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	<title>Stephen Gates Blog: Interactive Creative Director - Digital + Online Design, Advertising, Marketing and Branding Blog &#187; Good read</title>
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		<title>Peeking Into Netflix Queues</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/01/09/peeking-into-netflix-queues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting article in the New York Times today that uses Google Maps based data visualizations to show neighborhood by neighborhood Netflix rental patterns in 12 major U.S. cities. For the selected city you can roll around the map to see the most rented movie by zip code or sort them by most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Realizations For Productivity &amp; Making Ideas Happen</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2008/09/04/10-realizations-for-productivity-making-ideas-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behance.com is far and away my favorite online creative community for the quality of their content and their members. They recently published an article to their online magazine called &#8220;10 Realizations For Productivity &#38; Making Ideas Happen&#8221; that explores the concept that there are too many ideas in the world and not enough action. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2007 ONE Show Annuals</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2008/01/09/2007-one-show-annuals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the problems with changing jobs and states is that you lose track off all the little things like magazine subscriptions and professional memberships. Over a year later I am finally caught up and my newly renewed ONE club membership brought the latest ONE show awards annuals to my office door. I have made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Kid Could Paint That</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2007/08/18/my-kid-could-paint-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I follow the fine art community but I am not a huge devotee. This world was once again trust into the spotlight last year with the emergence of 4-year-old Marla Olmstead who rocketed from total obscurity into international renown. Some called her a prodigy and an equal of compared to Kandinsky and Pollock with her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash e-mail adoption</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2007/04/18/flash-e-mail-adoption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I have had clients asking about putting Flash in their e-mails and I saw an article today on CampaignMonitor.com with some results that back-up what I have been telling them &#8211; no one can see it. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues in the future but it is definitly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BACK TO BASICS &#8211; Practice safe design. Always use a concept.</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2007/04/06/back-to-basics-practice-safe-design-always-use-a-concept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The single largest problem that continues to hinder interactive design from really coming into it&#8217;s own is the fact that designers allow their work to be led more by technology or production techniques and not creative thinking that creates a user experience or concept that will resonate with the consumer.&#160; As a creative director I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to basics</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2007/04/02/back-to-basics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As web designers we work in very technology centric industry that likes to question how everything is done and the only constant is change. Our ever evolving technology forces us to find better and newer ways of doing everything. But as designers how can we separate the constantly changing technology from the un-changing need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Embedding Cage Match</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2007/02/10/flash-embedding-cage-match/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to hand it to the guys at A List Apart because it is the only site that has been able to remain as one my my favorite sites for years. They have another fantastic article this month from Bobby van der Sluis called &#8216;Flash Embedding Cage Match&#8217;. The article takes an in-depth look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth in creative critics</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2007/01/21/truth-in-creative-critics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though not as funny as the &#8220;Truth in advertising&#8221; short film from a few years ago this is still very funny and you can easily put client and co-workers faces to each one of these personalities. Related posts:Truth in web design Truth or blogmail? Burger King wants the truth from Tony Stewart]]></description>
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		<title>TASCHEN Advertising Now! Online</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2007/01/19/taschen-advertising-now-online/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2007/01/19/taschen-advertising-now-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written the praise of TASCHEN books before and I received the latest book from them today and they continue to impress. Advertising Now! Online is the most complete and best collection of best-in-class online advertising I have seen. All 448 pages are well laid out with large photos and the work is organized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micro vs Macro Whitespace</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2007/01/14/micro-vs-macro-whitespace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you think you know all about white space? This article on A List Apart shows how micro and macro white space push brands upscale or down and enhances legibility in print and online. Related posts:TASCHEN Advertising Now! Online Sharing your secrets Unicel Bubbles Up]]></description>
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		<title>The rise of the creative class</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2006/12/10/the-rise-of-the-creative-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading an interesting book called The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida. The book is about how there is a new social class defined by creativity and it is transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life. This new class of people is defined by those whose economic function is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Laid Them Off in 2000, Now We Can&#8217;t Afford Them</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2006/08/25/we-laid-them-off-in-2000-now-we-cant-afford-them/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2006/08/25/we-laid-them-off-in-2000-now-we-cant-afford-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of my recent switch in employment and many of my friends doing the same I found this article entitled &#8220;Digital-Talent Dearth Breeds Crisis&#8221; in Advertising Age very interesting. Related posts:Cirque du Jobs Advertising High School to Open in Brooklyn Krop.com creative employment site]]></description>
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