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	<link>http://www.madwebskills.net</link>
	<description>Michael McCorry runs Mad Web Skills, a progressive, standards-based web design and development firm covering Melbourne, Shepparton and pretty much anywhere else. His blog covers standards-based web design and development news, reviews, techniques and projects.</description>
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		<title>Social media roadblocks.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just read this over on ReadWriteWeb and found it particularly poignant.
&#8220;One of the reasons social media can be so challenging is that it often challenges hierarchies&#8230; and people at the top of those hierarchies have grown comfortable there.
&#8220;Some see the potential advantages of an engaging, open online presence, but others feel threatened and vulnerable. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madwebskills.net/2009/11/23/social-media-roadblocks/</link>
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		<title>WDS09: jQuery &#8211; From Novice to Ninja</title>
		<description><![CDATA[with Earle Castledine
Apparently I&#8217;m now a jQuery ninja. Who knew?
My Day One Workshop for Web Directions South 09 was run by Earle Castledine (with a little help from Craig Sharkey) and aimed to teach me a bit about jQuery. I&#8217;ve been looking for the right excuse to make the switch from MooTools to jQuery for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madwebskills.net/2009/10/06/wds09-jquery-from-novice-to-ninja/</link>
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		<title>Accessibility by subscription? No thanks.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked to evaluate a product called BrowseAloud in the interest of improving a website&#8217;s accessibility. This is a browser plugin which aims to help those people who have difficulty seeing the screen, maybe through old age or those with lower literacy or dyslexia who might find it helpful to hear rather than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madwebskills.net/2009/06/14/accessibility-by-subscription-no-thanks/</link>
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		<title>Top 7: That sinking feeling.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not really a web-related post, but I&#8217;ve had a pretty bad day and need to unwind. I haven&#8217;t written a list like this in a long time, which is something I used to do quite often on my old blog, and quite enjoy. That said, here (in no particular order) are the top seven things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madwebskills.net/2008/12/18/top-7-that-sinking-feeling/</link>
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		<title>Astral Coolness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other night I noticed two bright stars in the sky, the only ones visible at that stage, in close proximity to the moon. I thought it looked pretty cool and thought nothing else of it. Turns out, they were Venus and Jupiter! I&#8217;m still amazed to to think I could see a planet 540 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madwebskills.net/2008/12/03/astral-coolness/</link>
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		<title>On recent speaking.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I was invited to speak at the Excellence In Local Government Customer Service 2008 conference in Sydney. It was my first time presenting on my own outside of companies I&#8217;d worked for. (I did the same presentation about two months earlier at a different conference, but I shared the presenting with another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madwebskills.net/2008/11/27/on-recent-speaking/</link>
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		<title>New site launched.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Mactier Building Designers is a Shepparton-based business which has been providing quality, affordable design services since 1984 and Mad Web Skills were lucky enough to have the opportunity to build their new website.
Bruce and the team were great to work with, and I had a lot of fun with the project. 
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		<link>http://www.madwebskills.net/2008/11/27/new-site-launched/</link>
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		<title>A comment on comments.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the &#8220;you learn something new every day&#8221; category, comes this. I just found out that when working with php, you can use block commenting (like /*this*/) in the middle of a line of code. For example, if you have something like this:
$debug = 'really cool ';
echo 'This is my '.$debug.'script!';
&#8230; you can remove your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madwebskills.net/2008/11/05/a-comment-on-comments/</link>
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		<title>Seriously impressive.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At WDS08 I discussed using Javascript to create games with Miles Eftos, who created a version Super Mario Bros in Javascript. Matt Wescott has gone one better to create a ZX Spectrum emulator in JavaScript. Now, how about a C64 emulator?  
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		<link>http://www.madwebskills.net/2008/11/05/seriously-impressive/</link>
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		<title>The Multi-faceted Adrian Holovaty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first saw lead Django developer, Adrian Holovaty, speak brilliantly at Web Directions 07 about how to present data more effectively. Now, I&#8217;ve just learned that he is also an awesome guitarist! Also he&#8217;s a fan of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Ahhh&#8230; Now it all makes sense.
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		<link>http://www.madwebskills.net/2008/11/03/the-multi-faceted-adrian-holovaty/</link>
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