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	<description>by new media author and artist Terry Bailey</description>
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		<title>Why Information Must Be Free, Part One: The Factory Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 21:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit, I like the idea of having information implanted in me for immediate access to it all. A personal database. Or a link to a complete information database in the Cloud. The Internet is a start to this, but it must be better organized. And the information must be free. Not owned by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backtracking</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2012/04/15/backtracking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Beach and Me]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jonah Lehrer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mac Dowell Colony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Chabon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last couple of months I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of music playing, concert going, technology and politics magazine reading, Caltech lecture attending and science and art book reading. Oh, and did I mention spending countless hours learning how to transpose my web-based prototype book, Amy Beach and Me, to iBook format for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music as a force for community</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2012/02/12/music-as-a-force-for-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terry's Reading Travels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Snider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merlin Snider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Great Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Corbett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Merlin Snider with Pretty Good Acquaintances Goin Down the Road, February 4, 2012 I will post an essay about this performance (and some related books and lectures) next week. I had to spend this week trying out ways to embed my own video &#8211; rather that videos from services like YouTube. I still have not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Concerts</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2012/01/22/house-concerts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terry's Reading Travels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Maguire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Dylan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Concert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Byrds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Wait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[troubadour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I am not working at the art college where I am employed, or reading and riffing about books, I can usually be found playing music or listening to music. I want to mention a wonderful tradition to all of you, for I have learned many people are unaware of it: house concerts. Many have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Year!</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2012/01/18/a-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ry Cooder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salome]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hi &#8211; I&#8217;m rushing off to my teaching and web/interactive media department management job, but wanted to check in this morning to let you know that I am back. It would be better to announce my holidays before the holidays, I know. My apologies. This holiday I really needed to take some down time from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brief Interlude to Learn Processing and some other things</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2011/11/06/brief-interlude-to-learn-processing-and-some-other-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been away again for a while. The main reason is that I am learning some new software and a new graphic/interactive programming language, Processing, in order to better facilitate this new media blog. It is becoming frustrating that I build my interactive animations in commercial software which has a tendency to out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Genius who lived to merge technology and art and people &#8211; you will be missed</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2011/10/06/the-genius-who-lived-to-merge-technology-and-art-and-people-you-will-be-missed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>art + science Guest Riff 01</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2011/09/30/artscience-guest-riff-01/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered &#34;useless,&#34; will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the subject of &#8220;new&#8221; writers and wordiness: what author Annie Dillard Had to Say</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2011/09/23/on-the-subject-of-new-writers-and-wordiness-what-annie-dillard-had-to-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Updike]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a riff I wrote in graduate school a few years ago &#8211; about author Annie Dillard&#8216;s first book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. In an afterward to the version of the book I read, Ms. Dillard herself talks about the tendency of mature writers to be more &#8220;conservative with word count.&#8221; (written in 2009) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>check out seasoned guitarist Bob Saxton (in the back)</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2011/09/16/check-out-bob-saxton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Everything is Illuminated]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(media illustration for previous post) Both great players, but if you concentrate on the actual notes being played . . . Bob Saxton by two heads &#8211; minimum. Wait for Bob&#8217;s (2) solos after Scotty plays his abundance of notes. The brilliance is in Bob&#8217;s choice of notes and phrases. It&#8217;s not how many notes [...]]]></description>
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