streak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;And we&#8217;re back.
Anyone who pokes around this URL on a regular basis knows that there&#8217;s only one rule, content-wise: At least one post per day, every day. So the past two days of blog silence &#8212; the first since mid-2008 &#8212; should have a good reason behind them, right?
Well, they do: A big, honkin&#8217; winter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONE WOMAN&#8217;S CULLING TECHNIQUES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/24/one-womans-culling-techniques/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/24/one-womans-culling-techniques/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to say that the following paragraph is the part of this compellingly raw-boned confessional from a boy-crazy girl that got me hooked:
so often i worry and act out when i don’t get the attention i want from every  guy who comes my way. i don’t take the time to consider if i [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREYING OF THE BLOGOSPHERE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/05/the-greying-of-the-blogosphere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/05/the-greying-of-the-blogosphere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While blogs are routinely identified as part of the social media landscape, they&#8217;re losing ground among the youngsters:
Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. 
What&#8217;s behind this trend? Basically, blogs represent too much work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW YEAR&#8217;S BLOG-SHILLING OPPS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/16/new-years-blog-shilling-opps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/16/new-years-blog-shilling-opps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m assuming the 2010 budgets have kicked in at various advertising agencies, which accounts for the three solicitations for blog-based marketing that landed in my inbox yesterday:
- One for Yarie, a niche-level competitor to Google AdSense;
- One on behalf of Dentyne, for some fab new packaging they want to promote;
- And one for MatchPoint, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THEO&#8217;S FOUR-POINT LAMENT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/08/theos-four-point-lament/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/08/theos-four-point-lament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Theoren Fleury is not playing in the National Hockey League this season, and he really thinks he should be:
The report says that Fleury believed that his performance at Calgary&#8217;s training camp last fall during his comeback attempt should have been enough for him to make the squad.
&#8220;At one hundred and eighty pounds, I finished 11th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WI-FI A GOGO, ROUND-TRIP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/06/wi-fi-a-gogo-round-trip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/06/wi-fi-a-gogo-round-trip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wi-Fi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As was the case on my flight from New York to LA, I&#8217;m once again, on the return trip, blogging from 36,000 feet thanks to GoGo Inflight Internet.
And, like last time, I&#8217;m paying nada for it. The other promo code I found worked for this session. So I got about 26 bucks&#8217; worth of free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WI-FI A GOGO</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/03/wi-fi-a-gogo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/03/wi-fi-a-gogo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wi-Fi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I can&#8217;t fathom going more than a couple of hours without being online, I&#8217;m tapping the InterWebz while in-flight to Los Angeles. I&#8217;m blogging this post from 36,000 feet, thanks to GoGo Inflight Internet, the wi-fi provider for Delta.
It ain&#8217;t free (exactly). The cheapo in me resents having to pay for Web access, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 AND GOOFY-GLASSES BLOG TRAFFIC</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/31/2010-and-goofy-glasses-blog-traffic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/31/2010-and-goofy-glasses-blog-traffic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The stats don&#8217;t lie: This here blog has been getting a distinct uptick in Web traffic over the past couple of days. And the tracking confirms that the reason is the odd little photo above, which I first used on New Year&#8217;s Day 2009.
That year-old post pondered the upcoming chronologically-delivered demise of these goofy double-zero [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FURTHER BUDS FOR OIL, AKA NHL ALTERNATE HISTORY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/12/further-buds-for-oil-aka-nhl-alternate-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/12/further-buds-for-oil-aka-nhl-alternate-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Greg &#8220;Puck Daddy&#8221; Wyshynski saw fit to link back and expand upon my little post on what might have been had the Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple Leafs swapped cities/arenas in the early 1980s, the proposal of which recently has been alleged by former Oilers owner Peter Pocklington. Much thanks to Wysh for the added [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEFENDING THE WILL TO BLOG-SHILL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/05/defending-the-will-to-blog-shill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/05/defending-the-will-to-blog-shill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The previously-announced Federal Trade Commission plans to combat blog-delivered stealth marketing were more clearly delineated today, perhaps too abruptly for some:
Some marketing groups fought the changes. “If a product is provided to bloggers, the F.T.C. will consider that, in most cases, to be a material connection even if the advertiser has no control over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIFTH-YEAR BLOGIVERSARY (TWO DAYS TOO LATE)</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/21/fifth-year-blogiversary-two-days-too-late/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/21/fifth-year-blogiversary-two-days-too-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
It completely slipped my mind that this past Wednesday marked the five-year anniversary of the launch of Population Statistic. Frankly, if today wasn&#8217;t such a slow news/blogging day for me, I wouldn&#8217;t have bothered mentioning it here now, two days later.
So obviously, if this blog were my wife, it would have ample grounds for divorce.
Better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COMMENT-TWEETING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/16/comment-tweeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/16/comment-tweeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s no getting around it: I&#8217;ve drunk the Twitter Kool-Aid. Why else would I have installed on this blog not one, but two WordPress plugins specifically for Twitter-interfacing purposes? And this is someone who doesn&#8217;t mess with plugins: Up until recently, I&#8217;ve only had one other non-spam-filtering plugin installed, and that covers the entire time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOTRIN, MOMMYBLOGGERS, AND THE BLOGHER OPP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/27/motrin-mommybloggers-and-the-blogher-opp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/27/motrin-mommybloggers-and-the-blogher-opp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got two testicles too many to have taken part in this past weekend&#8217;s BlogHer conference in Chicago. But enough of my Twitterstream was attending, and tweeting updates, that I got the gist of it.
Attendees go to these things as much for the peer-to-peer contacts as for the sponsoring product/services presentations (and giveaways, naturally). For [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/27/motrin-mommybloggers-and-the-blogher-opp/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>POLICING BLOG-SHILLING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/23/policing-blog-shilling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/23/policing-blog-shilling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The party&#8217;s over for many a freebie-addicted blogger as the Federal Trade Commission plans to include blogs under its consumer-oversight aegis:
Mandatory disclosures could change how reviews are perceived online because many Internet users might never imagine that bloggers get compensation.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think, for the average reader of a blog, it immediately comes to mind that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>DOWN AND OUT IN SIMS-VILLE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/11/down-and-out-in-sims-ville/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/11/down-and-out-in-sims-ville/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5602</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no shortage of blogs chronicling &#8220;Sims&#8221;-generated storylines. But Alice and Kev takes frivolous avatar-watching to a more sobering level:
This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>CLUTCHING MY FREE PEAS TEE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/23/clutching-my-free-peas-tee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/23/clutching-my-free-peas-tee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 22:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Clutch Tees delivered! After I blogged about the Caddyshack &#8220;Bushwood Country Club&#8221; t-shirt my friend sent me as a birthday present, I promptly emailed the permalink to get a gift certificate for another Clutch shirt. Sure enough, they sent back the $25 voucher, to be applied toward the purchase of another tee.
And I chose the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>TUNES-BLOGGING NEWS ANCHORS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/18/tunes-blogging-news-anchors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/18/tunes-blogging-news-anchors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re the type that still clings to a TV news anchorman as some sort of authoritative voice to deliver you the news, then the idea of that same talking-head grooving as a music blogger is probably jarring. But that&#8217;s the incongruity you&#8217;re stuck with, should you come across BriTunes or Amplified, the pop-culture side [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>TWITTER QUITTERS, LIKE BLOGGER UNLOGGERS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/29/twitter-quitters-like-blogger-unloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/29/twitter-quitters-like-blogger-unloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
This was all pre-Oprah, but there&#8217;s no reason to think that it won&#8217;t persist for the immediate future: A Nielsen study finds that Twitter is less sticky than other online hangouts, with 60 percent of new users abandoning their accounts within a month.
&#8220;It is clear that a retention rate of 40 percent will limit a [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/29/twitter-quitters-like-blogger-unloggers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>BAD BLOGGING, BUSINESS-STYLE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/15/bad-blogging-business-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/15/bad-blogging-business-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have any hard data to back this up, but from my anecdotal observation, I&#8217;d say that the average 10 corporate blogs tend to break down this way:
- 7 are largely neglected dumping grounds for press releases and other excess marketing junk;
- 2 are well-maintained outlets for corporate communication between the business and its [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>SPAM WITH A PUNCHLINE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/14/spam-with-a-punchline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/14/spam-with-a-punchline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s come to this: The most recent piece of comment-spam for this blog &#8212; that was snagged instantly by Akismet, naturally &#8212; was delivered in the form of an honest-to-goodness joke. And here it is:
Two old ladies were outside their nursing home, having a smoke when it started to rain. One of the ladies pulled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WON THAT: NO FEAR &#8220;EARN SOME CRED&#8221; GIVEAWAY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/06/won-that-no-fear-earn-some-cred-giveaway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/06/won-that-no-fear-earn-some-cred-giveaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
If you still want to get in the running to win the big No Fear &#8220;Earn Some Cred&#8221; Prize Pack &#8212; too late, sucker! I picked the winner earlier today, as scheduled, and commenter Chris W hit the $100-worth jackpot.
Both Chris and I should be receiving our swag (I&#8217;m getting only a 12-pack of No [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/06/won-that-no-fear-earn-some-cred-giveaway/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>TWITTER INSTEAD OF RSS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/02/20/twitter-instead-of-rss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/02/20/twitter-instead-of-rss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Finally, an actual enticement for me to get on Twitter: The prospect that it&#8217;s replacing RSS reading for many people.
This is where Twitter as a feed service comes in to play. Take an honest inventory of your [RSS] subscriptions. How many of those do your really want to follow every day? I’ve worked very hard [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/02/20/twitter-instead-of-rss/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>WON THAT: PEPSI ULTIMATE SUPER BOWL PARTY PACK</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/25/won-that-pepsi-ultimate-super-bowl-party-pack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/25/won-that-pepsi-ultimate-super-bowl-party-pack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Today was the day I marked for picking a winner for the $250-valued Pepsi Ultimate Super Bowl Party Pack, with all the football-flavored trinkets as pictured above.
And so I did. I ran the comment number-designators through the list-randomizing utility at Random.org (a site which, incidentally, provides way more about true-random versus pseudo-random generation than you&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/25/won-that-pepsi-ultimate-super-bowl-party-pack/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>WIN THIS: PEPSI ULTIMATE SUPER BOWL PARTY PACK</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/09/win-this-pepsi-ultimate-super-bowl-party-pack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/09/win-this-pepsi-ultimate-super-bowl-party-pack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The Super Bowl approaches on February 1st, so it&#8217;s shillin&#8217; time here at Population Statistic. Courtesy of my blogging compadre Tara at When Tara Met Blog (who previously hooked me up with some Thanksgiving M&#038;M&#8217;s).
This time though, you will profit from this corporate giveaway! Well, one of you, anyway. Read on:
Super Bowl parties are one [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/09/win-this-pepsi-ultimate-super-bowl-party-pack/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>HOCKEYFIGHTS.COM ON THE &#8220;WOLF BY THE EAR&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/07/hockeyfightscom-on-the-wolf-by-the-ear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/07/hockeyfightscom-on-the-wolf-by-the-ear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Congrats to David Singer, HockeyFights.com founder and a frequent visitor to this here blog, on being interviewed by Yahoo! Sports&#8217; Puck Daddy regarding the recent death of amateur hockey player Don Sanderson during an in-game fight.
Fighting in North American hockey is a recurring point of contention within the sport (it&#8217;s generally not in the rules [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/07/hockeyfightscom-on-the-wolf-by-the-ear/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>CONVERSATION-CRIBBING WITH GOD</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/06/conversation-cribbing-with-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/06/conversation-cribbing-with-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While author Neale Donald Walsch can hack it with the best of them when it comes to &#8220;Conversations with God&#8221;, he&#8217;s a bit more challenged when it comes to conjuring up original material for his Beliefnet blog. So it is that he was caught plagiar-blogging an inspirational Christmas story originally written by Candy Chand:
Walsch wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>BLUEHOST SUCKS EVEN MORE THAN I THOUGHT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/11/14/bluehost-sucks-even-more-than-i-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/11/14/bluehost-sucks-even-more-than-i-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a month ago, I switched hosting companies for this blog from BlueHost to HostGator, due to BlueHost&#8217;s increasingly unreliable service, i.e. downtimes of at least several minutes throughout each day.
Turns out all that downtime wasn&#8217;t the only thing BlueHost was screwing up:
I noticed right away a speed boost in page rendering under HostGator, mainly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>BLOGS ARE DEAD, AND THE SOCNET CYCLE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/11/08/blogs-are-dead-and-the-socnet-cycle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/11/08/blogs-are-dead-and-the-socnet-cycle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With (almost) everyone on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr et al, and the growing professionalism to be found on permalinked-posting sites like Huffington Post and Valleywag, it seems like the traditional personal blog is passe.
Social multimedia sites like YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook have since made publishing pics and video as easy as typing text. Easier, if [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/11/08/blogs-are-dead-and-the-socnet-cycle/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>GOING GATOR, AND BLUEHOST SUCKS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/10/21/going-gator-and-bluehost-sucks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/10/21/going-gator-and-bluehost-sucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;We&#8217;re back. In case anyone noticed this blog was down for the better part of today.
The reason: I was changing hosting companies for PopulationStatistic.com, and the move from one server to another had to take place somewhat piecemeal. Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t have the luxury of taking the day off just to attend to this little [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>TAMPA BAY EXPATRIATION COMMUNICATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/10/16/tampa-bay-expatriation-communications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/10/16/tampa-bay-expatriation-communications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By odd circumstance, over the past few days I&#8217;ve come into contact with a handful of former acquaintances, all formerly from Tampa Bay, like me.
Yes, some have websites/blogs: Rachel, who had a penchant for drawing online controversy; Dave Pinero, a quieter participant in the Bay area blogosphere; and Blunted On Reality, who&#8217;s just relaunched his [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>TINA BROWN&#8217;S DAILY BEAST, UNSPORTING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/10/06/tina-browns-daily-beast-unsporting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/10/06/tina-browns-daily-beast-unsporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Power editrix Tina Brown did a soft-launch unveiling this morning of her latest project, The Daily Beast.
This is an online-only beast, pretty much designed to be a more editorially-refined version of Huffington Post. Chief way to have that concept shine through is to have Brown herself blogging on the site (although by her own admission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MACARTHUR MONEY, MINUS ME</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/09/23/macarthur-money-minus-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/09/23/macarthur-money-minus-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I think I&#8217;ll abandon my crackpot efforts to score a spot on the annual John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation &#8220;genius award&#8221; list. Because the 2008 edition was announced today, and of course, I didn&#8217;t get the coveted phone call.
It&#8217;s not so much that I wanted to get my grubby little hands on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPAM MAGNET</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/09/22/spam-magnet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/09/22/spam-magnet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recent WordPress convert Chaz, in the course of his blog-housekeeping report, mentions that his Akismet filter has snagged about 100 pieces of comment spam in total. That&#8217;s after about two weeks, by my figuring.
By contrast: My Akismet spamhole for this blog accumulates 100 entries every 12 hours or so.
And that&#8217;s not counting the additional cruft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JOB SKILLS OF THE BLOGGER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/09/17/job-skills-of-the-blogger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/09/17/job-skills-of-the-blogger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Akkam&#8217;s Razor breaks down the on-the-job self-training that goes into running a blog, and sums up the qualifications thusly:
The process of starting and maintaining a blog involved the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other attributes of multiple disciplines and jobs. By skimming the above, I can easily see competencies of someone specializing in Search Engine Optimization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SITEMETER&#8217;S SLIGHT, LEADING TO STATCOUNTER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/09/15/sitemeters-slight-leading-to-statcounter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/09/15/sitemeters-slight-leading-to-statcounter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I guess everyone can use a refresher course on how not to do things, and Sitemeter provided that object lesson this past weekend. No sooner did they roll out an ill-advised, Flash-powered overhaul of their web traffic reporting system, than they (temporarily) junked it in the face of near-universal backlash.
The new interface wasn&#8217;t received well [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>SITEMETER NOW OFFICIALLY SUCKS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/09/14/sitemeter-now-officially-sucks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/09/14/sitemeter-now-officially-sucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitemeter, the traffic-tracking service I use on this here site, just did an overhaul of their platform.
And it sucks, hardcore.
Others are going into detail, so rather than rehash all that, I&#8217;ll cite the two main things that don&#8217;t work for me under this revamp:
- Practically every metric is now displayed as a Flash object, giving [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>BLOGIVERSARY NUMBER FOUR (OR SIX)</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/08/19/blogiversary-number-four-or-six/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/08/19/blogiversary-number-four-or-six/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was August 19th, 2004 when I launched Population Statistic, in all it&#8217;s green-hued glory, upon the InterWebs.
Two years to the day before that, I first gave this blogging thing a whirl on The Critical &#8216;I&#8217;. That was the 2002 version of Blogger/BlogSpot, meaning pre-Google &#8212; oldschool, y&#8217;all.
So today would be my four-year anniversary of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>WORDPRESS FOR IPOD BLOGGIN&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/08/19/wordpress-for-ipod-bloggin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/08/19/wordpress-for-ipod-bloggin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPod]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
This is my first, and maybe only, blog posting using the WordPress for iPhone app on my iPod Touch.
Considering that the preceding sentence just took me five minutes to tap-type out, I&#8217;m leaning toward &#8220;only&#8221;&#8230;
Actually it&#8217;s a pretty slick little app to have, just in case an on-the-go blogging emergency crops up. And as a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>ORWELLIAN BLOGGING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/08/09/orwellian-blogging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/08/09/orwellian-blogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Decades after he wrote them, George Orwell&#8217;s previously unpublished diary entries will now see the light of day &#8212; appropriately enough, in blog form.
The first entry was posted today, exactly 70 years after Orwell committed it to paper on August 9th, 1938. The idea is to mirror the posting dates with the same calendar dates, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>OUTSOURCING YOUR BLOG COMMENTING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/08/08/outsourcing-your-blog-commenting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/08/08/outsourcing-your-blog-commenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems to be more and more adoption of third-party commenting/trackbacking engines on blogs and blogging-powered sites. The most prominent of these providers is probably Disqus, which is quickly gaining fans and funding.
I haven&#8217;t dug too deep on this phenomenon. My knee-jerk reaction is to avoid outsourcing core site functions, and the feedback mechanism is about [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>LA TIMES&#8217; BLOG-SHOTS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/06/24/la-times-blog-shots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/06/24/la-times-blog-shots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I got an automated email today from the Los Angeles Times, telling me all about their new online features.
Like I care. But I guess I registered with the site a long time ago, so I&#8217;m on their list. And it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;ve been spamming me &#8212; I get maybe one such email from the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>MY UNREADABLE BLOG</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/06/20/my-unreadable-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/06/20/my-unreadable-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure I shouldn&#8217;t make too much of the fact that The Blog Readability Test can&#8217;t figure out a score for good ol&#8217; Population Statistic. It seems to choke on the URL and spits back something about not being able to check the site.
Then again, when you plug &#8220;google.com&#8221; into the entry field, it declares [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>AP VS. BLOG COPY-AND-PASTE KEYWORDING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/06/17/ap-vs-blog-copy-and-paste-keywording/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/06/17/ap-vs-blog-copy-and-paste-keywording/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No one gets a gold star for predicting the backlash over the Associated Press&#8217; cease-and-desist action over blog reproduction of portions of AP content, because it&#8217;s a familiar knee-jerk reaction.
And as many have already pointed out, calls for boycotting AP material are hollow, precisely because the boycotters don&#8217;t actually pay for the stuff in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>DAILY BLOGGING STREAK ENDS, AND MY BIRTHDAY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/06/17/daily-blogging-streak-ends-and-my-birthday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/06/17/daily-blogging-streak-ends-and-my-birthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the moment, there&#8217;s no easy way for me to dig back through this blog&#8217;s archives to find the last time I let a day go by without at least one post published. I&#8217;m pretty sure it was a looooong time before yesterday&#8217;s lapse. (UPDATE: See below)
Oh well. Streaks end eventually. It stings only a [...]]]></description>
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