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	<title>Shot of Jaq</title>
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	<description>Ten minutes of short, sharp, informed, and funny comment about the open source world</description>
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		<title>The End</title>
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Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge call a day to Shot Of Jaq, and reminisce about the experience. Thanks to all of you for all of your wonderful discussions and contributions; it has been a blast!
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		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/07/the-end/</link>
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		<title>Facebook And Privacy</title>
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With everyone piling onto Facebook about privacy concerns, Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge dig into the issue to see if there is realy a problem or whether it is just a bunch of tin-foil hat wearers getting their knickers in a twist.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/07/facebook-and-privacy/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu Software Center Review</title>
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Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge take a look the Ubuntu Software Center and look at the good and bad points and what it poses for the future.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do you like the Ubuntu Software Center? Does it do what you need it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/07/ubuntu-software-center-review/</link>
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		<title>Out With The Old</title>
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Between the Shot Of Jaq listenership there is probably thousands of old tired computers sitting in our houses gathering dust. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge explore what we can use these aging dinosaurs for and what challenges we face in revitalizing them.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/06/out-with-the-old/</link>
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		<title>The Perfect 10: Hosted Web Apps</title>
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Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge kick of another shot in the popular Perfect 10 series, this time exploring the perfect 10 hosted web applications.

Of course, we are the start of the conversation, but what do you think? What are your favorite hosted web apps? Do you agree with the ones we picked? Which apps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/06/the-perfect-10-hosted-web-apps/</link>
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		<title>The Indie Revolution</title>
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Recently we have been seeing something of a revolution in not only indie gaming, but indie games that turn a buck or two. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge explore whether the time is ripe for indie games developing to fund their projects, and whether Linux users are happy to pick up the tab.

Of course, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/06/the-indie-revolution/</link>
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		<title>The Perfect 10: Installable Web Apps</title>
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In our popular Perfect 10 series, Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge discuss what their favorite install web applications are, but&#8230;what are yours?

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? What do you think of the applications we chose? What are the installable web apps that you would recommend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/06/the-perfect-10-installable-web-apps/</link>
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		<title>Safety Of Information</title>
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Today it is possible to download an application that tells you the name and address of sex offenders in your local area. While this information has always been available, Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge explore whether the fact that technology makes it easier to access and visualize is causing safety concerns that were outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/06/safety-of-information/</link>
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		<title>The Perfect 10: Linux Desktop Apps</title>
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In the continuation of our Perfect 10 series, Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge take a look at the top ten latest and greatest Linux desktop applications.

Our Perfect 10: Simple Scan, gEdit, Calibre, avant-window-navigator, D-Feet, Gwibber, Shutter, Mumble, Guake, XChat-Gnome

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What are your fave apps? Which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/06/the-perfect-10-linux-desktop-apps/</link>
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		<title>The Magic Touch</title>
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Everyone has gone a little crazy recently about tablet.s Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge peel back the hype and explore what different options we have available for tablets&#8230;not just the iPad&#8230;and what the opportunity for Open Source is for touch and tablets.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/06/the-magic-touch/</link>
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		<title>The Perfect 10: Android Apps</title>
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In a new series in which the Shot Of Jaq team highlight the top ten of a given category, Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge give Android the Perfect 10 treatment, highlighting their fave apps, many of which you may have never used.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation, and this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/06/the-perfect-10-android-apps/</link>
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		<title>Free The 3G</title>
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The world is being rocked by mobile Internet via 3G. Despite such technological revelations, it has taken Linux a little longer to catch up. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge talk about whether the free desktop is really ready for the mobile Internet revolution, and whether we should be dossing around with tethering or just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/05/free-the-3g/</link>
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		<title>Speaking My Language</title>
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We often celebrate multiple languages as one of the many outputs of the Open Source methodology. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge explore how the translations community works and ask how effective it currently is, and how effective it could be.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/05/speaking-my-language/</link>
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		<title>Big G On TV</title>
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Yesterday in a feat of great pomp and ceremony the mighty Google announced Google TV; their entrance into the consumer TV market. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge take the announcement apart, assess what it means for the industry, what it means for Google, and whether Google TV will be more of a GMail (epic) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/05/big-g-on-tv/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get Ready To Mumble</title>
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Talking over the internet isn&#8217;t new. But there is a new kid on the block: Mumble, a group voice chat system. What can it do for us that we don&#8217;t currently have? Will we see Mumble displace Skype or IRC? Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge discuss the chat client and new ways of working that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/05/lets-get-ready-to-mumble/</link>
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		<title>The Reality Of RSI</title>
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RSI is a growing problem in the tech community. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge talk about whether it&#8217;s given the importance that it deserves and how to alleviate the problems so you can be a happy hacker. Join the conversation and tell us how you avoid RSI, and whether you&#8217;ve ever had problems with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/05/the-reality-of-rsi/</link>
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		<title>Building The Dream Team</title>
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Who do you need in a dream software team? If you had enough money to set up a software startup, would you spend it all on developers? How important is management and sales and marketing and HR? Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge look at which parts of a company are the most important, and what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/05/building-the-dream-team/</link>
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		<title>A Typical Work Day</title>
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We have a wide variety of professions represented across the Shot Of Jaq community. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge talk about their typical work days, covering the kind of work, tools and approaches involved with the hope of the community sharing your typical work days too.

Remember, Shot Of Jaq is all about the conversation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/05/a-typical-work-day/</link>
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		<title>Severed Fifth</title>
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Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge explore Jono&#8217;s Severed Fifth project and the different lessons learned in trying to bring Creative Commons music to the world.

Of course, we are the very start of the discussion! What do you think? Do you think Creative Commons artists can be successful? How do you think this intersects with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/04/severed-fifth/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get Physical</title>
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In a world filled with seemingly endless network bandwidth, ultra-thin computers, and with the recent banishing to history of the floppy disc, is there really a need for physical media any more? Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge explore what physical media means for us, the digital divide, and whether we need those physical discs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/04/lets-get-physical/</link>
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		<title>Opening Up Hollywood</title>
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If there is one thing that Open Source has proven is that a large group of organized and coordinated people can make incredible things happen. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge explore whether just because took on the big guns in the software world, could we do the same with the movie world?

Of course, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/04/opening-up-hollywood/</link>
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		<title>Damn You, Printer</title>
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Printers are shit. There is no denying this. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge explore why printing technology is so riddled with problems and how Google wants to change it all with cloud aware printers.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Are we giving printers too much of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/04/damn-you-printer/</link>
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		<title>Later, Data</title>
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These days we live in an age where we never, ever, delete anything. Email, photos, blog comments, music, documents&#8230;it all follows around, much of it living on the Internet, and moving from one service to another is an incredible pain. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge explore whether we need to re-seat the balance and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/04/later-data/</link>
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		<title>The Lobbyist&#8217;s Recipe</title>
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Not a day goes by when we are not asked to make your voice heard about this terrible law and that terrible restriction of freedom. Jono Bacon and Stuart &#8216;Aq&#8217; Langridge talk about the common approach digital rights and other lobbyists groups use to raise awareness of an issue an whether it actually works when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/04/the-lobbyists-recipe/</link>
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		<title>Web vs. Desktop</title>
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Traditionally, from an application perspective, people have been divided between the web and the desktop. Some believe the web is easier to develop and deploy for and the desktop is sooooo 1998, and some believe the desktop offers a far richer and more integrated experience and that the web is just a fad perpetrated by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shotofjaq.org/2010/04/web-vs-desktop/</link>
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