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	<title>Stephen Gates Blog: Interactive Creative Director - Digital + Online Design, Advertising, Marketing and Branding Blog &#187; Ranting</title>
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		<title>Who died in an oil spill because of BP?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/06/05/who-died-in-an-oil-spill-because-of-bp/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/06/05/who-died-in-an-oil-spill-because-of-bp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A genius new illustration called &#8216;SpongeBob: The End&#8217; from illustrator Mike Mitchell who you probably know better as the creator of the recently famous &#8216;I&#8217;m with CoCo&#8216; poster. Related posts:Visionaire &#8211; The world&#8217;s most expensive magazine I love Mike Hughes]]></description>
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		<title>Tell me again how copying is really flattery?!?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/05/20/tell-me-again-how-copying-is-really-flattery/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/05/20/tell-me-again-how-copying-is-really-flattery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative direction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exhibit 1 &#8211; The Luxury Collection &#8216;Explore the Collection Click here to see The Luxury Collection site Exhibit 2 &#8211; Middlebury College Web site Click here to see the Middlebury University site The Luxury Collection web site was launched a little less than two years ago and the redesign, which was done in collaboration with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ego Is Still Blogging Nine Years Later</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/05/18/the-ego-is-still-blogging-nine-years-later/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/05/18/the-ego-is-still-blogging-nine-years-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 03:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently got nostalgic did some research through my archives and realized that I have had my dates wrong for a long time and I been writing and sending my rants, opinions and advice out into cyber space in one form or another for nine years today. All of this started before I even knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe hearts Apple</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/05/13/adobe-hearts-apple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online advertising review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So if you browsed over to Engadget, The New York Times or a number of other sites this morning you probably noticed that Adobe has launched a fairly full-force new ad campaign, microsite, full page in today&#8217;s Washington Post and and a letter from Adobe&#8217;s founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock to answer Apple&#8217;s string of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why good ideas will turn your clients into tiny drug addicts</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/05/12/why-good-ideas-will-turn-your-clients-into-tiny-drug-addicts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/05/12/why-good-ideas-will-turn-your-clients-into-tiny-drug-addicts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 20:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Back to basics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get the same question emailed to me over and over again &#8211; Do you have any advice for dealing with clients who constantly have problems and changes? It a complicated solution but part of the answer to the problem is, like the headline says, because you are making your clients into little drug addicts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Job&#8217;s thoughts in his glass house</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-thoughts-in-his-glass-house/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-thoughts-in-his-glass-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly Apple and Steve Jobs is feeling some pressure from the uproar from people like myself, other designers and consumers who are tired of his bullshit over Flash on the iPad and iPhones. For only the second time in as long as I can remember, the first was when they screwed us on the iPhone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presenting Creative 101 &#8211; Part 3: The Presentation</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/04/29/presenting-creative-101-part-3-the-presentation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/04/29/presenting-creative-101-part-3-the-presentation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION 12 FEET VS. 4 FEET As I have studied more and more about what goes into being a good presenter I have found that it happens on conscious and unconscious levels. There are a lot of things that you are naturally aware of on a subconscious level that you can use to your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Inverse Facebook Experiment</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/04/26/the-inverse-facebook-experiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About three and a half months ago I very quietly began my own social media experiment to see if Facebook, which was supposed to bring people together, was actually keeping some of my friends away from me.  All of this came about because one of my really close friends (Friend A) ran into one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Moto</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/04/20/hello-moto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exceptional creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have seen me speak at a conference or have read this blog for any length of time you know that I am motivated by my fellow designers but I am truly inspired by chefs and avant garde cuisine. I have sought out conversations with modern day culinary visionaries like Ferran Adria and Heston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to 1984 (How Apple has become the new IBM)</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/04/12/welcome-to-1984-how-apple-has-become-the-new-ibm/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/04/12/welcome-to-1984-how-apple-has-become-the-new-ibm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[26 years ago Apple burst on to our collective consciousness with their famous Ridley Scott directed commercial &#8217;1984&#8242;. It an upstate rebel smashing big brother (IBM) who was the big, overbearing, clone sheep creating company who used their dominant market share to limit consumers to only their approved choices and bully smaller companies around.  My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death to the client version</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/03/18/death-to-the-client-version/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/03/18/death-to-the-client-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that designers portfolios and award shows are littered with &#8220;agency&#8221; versions of campaigns and projects drives me crazy. I don&#8217;t support this concept that there is a good &#8220;agency&#8221; version that was done by the smart people at the agency and a bad &#8220;client&#8221; version that through client interference was made into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I love Mike Hughes</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/03/09/i-love-mike-hughes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/03/09/i-love-mike-hughes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has followed advertising for any period of time will instantly recognize the name Mike Hughes as one of the leaders of the Martin Agency in Richmond Virginia. Since joining the agency in 1978 as a copywriter Mike went on to becomes Creative Director and under his leadership Martin grew from a regional ad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Adobe, want Flash on the iPhone &amp; iPad? Here&#8217;s the plan&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/02/20/dear-adobe-want-flash-on-the-iphone-ipad-heres-the-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/02/20/dear-adobe-want-flash-on-the-iphone-ipad-heres-the-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the little over three weeks since the announcement of the iPad and my subsequent article on Apple snubbing Adobe Flash I have had a parade of emails and conversations with friends and colleagues about the subject. Honestly it has quickly grown tiresome to rehash the same points again and again. This feud between Apple and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why did Belgian ad agencies go on strike this week?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/02/10/why-did-belgian-ad-agencies-go-on-strike-this-week/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/02/10/why-did-belgian-ad-agencies-go-on-strike-this-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nineteen advertising agencies including JWT, Ogilvy, BBDO and Saatchi in Belgium launched a virtual strike this week to try and change the number of agencies asked to pitch any piece of new business. This has been an increasing problem worldwide and it was most publicly exposed in the Zappos pitch last year that ballooned to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Apple&#8217;s snubbing Flash all about money or a sign of things to come?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/01/28/is-apples-snubbing-flash-all-about-money-or-a-sign-of-things-to-come/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/01/28/is-apples-snubbing-flash-all-about-money-or-a-sign-of-things-to-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the Apple press conference was over yesterday this image of a broken plug-in icon where Flash content should have been displayed was flying around the internet showing and the debate over why Apple refuses to put Flash technology on the iPhone, iPod Touch and now the iPad was reignited again. So what&#8217;s the real story behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the recession just what creatives needed?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/01/21/is-the-recession-just-what-creatives-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2010/01/21/is-the-recession-just-what-creatives-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a little while ago I sat down with Richard Christiansen the Creative Director and Founder of Chandelier Creative and Commonwealth Utilities at their purple piano, latex sofa and life size horse lamp adorned studio to talk about their latest work. About 15 minutes in to the conversation he said something that has rattled around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If designers had error messages&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2009/12/31/if-designers-had-error-messages/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2009/12/31/if-designers-had-error-messages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related posts:Another great error message Great error message]]></description>
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		<title>To everyone this Thanksgiving&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2009/11/26/to-everyone-this-thanksgiving/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2009/11/26/to-everyone-this-thanksgiving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with the spirit of Thanksgiving I wanted to say a sincere thank you to everyone that reads, comments and re-posts what it is I have to say every year. When I started this almost 5 years ago I wasn&#8217;t sure if anyone would care about what I had to say and it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R(eally)/G(iant) A(ssholes)</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2009/10/06/reallygiant-assholes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2009/10/06/reallygiant-assholes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take one disgruntled employee, add social technology and you get ReallyGiantAssholes.com (R(eally)/G(iant) A(ssholes)) which is directed at the agency R/GA. The site is written by an ex-R/GA employee who recounts his slow and meandering departure from the agency. The story is all over he place as it starts out with his problems with co-workers and then moves on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Champions Redux</title>
		<link>http://blog.stephengates.com/2009/06/13/city-of-champions-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stephengates.com/2009/06/13/city-of-champions-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have every spent any time around with me you know that I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, which I am very proud of, and I am a die hard Steelers and Penguins fan. So the blog will be taking a few days off to celebrate the return of the City of Champions [...]]]></description>
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