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Just in case you’d forgotten why design was invented… February 8, 2008

Posted by David Petherick in : Authority, Emedia, Fun, Managing Data, News, Web Audit , add a comment

I couldn’t quite believe that an organisation had spent time, energy and money, but still expected me to read this web page…

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I am speechless, and glad that some people study design, typography, and measure the effectiveness of how they present their messages.

I am not even providing a link to this to protect the guilty - please believe, I did not make this up. Ok - it’s here, more or less.

Plain Speaking on Microsoft / Yahoo merger from Marc Andreessen February 5, 2008

Posted by David Petherick in : Authority, BlackStar, Blogs, Emedia, News, plain english , add a comment

I’m grateful to Jason Calacanis of Mahalo for bringing this to my attention - a refreshing take on what the proposed Microsoft/Yahoo merger might mean for Silicon Valley startups.

Just a fine example of plain speaking and logic. Read “Silicon Valley after a Microsoft/Yahoo merger: a contrarian view“