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I love this game. I know, it's what I do for a living, it's my job, and I take it very seriously as such. I spend more hours a week doing what I do for a living than most people do. But on days like this I have a really hard time referring to what I do as work.

Last night I was informed that I would have the opportunity to interview Olympic gold medalist swimmer Natalie Coughlin, a fellow iPod fanatic, in person at her hotel today. After a late evening of writing interview questions, I headed over to her hotel today, conducted the interview poolside, and headed home. Not two hours later, not only had I posted the pictures of Natalie from the interview on Facebook, people were voting on which ones should be used in the magazine!

Sure, posting the interview photos in advance draws interest toward iProng Magazine. But the thing is, it makes the magazine better. I've got four good photos, it'll probably only end up being appropriate to use two of them for the length of article I'll be writing, and I don't know which two photos people will want to see. So why not ask people what they want to see? Why not ask for advice from anyone and everyone who cares to offer it?

I'm not doing anything radical here. I'm just employing some of the ideas I've learned from the new media folks who've made such a big impact on my professional life lately. Anyway, go vote while I work on my questions for Monday's interview with Silverchair :-)

Oh, and did I mention that the December is going to include content from twenty-four different writers? I think I'm more proud of that than anything...