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		<title>This Shit Has Got To Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I just say &#8216;shit&#8217;..? Oops. Well, sorry, but, on this occasion I couldn&#8217;t think of a better word. FB rewrite the rule book constantly and the &#8216;free&#8217; marketing platform is actually a lot of work &#8211; especially for small businesses &#8211; trying to keep up. No wonder Facebook has spawned an industry of &#8216;experts&#8217; &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8216;Hat Tip&#8217; Goes A Long Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[thank you]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some people the main aim is to come across as the expert (the &#8216;guru&#8217;) at the cost of anyone else. The thought is not about where those experts got there expertise or from who. But, being honest, we all got (and continue to get) our valuable knowledge from others in our chosen field and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Privatisation Right for Britain?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[george osbourne]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Budget week is here again and the speculation is running rife&#8230; Just as I feared; A few days ago we were discussing the future of Britain and I predicted privatisation across the board and, sure enough, headlines today indicate Osbourne is, in fact, planning further privatisation. Worried? I am. Privatisation hasn&#8217;t worked and won&#8217;t work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pretentious People Do Not &#8216;ROCK&#8217;!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When something stresses you out it&#8217;s a good idea to stop using it or doing it, right? That&#8217;s how I feel about Facebook very often; it&#8217;s also how I regularly feel about Twitter and most social networking platforms where people are not real &#8211; not being themselves &#8211; being pretentious and full of shit! I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support Staff Are Great at One-Liners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Customer Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it so damn frustrating when things don&#8217;t work? When you have to contact the support team because the latest and greats device, app or gizmo doesn&#8217;t seem to work properly&#8230; You poor out all your heart and soul about how this &#8216;thing&#8217; was meant to be a life-changer for you and that you really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Product Need a Forum?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having the unfortunate task today of making use of some new ‘apps’ in order to complete a project, I found I spent more time looking up “how to” answers than I spent actually being productive. It made me wonder… Where would we be without all the support wikis and forums and ticket systems? Further more… [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Trust The Internet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In general, what&#8217;s your feeling about most of what you see, hear and read on the web? Many of the blogs you may read and the websites you visit may, in fact, be 100% honest. But many (perhaps more), use so much hype that you just can&#8217;t help feeling like you&#8217;ve stepped in a heap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future of Chip and Pin is Worrying</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While watching the BBC news channel this morning I heard about the new chip and pin system that banks are launching, initially by Barclays, known as &#8216;Contactless&#8216; chip and pin. Contactless payments systems are set to revolutionise the way customer’s pay for items of £15 or less. If a customer is paying less than £15, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet, Somehow, we are Too Connected</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyday we wake up to a new group of invitations from Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and LinkedIn &#8211; to be friends &#8211; to be connected, with people we don&#8217;t even know. It&#8217;s not summer camp is it? Lately I&#8217;ve heard from a few different &#8216;friends&#8217; who are as miffed about finding themselves in awkward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limewire Forced to Close &#8211; Brilliant News</title>
		<link>http://www.martinkoss.com/random-thoughts/limewire-forced-to-close/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never gloat when a prediction materialises, I rarely chuckle at the demise of someone else&#8217;s business and I don&#8217;t advocate the bashing of some other business &#8211; but this time &#8211; oh boy this time I am so bloody pleased! I hate all things that enable thieves to get their grubby hands on software, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Good Ideas Are Actually Quite Crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adobe dlm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adobe download manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crazy ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poor usability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching a recent episode of Dragon’s Den, I was amused when a couple of ‘ideas’ were laughed out of the den for being guilty of ‘complicating something’ &#8211; selling a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. We’ve all heard the phrase “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” and while its good to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The .CO Exploitation Gold Rush</title>
		<link>http://www.martinkoss.com/random-thoughts/the-co-exploitation-gold-rush/</link>
		<comments>http://www.martinkoss.com/random-thoughts/the-co-exploitation-gold-rush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[.co domain scam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[.co domains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dot co domain scam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or should I say the .CO Domain Exploitation BAND-WAGON? Here we go again&#8230; The next wave of exploitation is upon us. While the .co domain gold rush was gathering pace, we (after making initial enquiries) were under the impression that you had to have some connection with the phrase of the domain you wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have We All Become Gossiping Grannies</title>
		<link>http://www.martinkoss.com/random-thoughts/have-we-all-become-gossiping-grannies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gossip]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If what we&#8217;re seeing today is the future &#8211; someone shoot me now, please. Put me in a plywood box, hit play on &#8216;Wish You Were Here&#8217; and send my splintered butt down the conveyor belt&#8230; What on earth happened over the past 15 years to make us all turn into gossiping old grannies who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be A Snitch For The Good Of The Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.martinkoss.com/random-thoughts/be-a-snitch-for-the-good-of-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.martinkoss.com/?p=1397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It winds me up sommat rotten when I hear of someone using a bogus copy of expensive software that the rest of use shell out good money for, or when I hear of someone’s huge collection of divx movies that were hacked and downloaded for free, or the DJ who proudly advertises 100,000 tracks – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Thank You&#8221; Means A Lot More Than &#8216;Thanks&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 14:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Koss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you say “thank you”? All the time? Every time someone does something expected or unexpected? Think about it… Seriously think about it. When you do something for someone – whether they are paying for it or your doing something out of the goodness of your heart – what’s the one thing you look forward [...]]]></description>
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