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	<title>Creative Distraction</title>
	
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		<title>How to Do Gesture Recognition With Kinect Using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: The precious little I know about machine learning I learned from the brilliant Frank Wood, whose talk at the Machine Learning meetup inspired me to finally put together this post. I also worked with my friend Frederik Lang on the material presented here, but the shortcomings remain all my own. Microsoft&#8217;s Kinect sensor is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sensor Data to iPhone Through the Headphone Jack (Using Arduino)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, here&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been meaning to write up for almost a year: how to build an Arduino-powered interface to get data from any real-world, analog sensor into an iOS device using the mic pin on the 1/8-inch headphone jack. Meaning: a simple, cross-platform solution for data acquisition on your smartphone with *no* proprietary hardware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of OpenNI, PrimeSense (Makers of Kinect)</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/news/the-future-of-openni-primesense-kinect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 15:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: PrimeSense updated me regarding redistribution of OpenNI/NITE on Twitter: &#8220;Commercial apps are allowed and they can be packaged with OpenNI/NITE.&#8221; Thank you! For my Kinect-hacking friends who missed last night&#8217;s &#8220;Evening With PrimeSense&#8221; meetup in NYC or otherwise have the misfortune of living elsewhere in the world, I thought I&#8217;d share some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.LY Domains in a Time of Libyan Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/news/ly-domains-in-a-time-of-libyan-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a domainer habit that I&#8217;m barely trying to kick. And these days, you can&#8217;t satisfy such a habit without at least a couple of fanciful .LY domains. So, I own a couple. Okay, maybe a few. I haven&#8217;t done anything with these domains yet&#8211;that&#8217;s part of the habit! I was thinking about using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Ad Algo: Still Dumb or Getting a Sense of Humor?</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/analysis/google-algorithm-dumb-or-sense-of-humor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A silly little find from someone who rarely uses the Gmail interface: I was initially surprised to learn that the context-sensitive ads on my Gmail spam box included mostly canned-ham recipes like this one for &#8220;Spam Vegetable Strudel&#8221;: After all, shouldn&#8217;t a smart Google algorithm differentiate uses of spam as canned ham from spam as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Dissonance Creates the Conditions for Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/analysis/how-dissonance-creates-the-conditions-for-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following my exploration of &#8220;systematic creativity,&#8221; I was pleased to take up sociologist David Stark&#8217;s new book, The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life (2009). You might not get it from the title, but this book is about the conditions that lead to creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in organizations. According to Stark, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ Kindle Edition’s Bad Paperboy</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/news/wsj-kindle-editions-bad-paperboy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I suffered my first misdelivered Kindle newspaper yesterday. I&#8217;m not complaining, really &#8212; I&#8217;m the last person to expect 100% performance from a brand new distribution system. But I did briefly long for the days of paperboys when I saw this: Clicking through, I read the following apology: Dear Jonathan, Thank you for subscribing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Solution: Insurance Company Says Peel Fresh Citrus</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/analysis/healthcare-solution-insurance-coompan-says-peel-fresh-citrus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When a robot from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield (HBCBS) left my wife a message Monday, I was provoked first by the cheerful, familiar voice inflection in the greeting: It&#8217;s the second call from the health insurance company in a week, so perhaps a familiar tone is warranted. The virtual caller quickly defuses any suspicion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Systematic Creativity: Four Templates for New Product Ideation, Innovation and Invention</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/downloads/systematic-creativity-four-templates-for-new-product-ideation-innovation-and-invention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="/analysis/call-for-writers-to-renovate-the-web/"><img src="http://www.creativedistraction.com/wp-content/uploads/removal_template.gif" alt="The &#34;Removal&#34; Template" title="The &#34;Removal&#34; Template" width="150" height="100" class="right" /></a> Is brainstorming the best way to be creative? Doubt it.]]></description>
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		<title>Use Twitter Anonymously, and Be Someone’s Muse</title>
		<link>http://www.creativedistraction.com/news/use-twitter-anonymously-and-be-someones-muse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan C. Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.creativedistraction.com/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, my company launched a sweet little service that lets anyone post anonymously in the Twitterverse. This service has two flavors: the angelic, heavenly Tweet From Above; and the demonic, hell-raising Tweet From Below. Use either or both as necessary. Of course, with the core Twitter community being a bunch of oft-tweeting, self-aggrandizing megalomaniacs, you [...]]]></description>
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