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		<title>The right Twitter profile is better than having two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a debate running for a few days on the Fans of Mashable LinkedIn group about whether people should keep their personal and professional identities separate on Twitter or blend the two. Unsurprisingly, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a hard and fast answer, although I was interested by suggestions that it is important to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlowndes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17275425&amp;post=1914&amp;subd=benlowndes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble for Times: hacking gives Harding a headache</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benlowndes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were some highly uncomfortable moments at The Leveson Inquiry today for The Times editor James Harding, who apologised after one of his reporters was found to have hacked into an email account to unmask anonymous police blogger DC Richard Horton (aka Nightjack). Harding told the inquiry he &#8216;sorely regrets&#8217; not disclosing the actions of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlowndes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17275425&amp;post=1745&amp;subd=benlowndes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How (not) to win customers (and get blacklisted)</title>
		<link>http://benlowndes.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/how-not-to-win-customers-and-blacklist-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benlowndes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blogged recently about a publisher I&#8217;d blacklisted for its dubious ad-selling, amongst other things. It was the first time I&#8217;d done this since moving to Bristol a couple of years ago. Just like the proverbial buses which nobody sees until another one has just arrived, a different company has given me reason to repeat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlowndes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17275425&amp;post=1701&amp;subd=benlowndes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Links I like 12.01.21</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benlowndes.wordpress.com/?p=1721</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fumblerules of Grammar &#8211; Lists of Note This list of grammatical howlers was picked up on my Twitter feed this morning after appearing on the Lists of Note blog. It led me find out more about the New York Times and presidential speech writer William Safire, who put together this list of sins for his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlowndes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17275425&amp;post=1721&amp;subd=benlowndes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheers to 2011. Here&#8217;s three aims for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn&#8217;t seems like six weeks since I blogged about my reflections on 2010, which contained some personally important landmarks in my life. I&#8217;d like to take a different approach this time and look forward to 2012 rather than spend a lot of time looking back on a year which &#8211; for all sorts of reasons &#8211; was tough, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlowndes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17275425&amp;post=1709&amp;subd=benlowndes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swindon homes to hit the headlines</title>
		<link>http://benlowndes.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/swindon-homes-to-hit-the-headlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Social housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following Channel 4&#8242;s Great British Property Scandal with interest this week. It&#8217;s pressed home some important points about how bringing empty homes back into use could help tackle the housing shortage. Many in the media will sit up and take notice of the issue following the programmes and the stories they have thrown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlowndes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17275425&amp;post=1697&amp;subd=benlowndes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8216;allegedly&#8217; means &#8216;blatantly&#8217; on social media</title>
		<link>http://benlowndes.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/when-allegedly-means-blatantly-on-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media users were quick today to judge this unpleasant tirade on a London tram - and who can blame them? It&#8217;s not clear what causes the rant from the woman with a child on her lap, but it seems that she was at it for long enough for a fellow passenger to film her and post the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlowndes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17275425&amp;post=1682&amp;subd=benlowndes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well earned gongs for North West&#8217;s best</title>
		<link>http://benlowndes.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/well-earned-gongs-for-north-wests-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was entertained by former colleague John Quinton-Barber&#8217;s tweets from the CIPR&#8217;s North West PRide awards last night, with IPB looking like they were having another good night. Cracking gold win for @ipbcomms at #pridenw http://t.co/idd2EpI2&#8212; John Quinton-Barber (@johnqbarber) November 23, 2011 That one was pleasing. It signalled a well deserved award for my good mate Becki Dixon, who put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlowndes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17275425&amp;post=1674&amp;subd=benlowndes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Housing hits the headlines</title>
		<link>http://benlowndes.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/housing-hits-the-headlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The publication of the housing strategy has led to some interesting headlines over the weekend, which I thought I&#8217;d share below. Notwithstanding the complexity of the issues around housing in this country, it&#8217;s interesting to see how different media treat the same information.  The Guardian played it straight on Friday with a piece setting out plans to use brownfield sites to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlowndes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17275425&amp;post=1663&amp;subd=benlowndes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Links I like 11.11.18</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Watson reveals how the phone hacking scandal affected him &#8211; Express and Star This local newspaper column was being shared across Twitter this morning. MP and &#8216;scourge of the tabloids&#8217; Tom Watson writes in the Express and Star about the campaign against phone hacking which has played a huge part in exposing the problems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlowndes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17275425&amp;post=1657&amp;subd=benlowndes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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