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		<title>Banning words: is it a good idea?</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/blogging/banning-words-is-it-a-good-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/blogging/banning-words-is-it-a-good-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that I am not the only person who wants to fight back against the conspirators. Word is on the blogosphere that Lake Superior State University has ‘banished’ some words.
These include shovel-ready – which means ready to be implemented – and teachable moment, which is apparently a lesson.
I was thrilled to see chillaxin’ appear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparative conspiracies</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/comparative-conspiracies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may be wondering why I haven’t written about the conspiracy recently – that is the one to make a mockery of editors everywhere, to turn language into meaningless noise, to pollute our every moment with confusing messages and meaningless drivel, to litter our lives with the pointless delusion that we exist for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pronouns and bad analogies</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/teachers/pronouns-and-bad-analogies/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/teachers/pronouns-and-bad-analogies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that research is like a “tube of leather with a glass ball in one end”. You only have to research the blogosphere for 'epicene pronouns' to find out whether that's true.]]></description>
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		<title>Targeting my market</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/targeting-my-market/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/targeting-my-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial claptrap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been using Google Analytics to measure visits to my blog. Every week I discover that new users are checking the site, but are they coming back? Then I found out about this thing called Blogpulse.com which tells you ‘what’s hot and what’s not’ in the blogosphere. I was surprised to see that editorial issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to keep your job in a recession</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/how-to-keep-your-job-in-a-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/how-to-keep-your-job-in-a-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How long do you think the recession will last? Six more months? Fifteen years? Only ten? Or is it impossible to tell because we’ve “never seen anything like it before”? Who knows, but one thing I’m sure of is that there won’t be any work for editorial staff by the end of it. Everyone will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Code is not poetry</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/technology/code-is-not-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to work out how to add a blogroll to this page. I thought that after nearly six months of blogging, the language would be familiar to me. Regular readers may recall the angst I suffered last time I tried to engage with the blogosphere. I thought things might be different now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More marketing malarkey</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/technology/more-marketing-malarkey/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/technology/more-marketing-malarkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaphors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=92</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I’ve been advised to ‘engage with the blogosphere’ I’m thinking of leaving a comment on this webpage. Trouble is it’s so hard to think of anything positive to say.
Digital-Marketing Series: 9 Ways to Reach Digital Natives (and the Rest of Us, Too)
Even if I did like extremely long headings (that one’s the length of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back-tracking</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/technology/back-tracking/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/technology/back-tracking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that I’m supposed to respond to the comments left on my blog. I wish I&#8217;d known about this when I started blogging. There was a time early on in the life of this blog that people did leave interesting comments about language and the way it is used. They don’t any more; [...]]]></description>
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