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		<title>The Next Big Thing: Energy in a Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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Photo Credit: Business Week
&#8220;It&#8217;s about seeing the world as it can be, not as it is.&#8221; That is what KR Sridhar, CEO of Bloom Energy, said in conclusion of his 60-minutes interview. Video below the fold
Bloom Energy&#8217;s innovation &#8212; called BloomBox &#8212; sounded a little like the next Google for energy; something out of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Opposite May Also Be True</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered about difference between looking at a map upside-up versus upside-down? How about what is left and right?
Which way is really the right way of looking at it?
For some, this question might be very simple. The right way is the &#8216;conventional&#8216; way, because it is what society settles on. That might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visually Communicating: Ampersands for Haiti</title>
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		<comments>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/visually-communicating-ampersands-for-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blencorp.com/?p=534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure I am, as many of you, have favorite blogs where you get your get your creative inspiration from. One of my favorite blogs in that department is idsgn.org . This morning, I turned on my RSS aggregator and boom this image shows up. It is a campaign that was set by designers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Live: The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games</title>
		<link>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/watch-live-the-2010-vancouver-olympic-games/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/watch-live-the-2010-vancouver-olympic-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the good people at justin.tv

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		<title>Tutorial: Connecting Twitter, Flickr or other sites with Google Buzz</title>
		<link>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/tutorial-connecting-twitter-flickr-or-other-sites-with-google-buzz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/tutorial-connecting-twitter-flickr-or-other-sites-with-google-buzz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Connecting with Twitter]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blencorp.com/?p=440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of friends have asked me how I connected my Twitter, Flickr and other sites with my Google Buzz.
Here is a tutorial
1. Login to your Gmail
2. Click Buzz on the left Corner


3. Click &#8220;5 Connected Sites&#8221; next to your name &#8212; yours might be 2 by default: Google Picasa and Google Reader are connected

4. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Washington, DC Snow Storm: In Pictures</title>
		<link>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/the-great-washington-dc-snow-storm-in-pictures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/the-great-washington-dc-snow-storm-in-pictures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

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It was called &#8216;The Great Washington, DC Snow Storm&#8217;. There is about twenty three inches snow piled up around where I live in Maryland suburbs. Here is what the aftermath looks like in pictures&#8230;. so beautiful and so innocent  
More pics below the fold


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		<title>Everything Social…Digital Campaigning</title>
		<link>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/everything-social-digital-campaigning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization at it's best with Adwords, and Custom Landing Pages.]]></description>
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		<title>World Cup 2010: The Billion People Sport</title>
		<link>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/world-cup-2010-the-billion-peoples-sport/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/world-cup-2010-the-billion-peoples-sport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blencorp.com/?p=361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago. The year; 1990 and I was only eight. Argentina vs. West Germany.
The World Cup finals in 1990 was the first time I can remember what I felt about soccer. I remember it as if it was yesterday. I remember crying my eyes out after Argentina lost to West Germany to 1-0 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding the ‘Next’ Financial Crisis: A Guide for Small Businesses</title>
		<link>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/avoiding-the-next-financial-crisis-small-businesses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/02/avoiding-the-next-financial-crisis-small-businesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By any estimate, 2009 had been a tough year for any business, especially small businesses. We at BLEN Corp saw our share of ups and downs as we go through the rough waters.
According to SBA, small business with &#8220;with fewer than 500 employees accounted for 64 percent (or 14.5 million) of the 22.5 million net new jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating KalKidan Amharic Letters from English Letters</title>
		<link>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/01/tutorial-01-creating-amharic-typeface-using-english-fonts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2010/01/tutorial-01-creating-amharic-typeface-using-english-fonts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ephrem</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amharic Font]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Font]]></category>
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Back in 2007 I had the honor of working on a poster for Rish Productions based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The client insisted the title of the movie Kal-Kidan to dominate the poster, so I decided to use a bolder English font and transform it to Amharic. Here is the process below the fold;-

STEP 1. [...]]]></description>
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