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	<title>26 Characters &#187; Items to Ponder</title>
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		<title>Prediction: Pay-per-spot Advertising</title>
		<link>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2012/01/09/prediction-pay-per-spot-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Clurman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I predict that all advertising will eventually become a bidding system, or pay-per-spot advertising, similar to Google&#8217;s AdWords model. Implementing a bidding system across all electronic forms of mass communication (that are Internet-connected) and having controls in place, will increase the quality of the ads, the competition for these ad spots, and the effectiveness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First Movember</title>
		<link>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2011/11/11/my-first-movember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Clurman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Top Gun]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Birds-and-Bees&#8221; discussion with my dad didn&#8217;t prepare me for the changes I&#8217;ve seen over the past eleven days. FYI: I&#8217;m currently listening to the &#8216;Top Gun&#8217; soundtrack.1 November, or &#8220;Movember,&#8221; is dedicated to increasing the awareness of men&#8217;s health risks, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men, by encouraging men everywhere to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs v. Passion, (2011)</title>
		<link>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2011/09/07/jobs-v-passion-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Clurman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peeks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[careers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having &#8220;a job&#8221; vs &#8220;a passion&#8221; is like speed dating vs marriage. What do I mean? A few people shared some thoughts on my tweeted opinion (above), so I decided to elaborate. One of my favorite quotes, perhaps a movie line, goes (not necessarily verbatim): &#8220;Find what it is you love to do, and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Share More, Thanks</title>
		<link>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2011/09/07/share-more-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Clurman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began writing this last December, but finally feel it&#8217;s time to share&#8230;. Today, I was among the few recipients of a touching and overwhelmingly kind email from someone very dear to me. &#8212;&#8212; I want to express my appreciation and love to you. I know e-mail is a bit impersonal&#8230;I would much rather be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Ain&#8217;t Your Consumer</title>
		<link>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2011/08/25/you-aint-your-consumer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2011/08/25/you-aint-your-consumer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Clurman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Items to Ponder]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[B2C marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laser hair removal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[PPC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently reinforced an inherent truth I&#8217;ve understood for sometime: I am not my customer, and without market research, I will never know him or her as well as I think. I&#8217;m sharing because it&#8217;s clear that many Bs make the presumptuous mistake of thinking they know their Cs. Last year, I setup a product-specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circumference</title>
		<link>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2011/05/05/circumference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 05:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Clurman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[claw arcade game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death of a Salesman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enjoying life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[full-circle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hasan Baba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(dtomaloff/flickr) I received an IM this evening from a good friend of mine. It was a video of a grandfather dancing in front of what appears to be his grandchildren/family. Not gonna lie&#8230;the guy was pretty good for being a grandfather. At one point, I saw him kick off a shoe. I replied via text [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exercise Psychology</title>
		<link>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2011/01/31/exercise-psychology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2011/01/31/exercise-psychology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Clurman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free is nice, but everyone knows nothing is ever free. So, Tuesday night, I had a free personal training session with Leila from Bahrain. I&#8217;ve lasted at 24 Hour Fitness for the last five months personal-trainer-free, but when presented with an opportunity to learn a few new techniques and improve my health, I accepted the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simplify Life</title>
		<link>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2010/11/10/simplify-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Clurman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peeks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simplify life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being sick has its benefits. For one, I&#8217;m confined. The extent of my entertainment includes a peppy black cat, a half-full fridge and my computer(s). I have also been avoiding my phone, because I sound like I have an upper respiratory infection&#8230;because I do. Hence, I have plenty of time to read, think and write, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How-To: Line Dance</title>
		<link>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2010/10/22/how-to-line-dance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2010/10/22/how-to-line-dance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Clurman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Items to Ponder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anecdotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologizing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People always talk about a line we&#8217;re not supposed to cross, (but many of us want to). Albert Einstein said, &#8220;Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.&#8221; I try to make a mistake on a daily basis, but I never regret anything. If you learn from your mistakes, then you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freelance Friending</title>
		<link>http://www.rossclurman.com/blog/2010/09/10/freelance-friending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Clurman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook friends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[random friending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter followers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before I begin, I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;m guilty of friending people I don&#8217;t really know. I may know of them, have met them, or even interacted with them (albeit online), but what constitutes a friend request? To help put this into perspective, I decided to arrange all types of people in rank-order of knowingness from least [...]]]></description>
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