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		<title>About Barbara O&#8217;Brien</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Owner/proprietor of The Mahablog (est. 2002)
	Guide to Buddhism at About.com. 
	Note: I&#8217;m looking for work as a writer &#8212; permanent, temporary, part time, full time, on location (New York City area) or telecommuting. Contact me by email if interested. 
	You can read about me on Wikipedia!
	Some experience as a blogger: In August 2007 I was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><strong>Owner/proprietor of <a href="http://www.mahablog.com">The Mahablog</a> (est. 2002)</strong></p>
	<p><strong><a href="http://buddhism.about.com/">Guide to Buddhism at About.com</a>.</strong> </p>
	<p><em><strong>Note:</strong></em> I&#8217;m looking for work as a writer &#8212; permanent, temporary, part time, full time, on location (New York City area) or telecommuting. Contact me by <a href="mailto:mahabarbara@gmail.com">email</a> if interested. </p>
	<p><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_O%27Brien">You can read about me on Wikipedia!</a></strong></p>
	<p><em><strong>Some experience as a blogger:</strong></em> In August 2007 I was a panelist at the Yearly Kos convention in Chicago. The panel was &#8220;<a href="http://streetprophets.com/storyonly/2007/7/31/133524/507">Faith Or No: Building Secular-Religious Coalitions</a>&#8221; and moderated by Pastor Daniel Schultz of Street Prophets. </p>
	<p>In September 2006 I was <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1873817,00.html">one of the bloggers who met with President Bill Clinton in his Harlem office</a>. I also received press credentials (through Peter Daou) to blog the Clinton Global Initiative Conference the following week. In November I blogged the midterm election results from the Democratic Party victory shindig (in the Manhattan Sheraton) attended by Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer, among others. In June I was a featured guest blogger at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, DC, and also guest hosted at Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s blog, <a href="http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_glenngreenwald_archive.html">Unclaimed Territory.</a> Very recently I guest blogged at <a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/">Crooks and Liars</a>.</p>
	<p><em><strong>Also:</strong></em></p>
	<li>
Member, Netroots Advisory Council, Drum Major Institute; Advertising Liberally network</li>
	<li>Author of <em><a href="http://www.wmjasco.com/0407/040-7.html">Blogging America: Political Discourse in a Digital Nation</a></em>, published by William James &#038; Co., 2004</li>
	<li>Interviewed by Brian Lamb on CSPAN’s Washington Journal, February 10, 2006</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071300569.html">Profiled by David Von Drehle in the <em>Washington Post</em> Sunday magazine</a>, July 17, 2005</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6063574/">Guest appearance on MSNBC’s <em>Countdown With Keith Olbermann</em></a>, September 20, 2004</li>
	<p><strong><em>Education</em></strong></p>
	<p>Bachelor of Journalism degree, University of Missouri / School of Journalism, Columbia, MO, 1973</p>
	<p><strong><em>Other Stuff I&#8217;ve Written</em></strong></p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.dmiblog.net/archives/2007/01/health_care_props_and_patches.html">Health Care Props and Patches</a>,&#8221; Drum Major Institute Blog, January 12, 2007</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/48658/">About That Uranium in North Korea &#8230; Never Mind</a>,&#8221; AlterNet PEEK, March 1, 2007</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/12/29/a-pretty-short-history-of-wingnutism/">A (Pretty) Short History of Wingnutism</a>,&#8221; Crooks and Liars, December 29, 2006</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.dmiblog.net/archives/2007/01/new_orleans_what_a_difference.html">New Orleans: The Second Disaster</a>,&#8221; Drum Major Institute Blog, January 3, 2007</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/06/what-america-needs-to-know-about-rudy-giuliani/">What America Needs to Know About Rudy Giuliani</a>,&#8221; Crooks and Liars, February 6, 2007</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0208/S00075.htm">The Loyalties of George W. Bush</a>,&#8221; <em>Scoop</em>, August 14 2002</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0209/S00171.htm">An Open Letter to President Bush</a>,&#8221; <em>Scoop</em>, September 25, 2002</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/12/04_henry.html">Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Henry Kissinger</a>,&#8221; <em>Democratic Underground</em>, December 4, 2002</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/12/12_lott.html">A Lott to Be Ashamed Of</a>,&#8221; <em>Democratic Underground</em>, December 12, 2002</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/02/08_gassing.html">Gassing His Own People</a>?&#8221; <em>Democratic Underground</em>, February 8, 2003</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/15425/">Is It Too Late to Save America?</a>&#8221; <em>AlterNet</em>, March 19, 2003</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/05/20_alamo.html">Forgetting the Alamo</a>,&#8221; <em>Democratic Underground</em>, May 20, 2003</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/08/13_starve.html">Bush Eats Barbecue&#8230; Soldiers Starve</a>,&#8221; <em>Democratic Underground</em>, August 13, 2003</p>
	<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/08/23_vacation.html">26 American Soldiers Have Lost Their Lives in Iraq Since President Bush Began His August Vacation</a>,&#8221; <em>Buzzflash</em>, August 23, 2003</p>
	<p><strong><em>Work History</em></strong></p>
	<ul>
<li>10/2001 – 3/2003, Production Manager, Book Builders LLC, New York, NY</li>
	<li>6/2000 – 10/2001, Production Manager, Cahners Business Publications, New York, NY </li>
	<li>7/1998 – 6/2000, Production Manager, Scholastic, Inc., New York, NY</li>
	<li>10/1995 – 3/1998, Journal Production Editor, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Mahwah, NJ</li>
	<li>9/1988 – 1/1994, Senior Production Editor, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ</li>
	<li>9/1985 – 7/1987, Assistant Editor, Silver Burdett &#038; Ginn, Morristown, NJ</li>
	<li>6/1977 – 6/1980, Production Editor, Writer&#8217;s Digest Books, Cincinnati, OH</li>
	<li>2/1974 – 1/1977, Editor, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO</li>
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