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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thethingis.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/08/facebook-is-big.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Hillary's speech:  The winner on a missed serve</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheThingIs/~3/376227681/hillarys-speech.html</link><category>Current Affairs</category><category>campaign</category><category>Clinton</category><category>Hillary</category><category>Hillary Clinton</category><category>Obama</category><category>performance</category><category>politics</category><category>president</category><category>presidential campaign</category><category>serve</category><category>tennis</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">david@davidlevy.net (David Levy)</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:20:02 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:typepad.com,2003:post-54754492</guid><description>Hillary Clinton's speech was like that great return of serve...when you know the serve is out.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thethingis.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/08/hillarys-speech.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The power of listening:  Keener on Keen</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheThingIs/~3/375253679/the-power-of-li.html</link><category>Marketing and social media</category><category>advertising</category><category>blog</category><category>blogger</category><category>community</category><category>customer service</category><category>interactive</category><category>Keen</category><category>marketing</category><category>sandals</category><category>web</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">david@davidlevy.net (David Levy)</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:18:30 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:typepad.com,2003:post-54702192</guid><description>Sometimes listening is the more effective thing you can do&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thethingis.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/08/best-lasagna-ev.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Keen on Keen</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheThingIs/~3/320845759/keen-on-keen.html</link><category>Marketing and social media</category><category>customer service</category><category>feet</category><category>footwear</category><category>Keen</category><category>Nike</category><category>shoes</category><category>Timberland</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">david@davidlevy.net (David Levy)</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:08:40 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:typepad.com,2003:post-51921084</guid><description>Keen Footwear has a customer for life.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thethingis.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/boy-the-los-ang.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A moment in our two-faith home</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheThingIs/~3/261507045/a-moment-in-our.html</link><category>Religion</category><category>Christ</category><category>Christianity</category><category>Easter</category><category>holiday</category><category>Islam</category><category>Jews</category><category>Judaism</category><category>religion</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">david@davidlevy.net (David Levy)</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:53:48 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:typepad.com,2003:post-47782626</guid><description>Christianity is, at heart, a story.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thethingis.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/a-moment-in-our.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The "We" inside of "me"</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheThingIs/~3/261445545/the-we-inside-o.html</link><category>Creativity and Structure</category><category>brain</category><category>Jill Bolte Taylor</category><category>left brain</category><category>nirvana</category><category>right brain</category><category>stroke</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">david@davidlevy.net (David Levy)</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:38:35 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:typepad.com,2003:post-47776080</guid><description>Jill Bolte Taylor, brain scientist, describes her stroke&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thethingis.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/the-we-inside-o.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Another Jewish Presidential candidate bites the dust....</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheThingIs/~3/249130073/another-jewish.html</link><category>Current Affairs</category><category>campaigns</category><category>election</category><category>Eliot Spitzer</category><category>jewish</category><category>jews</category><category>Joe Lieberman</category><category>politicians</category><category>presidential</category><category>prostitution</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">david@davidlevy.net (David Levy)</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:06:59 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:typepad.com,2003:post-46848358</guid><description>Another Jewish Presidential candidate bites the dust....&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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