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		<title>New year, new post</title>
		<link>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2012/01/806/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Downs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy few months, but I&#8217;m gonna squeeze in a post for January! I&#8217;ve switched jobs at the Post and moved into a new role, Interactive Projects Editor, focusing on creating interactive projects that combine design and graphics with video, photography and social media. I&#8217;m really looking forward to the new challenge. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of the crowd: Is life getting better or worse?</title>
		<link>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2011/11/the-power-of-the-crowd-is-life-getting-better-or-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Downs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt of my post about our new project on the WP innovations blog: This is one of the first projects to take users opinions and mash them up with actual data to see whether perceptions match up with reality. It’s a fascinating window into how people feel about the places where they live and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How does your income compare?</title>
		<link>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2011/09/how-does-your-income-compare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Downs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information Graphics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Keating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an extremely quick turnaround, I worked with Dan Keating to create this tool that shows you the breakdown of what other people of your age, race, and location make each year. Hopefully in the future we&#8217;ll be able to improve it and add some more metrics, but it&#8217;s pretty cool for taking less than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A workout at work and/or my 15 minutes of fame</title>
		<link>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2011/09/a-workout-at-work-andor-my-15-minutes-of-fame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Downs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information Graphics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illustration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[laura stanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multimedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sohail al-jamea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kat-downs.com/blog/?p=773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To create this graphic about exercises you can do at the office, the entire graphics department of the Post got together twice a day to do the exercises. It was a hilarious group activity &#8212; we attracted a lot of stares from passersby in the newsroom. I really enjoyed jumping around a little bit in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal rumors (and some graphics fun)</title>
		<link>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2011/09/royal-rumors-and-some-graphics-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Downs</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karen Yourish]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motion graphics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Kate and Will back in the news for the rumors about a pregnancy with twins (not true, by the way), I thought, &#8220;Hey, what better opportunity to make up for the fact that I never wrote about our royal wedding graphics on the blog?&#8221; So here I am. Royal couple junkies, enjoy. And if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analyzing the U.S. tax code, break by break, and other recent charts</title>
		<link>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2011/09/analyzing-the-u-s-tax-code-break-by-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Downs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, we came out with a new graphic that looks at the tax breaks on the books this year. It is part of Running in the Red, a series the Post has been running for the past few months, and accompanied Lori Montgomery&#8217;s front-page story, &#8220;Ever-increasing tax breaks for U.S. families eclipse benefits for special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone photography</title>
		<link>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2011/08/iphone-photography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Downs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography and multimedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filters]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kat-downs.com/blog/?p=687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My first shot at iPhone photography. I found it really fun &#8212; I love the filters and the size of the phone makes it easy to carry around. I was mostly using Hipstamatic and Instagram, and shot a few panoramas with the Photosynth app. To see the full gallery,]]></description>
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		<title>Moving away from Flash: A look at JavaScript drawing libraries</title>
		<link>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2011/06/moving-away-from-flash-a-look-at-javascript-drawing-libraries/</link>
		<comments>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2011/06/moving-away-from-flash-a-look-at-javascript-drawing-libraries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Downs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from a new post for WP&#8217;s @innovations blog: [Go to the blog to read the whole thing] When Apple announced early last year that it would not support Flash on the iPhone and iPad, a passionate conversation erupted in the world of web development: Was Flash dead? If not, how would it survive? When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recap from Malofiej 19</title>
		<link>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2011/05/malofiej-19/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 15:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Downs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March, I set out for Pamplona, Spain, to join the jury of Malofiej 19. For three days, we judged hundreds of entries in the digital contest, while colleagues on the print side saw over 1,000 entries. Check out the awards here. Other jury members came from all over the world &#8212; Germany, Argentina, Chile, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot multimedia at Global Warning</title>
		<link>http://kat-downs.com/blog/2011/05/hot-multimedia-at-global-warning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 22:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Downs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A full five months after wrapping the Global Warning project, I think it&#8217;s time to do a blog post about it! I spent last fall working with a team of students on a National Security Reporting project at Northwestern University&#8217;s Medill School of Journalism. I was an adjunct professor, teaching the students multimedia design and [...]]]></description>
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