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		<title>American Idol Top 16 (Men)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still trying to catch up on my American Idol watching, so here are my thoughts on last night's performances by the guys.]]></description>
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		<title>American Idol Top 16 (Women)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I actually had something resembling a life last night, so The Wife and I didn't get around to watching the eight remaining women perform on American Idol until this evening. Given that we cut down to the Final Twelve this week, the pressure was definitely on.]]></description>
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		<title>American Idol Top 20 Performances (Women)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gals were on stage last night, after this week's schedule shift due to an illness by Crystal Bowersox. Crystal, who is rumored to have diabetes, looked fine and led off the show.]]></description>
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		<title>American Idol Top 20 Performances (Men)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ladies were scheduled to perform Tuesday night, but a trip to the hospital by Crystal Bowersox shuffled things up. Instead, the guys went on last night, and they showed marked improvement from last week.]]></description>
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		<title>American Idol Top 24 Performances (Men)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight the twelve men of the Top 24 performed on American Idol. There are definitely some good voices in the group, and some likable personalities, but I'm not sure there's anyone with real star quality.

I hoped to be proven wrong this evening.]]></description>
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		<title>American Idol Top 24 Performances (Women)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Hollywood Week, all the American Idol hype has been about how great the talent of the women has been this year. Tonight, they get to prove whether that praise is warranted or not.]]></description>
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		<title>American Idol Season 8 Top Performances</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 12:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With American Idol Season 8 on the books, here are the best performances of the season. I didn't include any of the results show performances, or Kris and Adam singing with Queen and Adam singing with Kiss would probably have been number one and two.]]></description>
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		<title>Kris Allen is the New American Idol</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 04:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congrats to Kris Allen who won Season 8 of American Idol this evening. I just finished watching on DVR, and I'm ready to crash, so a few notes and it's off to bed for me.

All in all, the two hour finale was a darn good show. Yes, they had several of those stupid group numbers, but they had quite a few good to great performances as well. And the star power of their guest performers was amazing.]]></description>
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		<title>Kris Allen versus Adam Lambert &#8211; The Numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.briancombs.net/2713/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like any American Idol fan, I'm very curious who is going to be named the American Idol winner this evening. In fact, I'm so curious, I don't want to wait. I'd rather use the data one can find on the Internet to try and predict who is going to win between Kris Allen and Adam Lambert.

The first thing I did was to look at the Google Trends data.

<img src="http://www.briancombs.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/google-trends.png" alt="Adam Lambert versus Kris Allen" title="google-trends" width="613" height="332" class="size-full wp-image-2714" />[/caption]
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		<title>American Idol Finals Performances</title>
		<link>http://www.briancombs.net/2709/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 02:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Combs</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Lambert]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kara DioGuardi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final performances of American Idol Season 8 are finally here.

With seven thousand people in attendance at the Nokia Theatre, Adam Lambert and Kris Allen are to each perform their favorite song of the season, a song chosen by American Idol creator Simon Fuller, and the winner's song for the season, which was co-written by Kara DioGuardi.]]></description>
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