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	<title>Paul M. Davis</title>
	<link>http://paulmdavis.com</link>
	<description>Chicago-based writer, musician and web tinkerer.</description>
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		<title>How Social Media Shapes Offline Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ An essay I wrote for Shareable.net about Goodreads and social networking for bookworms:
You can&#8217;t go a day without someone declaring that the book is dead, whether at the hand of the Kindle, the iPad, or social media. And while those technologies are certainly vying for attention with the printed book, a lot of social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2010/03/how-social-media-shape-offline-reading/</link>
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		<title>Constructive Gaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I wrote the cover story for the Spring 2010 issue of Columbia College’s DEMO Magazine. The feature documents two Columbia professors who are using video games to approach social issues, in very different ways. Professor David Gerden’s CONSTRUCT project attempts to bridge bleeding-edge video game research and behavioral science, while Mindy Faber’s Open Youth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2010/02/constructive-gaming/</link>
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		<title>Rim of the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2003, I lived in a small California mountain town, where I had moved for love and clarity. I worked at a bowling alley while living there, with coworkers very different than the college students, hippies and hipsters of my hometown of Santa Cruz. One weekend, my girlfriend left to visit family in L.A. Stir-crazy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2010/02/rim-of-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Eastern Bloc Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Balkan-fusion septet Beyond the Pale for the Santa Cruz Weekly:
Eric Stein, bandleader and mandolin player for Toronto Balkan-fusion band Beyond the Pale, didn&#8217;t grow up on the music of his Eastern European ancestors. He was weaned on rock &#38; roll and folk. As his tastes matured, he developed into a bluegrass aficionado. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2010/01/eastern-bloc-party/</link>
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		<title>Santa Cruz&#8217;s Sound and Fury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From &#8216;99-&#8217;06, I was an active participant in my hometown of Santa Cruz&#8217;s music scene, and I have a ton of affection for it. In this retrospective for the Santa Cruz Weekly, I took a crack at documenting it. If you&#8217;d like to hear some of the music of Santa Cruz in the &#8217;00s, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2010/01/santa-cruzs-sound-and-fury/</link>
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		<title>Big News Blowout November-December &#8216;09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh man, so much going on the past couple of months that I haven&#8217;t had time to update the personal site. I read my first finished story for 2nd Story last month, an awful tale of getting lost in the woods and running into a redneck with dubious intentions while living, briefly, in the small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2009/12/big-news-blowout-november-december-09/</link>
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		<title>Yo La Tengo Feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Santa Cruz Weekly
Call it the curse of consistency: any band can take a long hiatus before being welcomed back with open arms upon the release of a so-called &#8220;comeback&#8221; record. On the other hand, you have the unassuming bands that create strong work, album after album. Bands like Yo La Tengo who never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2009/10/yo-la-tengo-feature/</link>
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		<title>Not the Olds, But the News: Cellstories and 2nd Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Dan Sinker’s Cellstories project is finally live, and it’s very cool. He describes it as “a daily dose of awesomeness”, which is pretty spot-on. The premise is simple: a short story, delivered to your fancy phone, on a daily basis. Only cell phones, mind you: by wrestling web content away from the tyranny of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2009/09/not-the-olds-but-the-news-cellstories-and-2nd-story/</link>
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		<title>How I Worked A Full-Time Job While Road-Tripping Through the U.S.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Vagabondish
 Last year, I accomplished something unlikely, if not quite impossible: during a six-month road trip around the entire United States, I continued to work my full-time publicity job, and did steady freelancing work on the side. It wasn’t easy, and I can’t say that I accomplished every task to the best of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2009/08/how-i-worked-a-full-time-job-while-road-tripping-through-the-u-s/</link>
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		<title>In Defense of Slow Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Appeared in the Santa Cruz Weekly and the North Bay Bohemian.
To paraphrase Dave Chappelle-as-Rick James, “Internet’s a hell of a drug.” Like James’ drug of choice, the web is addictive and alluring, its benefits debatable.
I speak as someone intimately familiar with an addictive drug: two years ago, I quit smoking. To this day, I find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2009/08/in-defense-of-slow-reading/</link>
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		<title>Things That Amuse Me While Walking Around Chicago</title>
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I’m often amused, tickled, etc about things I come across while walking around Chicago, IL. This is a collection of pics I’ve too-long kept hidden on the private Facebook.
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		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2009/08/things-that-amuse-me-while-walking-around-chicago/</link>
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		<title>Mouse in a Jar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife Daria is a brilliant and multitalented theater-type directing her first full-length play this fall, the world premiere of Martyna Majok&#8217;s &#8220;Mouse in a Jar&#8221; at Red Tape Theatre in Chicago. She and the playwright are blogging about the production process; take a look at www.mouseinajar.com.
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		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2009/08/mouse-in-a-jar/</link>
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		<title>Hip-Hop Poet Kevin Coval</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the AV Club Chicago
At turns lyrical and fierce, the work of hip-hop poet Kevin Coval is intrinsically a product of Chicago. Coval&#8217;s latest collection of poetry, Everyday People, is a paean to the city where he earned his chops, attending basement hip-hop shows as a teen and honing his skills under the tutelage of hometown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2009/08/hip-hop-poet-kevin-coval/</link>
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		<title>The Album is Dead, Long Live the Random Playlist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is insane: the album is dead, long live the app. Who exactly wants to interface with their music collection via app? The app browsing/selection process is easily the clunkiest, most frustrating element of the iPhone/iTouch/iTunes interface, and I’d be surprised to see a majority of people interacting with their music selection via sandboxed apps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2009/08/the-album-is-dead-long-live-the-random-playlist/</link>
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		<title>2nd Story is On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be reading a (lamentably true) short story about my stint living in Crestline, CA and a late-night run-in with a redneck of dubious intentions for the upcoming season of 2nd Story. I&#8217;m a big fan of what they do (see this article I wrote for Gapers Block a few years back) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulmdavis.com/2009/07/2nd-story-is-on/</link>
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