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	<description>The digital home base of writer and entrepreneur, David Burn</description>
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		<title>East Side!</title>
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Dana Tims at The Oregonian is reporting that Oregon&#8217;s wine industry is under intense pressure to change and that big changes are indeed underway. 
At a time when recessionary pressures on the state&#8217;s $1 billion wine industry are threatening to leave tons of grapes unpicked this year, Ken Johnston, general manager of vineyard operations for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidburn.com/blog/2010/08/24/east-side/</link>
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		<title>Where Have You Been? Oh, Just Tending My Virtual Crops</title>
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Simon Dumenco, writing for Ad Age, taps a nerve when discussing the rise of social gaming and what it means for our culture. 
In FarmVille, of course, you &#8220;work&#8221; your own plot of land, while FrontierVille stokes nostalgia for Manifest Destiny. (&#8220;Howdy, Pardner! Come join us on the frontier, where you&#8217;ll carve out a home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidburn.com/blog/2010/08/23/go-outside-and-play-soon-to-become-olde-english/</link>
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		<title>One Week In The No Wake Zone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Samish Island in Skagit County, Washington is an idyllic Puget Sound beach community. It was our great fortune to spend a relaxing week there in a beautiful beach-front home with stunning views of Bellingham Bay, Mt. Baker and Orcas Island.

We had planned to visit Orcas and maybe North Cascades National Park while there, but we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidburn.com/blog/2010/08/16/life-in-the-no-wake-zone/</link>
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		<title>PNW Weekender: Elkton And Florence, Oregon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We first tasted Pinot Noir from Oregon&#8217;s Umpqua Valley a few years ago while living in South Carolina. Brandborg Winery has pretty solid distribution in The Lowcountry and our local wine merchant, Claude, stocked the Elkton-made product. The wine created&#8211;as wine will sometimes do&#8211;a curiosity about the terroir. This weekend we got a chance to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidburn.com/blog/2010/07/13/pnw-weekender-elkton-and-florence-oregon/</link>
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		<title>Eccentric America Meets Mainstream America In Portland, Oregon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Men&#8217;s Health named Portland, Oregon &#8220;America&#8217;s Most Patriotic City.&#8221; 
The magazine came to its conclusion after factoring the number of registered voters who turned out for state and federal elections in 2004 and 2008, money spent on military veterans, percentage of residents who volunteer, and finally, sales of fireworks and U.S. flags.

Portland wins lots of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidburn.com/blog/2010/07/05/eccentric-america-meets-mainstream-america-in-portland-oregon/</link>
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		<title>From The Lemonade Stand On Up, Business Owners Make Things, And Make Things Happen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Wilson is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm. He writes the popular &#8220;A VC&#8221; blog (&#8220;musing of a VC in NYC&#8221;), and has invested in numerous game-changing tech companies, including Twitter, del.icio.us, Etsy, and FeedBurner. 
I&#8217;ve been reading his blog off and on for years, but have never seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidburn.com/blog/2010/06/18/from-the-lemonade-stand-on-up-business-owners-make-things-and-make-things-happen/</link>
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		<title>When You Fail The Environment, You Fail Yourself And Everyone Else</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster&#8211;now in its 52nd day&#8211;British Petroleum is losing value fast, which means the company&#8217;s shareholders are taking a huge hit. 

In response, British businessmen and politicians are rallying around BP and the company&#8217;s beleaguered CEO, according to Reuters.
On Monday, the chief executives of some of Britain&#8217;s biggest companies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidburn.com/blog/2010/06/10/when-you-fail-the-environment-you-fail-yourself-and-everyone-else/</link>
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		<title>A Great Place To Call Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to visit Omaha at least once a year to reacquaint myself with my place of origin. I need to walk the hills, breathe the air and feel the positive vibrations of the people of The Corn in order to remember who I am.

I am from the middle. The Heartland. It&#8217;s a place of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidburn.com/blog/2010/05/19/a-great-place-to-call-home/</link>
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		<title>A Brave Man Speaks His Highly Unflattering Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE—Out-spoken and fearless urban planning expert, social critic, author and journalist James Howard Kunstler is a man on a mission. He wants to shake the American people awake with his special brand of righteous anger, and tonight he’s on stage in a grand ballroom at the Westin to do just that. 
Kunstler is here to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidburn.com/blog/2010/05/06/a-brave-man-speaks-his-highly-unflattering-truth/</link>
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		<title>At The Epicenter of Oregon&#8217;s Wine Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, Darby and I had the extreme pleasure of finding our way to the heart of the Dundee Hills. After a quick stop at Dobbes Family Estate in town, we motored west and up the hill toward Domaine Drouhin, except we never found Domaine Drouhin. Instead we found De Ponte Cellars.

In winemaking, as in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidburn.com/blog/2010/05/02/at-the-epicenter-of-oregons-wine-industry/</link>
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