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	<title>Renai LeMay</title>
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	<description>A Sydney-based journalist and writer</description>
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		<title>Journalists on Twitter need to &#039;be human&#039;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I gave a brief speech at the Sydney Media140 conference, along with a number of other presenters. Because I only had 5 minutes to talk, I chose to focus on one message and one social networking platform &#8212; the most important one currently &#8212; Twitter.
This entry consists of my brief speech notes.
This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rlemay.com.au/2009/11/07/journalists-on-twitter-need-to-be-human/</link>
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		<title>Sydney Media140 and Ignite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Catch me live on stage.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rlemay.com.au/2009/09/21/sydney-media140-and-ignite/</link>
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		<title>Filmink covers Reel to Real</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post to note that Filmink magazine has posted an article about the upcoming Zen film festival in Sydney that I&#8217;m helping out with. Dubbed &#8216;Reel to Real&#8217;, it&#8217;s being held in Sydney on 21 and 22 August. You can find more info at my previous post here.
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		<link>http://www.rlemay.com.au/2009/07/26/filmink-covers-reel-to-real/</link>
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		<title>My new hobby site: Keeping the Door</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news everyone! I&#8217;ve just launched a new hobby blog. Dubbed Keeping the Door, it&#8217;s a site devoted to science fiction and fantasy books.
The title of the site refers to one of the least known, but perhaps most important of the nine Roke Island master mages in Ursula Le Guin’s classic Earthsea series: The Master [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rlemay.com.au/2009/07/26/my-new-hobby-site-keeping-the-door/</link>
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		<title>Why Twitter will renew Journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I spoke at the Insight Exchange&#8217;s Twitter&#8217;s Influence on Media and Journalism event in Sydney. You can find the full text of the speech on ZDNet.com.au.
In addition, we sent out the speech as a freely publishable commentary to a number of Australian media sites. I&#8217;m proud to say that both Mumbrella and Media [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rlemay.com.au/2009/06/28/why-twitter-will-renew-journalism/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Zen Buddhist Film Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something that not everyone may know about me is that I am a practising Zen Buddhist.
The reason I mention this is that I am helping to organise the upcoming Reel to Real film festival, a Zen film festival being held by my Zen group, Zen Open Circle.
The festival will be held on 21 and 22 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rlemay.com.au/2009/06/16/upcoming-zen-buddhist-film-festival/</link>
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		<title>The Insight Exchange interviews me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was interviewed here by The Insight Exchange&#8217;s Beth Etling. I think this paragraph sums up my view on Twitter and journalism:
As I finished my conversation with Renai, I realised that his position on Twitter is that &#8220;Twitter IS the next big thing&#8221; and that all media and journalism executives need to embrace the platform [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rlemay.com.au/2009/06/15/the-insight-exchange-interviews-me/</link>
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		<title>LeMay: Surname of champions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news everyone!

I just found out that my surname, &#8220;LeMay&#8221;, dates back to medieval France! Apparently it&#8217;s quite a famous surname. I quote here from the House of Names website page on the surname LeMay:
&#8220;The family name Lemay has made many distinguished contributions in France and New France to the world of science, culture, religion, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rlemay.com.au/2009/06/15/lemay-surname-of-champions/</link>
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		<title>Speech to the CIO Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 13 May this year I gave a speech to open The CIO Network&#8217;s Sharing Best Practice to Improve Organisational Efficiencies conference.
The speech focused on the fact that I remain optimistic about the future of Australia&#8217;s ICT industry, and I put this down mainly to my conversations with chief information officers and IT managers over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rlemay.com.au/2009/06/08/speech-to-the-cio-network/</link>
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		<title>Twitter&#039;s impact on media and journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 23 June I will be speaking at an event held in Sydney by fledgling (but innovative) Australian events company The Insight Exchange on the impact of Twitter on media and journalism.
The full panel of speakers for the event hasn&#8217;t been confirmed yet, but at least two other speakers will be there; futurist, inventor, writer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rlemay.com.au/2009/06/08/twitters-impact-on-media-and-journalism/</link>
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