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		<title>We are the future of advertising</title>
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What follows isn&#8217;t a necessarily revolutionary concept, merely my account of how I interpret some of the brand interactions I have online.

If you&#8217;ve been logged into Google since October 26, 2009, you might have noticed your search results displaying a little differently. Since last fall, Google&#8217;s been experimenting with a feature they&#8217;re calling Social Search [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/advertising/we-are-the-future-of-advertising</link>
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		<title>How do you know your life&#8217;s purpose?</title>
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For countless hours throughout the day, I find myself daydreaming and pondering on what I would ultimately love to achieve in life. I&#8217;m fascinated by stories of successful people overcoming adversity and other overused phrases to become amazing individuals who have actualized their potential.
Over time, I&#8217;ve come to recognize that you can&#8217;t just sit and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/working/how-do-you-know-your-lifes-purpose</link>
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		<title>Okay, I admit—I&#8217;m a huge fraud…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Loyal readers, friends, esteemed colleagues, Mom—I have a confession to make. I am a big, fat, 72-pt., <strong>face liar.]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/books/okay-i-admit%e2%80%94im-a-huge-fraud%e2%80%a6</link>
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		<title>Overcoming failure through good design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading on design theory and process lately, including articles in architecture and industrial design publications, blogs (Google Reader has seen no mercy) and the occasional whitepaper. One book that&#8217;s been particularly helpful to read is Donald M. Norman&#8217;s The Design of Everyday Things, originally published as The Psychology Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/design/overcoming-failure-through-good-design</link>
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		<title>This is not a post about a rapper at an awards show</title>
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When it comes to anything technology-related, I tend to be an ardent early adopter, typically to the point of personal identity pollution across the web. Sometimes, however, a service finds its way to critical mass and I see an audience larger than my Dunbar number begin to use it.
I&#8217;ve had my Twitter account for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/startups/this-is-not-a-post-about-a-rapper-at-an-awards-show</link>
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		<title>This is not a post about healthcare reform</title>
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In the past twenty-four hours, I have come across a few articles regarding millennials and their involvement in the healthcare debate, most notably one from the LA Times and a piece by a guest commentator of my own generation on CNN.
I for one am fed up with people, mostly journalists fifteen to twenty years my senior, claiming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/millennials/this-is-not-a-post-about-healthcare-reform</link>
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		<title>Why I&#039;ll buy your product if you give it to me for free first (Anderson&#039;s Law)</title>
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A few weeks ago, I came across a new collaboration between the keyboardist from one of my favorite bands, Vampire Weekend, and the lead singer of Ra Ra Riot. The new band is called Discovery and I recently purchased their album.
Hold on, let me read that back to you. I actually exchanged money for their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/business/why-ill-buy-your-product-if-you-give-it-to-me-for-free-first-andersons-law</link>
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		<title>I&#039;m going backpacking in Europe for a month</title>
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In about ten days, I&#8217;m going to be departing for a trip I&#8217;ve been planning on having for a while (or at least mentally considering since senior year of high school). So far, I&#8217;ll be traveling around the east coast of the U.S. for the first week of the trip, then making my way over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/travels/im-going-backpacking-in-europe-for-a-month</link>
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		<title>Why I&#039;ll be boring with my Facebook username</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Facebook staff posted an announcement on the company blog regarding the unlocking of Facebook usernames or &#8220;vanity URLs.&#8221; Now, instead of going to facebook.com/profile.php?id=7901458, starting this weekend, you could visit facebook.com/cesart (or whatever name I choose on Friday night) to write on my wall and view pictures I&#8217;ve uploaded.
This is huge for social networking. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/startups/why-im-going-to-be-boring-with-my-facebook-username</link>
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		<title>iPhone 3GS announced today at WWDC 2009…</title>
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(view full-size version on my Flickr stream)
I kept my 2G around, so I still qualify for the price points announced at the keynote earlier this afternoon, but I feel really bad for anyone trying to upgrade from a 3G. Not cool. :\
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		<link>http://c3sart.com/rant/iphone-3gs-announced-today-at-wwdc-2009</link>
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		<title>Weighing in on the Facebook home page redesign.</title>
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On the night of March 11th, 2009, I logged into my Facebook account and was met with the home page redesign. I&#8217;ve been holding off on writing any commentary on the subject until I fully experienced the entire update (save the above status update as soon as I logged in). At first, the amount of information I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/design/weighing-in-on-the-facebook-home-page-redesign</link>
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		<title>Birds of a feather flock together.</title>
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I recently came across an article that listed the &#8220;99 Essential Twitter Tools and Applications.&#8221; Normally, I try to stay away from posts of this nature, but I was compelled by the title.
I figured it would be easy to get a quick percentage, if I included Twitter itself in the mix, of how many of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/startups/birds-of-a-feather-flock-together</link>
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		<title>SXSW 2009 Postmortem (or SXSWornOut, Pt. 2)</title>
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Video by Kevin Twohy.
Last year was my first time attending SXSW in my own backyard of Austin, TX. My slight obsessions with indie rock and technology notwithstanding, it&#8217;s a wonder I haven&#8217;t been going to the conference for a while now (going to school in Austin lent itself to fleeing the city for the beach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://c3sart.com/sxsw/sxsw-2009-postmortem-or-sxswornout-pt-2</link>
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		<title>Making a job fair.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this entry while in Palo Alto, CA at a career fair at Stanford University during my week&#8217;s stay in San Francisco from Austin. The reason I got here isn&#8217;t really part of this story as much as the observations associated with the event. I think what&#8217;s actually more integral to my account is [...]]]></description>
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