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I'll be blogging here at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090305092925/http://blog.altimetergroup.com/">blog.altimetergroup.com</a> on a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090305092925/http://www.altimetergroup.com/topics.html">variety of topics</a>, doing <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090305092925/http://www.altimetergroup.com/calendar.html">some speeches</a>, and taking on a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090305092925/http://www.altimetergroup.com/services.html">small number of clients</a>. </p> <p><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p>I also write on my personal blog, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090305092925/http://www.charleneli.com/midnightmusings/">Midnight Musings</a>, as well as for <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090305092925/http://www.svmoms.com/">Silicon Valley Moms Blog</a>.<strong><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br/></span></strong></p> <hr/><p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Recent Blog 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