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	<title>EnglishVoodoo</title>
	
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	<description>The Weird Wired World of Mark McGee</description>
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		<title>The fantastic five of blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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Looking back over my recent blog posts you may have noticed that each one represented one of five different styles of blogging. This was a deliberate attempt by me to test them and to see if one was better received than the others. Let’s look a bit closer.
1: The Announcement, represented by “EnglishVoodoo arrives!”.
2: The <a href="http://www.englishvoodoo.net/the-fantastic-five-of-blogging/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The death of digital</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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February’s issue of Revolution magazine talks in great detail about the term ‘digital’ in relation to marketing and communications. To quote the editor, Gareth Jones, “The days of digital being used as a moniker for a specific way of thinking or doing business are well and truly numbered”. 
The article goes on to suggest that <a href="http://www.englishvoodoo.net/the-death-of-digital/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Five essential skills for web designers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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During my working life I have picked up and been formally trained in various skills. Some of these gradually fell away as I moved through my career but some have stuck fast and these are the essential skills that I use on a regular basis when developing and designing web sites. 
1: Learn to use <a href="http://www.englishvoodoo.net/five-essential-skills-for-web-designers/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Digital: the hardback edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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Here I am, furiously studying for my MSc, when a thought struck me.
Given that this is a course on digital marketing communications, why has my book collection increased over the past few months?
In fact, the course is set using two core text books. When I’m in the training or preparing my notes for the activities <a href="http://www.englishvoodoo.net/digital-the-hardback-edition/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the world of tomorrow!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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Fuelled by this week’s MSc “homework”, I have been engaged in quite a few conversations about innovations and near-future technology. What I found was that is becoming more and more commonplace to find technology in the real world that featured in science-fiction stories. What is scary, however, is how fast the predicitions in fiction are <a href="http://www.englishvoodoo.net/welcome-to-the-world-of-tomorrow/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>EnglishVoodoo arrives!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.englishvoodoo.net/?p=244</guid>
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Finally!
It’s taken me a long time to sort myself out with my blog, having gone through at least four different styles and names — now that it is a new year and I have finally made it to my 40s, I’m pretty happy with it!
And now that my studying is in full swing, I plan <a href="http://www.englishvoodoo.net/englishvoodoo-arrives/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bot or Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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I’ve decided to run a bit of a social media experiment using Twitter which I’m calling “Bot or Not”.
Essentially the aim is to tweet a random bunch of brand names and industry-specific acronyms (SEO, PPC, etc) to see if I gain any automated followers and, more importantly, to see which brands have a humanised buzz <a href="http://www.englishvoodoo.net/bot-or-not/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The start of a new phase</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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I have recently started studying a 3-year part-time MSc in Digital Marketing Communications. The reason I chose to do this was because I felt I have worked in the digital industry since 1997 and because I have been self-taught all this time, perhaps I would benefit from some focused learning in this area.
So, having gone <a href="http://www.englishvoodoo.net/the-start-of-a-new-phase/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Officially freaked out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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So, I’m currently working in Toronto for a week, staying in a nice downtown hotel. Imagine my surprise when I opened by hotel room safe and found the following note:
“Bonjour, or Hello
I’m a super genius that can read minds and look through walls. When I walked into this room I saw a door behind a <a href="http://www.englishvoodoo.net/officially-freaked-out/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Solo dining part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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Good news!
My pizza came and it was fab! Hunger sated and mood better — nice!
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