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			<title> Grant McCracken: When Did Innovation Get So Cool?</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[There once was an almost reckless drive to create, but now that ideation has become trendy will it lose it's edge?]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Brian Williams Thinks New Media Doesn&#8217;t Count</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2012/10/grant-mccracken-brian-williams-new-media-vote.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The longtime anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News publicly dismissed the validity of New Media channels for public discourse and influence. ]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Why We Need Chief Culture Officers</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2012/09/culture-jobs-brands.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[There needs to be a person to relay a consistent image of the company and use employees' outside knowledge to strengthen the brand.]]></description>
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			<title> Marks and Spencer Brings Retail-On-Demand To The New Brand Champions</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2012/09/cheshire-oaks-marks-and-spencers.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[As online shopping grows, UK retailer tests a 'multichannel' approach, using touchscreens and Wi-Fi at a massive new concept store.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: The Two Faces Of The Chief Culture Officer</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2012/08/grant-mccracken-the-two-faces-of-the-chief-culture-officer.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The importance of creating a role that is responsible for maintaining a company's culture and communicating it both inside and out. ]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCraken: Where Does Creativity Come From?</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2012/03/origin-of-creativity.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[By repurposing old forms and giving them new meaning and uses it is possible to create something lasting.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Are Big Companies Better At Innovation Than Small Ones?</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/grant-mccracken-are-big-companies-better-at-innovation-than-small-ones.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[In the era of the start-up when seemingly the small business reigns, is it actually the larger brands (and their budgets) that are driving imaginative creation?]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Design Work In Cambodia Can Changes Lives</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/grant-mccracken-spend-a-year-in-cambodia-doing-design-work-that-changes-lives.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The first Human-Centered Design Innovation Lab is launching in Cambodia, and they're looking for a fellow who is willing to spend a year in Phnom Penh, doing everything from research, field work and interviews to design.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Making The Cut &#8211; A Review Of Digital Publishing</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/grant-mccracken-making-the-cut-a-review-of-digital-publishing.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A trained anthropologist believes that all books -- no matter how obscure -- should be digitized.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Douglas Adams On Generational Rhythms In The Adoption Of Tech</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/grant-mccracken-douglas-adams-on-generational-rhythms-in-the-adoption-of-tech.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 16:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Thoughts from the late 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' author about how technology is assimilated.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: The Most Interesting Men In The World</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/grant-mccracken-the-most-interesting-men-in-the-world.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 15:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[So where is this guy from, why are we using him, and why is he, in the Old Spice case, so spectacularly successful as a cultural artifact?]]></description>
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			<title>Featured: Grant McCracken: The Problem With Brands Assuming Familiarity</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/grant-mccracken-the-problem-with-brands-assuming-familiarity.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[When pizza boxes act as Trojan horses, carrying a payload of asymmetrical brand communications.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: On Social Climbing And The Royal Wedding</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/grant-mccracken-on-social-climbing-and-the-royal-wedding.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The English are very good at two things. Theatre and History. And they are particularly good at using the first to reinvent the second.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Build Your Own Culturematic. (I Did.)</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/grant-mccracken-lady-gaga-and-glenn-beck-struggle-to-establish-a-parent-child-dynamic.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Culturematic machine could be used for making culture, specifically, casting movies and TV shows. Formally, it can be used for exploring our culture.]]></description>
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			<title>Featured: Are You Old Enough To Be A Curator Of Pop Culture?</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/are-you-old-enough-to-be-a-curator-of-pop-culture.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Grant McCracken explores Barbara Lippert's recent appointment as "curator of pop culture" at Goodby, Silverstein.]]></description>
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			<title>Featured: Grant McCracken: Will New York City Go The Way Of The Newspaper?</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/grant-mccracken-will-new-york-city-go-the-way-of-the-newspaper.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[However natural they seem to anyone born in the 20th century, cities are arbitrary constructions. They are predicated on the idea that humans must congregate and co-locate. But this idea is contingent. A "face to face" connection matters only when there is no digital alternative. ]]></description>
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			<title>Featured: Grant McCracken: Making Culture, Provoking Culture</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/grant-mccracken-making-culture-provoking-culture.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Social worlds tend to settle. And once they settle, a fine coating of inevitability forms around them.]]></description>
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			<title>Featured: Grant McCracken: Making Culture, Mapping Culture</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/grant-mccracken-making-culture-mapping-culture.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Remapping takes a world we know, and reworks how we see it. It's one way to make culture.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Cracking The Pomplamoose – Hyundai Case</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/grant-mccracken-cracking-the-pomplamoose-%e2%80%93-hyundai-case.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Hyundai-Pomplamoose campaign looped the loop. It went from odd to charming to familiar to contemptible to irritating in about 3 weeks.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Sublime, Rise And Fall Of An Indispensable Idea</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/grant-mccracken-sublime-rise-and-fall-of-an-indispensable-idea.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Google’s Ngram is out.  Everyone is plugging in words.]]></description>
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			<title>Featured: Grant McCracken: Square Inch Anthropology</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/grant-mccracken-square-inch-anthropology.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[American culture is vast, endlessly various and changing all the time.  We can't know it top to bottom.  We can't map it end to end.  The best we can hope for is to establish small pieces or pockets of clarity.]]></description>
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			<title>Featured: Grant McCracken: Harnessing the Innovation Paradox</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/grant-mccracken-harnessing-the-innovation-paradox.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[For some reason, it is when we are free to stop thinking about the problem that we sometimes manage our best work on the problem. ]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: The Reclocking of America (and the Death of the Mall)</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/grant-mccracken-the-reclocking-of-america-and-the-death-of-the-mall.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Historian E.P. Thompson suggested that as industrial capitalism took hold in the West, we began to organize time in new ways. A ritual cycle was replaced by a model in which leisure days were fewer and more concentrated. The West was being, in effect, reclocked. ]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Will Time Travelers Please Announce Themselves At The Front Desk</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/grant-mccracken-will-time-travelers-please-announce-themselves-at-the-front-desk.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[It's time to start training time travelers.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: What Business Are We In? Just Business, Actually</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/grant-mccracken-what-business-are-we-in-just-business-actually.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Nimble business are learning to abandon the existing business model before someone rips it out from under them.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: A “Special Teams” Unit For The Corporation</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/grant-mccracken-a-%e2%80%9cspecial-teams%e2%80%9d-unit-for-the-corporation.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The corporation is very good at problem solving. Next to getting things done, this is what it does best. The trouble is, the problems are getting tougher.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Fantasy Football as Cultural Alchemy</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/grant-mccracken-fantasy-football-as-cultural-alchemy.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Fantasy Football now entertains 27 million people, playing an average of 9 hours a week, in an industry valued at around $800 million.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Cultural Intelligence: The Boomer Report Card</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/grant-mccracken-cultural-intelligence-the-boomer-report-card.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA["I believe boomers have broken out of orbit. They know less and less about our culture."]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Kanye West, Anthropologically</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/grant-mccracken-kanye-west-anthropologically.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[An investigation into the cultural frames and metaphors found in a recent interview with the artist.]]></description>
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			<title> Grant McCracken: Mikal Built A Magical Box</title>
			<link>http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/grant-mccracken-mikal-built-a-magical-box.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[What is the strange appeal of Mikal Hart's creation, and what can we learn from it?]]></description>
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