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	<title>Sam Howat - The Official, Personal Website.</title>
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	<description>Hi, I am Sam Howat. I design websites and smart, useable web applications for everyday people. Welcome to my personal website.</description>
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		<title>5 Movies I Want to See This Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2010 hasn't really been a good year for the movies. There have been a creative movies so far, like: She's Out of My League, Kick-Ass and Get Him to the Greek, however in general most have been a disapointment further demonstrating the lack of creativity in Hollywood. Despite this fact, I've chosen a few movies that I think will make the summer bearable.]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Letting M. Night Shyamalan Make Movies!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Hollywood, you've got to smarten up. Stop letting M. Night Shyamalan make movies. He's not a bad director, but he has a habit of taking a perfectly good story and then completely making a train wreck out of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Does Management Kill Creativity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the tech world grows incredibly crowded with entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on a unique idea, more and more people will find that discovering a niche and owning it, is the only true path to survival. This is a fairly widely accepted truth, and yet, so often innovation and creativity within a company is killed from the top-down.]]></description>
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		<title>26 Years In Perspective</title>
		<link>http://samhowat.com/what-ive-learned-in-26-years/</link>
		<comments>http://samhowat.com/what-ive-learned-in-26-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I feel that if everyone in the world watched this, and took it to heart, we&#8217;d live in a better world. Thanks to all those that have contributed to my life and made the experience an enjoyable one.]]></description>
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		<title>Maintaining Value in Your Twitter Stream</title>
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		<comments>http://samhowat.com/maintaining-value-in-your-twitter-stream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since joining Twitter, I found that one of the most difficult tasks is effectively maintaining the quality of my Twitter stream.  When I first joined, I would follow just about anyone, clogging up my timeline with useless tweets from people I didn't know or care to interact with. Over the years, and through trial and error, I've come up with a fairly solid method for curating my follow list.]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Design Solve Problems, Or Add Features?</title>
		<link>http://samhowat.com/do-you-solve-problems-or-add-features/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good design is and should always be about solving problems, not adding features. ]]></description>
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		<title>Help Me Accessorize My Face</title>
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		<comments>http://samhowat.com/help-me-accessorize-my-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 22:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm looking to pickup a pair of new glasses and I decided I wanted to get your input as to which pair I should pick.]]></description>
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		<title>Pay for Hulu? Hell yes!</title>
		<link>http://samhowat.com/pay-for-hulu-hell-yes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 05:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since finding out that Hulu would be launching an iPad app I was surprised to find that people were balking at the $10 subscription fee. I think this is ridiculous. Here's why.]]></description>
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		<title>iPad: The Everyday Use Review.</title>
		<link>http://samhowat.com/ipad-the-everyday-use-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided that I'd give the iPad a real test to see if it truly could replace the roll that my laptop has played in my day-to-day life. A month later, here's my report.]]></description>
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		<title>BP Oil Spill Disaster in Perspective</title>
		<link>http://samhowat.com/bp-oil-spill-disaster-in-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://samhowat.com/bp-oil-spill-disaster-in-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal, Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a great idea for helping Tony Hayward provide 'scope' to his point that the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico isn't really that big of a deal. It involves a hammer, and some fingers... let's read on. ]]></description>
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		<title>Designing a Simple Wedding Website</title>
		<link>http://samhowat.com/designing-a-simple-wedding-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 21:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had to sit down and put together a simple site that would allow us to collect RSVP messages, share wedding details and create a landing page for all future communication. Here's what I came up with...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Start a Social Media Campaign</title>
		<link>http://samhowat.com/small-business-social-media-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://samhowat.com/small-business-social-media-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though establishing an social media presence for your business can be a daunting task, there are several proven strategies for both establishing your campaign and tracking it's results that you can use to get started on the right path.]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Privacy is Your Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://samhowat.com/facebook-privacy-is-your-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://samhowat.com/facebook-privacy-is-your-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those who scream at Facebook about their privacy controls seem to forget the basics of privacy -- the privacy of your information online is ultimately your responsibility. You are choosing to upload each photo, each tweet, each message, and in the reality of the web is that security is not absolute.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Cajones of Vision And Leadership</title>
		<link>http://samhowat.com/cajones-of-vision-and-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://samhowat.com/cajones-of-vision-and-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Small businesses have allowed the 'customer is always right' attitude to creep into areas of their products and services that it has no business being. It's time to rethink that position, and create boundaries before your product suffers.]]></description>
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		<title>HTML5 Hearts iPad</title>
		<link>http://samhowat.com/the-ipad-is-making-html5-important/</link>
		<comments>http://samhowat.com/the-ipad-is-making-html5-important/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Howat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The iPad is increasing the mind-share of HTML to the general public, businesses, and tech-minds at breakneck speed that would make the most enduring web-standardista jealous.]]></description>
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