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		<title>Do it Yourself....or Devaluing Skills?</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[I think that`s the bottom line: ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I think that`s the bottom line: People have become so used to seeing
end results they simply don`t understand or even try to understand what
goes into the results. I`m linking the thought to modern education and
the devaluation of work, but it seems als[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  As a new online retailer, I ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  As a new online retailer, I have&#160;recently had to make the decision to hire or DIY. I`m a reasonably intelligent person, hard worker, etc. I even had experience coding in HTML (woooho!). So I figured that creating my own website&#160;would be ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
Another excellent arena of exa]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
Another excellent arena of example!...Hollywood and the visual
entertainment world. People ask themselves how celebrity gossip has
risen to the level of viable entertainment, or the reality shows that
make demeaning people something exciting to watch.[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  I`m thinking that because of]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  I`m thinking that because of the ongoing degradation of cognitive skills, "idiotic" sites will become so ordinary, routine, and normal that they`ll also become widely acceptable: just as really bad customer service has beco]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Okay, so here`s a story example.]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Okay, so here`s a story example. My brother and I both love to cook,
and of course have learned to cook from scratch. Long ago, when we`d go
to the store, we`d find a very small frozen foods section. It was a new
concept, back then, and Swanson had just[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  Easier web creation tools an]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  Easier web creation tools and DIY site builders might be contibuting to the increase if "idiotic websites" but how long will those site hang around (if they are not sucessful)? 
  &#160;
  Years ago it used to be most impor]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[There`s an aspect to the web tha]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[There`s an aspect to the web that is only marginally present in the school system — any given website is entirely voluntary. No one is compelled to visit any website. (I`ve been to Facebook &amp; Myspace perhaps 6 times each, ever, because I find them so[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Since starting this thread I`ve ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Since starting this thread I`ve been reading about the dumbing down of
America, and the unbelievable tragedy taking place in our school
systems. I suspect that although there are countless places and arenas
where this collapse in thinking shows evidence[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  
Is there a relationship be]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  
Is there a relationship between this belief and assumption, and the growing number of people whining about things "aren`t fair?"
 
  &#160;
  This is an astute observation. I hav]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Another issue with this belief n]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Another issue with this belief not only that anyone CAN do anything,
but everyone SHOULD be able to do anything: How many folks have noticed
that software applications are increasingly being dumbed down?

I`m thinking as an example, Web editors]]></description>
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