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		<title>How I sweated the web to help me in a city-moving hassle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's amazing how central technology is becoming to our lives and how dramatically it has advanced. If anyone thinks we're a bit backwards in South Africa read what I have to say about how I have used technology to help ease a major change in our lives and you may think otherwise.
I'm in the process [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2010/08/29/how-i-sweated-the-web-to-help-me-in-a-city-moving-hassle/</link>
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		<title>Why I have resigned as Daily Dispatch editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I resigned as editor of the Dispatch and a few minutes ago I broke the news to my team here at the paper. Since I know Twitter et al will be buzzing with news anyway I thought I must write something on my blog.&#160; I have been editor since December 2008. When I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2010/07/23/why-i-have-resigned-as-daily-dispatch-editor/</link>
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		<title>Where are the fighters for press freedom now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The arrest of Sunday Mirror journalist Simon Wright in South Africa should have press freedom advocates in South Africa and elsewhere hopping up and down, demanding his release and the withdrawal of charges against him.
We all seem to have lost our tongues because of the World Cup and our patriotic fever.  But from any angle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2010/06/30/where-are-the-fighters-for-press-freedom-now/</link>
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		<title>Teams with &#8216;foreign&#8217; coaches never win World Cups &#8211; it&#8217;s a fact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day we were sitting watching a world cup game and wondering if the nationality of a team's coach had any impact on the team's performance.&#160;It's hard to say that without appearing xenophobic but we had just witnessed a flurry of exists by teams who had non-nationals as the coach. South Africa had gone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2010/06/28/teams-with-foreign-coaches-never-win-world-cups-its-a-fact/</link>
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		<title>Election coverage lessons from the Brits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's nothing like an election to get hacks happy and there's nothing like election coverage to showcase the full power of the web as a journalism tool. As the results of the fascinating election in the UK this morning unfold, so does a great case study of how media can use the web to cover [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2010/05/07/election-coverage-lessons-from-the-brits/</link>
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		<title>The Amazing Tableau Public</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven't come across Tableau Public yet I highly recommend you check it out. Tableau Public is a data visualisation service - with a twist. They also produce free desktop software which you can use to produce some amazing visualisations on the fly.

I've been fooling around with it for a couple of weeks and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2010/03/04/the-amazing-tableau-public/</link>
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		<title>TUTORIAL: How to create an interactive map for your readers &#8211; for dummies like me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geo-location, crowdsourcing, collaborative journalism... these are some of the buzz words of our business right now and it's quite an adventure getting your head into all of these trends and finding ways to apply them in every day journalism.
One of the most obviously useful applications is to create an interactive map where your readers can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2010/02/18/tutorial-how-to-create-an-interactive-map-for-your-readers-for-dummies-like-me/</link>
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		<title>The giants of world newspapers in a groovy graphic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My spouse and muse, Gill Moodie, has this great piece on the world's largest newspapers over on her Grubstreet blog. And because she's my wife, I nicked it for myself too. Sorry! This graphic puts the 30000 daily newspaper I edit into some perspective!
"Who said newspaper's are dead? Look at this data visualisation of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2010/02/05/the-giants-of-world-newspapers-in-a-groovy-graphic/</link>
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s mobile map and the questions it raises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting visualisation showing numbers of mobile phone subscribers in each country.
You can see how South Africa performs way above the norm for Africa and, in fact, challenges plenty of other more developed markets. What is also interesting is how South Africa's mobile penetration is almost double that of Egypt - yet when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2010/02/03/africas-mobile-map-and-the-questions-it-raises/</link>
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		<title>Fur for thought and my carbon footprint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, here's some food for thought. Or should that be fur for thought?
Check out this fascinating area chart by New Scientist which measures the carbon footprint of our favourite pets. Click on the image here to view their amazing findings
As you will see from the graph, a large dog has an eco-footprint of 1.1 hectacres,a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2010/02/03/fur-for-thought-and-my-carbon-footprint/</link>
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