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		<title>Trust the French</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I howled listening the ABC radio report last night about the assassination of a Hamas leader.
The report itself was very disturbing and my laughter was not directed at the content of the story itself. What is it with Israel?
My laughter was at the reaction the assassination was creating in the countries.
In the report Gang that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we need commas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many style guides for news organisations here in Australia are lax of the use of commas in numbers 1,000 t0 9,999.
They prefer to drop the comma and opt for 1000 to 9999. Commas are fine higher numbers with digits grouped in threes so it&#8217;s 10,000 and 1,000,000 and so on.
I think the commas should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to contact a Prime Minister</title>
		<link>http://www.obscurebox.com/index.php/2010/02/how-to-contact-a-prime-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not by telephone, if you&#8217;re thinking of contacting Australia&#8217;s Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd.
Just been trawling the PM&#8217;s website www.pm.gov.au and I can&#8217;t find a telephone number listed on any of the pages.
None. Not a single contact number listed anywhere. Not even on the
Media Releases.
I can follow the PM&#8217;s Blog or Twitter, engage in a web chat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the comments sometimes don&#8217;t matter</title>
		<link>http://www.obscurebox.com/index.php/2010/01/why-the-comments-sometimes-dont-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m growing increasingly puzzled by the comments that are allowed on some news stories posted online.
Sometimes there are none. Does that mean no one really cares about the story?
Sometimes there are many. Too many. Hundreds. When you read through a few it&#8217;s quite clear that the majority of commenter’s have not read any of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brave headline on the cup punt</title>
		<link>http://www.obscurebox.com/index.php/2009/11/brave-headline-on-the-cup-punt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a brave sub that opts for a headline with so much potential for mispronunciation.
So it was that the ABC posted a story it headlined &#8220;Cup punt not child&#8217;s play&#8221; on Melbourne Cup day (Tuesday November 3, 2009).
I&#8217;m sure the linguists have a name for it; that move from the first word to the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the iron lung and into the furnace</title>
		<link>http://www.obscurebox.com/index.php/2009/11/out-of-the-iron-lung-and-into-the-furnace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those Google ads need a close watch.
Look at this highly inappropriate ad that appeared on on a story posted on the Brisbane Times website, originally from the Sydney Morning Herald.
The story &#8220;Dead after 60 years in iron lung&#8221; (Saturday October 31, 2009) told how June Middleton had died at a Melbourne nursing home and had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking to &#8216;real&#8217; people</title>
		<link>http://www.obscurebox.com/index.php/2009/10/talking-to-real-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who hasn&#8217;t cursed at the automated telephone answering systems that have infected many organisations today?
Press 1 for rage, press 2 for even more rage and press 3 if you would like to swear at our automated response system in another language.
&#8220;I just want to talk to someone,&#8221; a very forward UK bank advert once said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Male, female or &#8230; ?</title>
		<link>http://www.obscurebox.com/index.php/2009/10/male-female-or/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Government&#8217;s Department of Ageing and Health is asking some probing questions of people who complete the consent for the H1N1 influenza vaccine.
After the usual name and date of birth questions, it then asks for your sex.
But there are three tick boxes to that question (see picture).
How very forward of the department to recognise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why using a quote from a media release has its dangers</title>
		<link>http://www.obscurebox.com/index.php/2009/08/why-using-a-quote-from-a-media-release-has-its-dangers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.obscurebox.com/index.php/2009/08/why-using-a-quote-from-a-media-release-has-its-dangers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too often these days you call an organisation looking to speak to someone for a story only to be told you&#8217;ll be sent a media release.
Sometimes the protesting works and you get to speak to a human being, sometimes it doesn&#8217;t and you are left with a statement that claims to be the words of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a difference a sic makes</title>
		<link>http://www.obscurebox.com/index.php/2009/08/what-a-difference-a-sic-makes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.obscurebox.com/index.php/2009/08/what-a-difference-a-sic-makes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ABC&#8217;s Media Watch television show is always keen to highlight the blunders of the media, so nice to be able to return the compliment.
Last night&#8217;s episode on ABC1 brought the ABC audience up-to-speed with the rest in its coverage of the Kyle Sandilands saga &#8211; the shock jock who&#8217;s sparked outrage by a rape [...]]]></description>
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