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	<title>Rodika Tollefson</title>
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		<title>A die-hard &#8216;PC person&#8217; (me) converts to a Mac, and the world spins on. For now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world didn&#8217;t end the day I switched from a Dell PC to a Mac. Granted, that was only last week &#8212; and the world is more likely to end from a slow, ongoing event like global warming than a catastrophic occurrence like a hit by a comet (or my switch to Mac). Which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crowdfunding a Growing Trend for Funding Projects, Causes, Startups</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally pubslihed in Gig Harbor Life  Independent filmmakers, artists working on an installation and entrepreneurs with a startup all face the same challenge: funding. Thanks to a trend called crowdfunding, which saw huge growth last year, these creative individuals now have a better shot at getting a financial boost. Crowdfunding has been described as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duels are illegal (OR, a few simple tips for saving your words from certain death)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course we&#8217;ve all seen this poster about poor Grandma. But it could be worse. Here&#8217;s a one-sentence email press release I received a few years ago (with names removed to save embarrassment):  &#8221;By a vote of 42-3 with 5 abstentions the [District No X] Democrats voted for a Duel Endorsement of [incumbent] and [challenger ] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Lose a Reporter in One Day (or, what not to do if you want your story covered)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve seen the movie &#8220;How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,&#8221; you may remember Kate Hudson coming up with one outrageous dating faux pas after another to make Matthew McConaughey dump her as part of an experiment for her advice column. Her task was to break up the relationship in 10 days and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few things worth hanging on to in 2012 and beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re one of the few people who don&#8217;t live on Facebook 16 hours a day, you may still be catching up on the list it released recently of the 40 most-shared articles of the year. No. 33 on the list, ahead of CNN&#8217;s story about the death of Steve Jobs, is a MoneyTalksNews article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal blogging is not for the meek&#8230; and a few other conclusions so far</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Reposted from my &#8220;journalist in retraining&#8221; blog) It&#8217;s been more than two months since I&#8217;ve been dragged kicking and screaming into the blogosphere (I explained my trepidations in an earlier post) and I launched my first official blog, Sandwiched In. That doesn&#8217;t make me an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, World! (or why a writer may be the last person to take a ticket for the blogging bandwagon)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodika</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[in the beginning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I surrender. I have resisted becoming a citizen of the blogosphere for some time, though in the interest of full disclosure I should mention I did throw in the towel once, a few months ago. The euphoria lasted for five posts, and then I went about my daily business. Someone I met recently wondered [...]]]></description>
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