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		<title>Talk to The Art of War by Sun Tzu</title>
		<link>http://www.simondrake.com/blog/2010/03/06/the-art-of-war-intelligent-virtual-agent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Art of War by Sun Tzu &#8211; Now as a Robot / Chatbot, and evolving Artificial Intelligence. Is this a world first? Am I the only one pursuing this evolution of the written word? Ignore the questions because in this day and age the answers soon become irrelevant and automated: Go on, talk with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bankers Who Sold the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the peak of the financial crisis, a high-flying team of egotistical, ambitious, international bankers flying to a global emergency financial bailout meeting are visited by a duo of egotistical, ambitious, intergalactic alien bankers. The alien bankers, on behalf of an inter-galactic client, can see that earth’s looking very cheap at the moment, and they would like to buy in. But for all parties concerned, how do you value earth during a credit crunch, and what's the bonus for doing so?]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Drake&#8217;s &#8220;The Art of Office War&#8221; translated and published in Poland.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 14:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proving that valuable and quality knowledge must be universal, my non-fiction title &#8220;The Art of Office War&#8221; has been published by One Press, under the title &#8220;Sztuka wojny biurowej&#8221;. &#8220;Sztuka wojny biurowej&#8221; is available in Polish on One Press&#8217;s site, under the business section. Special thanks goes to my agent for seeing this deal through!]]></description>
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		<title>Ebook Adoption in the European Publishing Industry – Notes from the Frankfurt Book Fair</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Frankfurt Book Fair (2008), sitting in on eBook related forums and discussions. I have two main observations: 1. The US wants Europe to pile into the eBook industry, and 2. the eBook Industry must lift its gain first. Now for the details. 1. I attended an Amazon Kindle (AK) presentation. AK is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Generous Enemies Could Never Be Published in Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more fragile a situation, the less people want to discuss it. The more obscenely pointless a situation, the more people will rejoice in it. That is one of my simple observations of society and relates to my exploits in shopping Generous Enemies to Australian publishers and agents between 1999 and 2003. There are an [...]]]></description>
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