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		<title>My iPhone vs. My iGo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I bought an iPhone.  I am impressed by what it can do.  I am, however, really annoyed by what I can’t do with it.  It is absurd that I cannot use my folding Bluetooth keyboard, a standardized peripheral with my own computing device.  I have been using Apple products since 1982, but now, I am not purchasing another Apple product until I can do something as simple as hook-up my own keyboard to it. ]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t &#8220;incentivize&#8221; anyone.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MBA&#8217;s use the word &#8220;incentivize&#8221; all the time. However, there is no such word in the English language. If there were, it would literally mean &#8220;to turn into an incentive&#8221;. So unless you are planning grind a person up and use the bits as a reward, do not use it.  To use the active voice [...]]]></description>
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