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If clichés can kill, these probably will

If you have sat through a technology-related PPT presentation lately, you’ll probably remember these well-flogged clichés: Pushing the envelope Paradigm shift 2.0 Ecosystem Solutions provider Step function Basis (e.g. on a daily ‘basis’). Disruptive Evangelise Leading edge Related posts:Now you know why PowerPoint is uselessTo be honest with you Technorati Tags: clichés PowerPoint presentation

Awkward sentence construction

A story on Hulu in FORTUNE magazine (“A New Way to Watch TV“, March 17) showed how an awkward sentence construction makes difficult reading. Quote:The drama surrounding Hulu’s launch heated up last August when NBC abruptly pulled its content off the Apple iTunes store – where NBC shows like The Office and 30 Rock had… Read More »

Make sure your partner is richer than you

Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal has ruled that a couple’s assets should be equally divided upon divorce, no matter what each spouse brought to the union. According to its latest judgment, marriage is a “partnership of equals” and “there is no room for discrimination between husband and wife”. Paul McCartney will most likely disagree. Previously,… Read More »

How not do conduct an interview

In case you haven’t already heard, the keynote interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW Interactive was ruined by an annoying and disrespectful BusinessWeek journalist named Sarah Lacy, who did a Tyra Banks and made herself the story. Update: Additional bits of the Zuckerberg/Lacy interview from 236.com