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	<title>Omni Writers &#38; Artists &#187; Giancarlo La Giorgia</title>
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		<title>Terry, Ted and Tasso&#8230; hosting CBC Montreal&#8217;s Daybreak?!?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[File this under "what were they thinking?"Terry DiMonte, Ted Bird and "Tasso Patsikakis" (real name, Paul Zakaib), all familiar morning radio personalities in Montreal, will apparently be taking over the local CBC radio station's Daybreak, according to...]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Health magazine kills the competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rest of the magazine industry may have flat lined, but Canadian Health is alive and doing very, very well. The magazine, published by the Canadian Medical Association and available in doctor and hospital waiting rooms across the country, boasts the...]]></description>
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		<title>Where business suits really come from</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when the Kids in the Hall were edgy and surreal and relevant (and funny)? Ah, those were the days...Take it away Fran&#231;ois:]]></description>
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		<title>The (dis)honourable MPP for Saint John Lancaster has the floor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another day in the New Brunswick provincial legislature:]]></description>
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		<title>EU economy in shambles, but still better than US or China?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting commentary on why the US is not number one. And neither is China.Although all the attention now is how Europe's over-indebted, socialist PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) need to go on a diet, and how the US is supposedly c...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Quotable Douchbag&#8221; and other odd &#8217;09 book titles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would comment on the quality these book titles, but I'm at a loss for words. What can I say that hasn't already been said by the author (a supposed Dr. Brown, first name Mark) of The Origin of Faeces?Hat tip to Flavorwire]]></description>
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		<title>Rumours of old media&#8217;s death have been greatly exaggerated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm as plugged into digital media as the next internet-addicted automaton, but most of my writing work is still for newspapers and magazines &#8212; though, they almost all have online versions. I also still enjoy reading magazines and the occasional n...]]></description>
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		<title>Rumours of old media&#8217;s death have been greatly exaggerated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm as plugged into digital media as the next internet-addicted automaton, but most of my writing work is still for newspapers and magazines &#8212; though, they almost all have online versions. I also still enjoy reading magazines and the occasional n...]]></description>
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		<title>Rumours of old media&#8217;s death have been greatly exaggerated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm as plugged into digital media as the next internet-addicted automaton, but most of my writing work is still for newspapers and magazines &#8212; though, they almost all have online versions. I also still enjoy reading magazines and the occasional n...]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting (poop) star</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you wish upon a shooting star, watch this video, which explains what happens to human waste in space.]]></description>
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		<title>Stating the obvious: freelancing doesn&#8217;t make cents</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/01/stating-the-obvious-freelancing-doesnt-make-cents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing really new here, but the LA Times recently ran an article on the crappy business prospects facing freelance writers. Worth reading, if only for the bitchy comments.In related news, the New Scientist has an article entitled Adapt or Die. I choos...]]></description>
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		<title>In defence of beavers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a sad day when Canadian school children are deprived of the opportunity to search the internet to learn about on our country's national symbol! Alas, in this rotten age, the humble beaver has become a casualty of search and spam filters, which con...]]></description>
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		<title>The folly and madness of the Iraq war</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/12/the-folly-and-madness-of-the-iraq-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read through a long and seriously out-of-character Gawker story of an Iraqi attorney and former pro-American collaborator now living in the US, where he has launched a (futile) lawsuit against the US military for its alleged attempt to murder him ...]]></description>
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		<title>Magazines suffer death by a thousand paperless cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giant magazine shrinks to online-only editions, Heeb is (possibly) on its death bed, and National Geographic Adventure is up for sale (without the "National Geographic" part attached to its title).I hope my Walrus subscription has a refund clause if th...]]></description>
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		<title>A different kind of remembrance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today stirs up all sorts of emotions in me. Mainly, I feel rather unworthy &#8212; like most Canadians, I expend precious time and energy whining about some petty grievance or other, and totally ignore the sacrifices of the many men and women who have ...]]></description>
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		<title>Publish your own book for fun and profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to JJOld news (and the writer's photo looks right out of an 80's shampoo ad), but still good to know how and where writers can self-publish books.]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto Star fading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Toronto Star is outsourcing about 100 in-house, union editing jobs, to save money and prevent (or at least, slow) its demise. This isn't really news anymore, because print media everywhere is coming to grips (about a decade too late) with a paperle...]]></description>
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		<title>100 Tools to Turn to When You Have Writer’s Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to Amber JohnsonGetting writer’s block can be incredibly frustrating, whether you write as a professional, need to create a great paper for your classes, or just want to write something for a personal project. It doesn’t have to be a comple...]]></description>
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		<title>Hell, frozen over: Telus cuts its system access fee!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could it be that the Big Three &#8212; Rogers, Bell and Telus &#8212; are taking heed of all those new wireless phone companies that are slated to open shop in the next year or so? Why else would Telus cut its rate plans to something approaching fair a...]]></description>
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		<title>Is it safe? H1N1 vaccine facts*</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*According the the New Scientist, which, to no one's surprise, concludes that getting vaccinated is safer than not getting vaccinated.Not that it will convince the conspiracy theorists who think it's all just a big plot to control the world's populatio...]]></description>
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		<title>Mediaville Montreal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been quite the absentee landlord with this here blog. For a million different reasons. Busy, busy little bee, I be.Mainly though, I've been engrossed (apt word, that) with the one-day freelance media extravaganza that is Mediaville Montreal. A pet...]]></description>
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		<title>Building a second sun: Take $10 billion, add coconuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, this isn't from a Monty Python sketch. Apparently, coconut shells are the secret ingredient to some fancy fusion reactor being built in Europe.Personally, I would have used coco-de-mer shells, but I'm freaky like that.]]></description>
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		<title>Why freelance writers need to have goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a freelance writer is about more than just writing. It&#8217;s a business, and you need to know how to run it like any other small business. Part of that is setting objectives and evaluating whether you&#8217;re meeting them. The inimitable Paul Lima has a few word on meeting goals on his blog that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft does the future (funny!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Microsoft does the future (funny!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Inglorious, maybe, but very interesting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has a story to tell, as my brother-in-law Ara amply proves in this meme-worthy posting on his blog. Detailed, but just guarded enough that it doesn&#8217;t feel like over-sharing. And funny. Colour me inspired. I mean, I certainly have enough embarrassing moments to mine, like this gem. Read the original post on Giancarlo La [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inglorious, maybe, but very interesting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<title>Naumachia: Naval battle set to rage in New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from NYC, where the wife and I went for a weekend of eating (Beacon for burgers, Babbo for incredible contemporary Italian food, Ippudo for ramen, and Momofuku Bakery and Milk Bar for desserts), theater-going (Fuerza Bruta, for an incredible, and somewhat wet, sensory experience) and shopping. If I could have though, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naumachia: Naval battle set to rage in New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<title>Magazine a front for Hell&#8217;s Angels drug ring?</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/07/magazine-a-front-for-hells-angels-drug-ring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just found out that Burton Rice, the publisher of Naked Eye magazine, one of my ex-clients, was busted for being a major link in the Hell&#8217;s Angels drug distribution chain. The funny/sad part is that Rice&#8217;s warehouse had safes full of cash, but he still wasn&#8217;t paying his staff or freelancers on time, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magazine a front for Hell&#8217;s Angels drug ring?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<title>Whither journalism schools? Apparently not</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media industry is in poor shape, and publications (that is, the ones that haven&#8217;t already declared bankruptcy) are laying off and buying out journalists in droves. But that hasn&#8217;t stopped students from flocking to journalism schools, at least in the US, according to a Forbes article published in April. As a j-school grad, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whither journalism schools? Apparently not</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<title>Bad writing award goes to seafaring novel&#8217;s queasy first sentence</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/bad-writing-award-goes-to-seafaring-novels-queasy-first-sentence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to Ara I had no idea there was a contest to craft the most gawd-awful opening sentence for a (fake) novel. In any case, I&#8217;m sure I could have topped this year&#8217;s winner. Read the original post on Giancarlo La Giorgia &#8211; Writers Blog]]></description>
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		<title>Bad writing award goes to seafaring novel&#8217;s queasy first sentence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to AraI had no idea there was a contest to craft the most gawd-awful opening sentence for a (fake) novel. In any case, I'm sure I could have topped this year's winner.]]></description>
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		<title>How (not) to write travel stories</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/how-not-to-write-travel-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Hat tip to Mariellen) Over the past two years, I&#8217;ve written a few travel articles, even an award-winning one. But, as is my self-deprecating obligation as a neurotic creative type, I&#8217;m still not convinced that I am actually a &#8220;travel writer,&#8221; and not just a dispenser of clich&#0233;s and recounter of boring &#8220;what my wife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How (not) to write travel stories</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/how-not-to-write-travel-stories-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Hat tip to Mariellen)Over the past two years, I've written a few travel articles, even an award-winning one. But, as is my self-deprecating obligation as a neurotic creative type, I'm still not convinced that I am actually a "travel writer," and not j...]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off&quot; House for Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/ferris-buellers-day-off-house-for-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off, the only role of Matthew Broderick&#8217;s acting career that anyone really remembers, with all those other 80&#8242;s character actors that have fallen off the face of the planet (remember that guy? On second thought, maybe it&#8217;s better if you don&#8217;t.) Well, the glass, hillside house that Ferris and Cameron famously drove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off&#8221; House for Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/ferris-buellers-day-off-house-for-sale-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>ConU takes PBS to school</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/conu-takes-pbs-to-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 03:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apropos of nothing, I thought it would be neat/nerdy to share that my alma mater has partnered with the Mountain Lake, NY, affiliate of PBS for a program on how kids are addicted to technology. Read more here (with video clip). Read the original post on Giancarlo La Giorgia &#8211; Writers Blog]]></description>
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		<title>ConU takes PBS to school</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/conu-takes-pbs-to-school-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 03:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Plowboys and Indians</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/plowboys-and-indians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genocide for the sake of a few cords of wood and other natural resources is the subject of a brutal article I just read by Felipe Milanez, appearing in the usually obscene and obnoxious Vice (true to form, the lead photo shows a topless Amazonian, though it&#8217;s more National Geographic than pornographic). I thought I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plowboys and Indians</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/plowboys-and-indians-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Op-ed: Newspapers (and journalists) must adapt or die</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/op-ed-newspapers-and-journalists-must-adapt-or-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every journalist has been thinking it, but few want to face the facts: as the newspaper goes, so go the journalists. In an op-ed piece on the Christian Science Monitor (I&#8217;d say &#8220;in,&#8221; but, alas, that &#8220;newspaper&#8221; is now an exclusively online publication due to cost-cutting), media economics professor Robert G. Picard expounds on why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: Newspapers (and journalists) must adapt or die</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every journalist has been thinking it, but few want to face the facts: as the newspaper goes, so go the journalists. In an op-ed piece on the Christian Science Monitor (I'd say "in," but, alas, that "newspaper" is now an exclusively online publication ...]]></description>
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		<title>Montreal&#8217;s hidden waterways</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/montreals-hidden-waterways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neat article from the Gazette on the rivers that used to run through Montreal and have long since been diverted into the sewer system. Read the original post on Giancarlo La Giorgia &#8211; Writers Blog]]></description>
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		<title>Montreal&#8217;s hidden waterways</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/montreals-hidden-waterways-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neat article from the Gazette on the rivers that used to run through Montreal and have long since been diverted into the sewer system.]]></description>
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		<title>Montreal is for lovers (patient ones, apparently)</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/montreal-is-for-lovers-patient-ones-apparently/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking through Craigslist Montreal's writing/editing jobs &#8212; mostly junk, with the occasional scam, and oddly, a bunch of German and Japanese translation gigs.Then, I decided to browse the latest Montreal entries on the "Best of" page, and found ...]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Gould, my kind of journalist</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/terry-gould-my-kind-of-journalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caught CBC's The Hour last night, and the interview with Terry Gould was worth contending with Strombo's meandering mumbles. (I've actually grown tolerant, if not fond, of the mealy-mouthed host. Maybe George Stromboulopoulos isn't just a thinking slac...]]></description>
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		<title>$11 million settlement in freelancer&#8217;s copyright battle</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/11-million-settlement-in-freelancers-copyright-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heather Robertson has been fighting the Globe and Mail since 1996 for recognition that the newspaper cannot reprint freelancers' articles in digital databases without permission, and certainly not without paying extra for it.It only took 13 years and s...]]></description>
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		<title>National Magazine Awards (Canadian edition)</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/national-magazine-awards-canadian-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tickets go on sale today for the National Magazine Awards. I'm not nominated this year, but I'm going to be in Toronto for the concurrent MagNet "super-conference" anyway, so it would be a good opportunity to schmooze with Canada's best editors and wri...]]></description>
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		<title>National Magazine Awards (US edition)</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/05/national-magazine-awards-us-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 14:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best of the best in American magazine writing, editing, design and photography were recognized during yesterday's National Magazine Awards in New York City.With few exceptions, all the winners (and nominees) were marquee titles like Wired, The New ...]]></description>
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		<title>Monroe Magazine: You suck!</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/04/monroe-magazine-you-suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've seen some pretty awful/scammy media job ads like this one recently put out by Monroe Magazine.Anyone who has ever trolled Craigslist knows the type: "Submit three story ideas and we might consider working with [but not paying] you." The thing is, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Light Awards, recap</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/04/northern-light-awards-recap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I miss New York! The sights. The sounds. The smells (OK, maybe not the smells...)Just a week ago, I was fortunate enough to find myself worming around the Big Apple (how else would you describe walking 50 blocks in pouring rain).The reason I was in tow...]]></description>
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		<title>Bottled cow farts next big growth industry?</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/04/bottled-cow-farts-next-big-growth-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can't make this stuff up: in India, cows are sacred, and so are their farts and poop. So, it's possibly not such a surprise that someone from that country would conceive of "a new regional emissions trading scheme called Farm Animals effluence Redu...]]></description>
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		<title>The newspaper is dead. Long live the new journalism!</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/03/the-newspaper-is-dead-long-live-the-new-journalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting historical analysis of the long-time-coming newspaper apocalypse on the Poynter Institute website, ironically, by the now deceased founding editor of USA Today, one of the harbingers of the medium's decline.Take away message: The old news m...]]></description>
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		<title>New York City, here I come!</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/03/new-york-city-here-i-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I'm not moving to the Big Apple, especially with the media sector there imploding lately (that's why I read Gawker, honest!)I will however be attending the Canadian Tourism Commission's Northern Lights Awards. Seems that one of my travel articles p...]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Health, most-read magazine in Canada (and I&#8217;m a regular contributor)</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/03/canadian-health-most-read-magazine-in-canada-and-im-a-regular-contributor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Print Measurement Bureau statistics, Canadian Health magazine has 30.3 readers per copy, the highest number of any magazine in Canada.I've been writing for the consumer health mag, published by the Canadian Medical Association since 2006, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Great ideas dept.: Create a masterpiece, then give it away for free (patent pending)</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/03/great-ideas-dept-create-a-masterpiece-then-give-it-away-for-free-patent-pending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven't actually seen the new animated film Sita Sings the Blues (in high-definition, no less; there's also a less bandwidth-heavy standard-definition version), so I don't know if it qualifies as a masterpiece, but its creator, Nina Paley, certainly ...]]></description>
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		<title>Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giancarlo La Giorgia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings netizens, I want to take a minute to talk about Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), an autosomal recessive genetic disease characterized by brief recurrent episodes of peritonitis, pleuritis, and arthritis, and usually associated with fever.I...]]></description>
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