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	<title>Social Verses</title>
	<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog</link>
	<description>Musings from a social media developer (and addict)</description>
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		<title>Twitter and Generation Y</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This discussion about Generation Y was originally part of my Subconcious Motivation post, but as I was writing, I determined it was really a subject on its own, so I pulled it out to a separate post.  If you didn&#8217;t read that post (why didn&#8217;t you?), it put forth the theory that tweeters and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog/2009/07/18/twiter-and-generation-y/</link>
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		<title>Subconscious Motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was preparing to write my Why I Tweet post, I had a discussion with my wife about my thoughts on the subject.  While she didn&#8217;t really understand what I was talking about, or understand Twitter in general, she understood enough to have her own theory about why people tweet.  While she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog/2009/07/14/subconscious-motivation/</link>
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		<title>The Visionary of a Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple has released word that Steve Jobs has returned to work at Apple.  I, for one, am relieved to hear that he&#8217;s feeling well enough to return to his duties.  Not just because he is back at the helm at Apple, but because it means he is feeling well again.
A recent article lamented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog/2009/07/01/the-visionary-of-a-generation/</link>
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		<title>Passwords Protect Privacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine lives in Bozeman, MT.  He pointed me to an article that talked about the City of Bozemen requiring job applicants to submit their usernames and passwords for social media sites they are on.  You read right.  Passwords, too.
When I first heard about this, I had a rather negative emotional reaction to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog/2009/06/28/passwords-protect-privacy/</link>
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		<title>The Story (so far) of Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting image posted by manolith.com:

Original post at http://www.manolith.com/2009/06/21/the-story-so-far-of-twitter/.
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		<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog/2009/06/25/the-story-so-far-of-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Is 140 characters enough?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The simple answer is, &#8220;yes.&#8221;
Ever talk to that guy or girl that just goes on and on and on?  And worse yet, they&#8217;re not really saying anything?  The great thing about 140 characters is that you have to get to the point.  You can say a lot in 140 characters.  More than I expected when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog/2009/06/22/is-140-characters-enough/</link>
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		<title>The Tworg Collective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an article about how Twitter employees use Twitter.  They don&#8217;t tweet very often and they don&#8217;t follow very many people.  They appear to be using Twitter in the manner it was intended rather than in the manner it has become.
Twitter was intended to let people&#8211;a small group of friends and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog/2009/06/19/the-tworg-collective/</link>
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		<title>Social Media Division of Labor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, when I follow someone, I get a DM asking me to &#8220;friend&#8221; them on Facebook.  I&#8217;ve never understood that because Facebook is not the same as Twitter.  To me, the paradigm is completely different.  Like it or not, having a large number of followers on Twitter is a guage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog/2009/06/16/social-media-division-of-labor/</link>
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		<title>Why I Tweet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first started tweeting for business.  Our company uses social media to turn traditional media ad campaigns into viral ones.  Our corporate Twitter account, which has excess of 18,000 followers will be used to help kick start some of those campaigns.  A few months ago, I decided to bolster my own Twitter account with followers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog/2009/06/10/why-i-tweet/</link>
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		<title>Hello, Socialverse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is Norton Lam and I am a social media addict.
While I&#8217;ve had (inactive) Friendster and MySpace accounts for a number of years, I really got started in social media through my job at a small startup in the Twin Cities. I got involved with Facebook in late &#8216;07 and Twitter in late &#8216;08 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nortonlam.com/blog/2009/05/31/hello-socialverse/</link>
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