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	<title>Lauren Rae Orsini</title>
	<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com</link>
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		<title>Fellow fans, I need your help!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s only natural that my love of infographics has led to an intense affection for data. About a week ago, I decided I wanted to make some infographics about the rise of fandom documentaries, how diverse they are, and how they&#8217;re getting so popular that even Joss Whedon is getting on the fandom-doc train.
The only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com/2010/03/08/fellow-fans-i-need-your-help/</link>
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		<title>In defense of pajamas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.&#8221;
It&#8217;s the oldest cliche in the book. Offices have dress codes for a reason. Basic psychology states that &#8220;dressing for success&#8221; is a real phenomenon; if you dress like a winner, others will see you as one- and you&#8217;ll feel like one- too.
So why then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com/2010/03/08/in-defense-of-pajamas/</link>
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		<title>Link roundup &#8211; 03.05.2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love link round-ups on other blogs, so today I thought I&#8217;d share my own. Here&#8217;s a list of things I&#8217;ve found in my areas of interest, plus all the work I&#8217;ve published online this week. It&#8217;s small, but if you guys like it, I&#8217;ll make it a monthly or weekly thing.
Journalism
The PEW Internet &#38; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com/2010/03/05/link-roundup-03-05-2010/</link>
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		<title>March 2010 event guide for D.C. anime fans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a journalist, I spend a lot of time looking things up on the web to find new events to cover for stories. As a result, I think I&#8217;m more informed than most people about what&#8217;s going on in D.C. on any given day. So as of today, I&#8217;ve decided- why not share my talent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com/2010/03/04/march-2010-event-guide-for-dc-anime-fans/</link>
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		<title>Nina, Sita, and the Copyleft movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on redesigning this blog lately. Now that I talk mainly about anime, games, and fandom, I&#8217;m considering a design that reflects my status as an otaku journalist. One problem I&#8217;ve run into is that I really would like to use an 8-bit Space Invader icon on my logo, but I&#8217;m not sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com/2010/03/03/nina-sita-and-the-copyleft-movement/</link>
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		<title>Katsucon 16 Maid Cafe videos are up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you guessed this after I missed my Wednesday and then even my Friday post updates, but I&#8217;ve been working extra hard on getting something workable out of my Katsucon 16 footage. Many thanks to maids Sarah Blandy, Hannah Korangkool, and Daniel Redmond; cameraman Alex Thompson; and everyone at the American University New Media Center who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com/2010/03/01/maid-cafe-videos-are-up/</link>
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		<title>A special announcement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am proud to announce that I have accepted the position of Official Documentarian for Inochicon 2010!
Inochicon is an anime and gaming convention in downtown Philadelphia. The first ever Inochicon will take place this August. Earlier in the month, the organizers invited me to attend as a documentarian, blogger, and speaker, and I have recently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com/2010/02/22/a-special-announcement/</link>
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		<title>Movie Night: Otaku Unite!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something you wouldn&#8217;t expect from a documentary with an exclamation point at the end of the title: a dull movie.
Last night I watched Otaku Unite! (Eric Bresler, 2004), a movie that works great on paper. With a well researched premise encompassing dozens of conventions, archived footage of early anime events and shows, interviews with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com/2010/02/19/movie-night-otaku-unite/</link>
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		<title>Always have a Plan B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bad news: I will not be producing a maid cafe documentary.
The good news: I will still be writing a maid cafe story.
The camera I unwittingly used. Photo from archivist David Mattinson.
What happened: Sometimes you can do everything right, but still lose your footage. I&#8217;ve spent the last couple days trying to capture my video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com/2010/02/17/always-have-a-plan-b/</link>
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		<title>Thanks Jezebel!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My goodness, when Latoya Peterson came to write an article about the maid cafe for Jezebel, I didn&#8217;t realize she would link me in it: welcome, new readers!
The article has given me some great ideas about how to shape my maid cafe documentary. I originally wanted to write just about the junction between cultures, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.laurenraeorsini.com/2010/02/15/thanks-jezebel/</link>
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