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		<title>Google and the Pragmatic Idealist Response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has made an unprecedented threat to end the censorship of its search results in China and, if this is unacceptable to the Chinese government, even contemplate leaving the Chinese market. The announcement has been combined with the admission that there has been a massive coordinated attack on Google&#8217;s security and the potential targeting of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2010/01/google-and-the-pragmatic-idealist-response.html</link>
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		<title>Two Conference Paper Proposals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently submitted two conference paper proposals. One is somewhat connected to one of the chapters of my dissertation, and the other is something of a prequel for a post-dissertation project I hope to work on.
If they are accepted, I have a foundation of notes to work off of, but there is some more research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/11/two-conference-paper-proposals.html</link>
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		<title>Scrivener for Dissertation Chunk Drafting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A favorite procrastination technique of dissertation writers is to waste time searching for that perfect tool for writing the dissertation in a more efficient manner. I indulged in this sinful habit a bit two nights ago and revisited the software &#8220;Scrivener&#8221; for OS X. I&#8217;m impressed and encourage my fellow PhD students to give it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/11/scrivener-for-dissertation-chunk-drafting.html</link>
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		<title>The Power of the Ellipsis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has written for or about media, politics, or in fields like history know the power of the ellipsis to shave away important context. I came across this today when assembling some quotes on Churchill&#8217;s evolving views on employing terror as a matter of military strategic policy. Among them, one in particular is yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/10/the-power-of-the-ellipsis.html</link>
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		<title>Comments on Katyn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched the Polish movie Katyń (2007) on the Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish military officers in 1940. 
I felt the acting was mediocre, the &#8220;shaky camera&#8221; technique used annoying at times, and the background music rather primitive, but there were also many strengths to the movie. It had some excellent scenes that capture [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/09/cold-massacre-at-katyn.html</link>
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		<title>Damage Report: China Box Disaster 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been doing research in Asia for two years and during this time I have sent back about twenty boxes to the US. Most of these have contained books and a few, especially from Korea, contained important documents that I photocopied in the archives.
Before sending them, I take pictures of their contents, make a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/08/damage-report-china-box-disaster-2009.html</link>
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		<title>The Grapes of Canaan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They inquired about the development of production in the light metal industry, like children asking the exact size of the grapes of Canaan.&#8221; &#8211; Arthur Koestler&#8217;s Darkness at Noon
I now have a Russian aunt. Together with her son, from a previous marriage, she has added a wonderful new multi-cultural dimension to my trips back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/08/the-grapes-of-canaan.html</link>
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		<title>Well Written History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The majority of the research is done. The sources have been found. The books and documents have been photographed or photocopied. Some of them have even been read. 
I&#8217;ve got ideas. I&#8217;ve got outlines. I&#8217;ve got hundreds of pages of notes. 
I have years of training in the destruction and dismissal of other people&#8217;s arguments. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/08/well-written-history.html</link>
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		<title>Notes from Iceland 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just completed two years of research in Korea, Taiwan, and in Shandong, China. This summer I returned to my hometown Stavanger for a few weeks and then made my way to the US with a cheap ticket from Iceland Air. Just as I did once before, I made a two day stop in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/08/notes-from-iceland-2009.html</link>
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		<title>Warsailors.com Voyage Record Images Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have already had occasion to mention my mother&#8217;s online historical project warsailors.com but I wanted to write a short post to congratulate her on the completion of a remarkable achievement.
My mother&#8217;s ship lists contains detailed information on hundreds of Norwegian merchant marine vessels from World War II that played a key role in supplying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/04/warsailorscom-voyage-record-images-project.html</link>
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		<title>When Archive Digitization Goes Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I paid a visit to a wonderful archive in a medium sized city of Shandong province, China. There I looked up various documents from the 1940s for my dissertation research that are a bit more local in scope than those I have been looking at in the Shandong Provincial Archives here in Jinan. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/04/when-archive-digitization-goes-wrong.html</link>
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		<title>A Night in Changdao</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been outside of Jinan this week, traveling about a bit. Yesterday I caught a ferry from Penglai (蓬莱) to a group of islands known as Changdao (長島) county which I had been told were well known for their scenic beauty. I had a day left of traveling with no specific plans and it seemed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/04/a-night-in-changdao.html</link>
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		<title>Triage in the Archives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on my last batch of documents in the provincial archives in Shandong. There are two challenges to doing my historical research here which I often think about. The first is the problem of access to both the archive and much of its contents. I have been very fortunate but I regret that it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/04/triage-in-the-archives.html</link>
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		<title>A Proposal for a Powerful New Research Tool &#8211; Organizing Information for Dissertation Writing &#8211; Part 3 of 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first and second postings on this topic, I described my approach to a lack of connections between my notes on my sources and my broader dissertation outline. I explained how I organized my material and how I&#8217;m trying to use my task management software as way to create a link between the increasingly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/03/a-proposal-for-a-powerful-new-research-tool-organizing-information-for-dissertation-writing-part-3-of-3.html</link>
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		<title>Organizing Information for Dissertation Writing &#8211; Part 2 of 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first of three postings on this topic I explained that I have become increasingly concerned that there exists a vast and empty middle layer of organization between the various primary sources, notes, and &#8216;notes on notes&#8217; I have on the one hand, and my dissertation outline. I have felt the need to develop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://muninn.net/blog/2009/03/organizing-information-for-dissertation-writing-part-2-of-3.html</link>
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