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                    <description>What's on the minds of young leaders from around the globe?</description> 
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                    <title>Top Ten Tips for Writing Plumtree Crawlers that Actually Work</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/509860</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Just in time for Halloween, I've decided to publish my Top Ten Tips for Writing Plumtree Crawlers that Actually Work. This post may scare you a little bit, but hey, that's the spirit of Halloween,...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:10:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>bdg welcomes Michael Buckbee!</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/490809</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[We're very pleased to announce that industry veteran, entrepreneur and Rails developer Michael Buckbee joined the bdg team today as CTO and Lead Developer on The Social Collective!<br />
<br />
Mike's career...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
					<guid isPermaLink="true">http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/490809</guid>
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                    <title>I Don't Even Like Radiohead, But. . . .</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/487671</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I wouldn't consider myself a Radiohead fan. But what they just did is about to turn the music industry on its head . . . again. Check out this snippet from an e-mail they just sent me:<br />
To coincide...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Chris Bucchere's Oracle Open World Schedule</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/481165</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I'm headed to Oracle Open World on Saturday, 9/20. Here's my proposed schedule. Like I said earlier, I'm probably going to spend most of my time in the unconference anyway, but here's what looked...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>SXSW to Use The Social Collective for SXSW 2009!</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/470933</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I am very pleased to announce that today bdg and SXSW have decided to partner to use The Social Collective to create a new registrant community for SXSW 2009.<br />
<br />
More details will follow soon. But for...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Sneak Preview of Chris Bucchere's SXSW RSS Preso at the Oracle Open World Unconference</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/469779</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[For anyone attending Oracle Open World, I'm planning to give a preview of my SXSW 2009 talk entitled "Not So Simple Any More: RSS's Bleeding Edge" in the unconference track at OOW. (This will happen...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Conference Social Networking Made Simple</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/467945</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Three and a half months have transpired since our stellar debut at BEA Participate. (In internet time, that's a lifetime.) But better late than never, I'm very pleased to announce the launch of our...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Friday Fun: Rails, Django and Caprese Salad</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/466695</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I had this Twitter argument today with former coworker, fellow web developer and friend Bryan Hughes:<br />
<br />
bucchere: The Spring Framework is driving me crazy. If this were Rails, I'd be done already....]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Shameless Self-Promotion</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/460003</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[At last year's SXSW I said to myself: "Self, you need to be speaking at this conference next year."<br />
<br />
Help me fulfill my self-fulfilling prophecy and please take a minute to vote for one (or both) of...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Middleware for the REST of us</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/457955</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I'm sitting in my third Oracle Fusion Middleware briefing, this one at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC. Thomas Kurian has been going through all the products in the Oracle stack in excruciating...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>How the New Facebook Utterly Destroyed my Favorite Application (and Why That Makes Me Sad)</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/456987</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I used to love Feedheads. It's a simple, elegant and beautiful application that does one thing really well: help you share your Google reader shared items.<br />
<br />
Unfortunately, the "new" Facebook has...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Nobody's Gonna Read This (and Why That Makes Me Happy)</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/456229</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Boy do I love the fact that no one reads this blog. And to the few people who are exceptions to that general rule -- thank you for being so supportive!<br />
<br />
I just hit two or three web pages in a row...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Are Twitter Replies Fundamentally Broken?</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/455205</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Has anyone noticed that Twitter replies are fundamentally broken? Or, I should say, at least the "Replies" *tab* is jacked.<br />
<br />
This isn't another "Twitter is down" post -- this is about a feature that...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>New Video: Demo of Conference Social Application</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/449809</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[This is a 30-minute clip from the general session at BEA Participate from back in May. Jay Simons and I demo the social application that bdg built for the conference.<br />
<br />
    <br />
BEA Participate 2008...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>RubyNation Community Site Accepting Registrations!</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/428699</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[bdg is very proud to be a RubyNation sponsor! The sold-out conference is just two weeks away. However, whether you're registered or not, if you want to network with other DC-area Rubyists, please...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:07:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Our Web 2.0 Strategy</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/399713</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Here at bdg 2.0, we plan to capture long-tail ecologies by disintermediating citizen-media value while we integrate Cluetrain life-hacks to aggregate user-centered podcasts, blogging and tag clouds...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:07:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Chris Bucchere Speaking at the NovaRUG on June 18th, 2008</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/391333</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Calling all local Rubyists! I'm speaking about modular page design in Ruby on Rails at tomorrow night's NovaRUG. The title of my talk is "To Portal or Not to Portal -- How to Build DRY, Truly Modular...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:06:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Modular Page Assembly in Rails (Part 2)</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/391041</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[In Part 1, I explained how you can develop clean, DRY and encapsulated MVC code that allows for completely modular page assembly in Ruby on Rails.<br />
<br />
In this follow up post, I explain how you can use a...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:06:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Nominate Chris Bucchere for an Oracle OpenWorld Session</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/388175</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I've presented at seven Plumtree Odysseys, one BEA World and two BEA Participates. Help keep the streak alive by voting up my Oracle OpenWorld presentation!<br />
<br />
Here's what people had to say about my...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:06:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>The Social Collective Debuts at RubyNation</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/387127</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[We're very pleased to announce that, together with the organizers of RubyNation, we debuted our social application "The Social Collective" today as a means for RubyNation conference attendees and...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:06:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Modular Page Assembly in Rails (Part 1)</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/382661</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Recently I was faced with an interesting problem: I wanted to create a modular, portal-like page layout natively in Ruby on Rails without using another layer in the architecture like SiteMesh or...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:06:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>This Just In -- BEA Participate Social App Stats</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/382663</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I find this a little hard to believe, but the numbers don't lie. We had a whopping 75,000 page views the week of the conference!<br />
<br />
That's more than 100 page views per registered attendee. This chart...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:06:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Oracle and the BEA Deadpool</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/382665</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Today Oracle announced that they will reveal their strategy for integrating (and/or shitcanning) BEA products. And boy are they a bunch of them -- almost 50! With so many to choose from, we can play...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:06:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>I lt;3 Usage Data</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/374989</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[There's nothing better than reviewing usage data for an application you just launched, especially when those data show that people are loving it!  <br />
In our first week since the application went live,...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 12:05:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>BEA Participate 2008: The Social Code</title> 
                    <link>http://bucchere.tigblog.org/post/374987</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I took the professional footage of my 1-hour presentation and overlaid it on top of the slides and demos. I had to break the video into two half-hour segments, which you can find below. (Note: you...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 09:05:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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