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		<title>Top Reasons to Use WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Marden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Barker, Cory Miller, and I were recently interviewed by 435 Digital, Tribune&#8217;s online marketing division, about why businesses should use WordPress. The consensus? Its free, its flexible, its SEO-friendly &#8212; all while being easy to use, update and customize. &#8230; <a href="http://xentek.net/articles/852/top-reasons-to-use-wordpress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What I do for a living</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Marden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This cartoon pretty much sums it up for me. I live to create and would do that happily without monetary compensation. I create and my primary medium is the web. In other words I code to live, not the other &#8230; <a href="http://xentek.net/rants/572/what-i-do-for-a-living/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Freelancing in the New Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Marden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freelancing in the New Economy is a lot like freelancing in the old one. Except this time if you&#8217;re wack, you starve. Great slides and presentation by Cory Collier.]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Compete not valid in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Marden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  "The California State Supreme Court has ruled that non-compete clauses in employment contracts are not enforceable in California."    Booyah !   <a href="http://xentek.net/etc/180/non-compete-not-valid-in-california/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t have to sell out to have financial security</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Marden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Heinemeier Hansson, inventor of Ruby on Rails (something you might of heard of) in response to Paul Graham: Getting your company to the point where you can pay yourself a decent salary is a great milestone. You created something &#8230; <a href="http://xentek.net/articles/143/you-dont-have-to-sell-out-to-have-financial-security/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Being more than just consumers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Marden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And in that residential loan application, right on line something or other, was a number that didn't make any sense to me at all. ...  She was a very nice lady, too, and explained that number was the variable required for all the ratios to be correct so I could qualify for the loan.   <a href="http://xentek.net/articles/119/being-more-than-just-consumers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Battling Over the Soul of IT</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric Marden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Mandel, who helped market the original LaserWriter at Apple and later had several high-level positions at AOL, used to say that the step after ubiquity was invisibility, and that&#8217;s where we are headed today with IT, which has become &#8230; <a href="http://xentek.net/articles/94/battling-over-the-soul-of-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Google Enigma</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Marden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever a company becomes wildly successful in a brief span of time, it naturally becomes an object of fascination for corporate executives and even the general public....  We don’t even know whether its approach to management, and in particular its approach to innovation, is a cause of its success or a product of its success — a crucial distinction.Interesting stuff. <a href="http://xentek.net/editorial/77/the-google-enigma/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Know your value, and then Ask For it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Marden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To invoice my clients, I use an application called Fresh Books, formerly Second Site - that's what it was called when I signed up.
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		<title>Amazon is All Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Marden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon opens a new business portal, called the All Business Center, aimed at the home office market.  They claim "Software to start your business, Software to manage your business."
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