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	<title>IdeaPort : strategic innovation, foresight, and futures thinking.</title>
	<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport</link>
	<description>Roger Dennis consults in strategic innovation, foresight and the intersections between them. He is also one of the core team on Future Agenda (www.futureagenda.org) - and is based in New Zealand.</description>
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		<title>Jack White(from band &#8220;The White Stripes&#8221;) on Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book only four or five days in the studio and force yourself to record an album in that time. Deadlines and things make you creative. Opportunity and telling yourself “Oh, you have all the time in the world, you have all the money in the world, you have all the colors in the palette you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=281</link>
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		<title>Blogging pause due to earthquake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may be aware that my hone city &#8211; Christchurch &#8211; in New Zealand suffered a very large earthquake earlier in the week.  As a result I have not been able to get to my office for a few days now and I&#8217;m only working on essential business.  As a result I&#8217;m pausing blogging until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=279</link>
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		<title>The rise of cities over countries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the blog of Parag Khanna comes an insightful piece about the rise of cities over states as centres of power.  This has been an interesting trend to watch  &#8211; witness California wanting to sign Kyoto when Bush didn&#8217;t, or Ken Livingston refusing to meet Bush when he visited London (much to the embarrassment of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=277</link>
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		<title>Why have three day workshops?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the NYT covers the story of a group of neuroscientists on a rafting trip where there is no way to go online. The rationale for the trip is to debate whether email, phones, IM etc reduce your ability to hit your cognitive peak.  However the most interesting part of the article for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=275</link>
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		<title>(Article) &#8211; Hacking life just got easier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of the early pioneers in the software revolution now say that if they were in the same position again, they&#8217;d be hacking life.  While this has traditionally been the realm of very expensive labs, this looks to change later this year when George Church, one of the leading researchers in the field, releases a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=273</link>
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		<title>Change is accelerating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting sound bite from Cisco&#8217;s Chief Futurist: &#8220;humans generated more data in 2009 than in the previous 5,000 years combined.&#8221; via A Sensor In Every Chicken: Cisco Bets on the Internet of Things.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=271</link>
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		<title>Creating a retail experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your business involves selling  &#8211; in fact selling anything &#8211; and you are looking to see where things are heading in the future, you&#8217;d do well to spend ten minutes reading this gem of an article about an interesting change in consumer spending: “I think there’s a real opportunity in retail to be able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=266</link>
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		<title>A Lesson for New Zealand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“What’s the point of branding, if your brand can be knocked off completely?” The difference lies in the experiences we have and associate with that brand. That cannot be copied or knocked off. via Brains On Fire Blog.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=264</link>
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		<title>Weak Signals &#8211; Doomsday shelters making a comeback (article)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would be interesting to map the number of disaster movies released with the following article extract.  It points out that in the USA shelters and bunkers are undergoing a revival, and it interests me as it&#8217;s a possible weak signal of something happening around how people perceive risk. Radius Engineering in Terrell, Texas, has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=262</link>
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		<title>Off topic &#8211; don&#8217;t burn your iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is off topic, but the first line of this advert is too good to ignore. It&#8217;s on the side of a electrical store in Christchurch, New Zealand.  The iPad has just been released here and clearly this stores feels that the public need some clarification about what the all-singing, all-dancing iPad cannot do&#8230; (photo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=257</link>
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