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		<title>Odwalla, Kill a Tree to Plant a Tree</title>
		<link>http://blog.otabi.com/2010/05/odwalla-plant-a-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 02:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Odwalla launched its great program that lets you vote on where to have them plant trees. Its fun and beneficial and good for their brand. Unfortunately they have a big flaw in the program. In order to vote more than once you have to visit a state park in a participating state and pick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Park Access Pass &#8211; Just Say No!</title>
		<link>http://blog.otabi.com/2010/05/spap-say-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 00:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State Park Access Pass is a bad idea because it is a regressive tax that earmarks funding for special interests.]]></description>
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		<title>What are the real motives behind the 12,000% alcohol tax?</title>
		<link>http://blog.otabi.com/2010/03/alcohol-tax-motives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in California and you drink beer, or wine, or distilled spirits, you have probably heard about the proposed constitutional amendment to raise taxes on alcohol by staggering amounts. If not you can read about it here at the LAist.
One thing that really stood out to me in the proposal was this;
(c) Fifteen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Pay, Is It Too High?</title>
		<link>http://blog.otabi.com/2010/03/teachers-pay-is-it-too-high/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buried in the article POWAY: PUSD to send layoff notices, appeal &#8216;God banner&#8217; decision was this little gem;
Poway resident Scotty Blackman told the board he was launching an initiative to reduce the salaries of all state employees, including teachers, by 35 percent to 45 percent to make them comparable with the private sector.
Blackman said California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is BD Live a shot in the arm, or a shot in the foot?</title>
		<link>http://blog.otabi.com/2009/12/bd-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband Video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is actually a question for TK and it focuses on my personal experience with BD Live and his contention that there is still a market for purchasing movies.
Purchase vs Rent vs On Demand
As I understand TK&#8217;s position, the studios plan to make money by getting you to buy all the movies you bought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cursory Look at @vark Answers</title>
		<link>http://blog.otabi.com/2009/10/vark-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently decided that I could no longer avoid buying an iPhone. Let&#8217;s not go into the nasty details, but VoIP over 3G and the hope of tethering are certainly both in the mix. So where is the best place to buy an iPhone, or in my case, a pair of iPhones. It just so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing the World Through @pogue Colored Glasses</title>
		<link>http://blog.otabi.com/2009/09/seeing-the-world-through-pogue-colored-glasses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Product reviews of products associated with social networks must take into account the social network of the reviewer and how that compares to the social network of the target audience.]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of a Bad Tweet</title>
		<link>http://blog.otabi.com/2009/08/bad-tweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why You Should Not Tweet Your Headlines
I am starting to feel like a hater when it comes to the NC Times use of social media. I think that they are sitting around in some conference room thinking up new ways to irritate me. However, many people rely on the same tactic used by the NC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovative Sandwich Ordering Interface</title>
		<link>http://blog.otabi.com/2009/08/whichwich/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.otabi.com/2009/08/whichwich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love innovative user interfaces, not just user interfaces on computer software, but user interfaces on electronics devices and mechanical objects from cars to can openers. But I also like when businesses innovate their user interfaces.
Sandwich shops abound. For the most part they subsist on location, brand recognition and loyalty programs. After all, a sandwich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Twitter&#8217;s Monopoly</title>
		<link>http://blog.otabi.com/2009/08/revisiting-twitters-monopoly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT&#038;T did it as Ma Bell, Microsoft did it, AT&#038;T and Apple are doing it again, it seems monopolies of one form or another are all the rage today and everyone from the FCC to David Pogue wants answers. But who is crying out against the Twitter monopoly?
Twitter&#8217;s closed social network is a monopoly and [...]]]></description>
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