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		<title>Entertainment Media Council</title>
		<link>http://www.americanheretic.com/2009/04/13/entertainment-media-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ramsay</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanheretic.com/?p=253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Entertainment Media Council is my latest company, a new association for interactive entertainment entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. I've been bringing people aboard since the start of last year. We decided to formally announce ourselves and a little bit about our plans today. Here's the press release:
Entertainment Media Council was announced today as the new interactive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.americanheretic.com/2009/03/24/design-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ramsay</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From my Gamasutra blog:
A few weeks ago, Kimberly Unger wrote about The 'Ideas' Guy. One element that struck me was her reference to design documents as things. While that's true, I think looking at design as a means to produce things, documents, can set you on the wrong path.
Like meeting minutes, the design document is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flipping Facebook Pages</title>
		<link>http://www.americanheretic.com/2009/03/13/flipping-facebook-pages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ramsay</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanheretic.com/?p=251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook recently rolled out significant changes to the design and layout of the user portal and Pages. For some, these are welcome revisions, and for others&#8212;like myself&#8212;they're not.
drop.io CEO Sam Lessin wrote an article for PC World with great praise for the new look-and-feel.
Having spent an initial few days playing with and thinking about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steam, Stats, Sales</title>
		<link>http://www.americanheretic.com/2009/03/04/steam-stats-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ramsay</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Steam is both software and a storefront that facilitates the digital distribution of entertainment products. Steam is developed by Valve Corporation, makers of the Counter-Strike series and other properties. Valve periodically solicits data from users about their computer hardware. The results are made public.
In the Steam Store, there are system requirements for each title. Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROI Isn’t Everything</title>
		<link>http://www.americanheretic.com/2009/03/04/roi-isnt-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ramsay</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanheretic.com/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While discussing how to tackle the "World of Warcraft problem," my friend Raph and Matt Mihaly seem to have concluded that return on investment (ROI) is the most significant metric for gauging the success of an enterprise or product. Gentlemen, gentlemen! ROI isn't everything.
ROI is a financial measurement. In an accounting-driven organization, financial measurements can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Game Developers</title>
		<link>http://www.americanheretic.com/2009/03/02/on-game-developers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ramsay</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanheretic.com/?p=248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lewis Pulsipher, an educator and pen-and-paper game designer, has riled up the programmers over at Gamasutra while trying to argue that "game developer" is confusing and should be changed. Nevermind the outrage over his definition of programming. And nevermind that changing terminology is always futile.
Here are the problems. First, to people who don’t work for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Video Games</title>
		<link>http://www.americanheretic.com/2009/02/27/the-value-of-video-games/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanheretic.com/2009/02/27/the-value-of-video-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ramsay</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is a debate about the value of video games with Erin Hoffman (formerly "EA Spouse") through Twitter. If you're not familiar with Twitter, please note that the service restricts the maximum length of a message to only 140 characters, which should explain the brevity of each message.
morganramsay: Reading more about Obama's incessant admonishment [...]]]></description>
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